Classic movie moments

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  • Life of Brian (1979). When Brian loses his sandal is still one of the classic metascenes of all time.
  • World According to Garp (1982). When Roberta tells Garp he used to be Robert. Thanks for this character John Lithgow.
  • Partners (1982). When John Hurt comes into the police station to be told he has to come out from behind his desk and be part of an actual case. Thanks for these characters Ryan O'Neal and John Lithgow.
  • The Book of Eli (2010). Denzel Washington, alone in a ruin in a desert, takes out a wet wipe and bathes with it, while listening to a single song on an iPod whose battery is running out. How can you mend a broken heart?
  • Stranger than Fiction (2006).  Maggie Gyllenhaal refuses to pay 22% of her tax because she doesn’t want to fund the war machine. #Leadership
  • Don’t like either Eric Roberts or Campbell Scott, but the Raggedy Man (1981) kiss and the Dying Young (1991) kiss are my favorites. Bizarre.
  • Spanglish (2004). Love scene, Paz Vega says to Adam Sandler that there are some risks you can't take when you have children. And then their feet touch the floor. Téa Leoni carries the whole racism subplot, and is the generator of all the action, including the love scene. Self-aware scenes she enacts. One of my all-time favorite characters and performances of privilege. 

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