Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Only 'cause he runs fast.
American Beauty.
Godfather was my first choice, too. I’m thinking of the opening monologue (“I believe in America.”). And it’s the ultimate immigrant story.
What the heck, I’ll nominate It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The entire film is a metaphor of the American way of life. (I just made that up, so don’t ask for cites :D)
Rats! Missed the edit window…I went a little overboard with the Mads there…sorry.
Well, for scene that best describes America in 60 seconds or less, I nominate the closing scene from Killing Them Softly:
[spoiler]Brad Pitt, a Hit man, and Richard Jenkins, his handler, are arguing over the price of 3 executions Brad Pitt (Jackie Cogan) carried out. The handler says it is 30K. 10K apiece, and Cogan says no the price is 15K because the regular Hit man was not available and you called me in at the last minute to fix things. Anyway…
Jackie Cogan: My friend, Thomas Jefferson is an American saint because he wrote the words ‘All men are created equal’, words he clearly didn’t believe since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He’s a rich white snob who’s sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So, yeah, he writes some lovely words and aroused the rabble and they went and died for those words while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we’re living in a community? Don’t make me laugh. I’m living in America, and in America you’re on your own. America’s not a country. It’s just a business. Now fuckin’ pay me.[/spoiler]
I am shocked…SHOCKED…that I am the 47th poster and the first one to cite YANKEE DOODLE DANDY. How do you get more American than Jimmy Cagney tap dancing down the White House stairs?
You had me at Blazing Saddles.
The Best Years of Our Lives.
This Is the Army***, the most popular movie of 1943? Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Irving Berlin, et al.; Kate Smith singing “God Bless America.”
Whichever one uses the word “math” instead of “maths” the most.
you might like this movie… though it is set in London/England… based on your comment about “maths”
It’s really quite good.
The Planet of the Apes movies. First three of the originals, specifically
Farhrenheit 9/11 or Bowling for Columbine
Do the Right Thing
Nashville
My immediate response would be that film about baseball field. Was it called “Field of Dreams”?
Yes. I loved that scene inside the school when Amy Madigan stood up and gave them all “what for”!
That was a fabulous scene. Did anyone else get a real charge out of that scene like I did?
What a fine American film!
Oh, Dang! Panache45 beat me to it in post #37. I really must search threads before making my post to this kind of thread. But I can’t feel bad about this because it was just such a great film!
I just want to give a shout out to Panache45 and say that it was not a problem getting beat in this thread because this was just such a feel-good movie, how could I ever feel bad about anything to do with it?
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
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you might like this movie… though it is set in London/England… based on your comment about “maths”
It’s really quite good. [COLOR=“black”][/COLOR]
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You know, it strikes me that is a highly British way of making that statement. I don’t think that any American or Canadian would say it like that.
Canadians would likely say, “A real good movie”, while Americans would likely say, “This movie kicks ass!”
Anyway, I could very easily be wrong but I swear that I could hear a British accent seeping through the text when you typed that line.
Am I correct? If you came to North America, would people detect a heavy British accent in your voice?
Regardless, I’m off to check that film on the IMDB site. Thank you for giving us that reco!
You’d be disappointed in me, then. American through and through, and I say “It’s really quite good” often enough, and have never said something “kicks ass”.