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BBM DVD WATCHING Habits and Reactions: THINKIN' OUT LOUD... POWERFUL FILM SCENES
rtprod:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on May 20, 2006, 07:21:04 pm ---
Let's see, now for another sad scene. Well, the scene at the beginning of "Beyond Rangoon" when Patricia Arquette comes home to find her husband and son murdered by a burglar really got to me. Part of it may have been that I had a six-month-old son and was probably still surging with hormones. (It's actually not the most tragic part of the movie.) Any child death scene is pretty hard to take, though. Same with the end of "Hotel Rwanda," where they reunite with some of the kids, but it's clear that the others have been killed.
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You have no idea how it pleasures me (was that the right expression?) to see that you have mentioned this all-but-lost film, not available on DVD. There is a scene late in the film with Patricia Arquette crying and mourning the loss of her son, and it's raw as hell and she's so good in it. This is one great movie.
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dmmb_Mandy:
I have yet to see Bugsy, but I like Annette Bening so I really should see it.
--- Quote ---Well, I have to confess, I don't even own an "official" copy yet - the release date for BBM in Aust was announced on Friday - 20th July... what's up with THAT?!?!?!?
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Sheyne, WHAT? I didn't realize that you didn't have a copy. What me to buy ya one and sent it to ya? Lemme know. And it's funny that y'all are talking about The Incredibles (which I LOVED), Sheyne and I were just talking about the other day.
Another scene I really liked was Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours, when talking abour her condition, Virginia says to Leonard: "If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too." I loved Ed Harris in the film too, as Richard Brown, and he has some great scenes; "I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go."
rtprod:
--- Quote from: dmmb_Mandy on May 21, 2006, 06:49:11 pm ---I have yet to see Bugsy, but I like Annette Bening so I really should see it.
Sheyne, WHAT? I didn't realize that you didn't have a copy. What me to buy ya one and sent it to ya? Lemme know. And it's funny that y'all are talking about The Incredibles (which I LOVED), Sheyne and I were just talking about the other day.
Another scene I really liked was Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours, when talking abour her condition, Virginia says to Leonard: "If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too." I loved Ed Harris in the film too, as Richard Brown, and he has some great scenes; "I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go."
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Yes, yes. Um, the scene in The Hours that kills me is Meryl Streep collapsing in the kitchen after Jeff Daniels comes to visit.....
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ednbarby:
I relate so painfully well to all the women in The Hours, but particularly Virginia Woolf and Julianne Moore's character. That scene when the latter's husband leaves for the day on his birthday, and she turns to look at her son sitting there, and you know she's thinking, "What the hell am I gonna do with him all day?" But not in the usual put-upon but otherwise content mother kind of way - in a clinically depressed kind of way. I was going through it at the time I saw this movie, and though my son was only two months old at the time, she just really resonated there - so much so that I was filled with this dread like, "Oh, God - what if that's what my life is going to become?"
Also, Nicole Kidman looking in the mirror at herself at one point, with those blank, blank eyes, but yet with fear behind them. She totally nailed what clinical depression looks like. You look at yourself in the mirror, and you see someone you don't recognize looking back at you. It's terrifying, but you're too numb to feel even terror fully.
Lumière:
I try not to select chapters when I watch BBM, but I can't resist the urge.. :).
Aside from the 2 tent scenes, I have watched the 'reunion' scenes over and over again..*sigh*.
As for scenes from other movies:
Priest - Anyone seen this film? I love it! I can't pick 1 scene alone, but if I absolutely have to, it'd be the scene where Father Greg weeps on his knees, questioning God and praying for a helpless 14-year old girl in his parish who is being sexually-molested by her father.
Also, I can feel Father Greg's pain, anguish and guilt in the scene where he returns home after a sexual encounter with a man at the local bar.
Maurice - The look on Maurice's face when Clive and his new bride drive off after their wedding; and the whole scene with Scudder going up to Maurice's room in the middle of the night.
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