I couldn’t skip this month’s monkey: pitch your life as a movie.

However, while thinking about this post, I couldn’t help but think of the movie characters I have wanted my life to be like, at various times. So here it is: here is my life as a movie character, as I would have had it pitched to myself.

Childhood
Spent most of that time with a massive crush on an animated character, Peter Pan. I think that explains my preference for the lanky, pointy-nosed type (no, really). So I spent the first ten years playing Wendy.

Teenage years
That’s the easiest one: my best friend and I lived the movie Some Kind of Wonderful, reciting lines over our lunchtime patate sauce. I modeled myself after the drummer girl, even wearing dog tags and boxers.

I also had another character as a role model during those years: Ripley, in Aliens. That I had those two as style gurus, totally explains my soaring (not) popularity at the time.

Then, completely breaking with the butch look I had cultivated so well, and pulled off so badly, I went to my prom wearing the dress from Pretty in Pink. I was a little confused.

Twenties
Hm, the toughest one. Ten years filled with arduous studying and lots of travels. I don’t know, did I want to be Indiana Jones perhaps? Well, if we’re going with that, better make it Lara Croft (hey, my pitch, my fantasy!).

Thirties
Hm, in the mood I’m in, I’d say the chick from Chasing Amy, without so much of the whininess (oh uh, and not gay). A girl with geeky interests and exotic friends, who’s made mistakes in the past, looking forward to a clean start and to doing better the next time around.