For now, here's just 25 movie memories (one movie I repeat a memory from), as I don't want to go overboard with movie-memorial talk and stuff, especially as I won't have a top 21 still to come (following Ebert's lead a top 10, honorable mention, and then 10 more as we're greedy dudes) for a little while, not until I see aforementioned movies, and some more (i.e. The King's Speech, Rabbit Hole, maybe The Tillman Story). I may stray a little bit here as the MSN people were more interested in looks, gestures and lines, but I tried my best to incorporate that here....
- Olivia Williams' face after reading a piece of paper that has glided along hand to hand in The Ghost Writer.
- Dicky Ecklund's tiny son in The Fighter imitating his father's punches to a locker after the bad news his brother gives him.
- "You know, you always scared me." "That's cause your smart." A heart-to-heart with niece and uncle in Winter's Bone.
- A deadpan homage to Once Upon a Time in the West, playing on the a TV screen with momentary fanfare in BIG widescreen in The American.
- Unreality gets a wee-bit crazier: a fight scene turns into a Bollywood musical with Demon Hipster Chicks in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- In Black Swan, Nina's mother almost dramatically throws out a congratulations-cake after she refuses a piece.
- Suave motherfucker Sean Parker in The Social Network: "One more thing: drop the 'the', just 'Facebook'. It's cleaner."
- Arthur in Inception does a Spider-Man jump-move onto the ceiling during a hallway fight in the second-layer of a dream sequence.
- Banksy brings Guantanamo to Disneyland, and Thierry Guetta becomes a momentary bad-ass. It's a Small World in Exit Through the Gift Shop.
- In Catfish, Nev Shulman discovers the Tennessee Stud he thought was sung by his FB-GF is not what it seems.
- A moment of hesitation with Andy and Bonnie as Woody is the last toy to pass on in Toy Story 3. ::sobs::
- Anthony Hopkins in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger has a blank expression at the bottom-low of his life with the obvious revelation that his fiancée is a philanderer.
- "Why are you all wet baby?" in Shutter Island. Two characters distinctly say the line, maybe more, in the film's runtime, however Ben Kingsley's is most deadpan.
- Harry Brown monologues about a war story he's never told before to a bloody sod he's somewhat fatally wounded.
- A woman, trapped in a home in Vincere, goes up to the window and climbs up to look outside at night during a snowstorm.
- The Killer Inside Me's mentally dislocated sheriff addresses the "cast of characters" who may or may not be there by story's end.
- Two characters, embarrassed Scott Pilgrim and 'Huh?!' Knives Chau, have a break-up after the latter tells the former she's in love, set against a black-abyss backdrop. The rest of the world gives way to nothingness.
- Eliot Spitzer's physical appearance goes to battle with his own carefully constructed words via interrotron answering his biggest flaws in Client 9.
- In Animal Kingdom, a criminal bastard sits in a kind of religious (or dazed) silence in the middle of the night in a recliner as "I'm Out of Love" plays on the TV off-screen.
- Get with the times old man: the magician in The Illusionist plays to an empty house save for an old lady and his brat little kid following the emptying out of a million screaming girls for a rock band.
- The deadened eyes and moment where his mind is elsewhere mid-interview of a soldier in still can't come to grips with the biggest clusterfuck of time in Restrepo, Afghanistan.
- "(Jokingly) Oops.... (Depressed) Oops....(stares at his own camera in stunned silence)." 127 Hours.
- I Love You, Philip Morris, As Jim Carrey ejaculates into another man's anus, he does a little dance. "Wooh!"
- A Mother gets up and rejoins the chorus of life: people dancing their cares away on a bus.
- A (final?) showdown between two old crotched Irishman who become crotched old zombies about to have it out against the REALLY FULL moon in Survival of the Dead.
No comments:
Post a Comment