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Give Us and Them a Little Credit....
There has been a lot of hullabaloo recently that romantic chick flicks are undermining women’s ability to date and have real relationships, since women are clearly stupid and can’t separate real life from fiction. Romance novels get the same bad rap. All that spectacular sex, and no real life man could ever live up to it. Men and therapists fear our discontent. We’ll become unhappy and start questioning the quality of our lives. We may start leaving our mediocre husbands in order to be readily available for when Brad Pitt shows up in a tux; or worse, we’ll start having affairs with our gardeners. I mean, look how well that’s working for the housewives on Wisteria Lane.
I get great enjoyment from watching chick flicks. They make me happy. And call me crazy, but in this stressed-out, hurry-up, tech-saturated world where if you’re not multi-tasking six things at one time, you’re not living up to your full potential, I need happy. I need the pure escapism that $8.75 can buy me. I love books, but much of the time, it’s so much easier to get lost in a romantic comedy. I need to know that there is an Everywoman heroine who also feels invisible, underappreciated and also not living up to her full potential. Only in two hours, I see how she managed to do something about it.
Who is this killing anyway? Why is it so wrong to want to watch something that makes me feel happy, a little more in fellow-feeling with the human race, and heck, maybe even a little more generous to the male species? 99% of the time when I’m watching a romantic comedy, I’m not thinking, “Gosh, my life isn’t like that. I’m unhappy. Where’s my gardener?” Nor am I bitterly thinking, “No man would ever say something like that.”
Okay, part of me thinks “No man would ever say something like that.” Because it is awful rare you get a speech like that. But think about it: how many speeches is this romantic heroine actually getting anyway? One. She’s getting the great speech. Now tell me, is that really too much to ask?
I don’t think One Great Speech is too much to ask from a guy; and movies certainly don’t imply he’s going to be making these speeches every other week. He gets kissed, then the cameras pull out for us to see they’re now married and living in an unwitty everyday sort of life. No more speeches needed. He’s already done the Great Speech.
The Great Speech is the summary, the summation of what everyone learned. And let’s be honest, it’s usually the guy who has to learn something. I can count on one hand the movies where the woman is giving the Great Speech: 27 Dresses, Bridget Jones’ Diary…yeah, those are the only ones I can think of. There’s a snarkism that can be made there, but I’ll save it.
I’m a fan of the One Great Speech because it makes the whole book. Just like how one line can make a whole movie. One great speech from a guy, and you’ll remain married to him for the next fifty years. He’s leaving his dirty socks six inches from the hamper and you’re thinking, “I could bury him between the gardenias” but then you remember the Great Speech, and you remember why you love the guy. He snores in complete oblivion.
I watched the remake of Sabrina Friday night. Absolutely painful to watch, mainly because I think Ormond and Ford have zero chemistry. But I do love that line at the end, when Sabrina’s father tells Linus “you don’t deserve her”, and Linus says: “I don’t, I know. But I need her and I don’t need anything.” There you go: it’s a Great Speech and the theme of the story all in thirteen words. That’s his best line. Hell, when he gives his actual Great Speech to her, it’s far more stilted and pathetic. I mean, I haven’t heard a more real-life Great Speech, it was so pathetic. I’m convinced to this day she just took him back out of pity, not because his speech was any good.
So sue me for wanting to escape into a movie for two hours, in which the ending invariably turns out that the man figures out he’d rather be with her than without her and he apologizes for being a schmuck. Even if he doesn’t really think he did anything wrong. Love is not never having to say you’re sorry (right); love is not rubbing your lover’s nose in it when he realizes he’s wrong, but graciously accepting his stilted Great Speech and giving him a big old Welcome Back kiss.
So CNN and NBC and KOMU, stop telling me I’m a big delusional spinster and saying men aren’t capable of doing any of those things that happen in romantic comedies. They might not be capable of doing them all at the same time, in a mere two hour period, but they are capable of it. Believe me, men love to give Great Speeches. (Usually about football, but they can give them about other things too.) Stop underestimating men. Give them a little credit. They may surprise you with a Great Speech. Or a few garbled pathetic words. Whatever. We love them anyway.
So what is your favorite Great Speech from either cinema or novels? And do you have any real life Great Speeches to make us all swoon with envy? Anyone else a huge fan of the Great Speech as I am?
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"You make me want to be a better man." That's the one I remember, from that kooky Jack Nicholson film, where he played a phobia driven freak. I like that. Simple and concise.
