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nigeltdeFor my politics course I've had to write out my ten favourite movies (everyone's lists will be collated and the results distributed; I look forward to seeing them). Apparently it's supposed to be in order of most-->least favourite, but no-one would be that cruel. So, in no particular order:
1. Dr Strangelove
2. Hard Core Logo
3. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
4. The Black Stallion
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7. The Maltese Falcon
8. Stand By Me
9. This is Spinal Tap
10. Reservoir Dogs
So, disregarding the influence of mood: two Rob Reiners; I could also have doubled up on Kubrick or Goldman or Bogart or Gilliam or even tripled up on Reiners, which would actually not have changed the stats below one whit. Three (four, counting HCL) satires, two "childhood" movies, two thrillers, two fantasies, three animal names. All English or North American (with a touch of NZ & mystery island), in quintessential ways (US noir, gangsta, Western, Arthur/Medieval romance epic, English twits, American youth). All live-action. Two about music, one musical. Three with documentary elements.
All about Men OMG MEN and their manly bonds, like could they be any more MALE? (Maybe not Elijah Wood). Where are the women? Sense and Sensibility and The Princess Bride and Fifth Element were close to getting in. Most prominent female characters? Wife (Etta Place, Jeanine Pettibone) or fiance (Arwen) or mother (Alec's mum, Galadriel haha). Thank god for Mary Astor. Etta Place is pretty great, too. All white as lilies. Rabbit Proof Fence and Ang Lee and Yimou Zhang and Benicio Del Toro had look-ins. I'm almost disappointed in myself that I've chosen such a narrow spectrum of movies to really take into my heart! You can tell the kind of media I latched onto most as a kid *g*
I'm really interested to see other people's lists and the breakdowns. Tell me yours!
Also for this course I had to watch He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, which I very much enjoyed. Noah Taylor is great. Out of the ten million pop culture (and high culture) references in that movie, both in dialogue and homages, I think about two referred to Australia. And you know, aside from the occasional orgasming over Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett, that is so, so true.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lydia_petze, have you seen this? There is a Reservoir Dogs reference in there that KILLED me.
So, to continue in the theme of white men doing manly things, in their Venice FF special on Wednesday Margaret and David touched on (heh) Brokeback Mountain. Man, I cannot wait for this. I am uncertain about Heath Ledger but I think Jake Gyllenhall will be fantastic (in one clip he mimicked Ledger having to take a shot of whiskey before the love scenes (in a way that implied that there was tension between them because of it. And Ledger, promoting Casanova, mentioned that BM was an extremely hard shoot). And they seem to be building on the Proulx story in intelligent ways.
I have never been more wholly immersed in pop culture in all my life. It's fantastic.
1. Dr Strangelove
2. Hard Core Logo
3. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
4. The Black Stallion
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7. The Maltese Falcon
8. Stand By Me
9. This is Spinal Tap
10. Reservoir Dogs
So, disregarding the influence of mood: two Rob Reiners; I could also have doubled up on Kubrick or Goldman or Bogart or Gilliam or even tripled up on Reiners, which would actually not have changed the stats below one whit. Three (four, counting HCL) satires, two "childhood" movies, two thrillers, two fantasies, three animal names. All English or North American (with a touch of NZ & mystery island), in quintessential ways (US noir, gangsta, Western, Arthur/Medieval romance epic, English twits, American youth). All live-action. Two about music, one musical. Three with documentary elements.
All about Men OMG MEN and their manly bonds, like could they be any more MALE? (Maybe not Elijah Wood). Where are the women? Sense and Sensibility and The Princess Bride and Fifth Element were close to getting in. Most prominent female characters? Wife (Etta Place, Jeanine Pettibone) or fiance (Arwen) or mother (Alec's mum, Galadriel haha). Thank god for Mary Astor. Etta Place is pretty great, too. All white as lilies. Rabbit Proof Fence and Ang Lee and Yimou Zhang and Benicio Del Toro had look-ins. I'm almost disappointed in myself that I've chosen such a narrow spectrum of movies to really take into my heart! You can tell the kind of media I latched onto most as a kid *g*
I'm really interested to see other people's lists and the breakdowns. Tell me yours!
Also for this course I had to watch He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, which I very much enjoyed. Noah Taylor is great. Out of the ten million pop culture (and high culture) references in that movie, both in dialogue and homages, I think about two referred to Australia. And you know, aside from the occasional orgasming over Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett, that is so, so true.
lydia_petze, have you seen this? There is a Reservoir Dogs reference in there that KILLED me.So, to continue in the theme of white men doing manly things, in their Venice FF special on Wednesday Margaret and David touched on (heh) Brokeback Mountain. Man, I cannot wait for this. I am uncertain about Heath Ledger but I think Jake Gyllenhall will be fantastic (in one clip he mimicked Ledger having to take a shot of whiskey before the love scenes (in a way that implied that there was tension between them because of it. And Ledger, promoting Casanova, mentioned that BM was an extremely hard shoot). And they seem to be building on the Proulx story in intelligent ways.
I have never been more wholly immersed in pop culture in all my life. It's fantastic.
My Lot:
Date: 2005-09-15 03:43 pm (UTC)2. The Dark Crystal
3. Akira
4. Eraserhead
5. Star Wars (1)
6. Alien (1)
7. The Silent Flute
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Koyanasquatsi (sic?)
10. Mr. Vampire
Re: My Lot:
Date: 2005-09-15 03:51 pm (UTC)Re: My Lot:
Date: 2005-09-15 11:13 pm (UTC)Mr. Vampire is one of the Hong Kong cinema's comedy classics - If you ever get a chance to see that do so - you'll never think of sticky rice & duck eggs in *quite* the same way again.
Re: My Lot:
Date: 2005-09-16 05:11 am (UTC)Re: My Lot:
Date: 2005-09-16 05:18 pm (UTC)Re: My Lot:
Date: 2005-09-16 05:45 am (UTC)/LOVES MR VAMPIRE
And we must have discovered it around about the same time. I remember them playing it one New Year's Eve. That was around the time they were playing Erotic Ghost Story a lot, too.
Re: My Lot:
Date: 2005-09-16 06:43 am (UTC)/evilgrin
Re: My Lot:
Date: 2005-09-16 08:55 am (UTC)/looks
SQUEEEEEEEEEEES
Re: My Lot:
Date: 2005-09-16 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-15 06:49 pm (UTC)OMFG you totally made me laugh out loud right there!
My list (if I absolutely had to pick and in no order):
Amelie
Chocolat
Donnie Darko (Director's Cut)
LotR trilogy
Office Space
Snatch
The Matrix
Indiana Jones trilogy
The Boondock Saints
Constantine
honorable mentions:
finding neverland
big fish
x-men and x-2
batman begins
the breakfast club
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Date: 2005-09-16 07:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-16 07:51 am (UTC)I am such a sci-fi/fantasy geeks. I like my movies to be fun. Like my favorite books, I like some political commentary, that's why I like Kurt Vonegut and the Matrix so much, but yeah, I'm really a big geek at heart. And you should definitely watch Chocolat.
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Date: 2005-09-16 01:58 pm (UTC)