So...two people scored 11 points. My old friend from high school Josh W. and none other than my mother (appropriate with tomorrow being Mother's Day). I can't think of a good tie breaker (note to self for next time-think of a tie breaker), so I'll send out a gift card to each of them. Thanks to everyone who participated-I'll put up another one again soon. Here are the answers:
1) "Ah, hell no, I did not leave the South Side for this!"-Tim Meadows-Mean Girls
2) "We'll always have Paris"-Humphrey Bogart-Casablanca
3) "Keep Your friends close, and your enemies closer." -Al Pacino-The Godfather Part 2
4) "I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen."-John Cusack-Say Anything
5) "Look...I'm givin' out wings!!"-Sheldon Leonard-It's A Wonderful Life
6) "I do enjoy the taste of a good burger!"-Samuel L. Jackson-Pulp Fiction
7) "Ramming speed..."-Jack Hawkins-Ben Hur
8) "You idiot, in the Latin alphabet Jehovah begins with an I!"-Harrison Ford-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
9) "What do you think I am, dumb or something?"-Jean Hagen-Singin' in the Rain
10) "Congratulations to you Mickey."-Leopold Stokowski-Fantasia
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Family Film Friday: Mary Poppins
Sure, this movie is sweet, but it's also crazy. I think the 60s may have actually started here. After all, the movie features magic, flying, jumping into pictures, and people laughing so hard they start floating. I doubt that Walt Disney was giving nods to the drug culture, but this is one strange movie.
But it's also one of my favorites, and it's one of those movies that gives me a lump in my throat every time I watch it. It always happens at the same scene. As George Banks makes his way to the bank through The City in London, meandering through the fog, and contemplating his professional demise, I always get choked up. He has realized that he has thrown away his children's childhood thus far, and he sees that enjoying their fleeting youth should be more important than compound interest and balance sheets.
Like many other movies, this is a film that improves as one revisits upon growing older. It remains a wonderful movie for children. The blend of animation and live action entrances them. The songs are always captivating to them. And the presence of children as main characters in the movie give children something with which they can connect. As I grew older, I became more and more impressed with the script. The dialogue is unbelievably sophisticated, and the lyrics of the songs are genius. "It's 6:03 and the heirs to my dominion, are scrubbed and tubbed, and adequately fed. And so I pat them on the head, and send them off to bed...Lordly is the life I lead." These lyrics capture George Banks' arrogance and detachment.
Into this controlled world flies (literally) the nanny Mary Poppins to save the family and create upheaval. This role introduced Julie Andrews to film going audiences. She won a best actress Oscar for it, and it is not hard to see why. She creates a character who is at once compassionate, self righteous, and mysterious. Who is this woman who flies in from the clouds, dispenses with other working class nannies, and overturns the social structure of the Banks family? And then, who is this Bert character (a wonderful Dick Van Dyke), who is the only person who seems to know what on earth is going on with this woman? Mary Poppins (with Bert) are intent on mending the troubled Banks household, and making sure that both parents (the mother is equally distracted by the suffragette movement) come to pay attention to their children. Along the way, this normal domestic story is seasoned with wondrous sights like a march upon the rooftops of London.
This is one of those few movies that has always been with me. When I went to London for the first time, I couldn't help but think of the silly bird woman when I visited St. Paul's Cathedral. This movie got under my skin way back when I was a child. I am happy to report that it is still there.
But it's also one of my favorites, and it's one of those movies that gives me a lump in my throat every time I watch it. It always happens at the same scene. As George Banks makes his way to the bank through The City in London, meandering through the fog, and contemplating his professional demise, I always get choked up. He has realized that he has thrown away his children's childhood thus far, and he sees that enjoying their fleeting youth should be more important than compound interest and balance sheets.
Like many other movies, this is a film that improves as one revisits upon growing older. It remains a wonderful movie for children. The blend of animation and live action entrances them. The songs are always captivating to them. And the presence of children as main characters in the movie give children something with which they can connect. As I grew older, I became more and more impressed with the script. The dialogue is unbelievably sophisticated, and the lyrics of the songs are genius. "It's 6:03 and the heirs to my dominion, are scrubbed and tubbed, and adequately fed. And so I pat them on the head, and send them off to bed...Lordly is the life I lead." These lyrics capture George Banks' arrogance and detachment.
Into this controlled world flies (literally) the nanny Mary Poppins to save the family and create upheaval. This role introduced Julie Andrews to film going audiences. She won a best actress Oscar for it, and it is not hard to see why. She creates a character who is at once compassionate, self righteous, and mysterious. Who is this woman who flies in from the clouds, dispenses with other working class nannies, and overturns the social structure of the Banks family? And then, who is this Bert character (a wonderful Dick Van Dyke), who is the only person who seems to know what on earth is going on with this woman? Mary Poppins (with Bert) are intent on mending the troubled Banks household, and making sure that both parents (the mother is equally distracted by the suffragette movement) come to pay attention to their children. Along the way, this normal domestic story is seasoned with wondrous sights like a march upon the rooftops of London.
This is one of those few movies that has always been with me. When I went to London for the first time, I couldn't help but think of the silly bird woman when I visited St. Paul's Cathedral. This movie got under my skin way back when I was a child. I am happy to report that it is still there.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
MOVIE QUOTE QUIZ!!!
Here's another movie quote quiz. This time, I'm going to do it a little bit differently. Each quote is worth 2 points. The correct name of the movie that the quote is from is worth 1 point. If you give me the name of the performer who spoke the line in the film (the performer, not the character), you will receive 1 point. Please e-mail me your answers at losbascoms@mac.com. Don't put them in the comments, since then everyone else will see them. I will take answers until Saturday night at 9PM central time. I will throw in a $10 gift card to Trader Joe's to the winner (or to somewhere else if the winner is from a non-TJ's city). Please do not look up the answers on the internet on anywhere else-these are intended to test what you know. GOOD LUCK!!
1) "Ah, hell no, I did not leave the South Side for this!"
2) "We'll always have Paris"
3) "Keep Your friends close, and your enemies closer."
4) "I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen."
5) "Look...I'm givin' out wings!!"
6) "I do enjoy the taste of a good burger!"
7) "Ramming speed..."
8) "You idiot, in the Latin alphabet Jehovah begins with an I!"
9) "What do you think I am, dumb or something?"
10) "Congratulations to you Mickey."
1) "Ah, hell no, I did not leave the South Side for this!"
2) "We'll always have Paris"
3) "Keep Your friends close, and your enemies closer."
4) "I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen."
5) "Look...I'm givin' out wings!!"
6) "I do enjoy the taste of a good burger!"
7) "Ramming speed..."
8) "You idiot, in the Latin alphabet Jehovah begins with an I!"
9) "What do you think I am, dumb or something?"
10) "Congratulations to you Mickey."
Monday, May 7, 2012
Historic Sight and Sound Film Polls
Every ten years, the British Film Institute polls and writers from all over to come up with the top ten films of all time. All of these folks each vote for their top ten films, and the votes are simply compiled. Here's a link...the new list comes out this year. The first list came out in 1952, and they have been released every ten years since. Have fun!
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/
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