Chick flicks are wonderful for relieving stress. When I saw "The Women" I wasn't thinking about how those women don't have problems I can relate to...getting your nails done at Saks simply isn't in my reality. But when the wife freaks out, goes into the kitchen looking for junk food...and ends up with a bowl of sugar, a package of cocoa and stick of butter...? I thought I'd laugh myself to the point of peeing. It actually crossed my mind...what would that taste like?
Moments like that make chick flicks worth while. It's seldom the big speech for me, Cap'n. I like it, but it's the stick of butter, cocoa and sugar that I can relate to and makes me feel...healthy.
OK, thought of another one I had to relate... When Trillion is stranded on the Argonautica and menaced by giant bloodsucking sea worms, she promises the hero anything he wants if he gets her off that ship... And he knows exactly what she's offering. Turns to her, "Anything I want?" raises an eyebrow. She sighs, "Anything." And looks away, with a slight roll of her eyes. "How about a cold beer?" And she laughs...
Wonderful...not much of a speech, but it certainly illustrates his character and she follows his lead through the rest of the wondrous B-movie called Deep Rising.
OK, going to bed now...talk ta ya all tomorrow.
Hellion said:
They might not be capable of doing them all at the same time, in a mere two hour period, but they are capable of it. Believe me, men love to give Great Speeches. (Usually about football, but they can give them about other things too.) Stop underestimating men. Give them a little credit. They may surprise you with a Great Speech. Or a few garbled pathetic words. Whatever. We love them anyway
*grin* Great speech Cap'n....I like it!
Of speeches to remember, I can't resist quoting from one of Winston Churchill's inspirational war time speeches. Its not the same without his deep 'bulldog' voice but it moves me whenever I hear it:
"... I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.
The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
I think many men show their best side in a crisis. Mrs Q once commented that if I am forced to think about it I am capable of being quite helpful with complicated emotional problems. But it can take a crisis to drag my brain away from the beloved world of quantum physics!
I love chick flicks. Can't think speeches this morning. Well except for the letter is Persuasion. Sigh.
Love the Great Speeches and love the chick flicks. I really hate that assumption that all women are brainless idiots and can't tell fantasy from reality. Especially since the chick flicks they're showing these days don't really paint the guy in an all that favorable light. I think movies these days are more about guys being shown as pretty much guys and the girls loving 'em anyway.
Can't think of any great speeches - too early! But if I do I'll post again. I know the DH has made one or two but I can't for the life of me remember them - isn't that awful! LOL
In chick flicks huh?
When Harry Met Sally. "And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
*sigh*
50 First Dates "You erased me from your memories because you thought you were holding me back from having a full and happy life. But you made a mistake. Being with you is the only way I could have a full and happy life. You're the girl of my dreams, and apparently, I'm the man of yours."
And neither of those guys are what I would call "ideal romantic heroes."
I'm just in awe that you left out your favorite girl speech of all time.
I mean... I'm shocked.
I'm the minority around here. If I'm watching a movie I've usually completely zoned out. Unless I watch the movie a million times, I can't remember any lines. No matter how great they are.
There is some good stuff in Love Actually. Couldn't quote it though. :(
And obviously I've been zoned out on KOMU when they are doing this blantant disrespect of all things chick.
You mean me, Sin? What'd I forget? I've got a little cold, maybe my brain isn't working....
No, I meant Hellion and she knows which one I'm talking about. It is the ultimate of all ultimate girl speeches made on a table top in a smoky bar and a Whitesnake reference is made... I mean, it's awesome.
2nd Chance: That is a great line! (Horrible movie--WAY too much truth in it. *LOL* I like my movies more on the fluffy marshmallow side, mostly.) There are many aspects of chick flicks I love. I love the Everyman hero or heroine; I love that a lot of heroines are invisible and it's only the hero who really SEES them (I mean, that's an every woman fantasy right there, right?); and I love no matter how dark or crazy the shenanigans get, these characters pull it together enough to make it work out in the end.
What you're calling attention to is the details. How important details are in making us relate to character--and even the most absurd detail can actually be one that everyone gets. *LOL*
And I assume sugar, butter and cocoa would have a brownie batter almost taste.
Tiff: Persuasion and that letter is freaking awesome! That is such a painful movie to watch; I'm so glad it has a happy ending. *LOL*
Q, your Prime Ministers do know how to make great speeches. I live about 20-30 miles from the town where he gave his Iron Curtain speech, actually. And I've been in the church they moved here.
