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following along with the crowd
Late to the party, as usual, but here's the movie meme:
1. Star Wars (no, I will not call it Episode IV: A New Hope, kthxbye)
Sitting in a theater in summer 1977 and watching Han blast Vader out into deep space is literally the moment that Fannish!Me was born.
2. The Godfather
Whenever someone wants to tell me how amazing Breaking Bad is/was, and how it's fascinating to watch a good man slide into evil, I tell them I already saw that story 40 years ago with Michael Corleone. I had to beg my parents to let me see it in the theaters, but it was worth all the effort.
3. The Sting
How can you not love Robert Redford grinning at Paul Newman? I guess you can, but getting a kick out of that certainly helps explain all slash fic happening around here.
4. The Wizard of Oz
It came on TV every year when I was a kid and it was the first 'real' book I ever read myself (I was 7.) It took me decades to reconcile my love of this movie with the heart-shattering disappointment I felt when it told me Oz wasn't real. Now I just pretend the very end of the movie doesn't exist. I think it was my earliest instance of the 'I reject your reality & substitute my own,' that has served me well on my fannish life.
5. Moonstruck
I don't even like Nic Cage's character, but he made Loretta so happy that it ultimately didn't matter. All rom-coms should be this good.
6. The Philadelphia Story
I have to excise that hideous line about how it's Tracy's fault her father is a cheating asshole, but otherwise, I adore that the definition of love is that your beloved thinks better of you than you do yourself. Also, I feel certain that Liz and Mike had a fabulous life together.
7. Apocalypse Now
I think this one explains my love of 'what if' (and thus my love of fan fic) because there are very few adaptations that move further than between British colonial Africa and the American Vietnam War experience.
8. The Fellowship of the Ring
This one is on here because it let me introduce my kids to fandom and share it with them. (I mean, I love it, too, but formatively speaking, it gave me so much more on a personal relationship level than it did as a movie.)
9. Tootsie
Did I ever tell you how much love teenage!me had for soap operas? Let's just say it was A LOT, "".
10. Beauty and the Beast
My favorite Disney movie ever. I almost squealed with glee last month when the hostess led us into the ballroom/dining room at Be Our Guest restaurant in WDW. Luckily, D is used to my spontaneous geek-gasms and did not flinch (it helped that my geeky joy came with a steak for him.)
1. Star Wars (no, I will not call it Episode IV: A New Hope, kthxbye)
Sitting in a theater in summer 1977 and watching Han blast Vader out into deep space is literally the moment that Fannish!Me was born.
2. The Godfather
Whenever someone wants to tell me how amazing Breaking Bad is/was, and how it's fascinating to watch a good man slide into evil, I tell them I already saw that story 40 years ago with Michael Corleone. I had to beg my parents to let me see it in the theaters, but it was worth all the effort.
3. The Sting
How can you not love Robert Redford grinning at Paul Newman? I guess you can, but getting a kick out of that certainly helps explain all slash fic happening around here.
4. The Wizard of Oz
It came on TV every year when I was a kid and it was the first 'real' book I ever read myself (I was 7.) It took me decades to reconcile my love of this movie with the heart-shattering disappointment I felt when it told me Oz wasn't real. Now I just pretend the very end of the movie doesn't exist. I think it was my earliest instance of the 'I reject your reality & substitute my own,' that has served me well on my fannish life.
5. Moonstruck
I don't even like Nic Cage's character, but he made Loretta so happy that it ultimately didn't matter. All rom-coms should be this good.
6. The Philadelphia Story
I have to excise that hideous line about how it's Tracy's fault her father is a cheating asshole, but otherwise, I adore that the definition of love is that your beloved thinks better of you than you do yourself. Also, I feel certain that Liz and Mike had a fabulous life together.
7. Apocalypse Now
I think this one explains my love of 'what if' (and thus my love of fan fic) because there are very few adaptations that move further than between British colonial Africa and the American Vietnam War experience.
8. The Fellowship of the Ring
This one is on here because it let me introduce my kids to fandom and share it with them. (I mean, I love it, too, but formatively speaking, it gave me so much more on a personal relationship level than it did as a movie.)
9. Tootsie
Did I ever tell you how much love teenage!me had for soap operas? Let's just say it was A LOT, "".
10. Beauty and the Beast
My favorite Disney movie ever. I almost squealed with glee last month when the hostess led us into the ballroom/dining room at Be Our Guest restaurant in WDW. Luckily, D is used to my spontaneous geek-gasms and did not flinch (it helped that my geeky joy came with a steak for him.)
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Good times, good times. *g*
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And yes, we share one!! (Star Wars)
Plus, I think I may need to go to 12.
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Star Wars was electrifying for me -- it just flipped all these switches in my brain about storytelling and movie-making and here I am, almost 40 years later, still excited to see what happens next even after the disappointment of the prequels.
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