casablancalover
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>*I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite.*
Will Farrell, Elf (2003)
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Normally not a big fan of Andre Rieu, but this song touches me. Dedicated to lovers.
Je T'aime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RrhNFq0SfU
I will put it on my iPod.
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h4. Puccini Rocks!
Kiri Te Kanawa:
and a bonus from Madama Butterfly:
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>*The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.*
Carrie Fisher, Star Wars (1977)
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>*I don't care what I see outside. My vision is within! Here is where the birds sing! Here is where the sky is blue!*
Denholm Elliott, A Room With A View (1985)
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>*You must unlearn what you have learned.*
Frank Oz (as Yoda) The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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>*I'm hard to get, Steve. All you have to do is ask me.*
Lauren Bacall, To Have and Have Not (1944)
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>*Sir!... Sir!... Here's a good stick, to beat the lovely lady.*
The Quiet Man (1952)
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Rod Stewart:
I believe know the answer to his first rhetorical question:
August 26, 1981. A MN State Fair autograph table.
h5. No one is ever intimidated into joy. -casablancalover
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>*The only thing I know about the dark is you can't see in it.*
Robert Redford, The Natural (1984)
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> {quote:title=LoveFilmNoir wrote:}{quote}
> Skimpole, I understand where you are coming from, however, I think that in a realistic light, love is a risk. When we open our hearts up to care for and love another human being, we are also risking rejection from that person, as well as them not reciprocating the same level of love.
I agree, LoveFilmNoir. If the feeling is instantaneous and mutual, then it feels contrived! Maybe the best story is closer to the truth in life; Someone falls first, and someone will always love more. In storytelling, I like the "Quest" model for Romance rather than Protagonist/Antagonist. Makes for a more interesting story.
> I think that what makes a great romantic movie is chemistry with the leads. I have watched some classics with a question mark in my head the whole time because I just don't understand how the director could really see those two people making love in front of the camera believable to a movie going audience - but hey, I guess it worked.
Are you looking at the physical attributes of the actors? Or the story/dialog? If I do not get a sense of building anticipation on the part of the actors, then the chemistry is flat. Do you have an example?
> Also I think a believable story with solid acting is important. Sometimes when there is too much melodramatics or scene chewing it really takes from the film and almost becomes a caricature of itself. Good, realistic acting is really important in love stories. When I watch some of the romantic films of the 30s and 40s on TCM I can't help but think some of the "love scenes" are rather ridiculous and laughable at best.
I find I enjoy them much more when I watch them in the context of the period when it was made. I believe our children and grandchildren will be laughing at Titanic (1997) someday.
> Sometimes some comic relief, by a near spinster or skeptical wise cracking girlfriend or right hand man really pushes along the story and provides dialogue to help the viewer understand the feelings and motives of the characters in the film. This formula usually works and is best when there is a solid script.
Agreed. You see that in a Rom-Com.
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>Ronny Cammareri: *You ruined my life.*
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>Loretta Castorini: *That's impossible! It was ruined when I got here! You ruined my life!*
Nicholas Cage, Cher, Moonstruck (1987)
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Katrina and the Waves:
h5. Life is lived from this point on. Until you stop asking yourself "WHY ME?" and stop telling yourself "NO, I CAN'T", the life you want will not happen.
Edited by: casablancalover on Sep 24, 2010 6:36 PM
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>*You know, I'm too old for this sort of evening. I always was.*
Cecil Parker, Indiscreet (1958)
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Barry Manilow:
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>Allen: *But you have such a spirit for living, I wish I could catch it. What's your secret?*
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>Singleton: *My secret? Two words. Be yourself.*
Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones, Love Letters (1945)
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>*I think of you, my dearest, as a distant promise of beauty untouched by the world-a promise to be reached in spite of the terror and ugliness around me. If I never see you again, my last thought will be that I had fought for you and lost-but I had fought.*
A love letter being written, from Love Letters (1945)
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Attitude adjustment music. It starts mysterious and dark, ends triumphant, the way life should be.
Ottorino Respighi, performed by the Chicago Symphony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbspyZassKk
Sometimes, serendipity happens- HA! that was redundant! This was recommended on YouTube and it was favorite I hadn't heard in while.
We Five:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCkk3bxUi1I&feature=grec_index
h5. Each step toward our dreams empower us.
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>Fanny, I wish you could have seen Georgie's face when he saw Lucy. You know what he said to me when we went into that room? He said, "You must have known my mother wanted you to come here today, so that I could ask you to forgive me." We shook hands. I never noticed before how much like Isabel Georgie looks. You know something, Fanny? I wouldn't tell this to anybody but you. But it seemed to me as if someone else was in that room. And that through me, she brought her boy unto shelter again. And that I'd been true at last, to my true love.
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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>*Something had happened. A thing which, years ago, had been the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens of the town, and now it had come at last; George Amberson Mainafer had got his comeuppance. He got it three times filled, and running over. But those who had so longed for it were not there to see it, and they never knew it. Those who were still living had forgotten all about it and all about him.*
Orson Welles (narration) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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Dave Matthews Band:
h5. All the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people in your life. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them with your mind. -Dr Wayne Dyer
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>*Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day.*
GWTW (1939)
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Which version of Frankenstein?
Favorite line from movie.
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>*I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite.*
Will Farrell, Elf (2003)