Now granted in Love Actually, Hugh Grant is only PLAYING a prime minister, but his speech was pretty great too. *LOL* And totally sets America in her place. (Anyone else think that Billy Bob Thornton made a great arrogant American President? Like a cross between Bush and Clinton? *LOL*)
Irish: I know! Guys play guys in movies nowadays! I mean, sure, Cary Grant movies, who's going to believe those speeches? Okay, wait, there is that Last of the Mohicans speech where he yells at her to "survive" and "I will find you." I mean, how can you not swoon at Daniel Day Lewis, but really, is LOTM a chick flick really? No. That's like saying Braveheart is a chick flick, and Mel Gibson gives a bunch of great speeches (not all warfare related) in that film.
As for not remembering hubby's great speeches...my friend Pam always says, "It's not what people say you remember. In 10 years, you won't remember exactly what they said....but you will remember how they made you feel."
Marnee: WHMS is one of my favorite speeches of all time. I especially love it when Sally says, "You know, that's just like you, Harry, you say things like that and make it impossible for me to hate you. And I hate you, Harry. I really hate you." And then they kiss and make up. Love that movie.
And I absolutely adore 50 First Dates. That is a wildly romantic film to my mind. *LOL* Loving someone that you make them fall in love with you everyday.
*cocking eyebrow at Sin* Regardless of what Mattycakes might have told you, Talladega Nights is NOT a chick flick. It IS a great speech though. *LOL* And it doesn't so much make me sigh and think, "Aww, that's so sweet" and make me clutch my sides and laugh hysterically... "And you ride, you ride it like a skeleton horse through the gates of hell..."
How can you forget that letter in Kate & Leopold?! I love that letter. And I'm thinking letters equate to speeches.
I love chick flicks. Anyone see Music & Lyrics? I didn't really buy the chemistry between Drew and Hugh, but the lyrics to that song her wrote her were great! I also love the speech Jennifer Anniston has to make at the end of Rumor Has It. Something like "I know I can live without you. I just don't want to."
When the characters make up at the end of Four Christmases, it's a pretty good speech by Vince Vaughn's character. He says something about her coming to him to talk about anything anytime during their lives. "Unless there's a playoff game on or something." LOL! That's so something my guy would say.
I knew Sin had to be talking about TN. LOL!
I love the One Great Speech, and chick flicks in general, regardless that the idiots on the news tell me I shouldn't *g*. In "This Heart of Mine" by SEP, Molly tells Kevin that Phoebe wants her to have the "big gesture" - the one that, twenty years from now when he forgets to buy her flowers on their anniversary, she can look back at and have no doubt how much he loves her. Of course, poor Kevin had no idea what to do with this information.....poor guy!
One of my favorite chick flicks is "Fools Rush In", and Matthew Perry is trying to give his Great Speech and doing a bumbling poor job of it, Selma Hyack goes into labor halfway through and he's trying to hurry....love it!
Sin: "turn away! We're going to make wild animal noises!"
Hal - I love Fools Rush In! That's one of the reasons my daughter is names Isabelle. Though Selma had the spanish spelling, of course.
I got an interesting speech last week about the Death Star. Apparently, the glittery hooha is somehow related to the Death Star. They both have a very powerful magnetic force. It was a very entertaining speech. LOL!
Wow. The Death Star. This had to be a man.
*fist pump* YES! I love when a morning starts out with TN quotes and I didn't even have to quote it!
Magic Man- Now you see me *quick hands in front of face* Now you don't.
Alright, I've totally thought of my One Great Speech, but I think it qualifies as a One Great Act.
In Tristan and Isolde (I don't care, it is one of my favorite movies) towards the end, Tristan and Isolde have been found out and the king is letting them go. The king tells Tristan to go to Isolde down by the river and he's torn. The king has been a father to him- but Isolde is the love of his life.
He goes to her and you can see she's torn too. Her lady's maid is with her, and there is a little rowboat to take them both away. Isolde pleads with him. She's crying and he puts her in the boat with her maid. She says, "I will not go without you. I cannot."
And for one dying moment, you realize he's not going to get into the boat with her. And your heart breaks.
I really loved this movie. Okay, maybe it wasn't a great speech; but it speaks of inmeasurable amounts of love and devotion.
**fist bump back**
Shake and bake! What does that do? Does that blow your mind? That just happened!
Is that a catchphrase or epilepsy?
