Top 99 Meaningful Moments in Film, According 2 Me, Based on All-Around Meaningfulness and Proven Tendency 2 Stick Around, More or Less in Order

gods eyes closed (12:57:01 PM): so what's this entry

metalhedwig (12:57:12 PM): which?

metalhedwig (12:57:19 PM): th one i'm working on?

metalhedwig (12:57:30 PM): you might not actually be interested in it

gods eyes closed (12:57:41 PM): oh. :/

metalhedwig (12:57:53 PM): it's my top 99 cinematic moments o.a.t.

gods eyes closed (12:57:58 PM): oh nice

gods eyes closed (12:58:00 PM): i can't wait

metalhedwig (12:58:03 PM): you don't like movies though?

gods eyes closed (12:58:05 PM): i bet i won't know like all of them

gods eyes closed (12:58:07 PM): yeah : (

gods eyes closed (12:58:09 PM): i like moments

gods eyes closed (12:58:12 PM): so that's ok

gods eyes closed (12:58:17 PM): i mostly don't like movies b/c i prefer moments?

metalhedwig (12:58:24 PM): ok good!

gods eyes closed (12:58:27 PM): and b/c most of them are crap

Speaking of Australians, my friend James (Lj moosemonster) says, of Sarah Silverman, "80% of the people on my friendslist could probably kick her ass to Canada, funny-wise."

Difference between young people and old people: Young people want Atticus Finch 2B their dad. Old people want 2B Atticus Finch.

