Okay, I’m stealing this from AICN but as this’ll probably be my last post before the subscription deal comes in I might as well make it a biggie.
It doesn’t need to be a full hundred, hell I only managed just over 60, but as many as you can think of, no size too small or big, just a collection of moments from any form of media that you cherish. It can be anything from the smile on the face of the girl at the end of Magnolia, a particularly nice paragraph, a well drawn comic panel, the cowbell in Don’t Fear the Reaper. Just things you love.
My go something like this -
Whenever Pembleton got in the Box on Homicide: Life On The Streets
Buster throws one sleeper at another in The General
John Oliva destroying his throat singing When The Crowds Are Gone.
The girl gets shot in Assault on Precinct 13
Kinky Friedman muses over the creation of a hotline for troubled artists in Steppin’ On a Rainbow
Ryan O’Neal’s 78 words in The Driver
Whenever Terry Pratchett delves into Dwarf culture.
Brian Donelevy’s death in The Big Combo
A soldier obsesses about the squashing of a cockroach in Beach Red
The events surrounding the perfomance of Pull My Strings by the Dead Kennedys
The barrage of little fetishes in Amelie
Mingus hollering on Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
The final shot and “Don’t Move” in Simple Men
The chase in the Crossing Guard
Hammer elicits a confession via a closed drawer in Kiss Me Deadly
The tale of the cat who rebels against it’s masters in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman
The gigantic fish in Metropolis
Ace Ventura delivers a wild roundhouse to a mascot
The slow mo of Tony Leung’s reaction to killing his mobster friends in Hard Boiled
Martin Landau revisits his childhood home in Crimes and Misdemeanors
The sound of his sleeve buttons hitting the strings in the alternate take of Shelter From the Storm by Dylan.
The death of Jenny Calender in Buffy
Gigantic Kitten on the Goodies
To drink or not to drink the coffee in the original Vanishing
The dog waiting for his master on Futurama
The first barrage of arguments between the husband and wife in The Ref
Tom Waits giving an Emotional Weather Report in Nighthawks at the Diner
“FBI couldn’t find Joe Lewis in a bowl of Rice” - Homicide
The way Glen Danzig would seriously pronounce Wolf as “Wowf” in Killer Wolf.
The Fish Dance - Monty Python
Whistler’s mother with a shotgun in Night Of The Hunter
Caleb begins to become more like his father in the finale of American Gothic
A boy finds a clown in the drain in Stephen King’s It.
The left handed sword fight from Princess Bride
Johnny looks to June, and then she disappears in the clip for Hurt
Darryl Zero’s guides to being a detective
The Telephone poles speech and it’s reply in Batman: Killing Joke
The first 6 Black Sabbath albums
The welcome sign in Red Rock West
‘The only ones for me are the mad ones…’ - On The Road
Kerouac reading sections of the above on Steve Allen’s tonight show, backed by Allen and his band.
The flashback within a flashback within a flashback in The Locket
The welcome home in Hail the Conquering Hero
Grieving father Heronimo asking a painter in The Spanish Tragedy - “Canst paint a doleful cry?”
“I’m Bill Hicks and I’m dead now…”
Kim Basinger in boots in 9 1/2 Weeks
The sting in the tail of Frontline - The Siege
Kang and Kodos take over both sides of American politics on the Simpsons
The Video clip to Metallica’s One
The Chainsaw fight in Tiger on the Beat
The finale of Steven Sewell’s Traitors
The dance number in the woman’s toilets in Voyage of the Rock Aliens
The Ghost in Olivier’s Hamlet
Wolsey’s final speech to Cromwell in Henry VIII.
Whenever Henry Rollin’s yells “Hey!”
The fighting style in The Unbelievable Truth
A bullet through the keyhole, eye and telephone in Dario Argento’s Opera
Wee Mad Arthur heat butting and entire herd of cattle in Feet Of Clay
Martin Donovan breaks into an silent exuberant dance number after kissing the girl in
The quick fire Q & A about celebrity rumours in Ellroy’s American Tabloid.
The way Wallace’s hands shake when he yells “Grommiittttt!!!”
The Preacher relate his first experience seeing Bill Hicks in The Preacher.
The sword fight at the end of Deathstalker when shown on MST3K.
The whale in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
A brass band playing, running and dodging bullets as they follow a wagon in Underground.
Great play: the one thing that sticks with me the most, though, is Hieronimo biting out his own tongue…