one hundred, or at least ten, things i love about movies

Alyson over at The Best Picture Project just did a wonderful post called, “100 Things I Love About Movies.”

I’m not going to attempt to match her achievement (and quite a few of her choices would end up on my list as well), but I thought I would add ten of my own (this is very much off the top of my head and is not meant to be definitive).

1. The lighting of the beacons (perhaps the most thrilling combination of plot point, scenery, and music ever).

2. “I fear a cage.

3. Dude hearing the Cutthroat Song, and stoppering the bottle, and not taking the drink.

4. Hildy Johnson, in the doorway of the press room, undecided as the other reporters rush past her to cover the escape of the prisoner, and then dashing for the phone to do her job.

5. Jean Valjean looks at Inspector Javert and says, rather sadly, “You are wrong, and you always have been wrong.”
(I couldn’t find that clip from the movie, but here it is from the 10th anniversary concert version — so, better singing. 🙂 )

6. “I aim to misbehave.

7. The beginning of my favorite Orson Welles picture, Touch of Evil. I couldn’t find a YouTube clip that goes far enough — to Welles’ first appearance. The opening tracking shot is legendary, but the great beginning is more than just the tracking shot.

8. And the ending of my favorite movie of all time.

9. “Hoist the Colours!

10. And, of course, Dorothy Malone, in the bookstore.

As my mother used to say, there’s nothing like the movies.

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