"do we ever know where history is really made?"My brilliant fren Hannah () a couple weeks ago constructeda list of th Top 100 Meaningful Moments in Film. It was real impressive.Inspired by that monstrous catalogue, this week, I sat down w/ a bunch of videotapes and DVDs and watched a ton of scenes that had for one reason or other got stuck in my head. Some of them now seemed laughable (Jeff Bridges acting nutty on a rooftop in[Peter Weir, 1993]) and were easily exorcised. Some of them now seemed laughable, but were (mysteriously) stickier than ever. Some of them had gained in both power and stickiness. "Meaningfulness" has proved difficult to define, this week. So I made an executive decision. This week, "to be meaningful" will be synonymous w/ "to make th heart quicken."Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) kisses an upside-down Spidey (Tobey Maguire) in(Sam Raimi, 2002).Elizabeth Darko (Maggie Gyllenhaal) arrives home from a date w/ her boyfriend. An explosion rocks th house, causing a chandelier to lurch, causing every person in th row in front of you to jump, in(Richard Kelly, 2001).Robotic penetration in(Shinya Tsukamoto, 1988).After his camera breaks, David Holzman (L.M. Kit Carson) completes his so-called movie by taking photobooth pictures of himself and pairing them w/ a recording of his voice on a 45 rpm record, in(Jim McBride, 1967).Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) and Layla (Christina Ricci) get photobooth pictures taken, causing them to span time, in(Vincent Gallo, 1998).Just like you hoped it would, a winged statue takes flight @ th end of(Gyula Gazdag, 1987), redeeming an otherwise somewhat boring movie.A young man and his girlfriend sit on th floor, stare emptily @ th clean, skeletal remains that used to be his hands in(George Barry, 1977).Danny Rose (Woody Allen) chases Tina Vitale (Mia Farrow) down th street to invite her back to his Thanksgiving get-together in(Woody Allen, 1984).Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) cuts off his moustache in(John Cassavetes, 1971).Kidlat Tahimik (Kidlat Tahimik) pulls a jeepney across a bridge, for reasons unknown, in(Kidlat Tahimik, 1977).Celia (Geneviève Picot) seduces Andy (Russell Crowe) and delivers th line, "Let's pretend we're blind," in(Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991).Camille (Emmanuelle Béart) looks back, makes eye contact w/ Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) @ th end of(Claude Sautet, 1992).Th Girl (Veronica Lake) says to Sullivan (Joel McCrea), "I'd sorta like to go where you go. I mean, I'd sorta hoped that you'd, well, I mean, you'd want us to go on together a little longer now that we kinda got used to eachother," in(Preston Sturges, 1941).Richard Carpenter (Ken) discovers Karen Carpenter (Barbie)'s laxatives in(Todd Haynes, 1987).Bald guy (Aleksandr Kajdanovsky) walks down dark corridor as dripping water echoes in(Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979), or you jest dreamt thet, you forget.Mike Schank talks about how he loves vodka in(Chris Smith, 1999).Th boy (Wang Xiaoxiao) sees th world upside-down @ th end of(Zhang Yimou, 1995).Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) hangs on for dear life as Jill Layton (Kim Greist) tries to shake him off her truck in(Terry Gilliam, 1985).Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) says good-bye to one of her African servants, who may be a Magic Negro, and he says something that accidentally made you cry, you forget what exactly, in(Sydney Pollack, 1985).Yr first view of th ship, a cutaway dollhouse view, in(Wes Anderson, 2004).Le père Jules (Michel Simon) gives Juliette (Dita Parlo) a tour of his cabin. Her sensitive husband, th skipper (Jean Dasté), walks in and smashes everything, in(Jean Vigo, 1934).Light-cycles break free of th grid, symbolic of how there's no fucking rules, d00d, in(Steven Lisberger, 1982).Kiki (Kirsten Dunst, voice) saves her asexual bespectacled nerd friend from certain death in(Hayao Miyazaki, 1989).Alfred Kralik (Jimmy Stewart) and Pirovitch (Felix Bressart) peer in through a café window to discern th identity of Alfred's penpal/imaginary girlfriend in(Ernst Lubitsch, 1940).Scottie (Jimmy Stewart) spies on Madeleine (Kim Novak) looking @ a painting of Carlotta Valdez in(Alfred Hitchcock, 1958).Tragic gas station disaster in(Ben Stiller, 2001).Chicken-man battles effigy of lady of who lives next door in(Jan Svankmajer, 1996).Hospital attack in(Béla Tarr, 2000).Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) drives @ night. A pale-faced man (Herk Harvey) appears as a reflection in th passenger-side window, in(Herk Harvey, 1962).Glenn Gould (Colm Feore) sits in a truckstop diner, listening, in(François Girard, 1993).Flaming wheelchair rolls in circles in(Emir Kusturica, 1995).Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) shoots th fancy swordsman in(Steven Spielberg, 1981).Babe (Christine Cavanaugh, voice) gets blood on his snout in(Chris Noonan, 1995).Eddie Quinn (Sean Penn) and Joey (John Travolta) wrestle for th gun on th front lawn in(Nick Cassavetes, 1997).A baby falls towards a sharp object, and th heroic trio race to save it, in(Johnny To, 1993).Sun-hwa (Seung-yeon Lee) walks into th house of a married couple she does not know, lies down on their couch, and naps. Th couple, who are home, do not disturb her, in(Kim Ki-Duk, 2005).Junbao (Jet Li) battles his best friend Chin Bo (Siu-hou Chin) to rescue Siu Lin (Michelle Yeoh) from being crucified atop a Jenga-like arrangement of logs in(Yuen Woo-ping, 1993). Always Look on th Bright Side of Life " in(Terry Jones, 1979).Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) absolves th mediocrities of th world in(Milos Forman, 1984).President Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) contemplates his reflection in(Leo McCarey, 1933).A lady, half asleep, fellates a gun right before getting her head blown off in(Russ Meyer, 1970).Th Agent (Michele Reis) humps a jukebox (and her hand) in(Wong Kar-wai, 1995).Happy Harry Hard-on (Christian Slater) rants on suicide, advises young people to "get crazy," in(Allan Moyle, 1990).Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) reads a list of 10 things she hates about Pat Verona (Heath Ledger) in(Gil Junger, 1999).A rain of pink petals falls down on Lovers Lane as "At Last" plays in(Gary Ross, 1998).Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage) tells Loretta Castorini (Cher) to go upstairs and get in his bed in(Norman Jewison, 1987).Nick (Peter Falk) and th kids go up and down and up and down th stairs as Mabel (Gena Rowlands) has a rough time of it @ th end of(John Cassavetes, 1974).One (Ron Perlman) a little bit weirdly massages Miette (Judith Vittet)'s sore feet in(Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995).First frog hits windshield in(Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999).Le narrateur (Jean-Luc Godard) narrates th thoughts of Odile (Anna Karina), Arthur (Claude Brasseur), et Franz (Sami Frey) as they dance th Madison in(Jean-Luc Godard, 1964).Th twins Oswald Deuce (Brian Deacon) and Oliver Deuce (Eric Deacon) lie down beside eachother to die in(Peter Greenaway, 1985).Bob Dylan and th science student converse about why either of them would want to get to know th other in(D.A. Pennebaker, 1967).Mrs. Thornley (Liz Smith) goes to confession, confesses she does not love her husband, in(Mike Leigh, 1973).Margot (Amanda Langlet) and Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) kiss good-bye in(Eric Rohmer, 1996).Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) curses @ th restroom mirror in(Spike Lee, 2002).Dadan (Srdjan Todorovic) rides around in th back of a limousine snorting coke out of a crucifix pendant between two sluts while singing along w/ and pumping his fists to a techno anthem named "Pit Bull Terrier," in(Emir Kusturica, 1998).Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch) gets killed in(Richard Marquand, 1983).A hostage gets shot in(José Padilha, 2002).Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) rants to young Charlie (Teresa Wright) over dinner in(Alfred Hitchcock, 1943): "Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something."Pet cemetery operator Floyd McClure meditates on mortality in(Errol Morris, 1980): "Here before us lies little Toby. Little Toby was put on this earth for two reasons: to love and be loved, and today we're standing here saying good-bye to little Toby, who was the Smiths' beloved little friend. And now we're going to give you back, little Toby, to Mother Nature."Th donkey Balthazar dies in(Robert Bresson, 1966).Paul accidentally kills his cousin Charles in(Claude Chabrol, 1959).A woman stares into her cup of coffee and sees th galaxy therein in(Godard, 1967).Sing (Stephen Chow) shatters th lollipop offered to him by th mute lady (Huang Sheng Yi) in(Stephen Chow, 2005).A white-suited gangster (Kôji Yakusho) turns on his mistress (Fukumi Kuroda) by making shellfish dance wildly on her nipples in(Juzo Itami, 1985).Queen Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) gets makeup put on, and a serious haircut, in(Shekhar Kapur, 1998).Ruth Barron (Kate Winslet) pees down her leg while walking in th desert in(Jane Campion, 1999).Jane (Imelda Staunton) and Antonia (Saskia Reeves) hug once, and den twice, in(Beeban Kidron, 1991).Shiori Satonaka (Erika Oda) kicks snow on a rooftop, in frustration, in(Hirokazu Koreeda, 1998).Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon) smokes a cigarette @ th end of(Matthew Bright, 1996).Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) curses into a payphone in Hawaii, is finally connected to Lena Leonard (Emily Watson), in(Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002).Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) sits on th jail's front stoop w/ a stand-up lamp and reads a book in(Robert Mulligan, 1962).From th roof of her son's flat, Mrs. Bender (Edna Doré) stares out over th skyline and declares, "It's the top of the world," in(Mike Leigh, 1988).Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung) and Moon (Zhang Ziyi) duel amidst falling yellow leaves in(Zhang Yimou, 2004).Willie (John Lurie), Eva (Eszter Balint), and Eddie (Richard Edson) hang out by Lake Erie and remark upon its beauty while freezing their asses off in(Jim Jarmusch, 1984).Th cute, skinny lady (Faye Wong) clandestinely cleans Cop 633 (Tony Leung)'s apartment over a soundtrack of Faye Wong singing a Cranberries song in(Wong Kar-wai, 1994).Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) dramatizes th battle between love and hate, using big brass knuckles that read "LOVE" and "HATE" in(Spike Lee, 1989).Jane (Elizabeth Berrington) says to Maurice, "Maurice, I wish I'd had a dad like you," in(Mike Leigh, 1996).Dap (Laurence Fishburne) yells, "Wake up!" in(Spike Lee, 1988).Maggie Cheung (Maggie Cheung) puts on a catsuit and prowls on rooftops to a soundtrack of Sonic Youth's "Tunic" in(Olivier Assayas, 1996).A government agent encourages Zebraman to keep trying, after Zebraman has fallen off a bridge, in(Takashi Miike, 2004): "Driver (Mania Akbari) quarrels w/ her son Amin (Amin Maher, th only truly great child actor to appear in any movie anywhere ever) about her divorce w/ his father, in th opening scene of(Abbas Kiarostami, 2002).Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) and a replica of his wife Hari (Natalya Bondarchuk), who committed suicide years ago, float weightlessly around a room in(Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972).Elliott (Henry Thomas)'s bike lifts off for th first time, sticky John Williams music swells, in(Steven Spielberg, 1982).Footage of airplanes and rockets as narrator (Alexandra Stewart) reads an excerpt on Japanese intellectual history in(Chris Marker, 1983): "He spoke to me of Sei Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting to Princess Sadako @ th beginning of th 11century, in th Heian period. Do we ever know where history is really made? Rulers ruled, and used complicated strategies to fight one another. Real power was in th hands of a family of hereditary regents; th emperor's court had become nothing more than a place of intrigues and intellectual games. But by learning to draw a sort of melancholy comfort from th contemplation of th tiniest things, this small group of idlers left a mark on Japanese sensibility much deeper than th mediocre thundering of th politicians. Shonagon had a passion for lists: th list of Elegant Things, Distressing Things, or even of Things Not Worth Doing. One day she got th idea of drawing up a list of. Not a bad criterion, I realize, when I'm filming."Carol White (Julianne Moore) talks to th mirror @ th end of(Todd Haynes, 1995).Visitor Q (Kazushi Watanabe) sits under an umbrella while it rains milk in(Takashi Miike, 2001).Lip-synching scene in(David Lynch, 2001).Hossain Sabzian (Hossain Sabzian) cries in th arms of Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) in(Abbas Kiarostami, 1990).Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) tosses th monkey over his shoulder in(Werner Herzog, 1972).BLAM! "Cool guys like you, out of my life," in(Michael Lehmann, 1989).Chang (Chen Chang) describes th lighthouse @ th end of th world to Lai Yiu-fai (Tony Leung) in(Wong Kar-wai, 1997).Mikey (Peter Falk) locks his front door w/ Nicky (John Cassavetes) trapped outside in(Elaine May, 1976).Christian (Ulrich Thomsen) sees his dead sister in(Thomas Vinterberg, 1998).Wendy (Alison Steadman) breaks into tears while scolding her daughter Nicola (Jane Horrocks) in(Mike Leigh, 1991).Last supper and subsequent violence in(Luis Buñuel, 1961).Richard Forst (John Marley) and his wife Maria (Lynn Carlin) sit on th stairs facing eachother in th final scene of(John Cassavetes, 1968).Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish) and Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) sing, in counterpoint, th hymn "Leaning on Jesus," in(Charles Laughton, 1955).A girl (Erika Bók), perhaps 10, swallows poison and lies down to die beside her dead pet cat in(Béla Tarr, 1994).