Best speech ever – and he doesn’t even get to keep the girl.
(Rick): I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
(Ilsa): But what about us?
(Rick): We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
(Ilsa): When I said I would never leave you.
(Rick): And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.
Speaking of Humphrey Bogart, my all time favorite actor, I didn’t buy his relationship with Audrey Hepburn in the first Sabrina. There was no chemistry at all between those two, maybe because she was having an affair with William Holden at the time. Bogart didn’t care for Hepburn and it showed, at least to me. Whereas I thought the remake with Ford and Ormond was much better. It’s funny how two people can see such very different things in the same movie.
Okay, so I went and looked up quotes. I absolutely love the internet. I was really stupid before the WWW age.
Here is what I was trying to find. After everything has been said at the boat- I don't care if it's corny.
Isolde: Tristan, if we do this...
Tristan: For all time they will say it was our love, brought down a kingdom. Remember us.
[pushes the boat away]
-And he wasn't in it. It broke my f'in heart.
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Tristan: I live in torture, thinking of these moments. With every look he gives you, I get sicker and sicker. There is a burning in me I feel on fire, and there's guilt I can't comidify. Does it make you happy to know that?
Isolde: The Roman Bridge, I can get to it without being seen, and I'd go there any time to be with you.
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Isolde: Know that I love you Tristan. Wherever you go, whatever you see. I will always be with you.
Tristan: You were right. I don't know if life is greater than death. But love was more than either.
Beth- I agree. I watched the old Sabrina just a little over a month ago and was surprised when I finally realized that there was really no passion between them. I guess I always thought it felt more reserved to me because it was a different era; but you nailed it. You can just tell they didn't care for each other and couldn't fake otherwise.
“You make me want to be a better man.” From As Good as it Gets. I LOVE THAT MOVIE. Every One is so pathetic and dysfunctional. But that doesn’t stop them from trying to find some happiness.
Ooooh Q! I Simply Adore Winston Churchill. The man was a very inspirational speaker. Even today one would be hard pressed to find a finer speech maker or a slinger of one liners. Long loquacious speeches are grand. But Churchill reminds us that a single sentence can be just as moving….
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ( How reassuring to know that that when your man answers your questions with an “Ugg” he is simply being Churchill-esque)
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
A joke is a very serious thing. (You tell em’ Winnie. Is it any wonder The Man is my Hero?)
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. LOL!
Okay- I'm not done yet. I cannot think of anything better.
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Isolde: How many have you loved before me?
Tristan: None.
Isolde: And after me?
Tristan: None.
Terri: I loved the chemistry in M&L. *LOL* But I'm pretty lax about Hugh Grant. I'd believe him with about anyone. *LOL*
I don't remember the letter in Kate & Leopold. I think it was a gloriously romantic movie--I mean, hello, Hugh in period costume!--but I didn't really like Meg Ryan's character.
Hal: I *LOVE* Fools Rush In. (I think Matt Perry is a damned riot.) But he does have a great speech at the end. But he does a great speech in the beginning too, when he convinces her to marry him. You know, the one where he doesn't know what he wanted for lunch--couldn't make a decision between tuna melt and whatever--but his life made sense. Now his life didn't make any sense at all, but it was suddenly clear what he wanted.
Matt Perry gives great speeches. Of course, he NEEDS to, he's always screwing up.
I haven't seen either Kate & Leopold or Music and Lyrics.
I have failed as a woman.
Gosh, I'd forgotten about Fools Rush In. I loved that movie once upon a time. Maybe I should make a list of movies I still need to watch.
*sneaking off before Hellion mentions the pirate movie*
*LOL* And I'm laughing at the TN quotations. You guys rock.
Yes, the Death Star convo was definitely a man. Geez.
Beth: to be fair, I *own* the remake of Sabrina. I mean, I remember loving it in the theater. Maybe it feels like zero chemistry because these characters seem so awkward with each other; but in the scheme of things, they were both awkward characters. Both very serious--so getting either of them to loosen up is akin to getting my mother to dance naked in bar. I mean, seriously not going to happen.
I heard that about the old Sabrina. *LOL* I heard Bogart wasn't very friendly with anyone on the set. Hmmm.
Tristan: Isolde, we can't.
Isolde: It's like asking me to stop breathing.
Jeez, I'm gonna have to watch this movie again.
Sin: I did love T&I. I have that movie, but I can't bear to watch it because it's so heartbreaking. Damn those Romeo & Juliet love stories!
