Fannish Five

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1. What scene always makes you cry?
Confession time: there are pretty much no fannish shows or movies that make me cry. Spock's death? Nope. Boromir's death? Uh-uh. Any single part of ROTK? Not a single tear. And trust me, I wanted to cry during all of those scenes. I was emotionally invested in those characters. They mattered to me. So what does make me cry? Most recently it was Pai's speech about her grandfather in Whale Rider. Well, actually, the whole damn movie made me cry, but during that scene I lost it completely and didn't regain my composure till well after the credits finished rolling. Much to my S.O.'s consternation.

2. What scene always makes you laugh?
Withnail's rant about Russian drama in Withnail and I: "I loathe those Russian plays. They're always full of women, staring out of windows, whining about ducks going to Moscow." Pretty much sums up my view of Chekhov, too.

3. What scene always makes you cringe?
The rape in Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Macon, one of the very few films I have ever labelled "morally reprehensible." Of course "always" isn't quite accurate because I will never, ever see it a second time.

4. What scene always confuses you?
How about each and every frame of Tarkovsky's Nostalghia. And I like most of his other films. This one, however, left both the S.O and me giving each other WTF looks all the way through it.

5. What scene always makes you want to kill the writers?
Well, possibly the end of Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole, though in a good way. The whole movie is such a poisonous, caustic critique of the newspaper trade that when the story ultimately ends as badly as it can, you're gonna want to either kill the writers or yourself. Or Kirk Douglas' character.