Okay, let’s have some fun this week and take some popular summer-themed, movie titles of years past and re-imagine what they might be about if re-made in 2021. Get it? Why do this, you ask? Oh, you really wanna talk more about delta variants, vaccine holdouts, wayward web misinformation, or selective personal freedom some more?!
“Independence Day” (from 1996)- ahhh, that wonderful day where we can again trust the safety of associating with other human beings, where we can hug sans masks, and where we can smile without worrying about what we might inhale due to the presence of others.
“E.T.” (1982, man, I feel old…)- the heart-warming story of a young boy re-connected to his grandparents, who he hasn’t seen in two years, thus thinking they must be aliens.
“Clueless” (1995)- what even the smartest people seem like at times in 2021 month to month as rules and regulations related to COVID-19 morph, are revamped, disappear, and return. You need to use the Feynman Technique (communicating complex topics in a simple way) to figure out how many friends you can have at a funeral, wedding, meeting, or dinner.
“Stand By Me” (1986)- what a classic…but the new version could be a dream, or perhaps a nightmare, as we simply can’t allow (most) people to “stand by me” in the pandemic twilight zone we still find ourselves in.
“Do The Right Thing” (1989)- boy, what a remake you could do with this Spike Lee classic, as sadly too little has changed and doing the right thing in far too many instances remains a separator of far too many far too often.
“The Goonies” (1985)- simple- this is what we call anyone who disagrees with us.
“I Know What You Did Last Summer” (1997)- Yeh… nothing.
“The Parent Trap” (1961, 1998)- What far too many kids found themselves in due to on-site college cancellations; also what far too many parents found themselves in due to, well… you get it.
“Dazed And Confused” (1993)- this time, you don’t even need illegal substances (or legal, as the case may be in some states) to realize how this title explains life in 2021.
“Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (1998)- filmed, in part, at Turtle Bay. Nowadays, it’d be pretty easy to forget Sarah and just about everyone else you don’t see or talk to!
OK, back to reality. Stay safe; and it’s hurricane season.
Think about it…