{"id":1347,"date":"2004-07-23T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2010-07-10T17:09:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T21:09:24","slug":"movie-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Movie Moments: A Questionnaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took this from Big Stupid Tommy<\/a>. Make sure you go check out his answers!<\/p>\n

1) What moment from what movie still makes you laugh out loud – no matter how many times you see it? <\/b><\/p>\n

The Stone Henge moment in Spinal Tap.<\/p>\n

Madeline Kahn’s entire performance in almost anything – but mostly in What’s Up Doc<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Cary Grant falling down in Bringing Up Baby<\/i> – falling flat on his ass, completely spontaneously, and his top hat stays in place. I howl. Every time.<\/p>\n

The audition scene of Fred Willard and Catherine O’Hara in Waiting for Guffman<\/i>. The 2 of them in their matching sweat suits doing “Midnight at the Oasis”.<\/p>\n

There’s a very very brief moment in Philadelphia Story<\/em> which I adore and it’s hard to explain, but it’s the “morning after”, and a hung-over Katherine Hepburn talks with a hung-over Jimmy Stewart – and Stewart says something about how he doesn’t know where his watch is (which confirms Hepburn’s worst fears about her own behavior) – and her entire FACE changes, into a flat tragic mask, she looks straight forward and says, almost moaning it: “You have no idea how sad that makes me.” Hard to explain, but I howl every time I see it.<\/p>\n

The “phone scene” in Swingers<\/em>, when Jon Favreau has an entire imaginary relationship with a girl’s answering machine. It’s awful, it’s hilarious.<\/p>\n

2) What moment from what movie still makes you cry like a baby – no matter how many times you see it? <\/b><\/p>\n

The last moment in Field of Dreams<\/i>, when Kevin Costner asks his dad for a catch. I have tears in my eyes right now.<\/p>\n

Emma Thompson’s spontaneous teary breakdown at the end of Sense and Sensibility<\/i> <\/p>\n

In Apollo 13<\/i> – Everyone is waiting to hear from the astronauts – to see if they have made it back onto earth. Brilliant film-making. The suspense is huge – and then when you hear their voices come through, and everyone in Mission Control erupts into cheers – Tears.<\/p>\n

3) What moment from what movie made you actually turn your head from the screen – either in fear, revulsion, or contempt for the fact that you actually paid money to see the film? <\/b><\/p>\n

Turn away in fear: — the horrible moment in The Ring<\/i> when she comes out of the television at the ex-husband. I have never been so scared in my life.<\/p>\n

Turn away in revulsion: — the ear-cutting-off moment in Reservoir Dogs<\/i>, the Russian Roulette scene in Deer Hunter<\/i><\/p>\n

Turn away in contempt: — the gobble-gobble sex scene in Gigli<\/i>. I literally felt sick to my stomach.<\/p>\n


\nBONUS) What is one single moment from a film that is indelibly etched in your brain? Not a scene or a sequence exactly, but three or four seconds from a movie that contain an image or phrase or concept that transcends normal movies? <\/b><\/p>\n

I love this question.<\/p>\n

A couple come to mind:<\/p>\n

— Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman saying goodbye at the airport in the fog<\/p>\n

— the close-up shot of Meryl Streep’s face when she makes “the choice” in Sophie’s Choice<\/i> – actually, that could also be listed in the former question, under: I turn away from that moment, it is hard for me to look at that close-up, very very hard. It’s the most awful moment I can think of in movie history. Unbearable.<\/p>\n

— the shot of Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Jack Nicholson (in his football helmet) on the bikes in Easy Rider<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took this from Big Stupid Tommy. Make sure you go check out his answers! 1) What moment from what movie still makes you laugh out loud – no matter how many times you see it? The Stone Henge moment … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16041,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/16041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}