On List Friday, we'll post a topic suitable for creating a list. We'll ask our contributors and readers to feel free to contribute their version of the lists (via a comment on this post - below) within that week's time frame. This is a primo slack-at-work activity that Molly and I have participated in on Fridays by email (with our other sister, Kathy) for many moons. We thought we'd spread the joy to our fellow members of the CF.
Here are the rules:
- Anyone can contribute a comment - if you have a list to share, please click on "comments" below!
- When we say favorite - we mean YOUR favorite, so there are no right or wrong answers. So, if the List Friday asks you for your 10 favorite Disney characters in film, and you just L-O-V-E David Spade's characterization of Kuzco in "The Emperor's New Groove," list it!
- Some list topics may require different rules, which will be included in the post for that List Friday. For example, if we post a List that asks you to list as many movies with a day of the week in the title, well then - DUH, you have to follow that rule. If it's a quiz list like the aforementioned example, we ought not to cheat by searching on the internet for appropriate films for the list, K?
- Think up additional topics for List Friday. We'll take turns coming up with the list ideas.
- Have FUN!
And now, for today's List Friday topic:
List Your Top 10 Favorite Movie Moments of All Time!
Ready? Get Set .... COMMENT!!!
5 comments:
I have to admit that Peggy and I had talked about this category as our inaugural list friday when we started the blog, and so, this should have been very easy for me. Instead, because I did think about this for several days, I think it was harder to decide on just 10. As a cinemaphile, I live for the best moments in film. So, here is my top 10:
1. The singing part in Magnolia. I think PT Anderson pulled of the most seemless and masterful suspension of disbelief ever. He pulled his disparate cast in the middle of a truly depressing film, into this common denominator, emoting and well, singing, into the camera. Oosh. It gives me goosebumps even thinking about.
2. Best in Show: "We both have so much in common. We both love soup, and we love the outdoors. We love snowpeas, and talking and not talking... We could not talk or talk forever, and still find things to not talk about." And then her reaction to saying that complete dribble, and she kind of knows it. I think this is one of the funniest things I've EVER seen, EVER.
3. Singing in the Rain, when Gene Kelly just sings and dances in the rain.
4. Norma Desmond's literal and figural descent from the staircase in Sunset Boulevard, "...and all those people out there in the dark..." It gives me the SHIVERS, y'all.
5. The lighting of the beacons in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. GORGEOUS.
6. Luke Skywalker's reaction to finding out who his father is, quite possibly the ugliest face ever made in film, and always has me rolling... "NOOOOOO!"
7. Annie Hall: Waiting in line at the movie theatre...
8. It's a Wonderful Life: The entire scene when George and Mary are walking home from the dance, she in a robe, and he in a football uniform. I love the arc of that scene, where they effectively fall in love, flirt, and then George's world crumbles.
9. The party scene in Breakfast At Tiffany's.
10. The Manchurian Candidate (the first one): Garden Party/Korean War Experiment scene. I don't know where the cut is in this shot, I watched it about 35 times when I had the movie rented. Somehow, the entire premise of the film is absolutely and perfectly laid out in this one shot, which juxtaposes where the soliers are and where they think they are.
Oh no. More chills. Is it the flu? Or the films?
Aww geez Molly - I was racing you to post mine first, cuz I knew we’d have a few of the same movie moments on our lists. But I don't want to repeat the exact SAME movie moments, so I'll just say ditto to your #1, #3, #6 and #8! So, here is what I can list (as originals) of my "Top 6 Favorite Movie Moments of All Time!":
#1) The scene in Titanic when Jack and Rose are kissing on the bow of the ship, and then their forms begin to fade and the shipwreck comes into view. There is one eerie moment when you can still the outline of them but the ship has changed completely to the wreck on the bottom of the ocean. And to think it’s the actual ship in that second half of the shot …
#2) I love the Kiss the Girl scene in The Little Mermaid. It makes me happy.
#3) The final scenes of Schindler’s List, when the actual REAL people who were saved from the concentration camps by Oskar Schindler file silently to his grave and each place a stone near the marker. The realization and reminder - as you watch the denouement of the film – that this story actually happened, is overwhelming in its sadness, tragedy, and humanity.
#4) Star Wars, Episode IV – The “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away” text scrolling through space and the ensuing loud rumble of Princess Leia’s space cruiser (sorry Star Wars fanatics – I don’t know the name of her space ship).
#5) Rudy gets carried off by his teammates at the end of “Rudy.”
#6) “Jerry Maguire” - Rod Tidwell turns down the speaker on the boombox in his kitchen, leans into his telephone handset and says … “Show me the money,” and then he proceeds to blast the volume on the boombox and dances around his kitchen.
- Peg
Okay, here’s my list:
1. It’s a Wonderful Life when Jimmy Stewart runs through the town… you know “Merry Christmas Savings and Loan!” I know it’s totally ubiquitous, but I love the joy in the character at that moment.
2. The dance sequence in “An American in Paris.” It’s Gene Kelly run amok and he got to do it all his way. I think you can tell that he loves this routine.
3. The scene in “Jurassic Park” when they first see the dinosaurs. Sam Neill has to turn Laura Dern’s head to see the dinosaurs and then the scene opens up with the huge shot of all the animals. It’s amazing, groundbreaking CGI for the time. And it’s just danged cool.
4. Almost any scene in “High Society.” I love Bing, Grace, and Frank.
5. The Italian vignette in “Night on Earth.” It’s hilarious listening to the cabbie talk to the priest about his unnatural interest in pumpkins/squash.
6. The “Do You Love Me” scene in “Fiddler on the Roof.”
For twenty-five years I've lived with him
Fought him, starved with him
Twenty-five years my bed is his
If that's not love, what is?
7. The very last scene in “Blade Runner” where Rutger Hauer finally dies in the rain (it’s awesome in the Director’s Cut).
8. The opening number in “Chicago.” I’m a sucker for the music and I think the juxtaposition of the song and Roxie’s sex scene is totally great.
9. The scene in “Moonstruck” in the kitchen when she finally admits she’s marrying Nicolas Cage. I love the cadence of the Italian family (the father asking “who died”, the grandfather saying “I’m so confused”, and the mother being sorry and happy that Cher loves him).
10. The scene in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” where they jump off the cliff.
(this was hard)
Reenie, where is your list?
Excellent lists, Reenie and Francine! I love that we all like different types of movies. Makes us the well-rounded folk that we are. :-)
- Peg
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