If you could choose, what movie would you like to live, what part would you want, and why?
I'll start it out by saying that there are a number of movies I'd love to live but I am also realistic. Unless you live an unusually sheltered life, any time before penicillin would suck. So that lets out Sense & Sensibility. If I woke up at that time, I'd become an eccentric hermit.
One of my favorite movies of all time is Dead Again but I don't think I'd like to deal with some of the eeriness and past tragedies these characters have faced (although the Happy Ending is there, which is a requirement in all my faves).
I think I'll choose The Princess Bride but I won't settle for the part of Buttercup. She's a partially drawn character at best, which the other characters all react to. Don't get me wrong, I want to be the princess, but I want to be a princess with the spunk and intelligence of Katherine Hepburn.Hey! This is my fantasy, I can rewrite the script! Oh yeah... and they have penicillin.
SUNDAY: I'm off to the beach, so I'm not putting up another topic. But I'll check and answer everyone tonite or tomorrow morning (early). ;o)
17 comments:
Hmmm ... interesting question. I like The Princess Bride alot, but Buttercup isn't a character I'd like to be.
I have wondered how life would be for me if I had been born in a much earlier time, with my personality. I would probably end up with Susan B. Anthony and her gang. I can see myself making banners and marching in protest.
In a fantasy, I'd have superpowers. Flying and being strong would be SO fun.
my first thought was the thomas crown affair, cuz then i'd have that great sex scene and have fantastic boobs, just like renee russo.
my second thought was a cute romantic flick called 'return to me'. i'd love to live in that environment of a close, irish catholic family; be able to paint and have david duchoveny think i'm grand.
but my real choice would be my all time favorite flick: national velvet.
thanks for an excellent saturday morning flight of fancy...time to go memorize my lines.
mck.
I'm assuming these movies have to be mainstream and not inly availble in "select" video stores.
I would like to have been in The Day The Earth Stood Still
I would like to have been Carpenter/Klaatu or maybe Billy.
Or maybe Ferris Bueller and take a day off.
Bruce/Batman, Yeah, if you want to live in one of those movies, don't share. :D Oh, I loved Ferris Bueller. That's a fun day, for sure!
McKay, ohhhh, The Thomas Crown Affair. Good call!!! I don't think I've ever seen "Return to Me". I'll have to check it out. Does it have a happy ending though? I can't stand movies that don't. National Velvet is my mom's fave movie.
Dddragon, I've often thought the same thing (I'd be hangin' with Sue Anthony and getting into trouble, showing my ankles, and spitting on the sidewalk). Superpowers are awesome! I wanna fly, more than anything!
saur, 'return to me' is a must rent for a relaxing evening. make yourself some great italian food and enjoy. there's a singer that croons so smoothly. i had to go out and buy the CD, as all the music was perfectly picked. bonnie hunt produced and directed...she's a favorite of mine on so many levels. her dry wit, talent and her values speak to me. i wish she'd do more producing and directing projects.
mck.
I want to be the head guy in The Three Stooges movies so I can poke people's eyes out.
Under the Tuscan Sky was not a good movie, but its a great setting and a lifestyle I could get used to.
My favorite is Casablanca, but I certainly wouldn't want to be a character in it!
I would pick "Catch Me If You Can". I would be the guy everyone is trying to catch.
The movie I would LEAST like to live is "All Quiet On The Western Front". WWI pretty much just sucked.
Oh this is so much fun, Saur.
I would want to be Debroah Kar with Bert Lancaster on the beach in From Here to Eternity. (you can tell what a romantic I am.) Or Meggie with the Father on the beach in the Thorn Birds. (maybe it is the beaches..)
Superman - anything that involves flying!
that's difficult, my first thought was the Passion, to be Mary when Christ appeared after death, would have been incredible, after going through all that and Him actually coming back to life, I probably would have fainted or something, I know I would have screamed.
I want to be "Baby" in Dirty Dancing. *sigh*
Oh, that's easy. I'd play Rick Blaine in Casablanca. My favorite movie of all time.
I don't care what movie. I just want to be a really hot, red head (I have that already), toned, kicking-a$$, sexy, b*t@h, with an equally hot, handsom, muscular, kicking-a@@, sexy man.
Hmmm..very interesting.
As for me...do you even have to ask that question Saur? I'd loved to be in the movie Coyote Ugly---one of guys who is lucky enough to bring one of those hot bartenders home! Weew! Fans self off...
Runaway Bride, I'd play the part that Julia Roberts played, of course. She had her fair share of relationship flops, but in the end, found the right one.
And I'm sure I could think of more movies, too... but this one came to mind first. :o)
Yid Erotica, thanks! ;o) You didn't say which movie, though...
Brianne, oh that was an excellent movie! Take it from me, though... I've truly been there/done that (although most of the times I didn't get up to the altar). It's not as fun as it looks.
Deb, *LOL*
Jeff, :D I take it you want to be Joe, not the volcano?
Michelle, tell it like it is, sister! Tell it like it is!
Fred, but would you have let her go...?
Dancewriter, OK, yeah, me too. Good call!
Reverb, excellent! Me too on these two.
LLL, it would've been terribly startling, wouldn't it?
MeeMaw, or how about Sleepless in Seattle? That was a great movie! 9 1/2 weeks: too sadistic for me. Groundhog Day: fun, but frustrating!
Susie, *LOL* OK, I want that flat belly too. I guess they have liposuction in all the movies.
Nihilistic, yeah!!!
Barbara, but they're all ultimately tragedies! You're on your own in those fantasies. Mine must have that happy ending. ;o)
Mr. Fabulous, good call! Hey, if I was going to play a guy, *I* would want to be Robert Redford. Or how about The Sting?
Lazy Iguana, I never saw the movie (Western Front) but read the book. I'll agree with you!!! And yeah, it must've been a ball to be the guy that "Catch me if you Can" is based on.
Miss C, I don't know the first movie, but I think you're about to be cast with Fred in Casablanca, like it or not! ;o)
Old Hoss, I shoulda guessed. :D
McKay, I'm gonna check it out!
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