tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post114590936549357129..comments2023-11-05T06:55:38.728-05:00Comments on As Little as Possible: The greatest love dashes of all timeJ.J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07815005929352267468noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-66463640885686896282009-05-24T17:20:38.365-04:002009-05-24T17:20:38.365-04:00Damn right, Crocodile Dundee!Damn right, Crocodile Dundee!Micknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1148586733529481462006-05-25T15:52:00.000-04:002006-05-25T15:52:00.000-04:002 words. Crocodile Dundee.2 words. Crocodile Dundee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146797703077644942006-05-04T22:55:00.000-04:002006-05-04T22:55:00.000-04:00The Sound of Music doesn't work because of your de...<I>The Sound of Music</I> doesn't work because of your definition that it has to be at the end of the film. If you don't need that... well then, we can add a whole bunch more!<BR/><BR/>Oh, for 80s cheese factor: <I>Some Kind of Wonderful</I>. Eric Stoltz and Mary Stuart Masterston -- young love, with 80s hair, how I remember ye well...Middentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13829095129849712488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146785258762984042006-05-04T19:27:00.000-04:002006-05-04T19:27:00.000-04:00What about West Side Story (with a bullet)?What about West Side Story (with a bullet)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146769129207593832006-05-04T14:58:00.000-04:002006-05-04T14:58:00.000-04:00The Graduate! How could I forget. The most meaning...The Graduate! How could I forget. The most meaningless love dash of all time. Elllaine! Elllaine! What a bozo.<BR/><BR/>I'd count Miss Piggy and Kermit. Even though it's not at the climax, it's probably the most self-consciously love-dashish of them all (what with the slow motion and music).J.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07815005929352267468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146766298670862992006-05-04T14:11:00.000-04:002006-05-04T14:11:00.000-04:00one of my favorite is Miss Piggy and Kermit in The...one of my favorite is Miss Piggy and Kermit in The Muppet Movie.<BR/><BR/>but alas, it's not at the climax of the movie so i guess it doesn't count. it is in slo-mo though with swelling music and miss piggy's off-key warbling. classic.NATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146763635692226092006-05-04T13:27:00.000-04:002006-05-04T13:27:00.000-04:00Hmmm...Man, you know, I'm really starting to lose ...Hmmm...<BR/>Man, you know, I'm really starting to lose my mind. I'm remembering less and less.<BR/>This is a cool subject, tho!<BR/>1. BROADCAST NEWS:<BR/>Not a love dash at all, in 2 ways: it isn't about 2 people coming together and it happens at the beginning of the film. However, thinking about it, thematically, it IS a love dash for the NEWS:<BR/>Joan Cusack racing, dangerously, to get the piece of video into the broadcast on time. That actually is the end of the very funny sequence (don't forget "Bobby bobby bobby...!"). However, considering Holly Hunter's emotional choices in the film, news ethics vs. romance, this seems an appropriate love dash... for HER.<BR/><BR/>2. THE GRADUATE<BR/>Dustin Hoffman racing to get to, crap, "Elaine," (yeah, my brain again), before she gets married.<BR/>Oh! Katherine Ross! Yes!<BR/><BR/>3. NOTTING HILL<BR/>Hugh Grant and friends racing to the press conference where Julia Roberts is saying good-bye.<BR/><BR/>And there's some fuzzy image of a woman in my head trying to make her way through a crowd... it isn't Adrian... it's SOMEthing... aw, hell, I'll get back to you if I can relocate some of my brain...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146754123931846772006-05-04T10:48:00.000-04:002006-05-04T10:48:00.000-04:00Re: Spider-Man 2. I don't know what that is, and I...Re: Spider-Man 2. I don't know what that is, and I don't care to find out.<BR/><BR/>JMR: Yes, I suppose The Third Man has the ultimate anti-love anti-dash (or moderately-paced cold shoulder?). Thank you for your input on the Klapisch. I've only seen it once, in that fateful first semester, but (as you can see) it has stuck. Also, I could've sworn there was some sort of love dash between Liesl and Rolfe, in the rain, in the gazebo or something. 16 going on 17?J.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07815005929352267468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146710287687816772006-05-03T22:38:00.000-04:002006-05-03T22:38:00.000-04:00Oh my gosh -- it's all about When the Cat's Away (...Oh my gosh -- it's all about <I>When the Cat's Away (Chachun cherche son chat)</I>. Despite what I've heard about Cédric Klapisch's recent work (spotty at best), the final shot where Chloé runs exuberantly down the Parisian street, not only having found love (ironically, in the form of her neighbor who is moving out) but also having found her place in her own community, the camera tracking along with her in a wild attempt to keep up, all to the tune of Portishead's "Glory Box" ("I'm so tired of playing/Playing with this bow-and-arrow/Gonna give my heart away/Leave it to the other girls to play/For I've been a temptress too long/Just give me a reason to love you/Give me a reason to be a woman") -- seriously, that's one of the most exhilerating final scenes of a recent film that I've seen in a movie made in the last ten years or so. Exquisite. Thank you for reminding me of that.<BR/><BR/>FYI: There is no love dash per se in <I>The Sound of Music</I> (by the end, they just "climb ev'ry mountain").<BR/><BR/>Then again, it serves to point out the you just recently referenced what might be called <A HREF="http://aslittleaspossible.blogspot.com/2006/04/alida-valli-1921-2006.html" REL="nofollow">the ultimate anti-love dash</A>, albeit also exquisite.Middentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13829095129849712488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146694140156970132006-05-03T18:09:00.000-04:002006-05-03T18:09:00.000-04:00What about Spider Man 2? Do we see Mary Jane run t...What about Spider Man 2? Do we see Mary Jane run to Spidey? I know she runs to him, but I can't remember if we see the run. Am I ruining this movie for people?Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05054713189645589414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10759084.post-1146672120696114002006-05-03T12:02:00.000-04:002006-05-03T12:02:00.000-04:00There's an extremely cheesy one in The Women , bu...There's an extremely cheesy one in <I> The Women </I>, but you can't see the man in it at all, and it's really short. That's all I got.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com