Which are your two oldest and most memorable movies???!
Question: Can be way back in the 50s to the 80s. Name your idols and the stars and/or scenes that gave great impact. Come and bring out the glorious past!
Answers: Can be way back in the 50s to the 80s. Name your idols and the stars and/or scenes that gave great impact. Come and bring out the glorious past!
Gone With The Wind - I remember my auntie putting this on one rainy day when I was 8 and it was school holidays, my cousins fell asleep within minutes but I watched the entire film and have been in love with it since - scene that I always remembered was when the lil girl fell off her horse and died.
Another I always loved is My Fair Lady - again I was about 8 and loved the music and the way Eliza spoke - most memorable scene is when Eliza sings 'Just You Wait Henry Higgins' - I sing this to my lil sistas 'cos their surnames are Higgins.
Next most memorable is Pretty Woman - I was bout 5 when I first saw this and I just thought Julia Roberts was absoltuely beautiful and I wanted to look just like her (I did also want to be a prostitute too) - fave scenes are when Richard Gere sees her lying in bed with red curly hair for the first time and when Julia Roberts walkls into shop and says "You mad a big mistake; huge! I have to go shopping now."
Finally the first film I ever fell in love with is Dirty Dancing - I watched this film for the first time when I was four and it was my mum's 21st b/day. I never realised I could enjoy sitting in front of the TV for so long and enjoy what I was watching (unless it was Disney or had something to do with Take That). - My fave scene is obviously the end, but after that I also loved the scene where they are dancing to the song that goes "Oh Loverboy..." etc.
I know you only asked for two but I felt obliged to include the last two also. I could have probably gone on too but I think four is enough for now.
Rebel without a Cause when Dean said...."You're tearing me apart!"
On the Waterfront when Brando said...I coulda been somebody instead of a bum...which is what I am...I could have been a contender. (paraphrasing of course cause I cant exactly remember the line.
In 'Casablanca' when Rick told the Nazi there's parts of Brooklyn he wouldn't recommend them trying to invade.
In 'Gone With The Wind' when Scarlet drives away in a buggy with a big gun in her lap and Rhett watches her with a big smile and says appreciatively "What a woman".
And just cause it really cracked me up, in '9 to 5' when Violet's worried about getting fired and Dolly Parton's telling her she's not going to get fired. Violet says "I killed the boss, you don't think that's something they fire you for?".
The little princess is the oldest. With shirley temple.
Memorable? Raise the Red Lantern by Zhang Yimou. I think that was done in the 80's. Definitely not an old one, but the best I have ever seen.
"A Lady Eve", is a clever classic, as is "The Court Jester" with Danny Kaye.
When I came to america in '84 (4 years old) my first movie was Return to OZ! To this day I cannot find the movie. Another was Karate Kid!
The Wizard of Oz make such an impression on me when I first saw it on T.V. in the 60s. I was terrified of the flying monkeys!
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Psycho...the scene where they find out Norman Bates mother is dead. They turn the chair around and it's her skeleton.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World...no particular scene stands out just a very funny movie with a lot of stars from back in the day. Spencer Tracy, Buddy Hackett, Milton Berle, just to name a few.
I doubt it's my oldest, but Charlie Chaplins "The Great Dictator" (1938) is certainly memorable.
It was Chaplin's first speaking role and the movie that eventually exiled him from the U.S.
Essentially Chaplin played Hitler (Tho his character was named Hynkle) as well as a Jewish Barber. The movie contained all the site gags and slapstick you'd expect from Chaplin but for the first time also had the benefit of sound gags.
The most memorable scene to me was his booming speech to the Double Cross (Nazi) army. Hitler standing at the pulpit screaming German and pounding his fist on the pulpit, It's genuinely terrifying and reminiscent of the real fuhrers propaganda speeches till you realize that Chaplin is actually screaming "Cheese and Crackers!"
Way ahead of its time.
I adore "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "The Children's Hour". Audrey Hepburn is amazing in both. And I know that the first movie is such a cliche answer, but it truly is a great film.