No, the title is not a joke. I was reading some old articles, and I came across Serose's How to: Convert Your Friends Into Drama Fanatics http://mydramalist.com/article/2012/09/27/how-to-convert-your-friends-into-drama-fanatics[/url].
It reminded me about something I'm thinking about sometimes: how fun it would be to watch together with someone in real life, sometimes! I don't have any friends IRL who watches drama. I have one friend who likes anime, and I've given her some suggestions, but so far, she hasn't even tried a drama. I've tried to talk other friends into it, but they're not interested or they don't want to read subtitles...... *cough*lazy people*cough*
The article I just read made me think again if there's someone I could "convert", and the only answer I could come up with was: my grandmother. We already watch French movies together, and I've almost made her a fan of Fanny Ardant (French actress) thanks to my obsession, so I might succeed!
But, I'm not sure if I've seen anything so far that she'd enjoy. Do you have any suggestions for an older person? :) We saw the movie Departures together and she enjoyed it.
Things she likes (not necessarily all of them together):
* Slow-paced
* Family/friendship
* Music (classical, jazz or soft rock...)
* Beautiful scenery
* Realistic
* Sad
* Different generations doing things together
* History
Things that she would [u]not like:
* Supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi
* "Complicated plots" (she'd never keep up with Liar Game, for instance; who's fooling whom and why...)
* Too many plotlines/unclear chronology
* Detective/crime
* Over the top, cartoonish comedy
* Food as a main theme
* Romance as the main plot
I guess it would be a bonus point if the story had something to do with France one way or another? And I guess it shouldn't be a very long drama. My preference is j-dramas, but anything is fine. :) It can also be a movie.
Some of her favourite movies are:
Amadeus, The triplettes from Belleville, No Country for Old Men (surprisingly!.. it made her want to watch more movies with Javier Bardem... her taste is somewhat unpredictable...), Baghdad Café, My Afternoons with Marguerite, the Three Colours trilogy... She's one of these people who, if she finds something she likes, can watch the same thing over and over again...
