Film Gecko Five: Romantic Movie Moments
February 11, 2009 by Jane Boursaw
In honor of Valentine’s Day (this Saturday – are you prepared?!), I’ve compiled a list of top romantic movie moments. Since there’s no way I can put them all into one post, I’ll probably do another post or two. Let’s start with…
1. Dirty Dancing. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." You tell ‘em, Johnny! And then the street-wise dancer grab’s the young girl’s hand and pulls her on-stage for "their" dance. Could there be a better ending to this nostalgic movie about young love at a 50’s-era summer resort? I think not.
2. Bridget Jones’s Diary. Daniel (Hugh Grant) and Bridget (Renee Zellweger) have just emerged onto the street from an intimate, candle-lit dinner. She raises her arm to hail a taxi, and then he pulls her into his arms and gives her one of THE most romantic kisses in cinema history. And then, of course, they go back to her apartment, where she realizes she wore…the BIG underpants! Just like real life.
3. Casablanca. But there MUST be a way it can work, we think silently, watching Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) stand in front of that plane and decide to spend their lives apart. But no, he gazes into her sad eyes and declares, "It doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that." But…but…
4. Jerry Maguire. "You…complete…me…," says Jerry (Tom Cruise), and we all wish someone would say that to us just ONCE before we die. Whatever happens after that in the movie doesn’t matter because those heartfelt words captured Dorothy’s (Renee Zellweger) heart and ours, too.
5. Moonstruck. "I love you," says Ronny (Nicolas Cage). Slap! "Snap out of it!" yells Loretta (Cher). But the droopy-eyed bread-baker won’t be put off. "I love you," he says again, "but love don’t make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and DIE. The storybooks are BULLSHIT! Now I want you to come upstairs with me and GET in my bed!" Perfect. What girl could refuse a proposition like that?
So spill. What are YOUR top romantic movie moments?
Images: Amazon.com; Lions Gate Films, Warner Bro. Pictures
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