*LOL* Jules, I'm going to have to tape that quotation somewhere: success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. *LOL* SO TRUE! *LOL*
Sin, I'm SO mentioning the pirate movie! I can't believe you! Gah! It's so good! As are the Harry Potter movies!
Damned if that movie doesn't make me cry everytime I watch it. I feel like a complete idiot when I start crying in that movie.
And that damned rescue animal commercial. It was on last night and I made Matt turn it. Those freakin' poor little kitty cats.
I need to be put into gentle care during the first part of the month. I'm crazy.
Sin, I can send you a list of my DVDs. God knows Pam was laughing herself sick at the thought of all the boxes it'd take to pack them to the apartment. Okay, perhaps she has a point. And it might be a close thing whether I have more books or DVDs because I'll culled my book collection so they'll sit on my lone bookshelf.
No, the animal commercial makes me sob too.
I watched Bolt last month and absolutely lost it when Mittens told her story about how she ended up on the streets. I wanted to find her FICTIONAL owners and beat the crap out of them.
See, this is why I can't watch that movie. I have a soft spot of animals and even watching fictional ones will make me cry. I'm not as gaga over dogs as I am cats; but any sobbish animal story will make me bawl.
Here are some of my favorite short, but effective, movie speeches:
Notorious
"This is a very strange love affair."
"Why?"
"Maybe the fact that you don't love me."
Moonstruck
"But love don't make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflake is perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die."
The Lady Eve
"You see, Hopsie, you don't know very much about girls! The best ones aren't as good as you probably think they are, and the bad ones aren't as bad. Not nearly as bad."
Adam's Rib
"I'm old-fashioned. I like two sexes."
Pillow Talk
"If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it."
The Big Sleep
"What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing you can't fix."
Great blog!
Three more from movies:
Shakespeare in Love” "You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die." Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes)
Sleepless in Seattle: “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together… and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known… I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like… magic. Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks).
Love Actually: “But for now, let me say--without hope or agenda, just because it's Christmas and at Christmas you tell the truth--to me, you are perfect. And my wasted heart will love you . Until you look like this [He shows her a picture of a mummy]. Merry Christmas.” Mark (Andrew Lincoln) to Juliet (Keira Knightley).
My personal one is less eloquent and poetic, but it's the exact moment I knew I was in love, and the love has survived time and death: "I always keep my promises."
Julie: I'm going to have to email that Moonstruck one out. *LOL* That so fits!
Y'all are going to make me cry!!! Loving the Churchill quotes. That man was one of a kind. And we need more of that kind!
I've never seen T&I. I tried but the terrible accents threw me off. No idea why as I loved the Costner Robin Hood so I can't be that picky about accents. LOL! But those quotes are quite loverly.
Of course the Death Star speech was a guy. My guy actually. He made me stop the movie we were watching to explain this theory to me. I had no idea my hooha had such power. How I could have been weilding this long before now!
Janga - I love that part in Love Actually when he's using the cards to tell her how he feels. Such a bittersweet part.
I looked for the letter in K&L but couldn't find it. I'll look some more.
Janga: *swoons* Ah, Shakespeare in Love. I absolutely love that movie. That was so written for every English major...
And I love your personal one. That one is perfect...you can totally see that in a book or movie. *swoons*
Terri: *snortal* The Death Star convo makes me think of Freud. I was watching the History Channel on Sunday. They were talking about Freud saying women suffered from penis envy; and all I could think was that joke about the little boy and the little girl who played together and the little boy tells her, basically, she's suffering from penis envy. Like a nanny-nanny-boo-boo, I have a penis and you don't, you're inferior. And the little girl runs home crying and talks to her mother. The next day, the little boy starts tormenting the little girl again, you know because he's good at it, but she doesn't cry. She snorts at him and says, "My mother says as long as I have one of these"--pointing to her vagina--"I can have one of those"--pointing at his penis--"anytime I want."
One of my favorite movies is Love With the Proper Stranger starring Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen. Brief info about the movie: When a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a musician and a young girl try to resolve the issue together.
So after they've gone their separate ways, one night he comes over to have dinner at her new apartment after she's moved out of her family's place.
Rocky: You look so . . . what am I gonna tell ya? you look like a women
Angie: [bursts out laughing] how can you manage to make a compliment sound like a slap in the face?
Rocky: What did I say? you look like a women. My apologies, excuse me, you look like a man.
