Romance on film
Finally, after two weeks of waiting, the most romantic movie scenes, as suggested by you, my readers. I picked a mix of conventional and non-conventional scenes and tried to stay as impartial as possible. One theme that seems to run through all of these scenes, is sacrifice, whether it's pride, personal comfort or life. Apparently sacrifice for another person is romantic.
5. Love Actually. The whole movie is a love fest, "romance mixed with love that wasn't just the romantic sort," as Amadeo said, but I picked this scene with Colin Firth and Lucia Moniz for two reasons: (a) Learning another language for the sole purpose of declaring your love is a very sweet gesture; and (b) the idea of the two of them working out, when they barely can communicate, literally requires a great leap of faith. And that's what love requires, right?
4. As Good As It Gets. "I don't care how overplayed it gets and how hokey it may be, the 'I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth' soliloquy is money," JTK wrote. AMEN brother. I actually hadn't seen this movie in a while. Thanks to YouTube, I was reminded how *awesome* this scene is. Jack Nicholson's character is far from ideal in many ways -- behavior, appearance, etc. -- that the words that come out of his mouth are pure gems. From anyone else, they'd be just a pick-up line.
3. Stranger than Fiction. Kudos to Miz Motormouth! This is far from the grand overture of Love Actually, but no less sweet. The "flours" is such a sweet and original idea! Add to that Will Ferrell's character's obvious discomfort, and you have a wonderfully sweet and romantic scene. Like in Love Actually, he makes a sacrifice -- in this case, overcoming his discomfort -- to show his love.
2. Chasing Amy. This movie is a great love story. I watched it for the first time in a long time a few months ago, and despite a few melodramatic moments (Joey Lauren Adams splashing in a puddle of water comes to mind), this movie is actually a pretty good, real romantic movie. This is the penultimate scene in the movie (good looking out, JTK), when Silent Bob breaks down the way we let our pride mess up good love. (Headphones for this clip, folks, there is a bit of language.)
1. The Abyss. If it were completely my list, I would probably put The Cooler scene here, but we've already been over that. Instead, I will highlight the drowning scene from The Abyss. "The depth of their love for each other is so profound -- and it gets me every time," Michelle writes.
4. As Good As It Gets. "I don't care how overplayed it gets and how hokey it may be, the 'I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth' soliloquy is money," JTK wrote. AMEN brother. I actually hadn't seen this movie in a while. Thanks to YouTube, I was reminded how *awesome* this scene is. Jack Nicholson's character is far from ideal in many ways -- behavior, appearance, etc. -- that the words that come out of his mouth are pure gems. From anyone else, they'd be just a pick-up line.
3. Stranger than Fiction. Kudos to Miz Motormouth! This is far from the grand overture of Love Actually, but no less sweet. The "flours" is such a sweet and original idea! Add to that Will Ferrell's character's obvious discomfort, and you have a wonderfully sweet and romantic scene. Like in Love Actually, he makes a sacrifice -- in this case, overcoming his discomfort -- to show his love.
2. Chasing Amy. This movie is a great love story. I watched it for the first time in a long time a few months ago, and despite a few melodramatic moments (Joey Lauren Adams splashing in a puddle of water comes to mind), this movie is actually a pretty good, real romantic movie. This is the penultimate scene in the movie (good looking out, JTK), when Silent Bob breaks down the way we let our pride mess up good love. (Headphones for this clip, folks, there is a bit of language.)
1. The Abyss. If it were completely my list, I would probably put The Cooler scene here, but we've already been over that. Instead, I will highlight the drowning scene from The Abyss. "The depth of their love for each other is so profound -- and it gets me every time," Michelle writes.
Comments
Anytime Silent Bob talks it's golden.
Posted by: Amadeo | April 23, 2008 10:47 AM