Romance...

[fajrdrako]

From Livejournal's Writer's Block: What is your all-time favorite, romantic movie scene? What about it speaks to you?

Mine is from The Russia House, a movie I adored, based on a John LeCarré novel. British publisher Barley (Sean Connery) becomes mixed up in intrigue in Russia, along with a woman named Katya, a Moscovite widow played by Michelle Pfeiffer. He declares his love for her when she's busy making dinner for the kids, translating from the Russian for him, distracted by domestic tasks and the espionage plot they are both in the middle of.

What I love - besides the way the scene is written - is the delightful mundanity of it: her's trying to pour out his heart, but it isn't candlelight and champagne, it isn't a beautiful "Lara's Theme" type vista, it's just an apartment and all in the middle of an adventure.

The scene can be seen here.