As you will doubtless recall, the purpose of these lists is to inform the readership of the things which have informed our attitudes, outlooks, choices, etc. Therefore, here are the programs/films that have helped shape my way of looking at things.
Relations with the Opposite Sex
Cat Ballou--Don't mess with her; she'll shoot you dead.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes--I always identified with the Jane Russell character. Always the sidekick, eventually the bride.
The Women--teaches the valuable lesson that Virtue Will Triumph in the End
What it means to be a man
Any BBC adaptation of a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, whether it stars Ian Carmichael, or Edward Petherbridge
The Dirty Dozen
Grand Illusion
Groundhog Day
Hogan's Heros
Master and Commander
My Man Godfrey
Stripes
Music
Any Warner Bros. musical with numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley
Austin Powers
The Big Chill (I can't help it. I'm a baby-boomer. And this was the first film to use songs that had already been hits.)
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Last Days of Disco
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
So I Married an Ax Murderer
Tous Les Matins du Monde
Master and Commander
Work
Absolutely Fabulous (Edina, the feckless employer, and Bubble, the idiot secretary)
Beverly Hillbillies (Mr. Drysdale/Miss Jane)
Footlight Parade (James Cagney as Chester Kent; Joan Blondell as his secretary)
Fawlty Towers (John Cleese as the overbearing owner; Connie Booth as his wonderful assistant)
Working Girl (Sigourney Weaver as the Boss from Hell; Melanie Griffith as the ambitious secretary)
Lifestyle
High Society
Housesitter
Laura
Metropolitan
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Philadelphia Story
The Thin Man Goes Home
Trading Places
The Women
Family
Ordinary People (My original milieu. To be avoided. What not to be.)
I, Claudius (What not to be, cubed.)
Moonstruck (What I aspire to.)
God
Beckett
Country
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Worldview (tied)
Metropolitan
Wayne's World
Just wanted to say Happy C&C Monday!
ReplyDeleteMy worldview was once and forever formed by Peter Sellers' Being There. Based on the final vignette where he appears to be walking on water to the sound of quotes from the Great Man Recently Dead read to the mourners by the President. And there he is, walking on the water without so much as making a ripple, and the President's voice reads "Life.......... is a state of mind."
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