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cordonianqueenie · 7 years

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My Top 10 Favourite Movies Part 1 (10 to 6)

I always find it hard to answer the question ‘What’s your favourite movie?” Because it’s so dependant on my mood or what criteria I’m judging it against, but I get it - people want some kind of insight into you and the movie you love will probably give them a bit of that. So this is my top 10 which kind of cover the run of different kinds of movies I love for very different reasons.

10. Gone with the Wind Yeah, this movie is problematic. There is no denying that, like it’s source material, it tries to put a ‘kind’ face on slavery and glamorises the south. But here’s my story, when I was 16 I went to boarding school and I was not exactly the most confident or pretty of the girls so I tended to be a little invisible, people didn’t dislike me but a lot of the time they just sorta forgot I was there. Sunday was our one free day of the week with no lessons and whilst everybody else used it to socialise I used it as my time to be alone and recharge. I’d camp out in the TV room that rarely got used except when big sports events were on - I’d take a book, a film, a mug and a load of tea bags (the kitchen was just next door!). A lot of the time that film was Gone with the Wind - Scarlett O’Hara was everything I wasn’t she was the centre of attention, she always knew what to say, she focused on her goals and didn’t really mind who she had to used to achieve them. I loved her and whilst I didn’t condone everything she did I did find myself practising some of her looks in the mirror.

9. 300 Zac Snyder’s style has taken a fair bit of probably reasonable criticism, but for me in 300 it really worked. Whilst there is some loose historical fact behind 300 it’s not meant to be accurate - it perfectly captures graphic novel style in the medium of film, something which Scott Pilgrim also manages in a different way but which a lot of films have failed to achieve. It is also being told as a story within the story in order to amp up some troops for battle so ya know its supposed to be a bit out there and exaggerated. I think its beautifully shot and paced and I like the overall message. These men didn’t think they were going to win, they knew they didn’t have the numbers, but in the face of something they saw as unreasonable they stood up anyway in the hope that there story would lead others to fight and ultimately win where they alone couldn’t. Also, Lena Headey is killing it as always.

8. Little Women (1994 version) Little Women was one of the first ‘grown-up’ books I read and I fell in love basically from the first page. I’ve seen three versions of this film and love different things about each of them, and whilst June Allyson will always be my favourite Jo on balance I think the 1994 version is the best overall film. This is for several reasons; I think Susan Sarandon is excellent, I think they handle the growing romances of Amy/Laurie and Jo/Fredrich much better and perhaps most importantly I love the score to this movie. It’s so perfect sometimes I just listen to it and it conjures up all the emotions of the film for me. I watched this film so many times when I was younger I think everyone else in my household was ready to die of boredom but I was constantly enraptured by it. I can even forgive them for prettying up some of the characters who weren’t quite so written.

7. A Muppet’s Christmas Carol Here’s a thing about me, I love Christmas as much now as I did as a child. I shamelessly buy into all the commercialism; I love the lights, the present buying, the mulled wines and ciders, I bake mince pies and gingerbread, have a Christmas songs playlist and watch tonnes of Christmas films. And I’m not sure there has been a year since it came out in 1992 when I haven’t watched the Muppet’s Christmas Carol. I think the mixture of human to Muppet characters is perfect, the songs are excellent (It feels like Christmas being a personal fave of mine) and the mixture of laughter and sadness is just right. I’ve seen this film so many times I could probably perform the whole thing solo. But I don’t think there will ever be a Christmas when I don’t sit down and watch it.

6 Kuch Kuch Hota Hai I come from a mixed race family and whilst I never learnt Hindi I did watch a lot of Hindi films when I was younger. I’m a sucker for catchy songs and gut punching emotion so Bollywood in the late 90s/early 00s was kinda made for me. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was definitely my favourite and the one I would encourage anyone who has never seen a Bollywood film before to watch. It’s a great entry point, it’s colourful, the songs will draw you in and the story is not overly complicated but the characters are well drawn. It’s so super 90s and more than a little bit over the top but I challenge anyone not to have a good time. There is a song called Tujhe Yaad Na Meri Aaye from when one of the characters finds out the person she loves is in love with someone else that made me cry then and makes me cry every damn time I hear it.

So that’s 10 through to 6. I will follow up with part 2 later and do 5 through to the number 1 spot.

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