Friday's Footage - Movies

Friday's Footage today I've decided will be a review of some of my favorite movies. Well, I will not review them but give clips and then tell what my favorite part in each movie is. First off here is a behind the scenes clip from Anne of Green Gables. Afterwards is another one. The first clip is really bad quality but if you are a fanatic like me, it will not matter.





And now, my favorite parts of Anne of Green Gables are hard to choose as it's forever long including the sequel, but they are after Anne gets upset with Gilbert when they are walking down a path over Anne's story that was published and she's in her room crying and Marilla is talking to her about how Gilbert loves her and gave up the school for her so she could stay in Avonlea and how she shouldn't throw it all away for some ideal that doesn't exist I think is actually very close to what she really says. That is my most favorite part I think and I also really like the part where she bumps into Gilbert after being to the ladies college and it starts to rain and they go under the gazibo and he tells her he's engaged and gives her the note and it's all so sweet but I think it's then that she finally realizes that she loves him, and that she kind of blew it cause he's engaged now. I love that part.

This is a clip from Mary Poppins and it's also my favorite part. I think I watched this movie a million times when I was a kid but when I watched it much later, that's when I realized that it's not meant for kids. I mean kids love it and that's great but I think what Walt Disney wanted to portray was much deeper and symbolic than what a child could understand. It was at this part in the movie that I realized that and that's why it's my favorite part. I love how parts of the song are actually spoken. It makes it more of a real moment, a serious moment, and I love Burt's sarcasm. He helps George figure it out by his friendly but serious sarcasm. I love the last lines of the song while he's singing about how Mary Poppins came and ruined his life and she really came and made him realize that he was a neglectful father...I love the Burt's part at the end "and all too soon they've up and grown, and then they've flown, and it's too late for you to give..." He's basically told him that he better fix the situation now while his kids are still young and forgiving, because at some point they wouldn't be kids anymore and it would be too late. I just love this part. I know that Walt Disney took Mary Poppins very seriously, and I think it's cool because I think I "get him" on that. I take it seriously too. Try not to focus on the subtitles, I don't know why they are there.



This is from Phenomenon, one of my favorite movies. I couldn't find my favorite part but this is just a great song and a great part in the movie. I think while you are watching the movie, you are finally able to exhale at this point. There's something about a girl shaving a guy's face, it's sweet. The only thing you need to know about the clip is that he's a little down trodden and she comes and helps him clean up so he can feel better. I recommend this movie to anyone.



And my favorite part in this movie is a scene in the bar when he is telling everybody of the million ideas he has, and how he comes up with so many ideas and thinks so many thoughts every minute and every day and after he breaks the mirror, Doc talking to the people in the bar about how they always have to drag him down to make themselves feel better and it's just a great part because it doesn't happen very often in a movie where it's this uplifting, and where they are making Christian goodness look good I guess. It's hard to explain. It's definately a part we can all relate to.

This next one is a clip from what's probably my very favorite movie It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. I don't have a favorite part but this is great. Any part that Ethel Merman is in is my favorite. I LOVE her! Mickey Rooney reminds me of my grandpa Packard in this movie. The movie is hillarious.



I love the movie Hook. It is my favorite version of Peter Pan. I even like it better than the book. The book has no rythem and it doesn't reallt have a story line or a plot. I think that anyone who has redone Peter Pan had to come up with their own. The reason why John Barrie is so amazing is because the book introduces the idea of Neverland, and the characters. That is the important thing, that we understand what the concept is. Back to Hook. I didn't get a clip but my favorite part is on the bridge when Thud tells Peter what his happy thought is and when he gives Peter Toodles marbles because he lost them in Neverland and has been looking for them ever since. The marbles are Toodles happy thoughts. It's really sweet and that's my favorite part. We used to do the Rufio chant in HS with my friends. Emily Stratton did it the best. Good times.

I didn't get a clip for it but Dave is also one of my favorite movies and my favorite part is near the end when the secret service guy tells Dave he would've taken a bullet for him. You'd have to see the movie to understand why that part was a tear jerker, and my favorite part is also when Dave and the first lady are on the grass talking about if he were still in office what he would do and he says "a lot of things..." I love that. It's pretty inspirational.

Lastly I love the movie Cast Away. I didn't get a clip of it but my favorite part is when he gets over the last wave and he'd done it, but he looks back at the island and realizes he'll probably never see it again. He's been living there for 4 years. It was HIS island. I just really "get" the significance of that part and with no dialogue and only music. The island looks all misty and mysterious. It's a beautiful shot. That's my favorite part by far.