They get into a fight about if she's dating anyone and expectations. And Angi finally lays it on the line.
Angie: [listening to the song "Love with the Proper Stranger] That`s what love is - bells and banjos playing? How they brainwash you! And here I spend my whole life like a nut waiting for what? A stranger.
She kicks him out of the apartment when he says something really stupid and typical man. The next day she gets out of work at a department store and is headed back to her apartment. It's NYC so there are a lot of people but suddenly she hears this music playing---like banjos and bells and there's a shot of a sign that someone's carrying saying BETTER WED THAN DEAD. Angie shakes her head and starts to turn but the crowd parts. And it's Rocky and their eyes meet, his shoulders shrug and Angie panics and starts crossing the street. He pursues her and catches her in the middle of the street. They stare at each other for one long moment and then kiss.
It is by far the most romantic moment/biggest grand gesture of a movie I've ever ever seen. I love that movie. Sigh.
LOL! I'm pretty sure that was the exact point of the Death Star convo.
Ohh, forgot to add that Rocky has one of those musical contraptions where you can play the drums, the banjos, etc, and that's where the music is coming from.
The Wedding Date, and I don't think this is word for word but you get the gist. "I think I would miss you even if I never met you." God I love that movie.
Awesome blog captain. I love chick flicks and indulge as often as I can. I used to think romance novels did give me a bad taste in my mouth for my DH, but then I became a writer, and he bacame some of my best material.
Romance reading and writing is my slice of happy time for me. It lets me escape from a stressful job where more often than not I see the unhappy side of life.
Oh Janga, you make my heart ache.
My personal one;
We were waiting for an elevator. Music was blaring in the background.
“That’s you,” he said.
“What?” I asked.
“That song. Its you.”
“REO Speedwagon?
“Yah. Say you love me or say goodnight.”
I laughed. Shaking my head I said “I Never said that.”
“No. but your eyes did. “
The elevator arrived. He stepped in first. I just stood there. The elevator door started to close. But he put his hand out to keep it open.
“Are you Coming?” he asked.
I was silent for a moment before I responded. “Oh I suppose so…. It’s too early in the evening to say goodnight.”
Then I stepped into the elevator. And I’ve been “riding the elevator” of life with that man ever since.
Yea! Hellion saw Bolt! Yes, Mittens former owners deserve to be shot... My fav scenes were the ones where she was showing Bolt how to be a dog... When he is sitting in that pipe, nose in the rain, bliss on his face and she is watching him, leaning on Rhino... There's a speech without words there.
Tho I liked her bit about cats wishing they were dogs... ;)
I have to say, I like the grand gesture better than the words. Most men, I think, are capable of the grand gesture but the words often fail them. My husband, at my hospital bed, asking the nurses to use the body lotion he normally used when they moisturized my hands so I'd be able to smell him in my unconscious state... No words, but great gesture...
Chance's DH wins the prize! With Julie's DH coming in a very close second.
*sigh*
I'm loving these real life moments.
Lisa - There's also that line in The Wedding Date where he tells her he'd rather argue with her than make love with anyone else. That movie was great for one-liners.
Ter,
Hey Girl! Happy New Year:)
The line you mentioned was my favorite line but I couldn't remember it. My favorite scene is when he has her pushed up against the side of the car and whispers in her ear. HAWT.
Lisa - She damn near melted into the side of that car. LOL! And I almost melted with her. Damn that man looked good in that movie.
He sure did. I just watched it a couple of nights ago. I was clicking through the channels and sighed when I saw them on the bed talking. Of course I had to watch it. I really love her funny friend in the movie. She was a riot.
The funny friend reminds me of you Lis. LOL
Lisa and Ter- OMG. I can't believe I forgot the Wedding Date. That movie is freakin' fab!
Love that movie.
Ely: that sounds like a great movie. I can't believe how racy that is for 1963. Man, I bet they got read the riot act for having that one-night stand. *LOL* And I think my aunts were waving "BETTER WED THAN DEAD" signs at the last family reunion.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and comment before I read all the others.
Funny that this should be the topic today. My DH and I were just talking about one of my favorite movies last night -'You've Got Mail'. Not Oscar worthy but just a great re-telling of a story of opposites attracting and coming to love one another. Meg Ryan's speech, well really one line, at the end just makes me sigh everytime. She arranges to meet her on-line pen pal who turns out to be this man named Joe who steals her business away from her but with whom he's been unknowingly been emailing. Anyway, can you tell that I love this movie. She turns around, sees that it's him and says - wait for it - "I was hoping it was you." and then proceeds to cry and he kisses her tears away. Sigh.
