What does Ripley do? She reaches up with one arm (economically, almost insouciantly) and flicks her lighter open close to the ceiling, setting off the smoke alarm and alerting everyone to the danger.
Definitely in my top 10 of cool movie moments. (I would love to be Ripley, alas, I feel I identify more with Hudson, the cowardly marine who cracks up under the pressure.)
Who's your movie hero then, and why?
Get away from her, you bitch!
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Cool movie moment: John Cusack's character, Lloyd Dobbler, holding up a ghetto-blaster playing "In your eyes" by Peter Gabriel outside his girlfriend's bedroom window. Gets me every time, that one...
(sorry, forgot to mention the film - "Say Anything"...)
Hudson? Cowardly? I'd never call him that. But yes, cracks under pressure all too easily.
Coolest moment of that film for me was when the aliens invade the command centre and one of the marines gets pulled through the floor. Hicks tries in vain to help him when an alien leaps towards him - he rolls, shooting the alien as it flies over the top of him. It is very, very cool.
As for who my movie hero is - I'll get back to you. I don't really do heroes.
Hmm, struggling with a hero. Trying even to think of my favourite film. I can't at the mo, but I caught the end of 1984 the other day, and while it would be much too perverse to say Richard Burton as O'Brien was something to admire, my god he played it well. And I slightly loathe John Hurt, which made me love Burton more, even if seeing him stagger out of a café once or twice in Paris did vaguely endear me to him.
I mean 'endear him to me', I think, don't I? Obviously John Hurt doesn't know me.
Jean-Paul Belmondo, dying coolly in A Bout de Souffle.
I like John Malkovich in Dangerous Liasons although in a similar manner in BiB's reasoning, it would be a perverse thing indeed to refer to him as a hero.
Appropriate to be talking about film now. Everyone's dying at the moment. And Ingmar Bergman dying has reminded me of Ingrid Bergman. Do you know 'Goodbye Again'? http://imdb.com/title/tt0054936/ Ingrid has a naughty husband, Yves Montand. She falls for the younger Anthony Perkins, but sticks by her man in the end, and there's an understated end which shows depressingly how nothing has changed. Good old Ingrid. And carrying on in the recently-dead vain, I think Michel Serrault is brilliant (though not my hero) in La Cage aux Folles. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0077288/)
A wonderful moment with a camp priest right at the end.
Sorry for the non-stop illiteracy. I think I mean 'vein'.
And Antonioni! They're all falling off the twig!
Someone pop round to Godard's place and make sure he's not had another funny turn. And has anyone seen Ken Russell lately?
Anx - John Cusack - *faints* I even forgive him for Hi Fidelity and American Sweethearts.
Dragon, interesting. We could get into a debate here about what bravery is - is he brave only when he knows he is in a position of power (because he is wielding a big gun?) What happens when the gun is no longer effective? Is cowardice about being scared, and is bravery about being scared but still holding it together? hmmm...
BiB, it didn't have to be a hero necessarily - just a moment when you thought 'how cool!' I haven't seen 1984, but I love John Hurt - why you not like him? - he was sitting at the next table at Kettners on my 18th birthday, it made my day.
Tim, I loved A Bout de Souffle as a teen, when I saw it more recently I thought maybe it was because the pair of them acted like self-obsessed moody teenagers. Still v charming though.
BiB, the French La Cage Aux Folles was hi-lar-ious, so very un-PC - the American version nowhere near as funny.
Tim, Antonioninio reminds me of that character in Catch 22 who claims that time goes slower when you are bored & therefore tries to be as bored as possible to try and make his life feel longer. I have never ever managed to get to the end of Blow Up - someone tell me what happens and save me the trouble? (RIP, BTW).
Don't know why I loathe John Hurt. Actually, I don't. And he made a great Elephant Man. (I adored that film. "I try so hard to be good," makes me blubber every time.) But I saw him interviewed not that long ago and he seemed... well... a tad dim. Maybe I was hungover. A friend of mine used to be a minicab driver and he had... is this libelous? Delete it if so... John Hurt and Michael Elphick (god be good to him) slaughtered in the back of his cab.
My parents had to replace the living-room carpet after my 18th birthday party. Why didn't they think of inviting me out for dinner?
WV: ajpoj - Esperanto for i-pod.
I was gonna John Cusack in High Fidelity, but you just slagged it off, so...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The moment where Jim Carey realises his memories are being deleted, and tells Kate Winslet he doesn't want to lose the moment they're in. But she tells him to just enjoy it while he can. Says everthing about enjoying life's fleeting pleasures before we die, right there. Kills me every time. So I guess they're both my heroes!
BiB, interesting - we always have this discussion about actors - sometimes they don't come across as very bright, but I think good acting is hugely difficult - how is it that a brilliant actor can sometimes be quite dopey in real life?
Ah, Del, I didn't mean to diss your film.
I LOVE THAT MOMENT TOO! ONE OF MY ALL TIME TOP MOVIE MOMENTS! HURRAH! Ahem. Got a bit excited.
Ripley is cool. I think I probably wanted to be her at some point.
Errm, errm ... dunno. It would probably be some noble self-sacrificing android proving, in his final moments as he saves his human colleagues (who refuse to recognise his humanity), that he is as good as human. I can't think of any individual right now though.
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