Theater Thursday
Theater Thursday
Theater Thursday, because yellow and blue make green.
Week 10 - Moments
This week's Theatre Thursday is dedicated to those Onscreen Moments that stay with you forever.
1) What moment from what movie still makes you laugh out loud - no matter how many times you see it?
Here are a few, since I have diarrhea of the mouth and can't stop running once I've started:
Bill Murray, in Stripes, proclaiming that he and the men have been completing their "Arrrrmmmy Training", and that's why they're late to company graduation.
Cleavon Little, in Blazing Saddles, whipping it out....
Christopher Guest, in Princess Bride, turning tail and running from Inigo.
And National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon I is probably the dumbest movie ever made, but at one point, they lampoon those Tinactin commercials. One of the other cops takes off his sock, complaining of a burning sensation. Samuel says in the best deadpan: "What the hell you expect? Your foot's on fire!"
The revelation of the Stonehenge monument in Spinal Tap.
Mr. Creosote in the restaurant, in Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
2) What moment from what movie still makes you cry like a baby - no matter how many times you see it?
I've said it before that I can't watch Field of Dreams around other people, when Ray asks his dad to have a catch.
3) What moment from what movie made you actually turn your head from the screen - either in fear, revulsion, or contempt for the fact that you actually paid money to see the film?
You know, I've seen all kinds of gruesome stuff in movies and not flinched, but I spent more time looking at the floor in Hannibal than any movie I can think of. Especially the Ray Liotta brainfeast.
BONUS) What is one single moment from a film that is indelibly etched in your brain? Not a scene or a sequence exactly, but three or four seconds from a movie that contain an image or phrase or concept that transcends normal movies?
Slim Pickens riding the atomic bomb in Dr. Strangelove. That's a good one. It makes me smile. Because it's at the same time completely absurd and incredibly apt.
Take a Moment and answer these questions, and you'll feel you've flown across the moon..
Theater Thursday, because yellow and blue make green.
Week 10 - Moments
This week's Theatre Thursday is dedicated to those Onscreen Moments that stay with you forever.
1) What moment from what movie still makes you laugh out loud - no matter how many times you see it?
Here are a few, since I have diarrhea of the mouth and can't stop running once I've started:
Bill Murray, in Stripes, proclaiming that he and the men have been completing their "Arrrrmmmy Training", and that's why they're late to company graduation.
Cleavon Little, in Blazing Saddles, whipping it out....
Christopher Guest, in Princess Bride, turning tail and running from Inigo.
And National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon I is probably the dumbest movie ever made, but at one point, they lampoon those Tinactin commercials. One of the other cops takes off his sock, complaining of a burning sensation. Samuel says in the best deadpan: "What the hell you expect? Your foot's on fire!"
The revelation of the Stonehenge monument in Spinal Tap.
Mr. Creosote in the restaurant, in Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
2) What moment from what movie still makes you cry like a baby - no matter how many times you see it?
I've said it before that I can't watch Field of Dreams around other people, when Ray asks his dad to have a catch.
3) What moment from what movie made you actually turn your head from the screen - either in fear, revulsion, or contempt for the fact that you actually paid money to see the film?
You know, I've seen all kinds of gruesome stuff in movies and not flinched, but I spent more time looking at the floor in Hannibal than any movie I can think of. Especially the Ray Liotta brainfeast.
BONUS) What is one single moment from a film that is indelibly etched in your brain? Not a scene or a sequence exactly, but three or four seconds from a movie that contain an image or phrase or concept that transcends normal movies?
Slim Pickens riding the atomic bomb in Dr. Strangelove. That's a good one. It makes me smile. Because it's at the same time completely absurd and incredibly apt.
Take a Moment and answer these questions, and you'll feel you've flown across the moon..
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