And don't get me started on Sleepless..
Having said all that, my favorite great speech of all time has to be the letter Captain Wentworth writes to Anne Elliot in 'Persuasion'. LOVE IT! It gives me the shivers everytime.
The Wedding Date is a favorite for a lot of us here. (It's one of Pam's favorite chick flicks. *LOL* I think she confessed to watching it twice in one day, and for someone who multi-tasks while watching ANY movie, this was akin to her proposing to marry the film.) It did have some great one-liners. (I didn't get her getting mad at her hired escort for "knowing" though--that was the black moment? Seriously? Please. I mean, he was damned yummy...but I wanted to smack her sometimes.) Her friend was a damned riot. Of course, she's funny in all the movies she's been in. *LOL*
Sin..she is so you.
Jules: Riding the elevator? Is that what it's being called now? I'm so out of touch with slang....
Good Lord, people! What remarkable movies you've all posted. I love them all.
And Q, Winston Churchill was in a class all by himself. But I'm sure you know that already.
Janga, my dear, that is timeless.
Oh, and back to my DH, he just roared out loud when I acted out that bit. Okay, so maybe I was a bit over the top which brought to mind the scene in Sleepless where Rita Wilson cries about the Cary Grant movie (which escapes me now) but Tom Hanks and the guy who plays her husband pretend to get all choked up over "The Great Escape" - the rats!
I think You Got Mail was great; but I also liked it as it's two previous incarnations too. *LOL* The Shop Around the Corner (Jimmy Stewart) and In the Good Old Summertime (Van Johnson).
An Affair to Remember.
I think this is why I don't like the end of My Fair Lady. There is no grand gesture. Higgins is an ass throughout and he ends an ass. Why in the hell did she go back to him? Well, I can see why she went back, but why did she stay? I'd have made him eat those slippers.
Now would you have really believed it if that guy STOPPED being an ass? I mean, I kinda wonder WHY she did too...but there plenty of men women are dating that I just don't understand why.
Good point. LOL! But he should have at least been slightly nice to her. He did sing that song about realizing that he loved her, though he was more amazed he could love something from the gutter than anything. LOL!
I don't get that "sticking with the guy who treats me like crap" thing. I never have. Could be why I'm divorced. LOL!
Hellion, it's definitely controversial for those times especially since both of them are saving up money so she can have an abortion. And since it's 1963, you can imagine what type of abortion it is.
Ohh and we can't forget Romancing the Stone!
*lifts eyebrows* HOLY COW, she's saving for an abortion? And they let this movie show? STEVE MCQUEEN was in it? *LOL* What rakehell director and writer made this film? *LOL*
I love Romancing the Stone. *ROTFL* I'm not a Michael Douglas fan, but that movie is just a riot. The way she sobs at the end of writing her own books; her pathetic little celebrations when she finishes. How ill-equipped she is to go to Colombia and find her sister. The camera falling on Michael Douglas the fist time and it's a clear "romance novel" pose, and he saunters down and he's a complete JERK. *LOL*
Hellion, LWP is a fabulous movie---the acting is so good and there are a few shots where nothing is said but you know exactly what the character is feeling. Robert Mulligan directed it.
Yes, the classic romance pose! And the sequel JEWEL OF THE NILE is great too. I heard that they're remaking ROMANCING THE STONE, and the only person in my mind who can take over Michael Douglas' role is Hugh Jackman. I so could see Hugh in that role!
MAN, Hugh Jackman would be PERFECT as that! *LOL* OMG! That's be hysterical!
BTW, Hellion...the scene in The Women? With the stick of butter? She's dipping it in the sugar, then in the cocoa and then taking a bite. All the while Cloris Leachman and the daughter look on, shuddering...
Another remake? No one has any fresh ideas anymore? Tho, yeah, Hugh would be good. But who for Katherine?
For Katherine, I'd love to see Kate Winslet. I think she could do funny, frustrated novelist out of her elements really well. Plus, I think Kate and Hugh would have amazing chemistry together!
Thanks, Hellion. I couldn't remember 'An Affair To Remember'. I also liked the other two incarnations of 'You've Got Mail'.
I haven't seen the newest version of 'The Women'. I love the original one and saw the play broadcast on PBS which was a hoot.
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