Do you ever watch a movie that has no hidden meanings or life advice and think, wow, I wish that I had spent my time on something more impactful? Don’t you fret anymore – we are diving deep into some stupid movies that you thought had no thought-provoking content and relating it to PR day.
Movie #1: Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon: “Grandma just called and said you’re supposed to go home.”
Uncle Rico: “She didn’t tell me anything.”
N: “Too bad, she said she doesn’t want you here when she gets back because you’ve been ruining everyone’s lives and eating all our steak.”
UR: “I’m not goin’ anywhere, Napoleon.”
N: “Get off my property!”
UR: “It’s a free country. I can do whatever I want.”
In a deep and insightful way, Uncle Rico here represents our internal barriers that prevent us leaning into pain. Fifteen minutes into PR day, your Uncle Rico pulls into town with his stupid football videos and Tupperware for sale, and he starts eating all your steak. He makes you uncomfortable, like that set of stairs that’s making your quads burn like mad and your calves scream. Use the strength of Napoleon Dynamite and yell at Uncle Rico: there’ll be no more steak-eating during MY workout. Uncle Rico, go home, and let me finish PR day in peace!
Movie #2: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[King Arthur has just cut the Black Knight’s last leg off]
Black Knight: “All right, we’ll call it a draw.”
King Arthur: “Come, Patsy.”
[King Arthur and Patsy ride off]
BK: [Calling after King Arthur] “Oh, oh, I see! Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what’s coming to you! I’ll bite your legs off!”
The Black Knight has resilience. Not only does he lose all of his extremities, but he is mocked, beaten down, and left to bleed to death. The dude’s got about as much of a chance at finishing PR day as you do after a long weekend run and a tough lift workout on Tuesday. But that was your fault. And now your tired legs are lying on the ground like the amputated legs of the Black Knight. Now all you can do is face your fears, call them pansies, and get after a new PR, legs or not.
Movie #3: Camp Rock
Brown Cessario: “I hate when I have to be uncool.”
Yeah, it’s uncool when you have to swallow the dissatisfaction of not-PR-ing. Yeah, it’s uncool when you’re on the injury deck. Yeah, it’s totally uncool when you trip on the Stumble Stairs. But you know what’s even more uncool? Sleeping in.
Movie #4: Pootie Tang
Trucky: “He was rejuvenated. You hear that? Rejuvenated. He was juvenated before, lost it… and got juvenated again. Rejuveated!”
Have you been juvenated by the sunrise? Will you be juvenated again by the high-fives you’ll get when you pass your friends on the PR course? What’s that called? Rejuvenation.
Movie #4b: Pootie Tang
Pootie Tang: “See, my damie, Pootie Tang don’t wa-da-tah to the shama cow… ‘cause that’s a cama cama leepa-chaiii, dig?”
Pootie says it all. Do we need to go into more detail?
Do you feel a beatdown coming from PR day? Be like this dude surviving the beatdown of the century, and maybe channel some of his moves. And don’t forget to approach PR day with the passion of a thousand burning suns, just like Rod. PR Day is here Wednesday. Commerce Hill on Friday. What more could you ask for?
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