Following on from last week, here’s a more detailed look at my/our fave movies – all three of our kids have grown up with a glorious appreciation of movies and TV shows – when we got a copy of Scene-it the battles were hard fought, and both Jo and Steph quote lines at each other all the time – perfectly mimicking all the accents and able to remember entire scenes. And don’t get them started on Friends …
Fave scene/line: When Heath Ledger serenades Julia Stiles to Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take my Eyes off You,” (you may know it by Andy Williams). Or when Kat (Julia S) gets Patrick out of detention by showing the PE teacher “the distraction plan.”
Fave scene/line: When Scott and Fran dance backstage to Doris Day’s “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.” Or the Paso Doble scene when the music stops and they dance just to handclaps.
Quote: Fran: “What happened to a life lived in fear and all that stuff? You really are a gutless wonder!”
Fave scene/line: “Just taking a lady’s advice,” when Robin (Kevin Costner) is bathing in a pool. Side note – we walked behind that waterfall (at the back of a pub in Yorkshire), and also found the waterfall where Robin challenges Little John (Nick Brimble) and Azim (Morgan Freeman) advises him to “move faster.”
Bit of a cheat here, but these both show off the fabulous talents of Robin Williams and are proper kid’s movies.
Fave scene/line: Hook – the food fight scene “You lewd, crude, rude, bag of pre-chewed food, dude!”
Mrs Doubtfire - “Stu? It’s more of a thick soup than a name.”
Fave scene/line: “I see you managed to get your shirt off.” A fabulously cynical Alexander Dane (Alan Rickman) to Tim Allen's scene-stealing hack (Jason Nesmith) after the fight scene with the rock monster.
Fave scene/line: Where Evie (Rachel Weiss) gets drunk around the campfire: “I may not be an explorer or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. I... am a librarian.”
Fave scene/line: Where Elena (Catherine Zeta Jones) challenges Zorro (Antonio Banderas) to a sword fight and he cuts all the ribbons so her bodice collapses. Or the Tango scene.
Don Rafael Montero: "Did you recognize Zorro?" Elena: No, but he was young and vigorous. He was very vigorous, father."
Fave scene/line: The one where Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis) rips off the frills from her dress, slicks back her hair and attempts to dance for Arnie (playing her husband). Or the Tango scene. And the quote: "Kids - ten seconds of joy, thirty years of misery."
Fave scene/line: When the choir first perform in the church, rocking up Hail Holy Queen, and the people walk in off the streets.
Quote: Dolores (Whoopi Goldberg) "How can you say that? I worked my butt off with these women! They've given up their free time to do this, and they're good! I mean, sister, we could, we could Rock this place!"
Another cheat, but I really couldn’t choose between them and they both tick a lot of high-octane boxes. Fave scene/line:Independence Day: “I picked a hell of a day to quit drinkin'.”
Armageddon: “Well, we all gotta die, right? I'm the guy who gets to do it saving the world."
Fave scene/line: I'm torn between the the one when Kit De Luca shows up at the posh hotel and the one when Vivian returns to the snobby shop assistant who snubbed her, showing off the dozens of expensive purchases from Rodeo drive. “You work on commission, right? Big Mistake. Big. Huge.”
Fave scene/line: Poe (Nick Cage) comes across a dead body in the landing gear and tosses it out with a message for Larkin (John Cusack). He interrupts one of the convicts rifling through the cargo and is forced to kill him.
Quote: “Why couldn’t he put the bunny in the box?
Fave scene/line: When John McClane (Bruce Willis) and Zeus, (Samuel L Jackson) try to solve a puzzle involving jugs of water to stop a bomb going off.
Quote: Zeus: “Wait a minute. You mean to tell me I'm in this shit 'cause some white cop threw some white asshole's brother off a roof?”
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