..........Announcing...........
......MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN MOVIES......
As you ruminate on all the movies you've seen are there some scenes or spoken lines that will stick in your mind forever?
If there are, we want to hear them. They can be lines from an actor(s) mouth or moments of dead silence. They can be scenes or lines that are humorous, musical, dramatic, satirical, fantasy, mystery, futuristic, romantic, villainous or horror. They can be great battle scenes or one-on-one magic moments. They can be scenes from silent films or from today's showing at your local Bijou.
To participate, post TWO memorable scenes or lines or one of each that's etched in your little gray cells. This constitutes an ENTRY.
You can submit two ENTRIES during the course of the contest. Contest ends next Saturday night or when the freepathon meets its goal, whichever is first.
Here are examples of some obvious momentous movies scenes or lines and how to post them as an ENTRY:
The "Frankly, my dear Scarlett, I don't give a damn" line from Gone with the Wind
The shower murder scene from Psycho
Here is an example of another ENTRY:
Ripping the mask off the face of the Phantom in the silent film, The Phantom of the Opera
The Singin' in the Rain dance scene by Gene Kelly in the movie of the same name
Final example of an ENTRY:
Jimmy Cagney smashes grapefruit half into Mae Clarke's face at breakfast in the 1931 film, The Public Enemy
Bacall's lines starting with "Just put your lips together and blow" from To Have and Have Not with Bogie
The shootout scene in High Noon with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly
Okay, now you get the drift. To have more fun, very participant gets TWO entries.
Entries will be judged on the memorability of the PAIR you post. The memorability can be what YOU think is memorable, not necessarily what popular perception is. Oddball pairings will be fairly judged.....we love creativity in pairing. Forget the totally obscure films or ones that died quickly after they were released.
If there are dupicate entries, the first posted will be entered in the contest.
The ten (10) entries will be selected as winners and the posters will be honored on these threads like an Olympic Hero.
For each winning pair twenty (20) dollars will be donated to the freepathon in the poster's name.
Winning entries and posters will be listed on FR next Sunday. If you are a winner your name also will be submitted to the Shemp Howard Hall of Fame in Peoria, Illinois.
Judging the contest will be Hollyweird columnist Louella Parsons (moi). For Louella's outstanding qualifications to be Da Judge and for more details (not really that many more) concerning this contest, refer to post # 425 on Freepathon thread III.
The game's afoot, my dear freepers. Support our beloved FR by participating. Submit your entry now....and remember you can submit a second entry anytime during the week.
Let's get on with the show!
Louella
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Edging closer to the goal...
Ok, here’s two more famous quotes from the movies:
Orson Welles said one word in Citizen Cane in his death scene: “Rosebud.” The meaning of the word in the movie has been debated for years.
From the great film, The Wizard of Oz (1939) one of its most famous lines is spoken by Judy Garland (as Dorothy Gale) to her dog: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
'Leave the gun, take the canolis' from The Godfather.
Cary Grant running from the cropdusting airplane in North by Northwest.
One of my favorite scenes is a lightning quick scene from "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." It's a short comedic bit but it's difficult to describe without some set-up.
J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle) and his wife Emeline Marcus-Finch (Dorothy Provine) are trying to convince Finch's caricature of a Mother-in-law, Mrs. Marcus, played throughout the movie as harping, shrewish, annoying, and very loud by Ethel Merman, that they need to rent an airplane to find the treasure under the "Big W" before all the others.
Mrs. Marcus responds loudly:
Mrs. Marcus: "Nobody's gonna get me up in the air!"
A micro-second after Mrs. Marcus' proclamation, an out of control vehicle careening down the road barrels into the tail end of the car containing Mrs. Marcus (Merman) flinging Mrs. Marcus airborne then upside down with her legs sticking straight up in the air.
Mrs. Marcus, as played by Ethel Merman, survives and continues to provide similar laugh generating moments throughout the movie.
My second scene is from the 1949 movie "Twelve O'Clock High." I first saw this movie in 2004.
Before seeing this movie, I had been puzzled over the acclaim Gregory Peck had received for his extensive acting career. Then I watched this movie.
Throughout the movie, and especially in the following scene, Peck was so completely convincing it felt as if I was witnessing something live.
Even though it's "just a movie" every line, every move Peck makes as his character, Brig. General Savage, feels brand new, unexpected. Every nuance is so real, that no matter how many times I've seen this movie in the past four years, there's always a sense that I really don't know what General Savage is going to say or do next.
Brigadier General Savage, played by Gregory Peck is assigned as new Commander of the Squadron in hopes of getting the World War II Air Squadron back into shape.
The Squadron had experienced higher than normal losses, including the mental and physical break-down of the Squadron's highly respected and popular previous Commander. Then Peck's General Savage is assigned to replace the Squadron's hospitalized Commander.
It's felt that the Squadron's decline in morale and discipline is due in part to air combat stress, and heavy loss of life in air combat. This Squadron had been ordered to begin making daylight bombing missions over Germany.
As new Commander, Peck's General Savage imposes strict military standards upon the broken-spirited squadron.
One Air Exec, Lt. Col. Gately catches the wrath of Peck's General Savage when Gately is found to be drunk and in dereliction of duty.
This is the scene where Peck's General Savage orders that Lt. Col. Gately paint the name "Leper Colony" on the nose of his plane.
Brig. General Savage: "...I take it you don't really care about the part you had in breaking one of the best men you'll ever know.
Add to it that as Air Exec you were automatically in command the moment Colonel Davenport left - and you met that responsibility exactly as you met his need: you ran out on it. You left the station to get drunk.
Gately, as far as I'm concerned, you're yellow. A traitor to yourself, to this group, to the uniform you wear.
It would be the easiest course for me to transfer you out, to saddle some unsuspecting guy with a deadbeat. Maybe you think that's what you're gonna get out of this, a free ride in some combat unit.
But I'm not gonna pass the buck. I'm gonna keep you right here. I hate a man like you so much that I'm gonna get your head down in the mud and tramp on it. I'm gonna make you wish you'd never been born."
Lt. Col. Ben R. Gately: "If that's all, sir..."
Brig. Gen. Frank Savage: "I'm just getting started. You're gonna stay right here and get a bellyful of flying.
You're gonna make every mission.
You're not air exec anymore. You're just an airplane commander.
And I want you to paint this name on the nose of your ship: Leper Colony. Because in it you're gonna get every deadbeat in the outfit.
Every man with a penchant for head colds.
If there's a bombardier who can't hit his plate with his fork, you get him.
If there's a navigator who can't find the men's room, you get him. Because you rate him."
My two favorites:
From African Queen: “Dear...what is you name?” (Hepburn)
From Forrest Gump: “Live is like a box of chocolates. You never know what your gonna get.”
:)