National Coloring Day sounds like fun if you’re a kid or an adult since it seems like coloring can be very therapeutic and even fun for most ages. Can you remember the first time that you tried to color a picture and the result was just horrendous? Now think about the satisfaction and pride you felt when you started getting better at it and could finally color a picture without going outside the lines and finishing it to discover that you’d done an excellent job. Movies and coloring book or page scenes are usually kind of funny or touching since those doing the coloring are either adults that are acting a bit silly or kids that resort to coloring to express their feelings or even escape in a way from the world around them. Now and then you should really try to just color a picture and see the kind of relief it gives you.
Here are some films that show how coloring can be used in a great way in cinema.
5. Deadpool
So obviously Deadpool isn’t the best artist when it comes to crayon and paper, but he’s definitely a whiz kid when it comes to his other type of art. At least he manages to get his point across when he’s drawing and doesn’t mince words or feelings. He’s after Francis for what he did to him and that’s that. The fact that he uses the colorful drawing as a gag only a few moments later is pretty funny since it kind of leads into him getting punched in the face repeatedly and then slammed headfirst into the console without mercy. But of course Deadpool just takes it and dishes it out twice as hard as he takes it. Boy that sounded wrong.
4. Scary Movie 3
Cody is a creepy kid and that’s being kind. This whole thing is a spoof movie obviously and the first that wasn’t featuring the Wayan’s brothers, but it was still pretty funny since it drew from just as many horror movies as the others did and even incorporated a few other movies that weren’t a part of the horror genre. It seems fair to say that without these films Anna Faris wouldn’t have had much of a career going for her since these movies really allowed her to stand out and show the kind of talent she really has. The fact that she was in every one of them is pretty cool as well since it shows that she was good enough to keep the franchise alive mostly on her own.
3. Hook
Do you think Jack is a little upset at his dad for missing his baseball game? Of course some people could say that this is foreshadowing the whole Peter Pan identity but right then and there it seems more like a clear message that Jack is sending his father, and that’s the fact that he’s more than a little ticked off. Of course there’s one positive, Peter isn’t on fire or anything and he’s falling towards the water and not a mountain or anything hard. But yeah, it’d be tough to process that your kid seems to want you to fall out of a burning plane without a parachute and possibly injure yourself upon landing.
2. 8 Mile
Lily doesn’t have the most stable home life unfortunately. While Jimmy and their mom are constantly at odds with one another her mom’s boyfriend, who is just about the same age as her brother, is kind of a deadbeat with a few serious problems. But apart from that she seems like a happy but very guarded girl that colors a lot since it seems like it might be a comforting escape that allows her to express herself and to just get away from the whole mess that is her life from time to time. You might feel for Rabbit in this movie but you can easily feel sorry for Lily since she has to put up with everything without any real defense against it aside from her hobbies.
1. Billy Madison
This is one of the craziest movies that Sandler has ever done, and that’s saying something. But when he gets his father to agree to send him back to school to complete each grade in so many weeks it seems that it’s a giant joke when he has to go back to grade school. Seriously, what kind of father would pay off teachers in grade school just so his son could keep passing each grade the first time around? And more than that, what kind of kid would be actively failing everything when he’s in the earliest grades of his school career? Suffice to say there was something wrong with Billy from the very start if he never passed a grade on his own.
Grab coloring book and just color away, it’ll take your mind off things for a while.
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