It’s a little difficult for some people to truly enjoy the rain. After all it usually comes with dark clouds laden with moisture just ready to dump on the day and create a wet, slippery, and often sodden mess no matter where it touches. Some people view the rain as an ill omen or just a way for Mother Nature to ruin their day. Others however take a different tact and look at the rain in a much different light. It can be refreshing, liberating, and can herald the washing away of the old in preparation for the new. It can bring to mind the feel of something that’s been missing in one’s life for so long that the sudden reminder of what it’s like to have the wind in your face and the rain on your cheeks becomes absolutely breathtaking.
But that’s the word of someone who actually likes the rain. Here are five clips that show people actually taking the time to enjoy themselves in the downpour.
5. Singing In The Rain
The words “timeless classic” get thrown around a lot regarding a good many movies, but they seem warranted in this case. Gene Kelly has been a known name in Hollywood for so long that his iconic song has touched the lives and hearts of many that have either heard of the song or actually listened to it. Love can make even the greatest downpour seem like a drizzle it would seem.
4. The Notebook
You might find that love is a common thread in some of these, but it is one that seems to make a great number of movies keep moving forward with the intensity and the frequency that people have come to love. In The Notebook the rain is more or less just the rain, but it adds a layer of depth to the scene that might have otherwise been missing if the day had been simply overcast or worse, sunny.
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Caught in the midst of a storm while at sea and teetering on the brink of a maelstrom, or a whirlpool in other words, seems like the last place you’d want to take the time to exchange vows. Of course if you feel the need a ship’s captain could possibly speak the words to make you husband wife providing you could fend away your attackers long enough to recite your vows.
2. Step Up 2: The Streets
Pure emotion, raw adrenaline, and sheer intensity make for a street battle that’s off the chain. It might not have gained the same type of fame that its predecessor did, which in truth wasn’t much, but Step Up 2 definitely brought the music and the dancing a little harder than most. Their use of the streets in their battle kicked up the feel of the movie in a way that the first one didn’t quite reach.
1. Shawshank Redemption
There’s only one word that can describe the feeling that Andy experienced upon making his way from the sewer pipe, freedom. After so many years of his life wasted in Shawshank Andy finally had the freedom he had longed for, and it was a most glorious and liberating moment that was thankfully captured on film.
See? Sometimes the rain can be a lot more fun than people give it credit for.
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