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Can films move you like music can?

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  • 03/01/2008 @ 20:11 Wolfie said:
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    I am always so deeply affected by music - it can evoke a huge variety of emotions in me - films less so.... but once in a while one breaks through.... the Big Blue for example...

     

    What about you? Which films do it for you.... 

  • 04/01/2008 @ 08:04 Latchmere said:
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    I know a film that moves me to ANGER - so, you know that film As Good As it Gets with Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson? And he wins her over by saying 'you make me want to be a better person' and she just melts? I hate that line!! I do appreciate the sentiment but COME ON! It completely feeds this idea that women want to rescue men, I hate what it represents. I rowed with a friend recently who said she was waiting for a man to come in on a white horse (or modern day equiv!) and that he had to work hard to win her over. Hello? What about her putting a bit of work in? A relationship's a partnership.

    Wow, didn't realise how angry I was until I started typing. Okay a nice film that moves me....  Dirty Dancing. Don't laugh. It has happy memories of fun times with friends and the joy of the music. And High Society.

  • 04/01/2008 @ 08:36 Swon said:
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    I know this is an oldie (1957) but for me it has to be The Bridge on the River Kwai, the battle for control between Colonel Nicholson played by (Alec Guinness) and Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) is an absolute classic. The scene where Guinness and other senior officers are released from the ‘oven’ and carried on the shoulders of the prisoners to the sounds of cheers and the rousing strains of Colonel Bogey March still brings a tear to my eye after all this time.

  • 04/01/2008 @ 09:11 ChocolateCake said:
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    Oh, I love this - I have so many films that spark happy memories for me. I am an "Old Hollywood" junkie. I have wonderful memories of Saturday afternoons with my grandmother spent watching old movies on TV, Now, Voyager, Casablanca, EVERYTHING by Alfred Hitchcock, musicals a particular favourite (she adored Howard Keel, so Calamity Jane and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers). She wasn't a fan of ganster films, so Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not came later for me, but Cary Grant? He was my first pin up!!

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