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BBM DVD WATCHING Habits and Reactions: THINKIN' OUT LOUD... POWERFUL FILM SCENES
Sheyne:
--- Quote from: Lucise on May 21, 2006, 07:24:09 pm ---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.
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YES! Linus Roache is perfect in that movie. That scene right near the end, where you THINK everything is okay cause he's been accepted back into the church but then everyone lines up to accept communion from the other priest and the look on his face. But he holds it all in. And then the young girl walks up to him, takes the communion and they both hold each other and cry. I cannot watch this part without sobbing. I love this film for the fact that it also has the always-brilliant Tom Wilkinson and Robert Carlyle in it..
twistedude:
Bridge on the River Kwai: "My God, what have I done?"
Angel Heart: "...my life has just begun:
yiou set my heart on fire,
and i really had my fun.
A Soldier's Story: "One less fool for the race to be ashamed of" (yeah, I stole it and modified it...I couldn't think of a better one.)
Dead of Night: "I've been waiting for you"
Barbarian Invasions: The series of puns on the French word for "blow job" (pompier) beginning with "his heart stopped beating when his mistress, kneeling at his feet, bestowed upon him the blowjob to end all blowjiobs"
"The Silence of ther Lambs": I'm having an old friend for dinner."
Snow White: "Ho hum,. the tune is dumb
the words don't mean a thing;
Isn't this a silly song
For anyone to sing?"
Wings of Desire: "Not the station where all the trains stop; the station where all the stations stop."
Something: the whole scene surrounding : "..and you say you'll kill me for needin' something I don't hardly never get."
Since none of you recognied more than two, I better quit...such an old fogey...
Lumière:
--- Quote from: hungry_hungryhippos on May 21, 2006, 08:21:21 pm ---YES! Linus Roache is perfect in that movie. That scene right near the end, where you THINK everything is okay cause he's been accepted back into the church but then everyone lines up to accept communion from the other priest and the look on his face. But he holds it all in. And then the young girl walks up to him, takes the communion and they both hold each other and cry. I cannot watch this part without sobbing. I love this film for the fact that it also has the always-brilliant Tom Wilkinson and Robert Carlyle in it..
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Agreed Sheyne!
I think Linus Roache was superb in Priest!
The scene you mention always tears me up - it was amazing to see that the most forgiving, non-judgemental, and most compassionate person turned out to be the young woman who had suffered so much at the hands of her abusive father. That scene is so powerful too! What an awesome film. :)
j.U.d.E.:
--- Quote from: Lucise on May 21, 2006, 11:01:54 pm ---Agreed Sheyne!
I think Linus Roache was superb in Priest!
The scene you mention always tears me up - it was amazing to see that the most forgiving, non-judgemental, and most compassionate person turned out to be the young woman who had suffered so much at the hands of her abusive father. That scene is so powerful too! What an awesome film. :)
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Totally agree! I always thought the actress playing the abused teen-ager die a brilliant acting-job! Linus Roache is excellent!
~ j U d E
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: julie01 on May 21, 2006, 09:48:25 pm ---"The Silence of ther Lambs": I'm having an old friend for dinner."
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My favorite scene in this one is when Lecter says to Clarice in the asylum, "You know what you look like with your nice bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube..." and goes into that West Virginia impression while her face reacts.
My second favorite is when she turns around to look at Frederica Bimmel's body that's just been recovered - she's just braced herself looking out the window, and when she turns around, her face goes from artificially hard to naturally soft with compassion. It's a beautiful thing.
The Silence of the Lambs is one of those movies that you either love or hate because of its violence. I loved it because I thought Jonathan Demme was examining misogyny on a grand scale, but doing it very subtlely throughout. On repeat viewings, I noticed how there were always men eyeing Clarice in the background, looking at her like an object. Really, Lecter and Jack Crawford were the only men in the whole thing who truly viewed her as an equal, and even the latter had to come to that after being skeptical of her ability based only on the fact that she was a woman - he even used her, in fact, in the beginning, to get Lecter's goat.
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