The Firday Five..

[fajrdrako]

From thefridayfive:

1. What's your favorite line from a movie, and why?

From Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (from memory, may be innacurate):

Benedick: I tell thee I love thee - bid me do anything for thee.
Beatrice: Kill Claudio.
Benedick: Hah! Not for the wide world.

2. Who's your favorite villain from a movie, and why?

Here I, who have so many favourite villains, have trouble thinking of one. My favourite movies don't have villains, or at least, not good ones. I'd say Lex Luthor from Smallville, but that's TV, not movies. I don't like Lex Luthor in any of the movies - he's not scary, he's silly.

There are other villains in movies whom I like - Lucius Malfoy, or the guy played by Jason Isaacs in The Patriot, or any of Rufus Sewell's bad-boy roles - but it makes no sense to mention villains from movies I didn't like so much. Magneto from X-Men - ? But my love is for the Magneto of the comics, in all his wonderful facets, and for Ian McKellen, who is one of the gods of my pantheon - not particularly for the movie version of Magneto. So, who?

Once again I'll fall back on Shakespeare, or semi-Shakespeare, and say Ben Jago, played by Christopher Eccleston, in Othello. And heck, since I'm cheating with Shakespeare anyway, I'll add Keanu Reeves as Don John in the Branagh Much Ado. If I give the impression that I loved that movie... it's because I did.

Oh - I just thought of a great alternate pick of villains - Arnold Vosloo and Lance Henriksen as (respectively) Pik van Cleef and Emil Fouchon in John Woo's Hard Target.

3. Name one movie everyone else loves that you hate.

"Hate" may be too strong a word, but I disliked the original Star Wars.

4. Name one movie everyone else hates that you love.

The Sound of Music. I adore that movie. I love it more every time I see it. I think it's clever, exciting, romantic, snarky, snappy, visually striking and insightful. Okay, I know a lot of other people like it or love it too, it isn't universally disliked, but I know many people who think it's sappy. It isn't.

5. What's your favorite Pixar film, and why?

Oookay, deep breath here, and big confession: I don't think I have ever liked a Pixar film and I hope I never ever have to watch another one.

Comments

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten around to this yet.

But you know, generally when people post "movies that everyone..." I end up sayimg, no, everyone doesn't. Like your #3 - I thought Star Wars was adequate. However, I'm going with "everyone" on #4 - I HATE the Sound of Music!

And then back to form: I don't like Pixar, either.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, "Star Wars" just didn't have anything in it that spoke to me. I quite liked the Quin-Gonn/Obi Wan slashiness of "Phantom Menace" but there really isn't anything much in the Star Wars movies that I enjoyed except Harrison Ford's performance.

My friends all seem to love Pixar movies, and having sat through several of them for frienship's sake, I'm not looking for ways to get out of it in future.

[chazzbanner.livejournal.com]

Christopher Plummer. I think that if he hadn't played his role perfectly, it would have damaged the movie terribly. The brittle snark when needed, yes, but also the Nazi plotine, which he played with absolute focus and seriousness, Essential.

I think the scene where the Captain and Maria are dancing the Landler is one of the most decorously erotic scenes in film. :-) In fact, I think it is more erotic because it is decorous -- but hey, that's just me.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, I agree with you all the way there. Christopher Plummer was perfect in his role; convincing in both the romance and the awkward fatherhood and the Austrian anti-Nazi patriot. And the movie is very sexy in my opinion, all the more because of Maria's innocence.