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Top ten Films Blog-a-thon
So the great blog Top ten Films is having a blog-a-thon. The deal is, you have a magic ticket and you can hop into any film you want to grab a ride on. Once you have these choices available, how would you answer the following questions:
1. What character would I most like to be sat next to on a plane…
Judy Davis as George Sand in impromptu.
I know this is a bit of a cheat, but I’d like to sit next to George Sand on a glorious long plane ride. Judy Davis plays Ms Sand in one of my all time favourite flicks, and she’d be my ultimate choice for a long flight and plenty of whiskey flowing between us.
2. What character would I most want to enjoy a passionate romance with?
This is a clichéd answer, but if I was to have a passionate affair with anyone, I’d like to play out the girl-on-girl fantasies with Lara Croft. Either that or be her somehow.
3. If I were a cop who would I want as my partner?
As far as I’m concerned there is only one person bad-ass enough to accompany me on all my totally and completely rad, bad-ass adventures.
4. What animated feature would I love to walk around in?
Is there ANY other animation worth injecting yourself into?
5. What adventure based on earth would I most like to go on?
This may seem like a somewhat odd choice for a real life adventure i would like to have played out along side of them, but the role I LOVE here is Jimmy Stewart’s Rupert Cadell. The thought of being able to see through two young aesthetes and their delusions of grandeur appeals to me a GREAT DEAL! (sad but true)
6. What adventure based in an otherworldly, fantasy-based location would I most like to go on?
The Dream like world of the Hourglass sanitorium is a fantasy place I would love to stroll around in, movie back and forth through time. I would also like to visit Un Chien Andelou for the same reasons.
7. What movie gadget would I love to try out (or steal)?
I want the mysterious time travel, dreams lived candy that Celine and Julie keep finding in their mouths when they get ‘back’.
8. What film’s plot would I alter and how would I do it?
Regarde Le Mere was a short film (by director Francois Ozon) I watched recently that I thought was about to tip into brilliance status until the last 5 minutes of the film. The choice of ending re-created the entire film for me and took what could have been an extremely fresh and exciting journey into female sexuality to a banal, antiquated hack of a film that simply re-stated something that hs already been trashed and labeled exploitation cinema. HUGE mistake to make her a serial killer. HUGE mistake.
9. What one film would I most want to be transported into, simply to be a part of that world?
The one and only original Girls Gone Wild Czech New Wave film masterpiece Daisies is definitely a world i would want to be in – even if only for a little while. I ADORE this film.
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I haven’t seen Impromptu but have just put it on my LoveFilm list. I absolutely adore Judy Davis – a superb actress. I first noticed her in Altman’s The Player and she absolutely stood out in Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives and Deconstructing Harry. Now looking forward to The Eye of the Storm.
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Oh Lorna – You are going to LOVE Eye of the Storm. she’s amazing. I agree that she is one of the greatest actresses of our time. Have you seen My brilliant career? She is amazing in that as well. I have to agree with you about Husbands and Wives – she’s incredible in that film. You know she didn’t get the academy award that year (for that role) because Marissa Tomie won it for My cousin Vinnie. The STORY goes (according to a very close film critic friend) that Jack Palance was so hyper oxygenated from doing all those push ups that when he announced it, he said the wrong name.
I have to tell you – I believe that story more than i believe Tomie being chosen over Davis!
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Thanks for taking part in this Lisa. You’ve done a creative entry with some interesting, unique answers.
Judy Davis is a very underrated actress I think. I say underrated – I think most people who see her work understand her qualities but she doesn’t seem to get talked about like other, more well-known, actresses. I’m guessing that is partly due to her own desires.
Girl on girl fantasies with Lara Croft can never be a bad thing – good answer! 😉
Your cop partner answers is great – no worries there if you suddenly find yourself in a Butch and Sundance moment – you’d still survive!
I’ve always been a fan of Rope – it doesn’t get talked about as highly as many other Hitchcock films but I think its brilliant despite its odd, artificial transitions every ten minutes. I saw a picture of the camera they were using on the film and it is the size of about three domestic refrigerators. It is unbelievable what Hitchcock achieved…not just in Rope.
Time Travel has been a big thing on the gadget front – I wonder where our interest in being able to travel through time comes from.
I’m going to have to check out Regarde le Mare and Girls Gone Wild.
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HI Dan – thanks SO much for visiting and taking the time.
I thought this activity was a great idea. It was lots of fun thinking it through – nothing is as fun as imagining yourself in your favourite films.
Apologies for my being vague… the final film is called Daisies. I just use the phrase girls gone wild because the two women are really ‘out there’ in this surrealist film.
Its a headliner from the Czech New wave. Banned for a long time for how subversive it was. One of my favourite films.
Thanks again for stopping by, thanks so much for the project and thanks for your great blog.
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Altman’s The Player? I don’t believe Davis was in that film.
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I think you’re right Meg. Greta Scacchi was in it – another Aussie actress – maybe that’s who Lorna means there.
But Davis is still a major legend!
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Some great ideas here Lisa. I too would probably go for Lara Croft if I had the chance…. 😉
Not quite sure if I’d be with you in Rope, though. That’s a bit of a stretch for me!
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oops! I must have been thinking of another film (can’t for one moment imagine mistaking Greta Scaachi for Judy Davis) – anyway, yes I have seen My Brilliant Career and she is amazing in that too. Love the Jack Palance story. She was robbed.
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Ha ha ha ha ha – er GOOD CALL!!! ha ha ha….
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You’re probably not as egotistical as me Rodney – Im in love with the idea of catching them out. Sad but true.
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…Thanks for those kind words Lisa. I’m going to have to check out Daisies if I can find it somewhere.
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