THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – COME DANCE WITH ME (2012)

 

Jack (Andrew McCarthy) is an executive in a financial brokerage firm and seems to have it all.

He is a rising star in line for a big promotion and has already impressed the boss, Drew Clayton (Chris Gillett), He is also dating the boss’s daughter’ the beautiful and elegant Demi Clayton (Stephanie Mills).

Jack plans to propose to Demi at her father's lavish annual Christmas Dance but in order to create the perfect impression on the night he signs up for ballroom dance lessons.

Which is when he meets dance instructor, Christine (Michelle Nolden), and the story really begins.

THE TINSEL SYMBOL

 

Tinsel like many things about Christmas is symbolic and what glittering tinsel symbolizes is light and light in all forms was held to have magic qualities in both the pagan and Christian faiths.

Light was the magic against the darkness of winter and was the power of Christ against the forces of darkness.

MY WIFE WAS IN THE KITCHEN

 

My wife was in the kitchen

And I went in to take a look

While she cooked the goose

Just before I goosed the cook

SILENT NIGHT

 

On the morning of Christmas Eve in 1818, an Austrian priest called Joseph Mohr, was told that the church organ was broken and would not be repaired in time for the Christmas Eve service.

He was so saddened at the prospect of Christmas without music that he decided he would try to write a carol that could be sung by the choir and be accompanied by guitar music.

So, Joseph sat down and wrote three stanzas and later that night the people in the little Austrian Church in Oberndorff sang "Stille Nacht" for the first time.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE ELF WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE (1997)

Unhappy and hapless young Elf, Elmer (Sean Donnelly), disenchanted by his life as an Elf at the North Pole, wants to become a real boy, but has no idea how to achieve that ambition, but then he inadvertently steals Santa's sleigh and escapes to the real world, where he meets a young girl Jolie (Margo Harshman) who needs a heart transplant, and the pair of them have to outwit local villain, Slick (Burke Morgan) and save Christmas.

LAUREL

 The early Christians in Ancient Rome were the first to decorate their homes with laurel.

They adopted the idea from the Pagan Romans who used laurel during the Saturnalia festival and who believed laurel was sacred to the sun god Apollo.

When the Romans Empire became Christian laurel became a great symbol of Christmas.

DEVON SUPERSTITION

 

If, on Christmas Eve, in the county of Devon, a girl knocks on the henhouse door and a rooster crows, she will be married within the year.