Escape to the Movies

[seeker]

Hey everybody,

I was just reading a post from Rob on another thread regarding Monty Python.  I love them.  Rob, I think you were referring to Monty Python and the Holy Grail?  "Run away!!!!"  Another scene I really love and you can all relate to (esp. after that "Christmas invitation" post   ...) is the scene towards the end where Michael Palin as the father of the bride is calming everyone down after "Lancelot" (John Cleese) has inadvertently slayed many of the wedding guests because...it's what he does.  "Now, now, people.  This is supposed to be a 'appy occasion.  Never mind who's killin' who..."  

Another great movie for those particularly dark days is "The Lion in Winter".  Family dynamics at their worst, Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole at their best.  Best line, Kate as Queen Elinor: "what family doesn't have its ups and downs?"  But if you are feeling especially fragile, don't watch this one!

An interesting website, quite different from the usual PD fare, is http://www.screenplay.com/reel_people/index.html.  It actually lists movies and characters by PD!  It is intended for screenwriters, but click around and you will find a list of movies at the end of each article about a particular PD and relevant movie character.  There are not a lot of comedies listed...

When things are really bad, watch Monty Python & HG, or do what many of our Depression-era folks did and watch musicals!  

[Discounted Girl]

I love that website, thank you so much for sharing. This is going to take up a lot of my time, I can tell. Reading about this stuff is fascinating (until I remember the personal connection). I thought of something the other day. Maybe some of you are not old enough to remember the Dallas primetime soap in the late 70's and early 80's. Do you remember the rascal J.R. Ewing? I always think about the scene where someone, I think it's Bobby, asks him: "How can you stand yourself?" J.R. said: "Hey, after you give up integrity, everything else is a piece of cake." -- and he let loose than maniac laugh. I don't know if his character was an N, but N's have no integrity, that's for sure. Seeker, you are still a Keeper   If my mother had any class, she might have been able to do a version of Blanche from Streetcar Named Desire.  I cannot resist the urge to post a quote from the page on "Narcissistic Rage."

"A failure to procure the admiration of others (or to procure enough of it)-called narcissistic injury-can result in narcissistic rage. This is an explosive anger not unlike that of a child denied something he believes is rightfully his. The child sees the parent as the source of their shameful feelings of inferiority, so the child must destroy what threatens it...Narcissistic characters are prone to quick anger, not only as a result of narcissistic injury, but also because it reinforces their superiority."

I believe these people are dangerous in more ways than one.

[seeker]

Thanks, DG!

Yes!  Dallas!  I often think of that show and how weird it was to have grown children living in the same house as ol' Jock!!!  

Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf are classics.  Fatal Attraction is probably the newest of the PD classics ("you can't just ignore me!!!")  Run away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe we can take all the great lines and make a movie collage:
"Putting the Fun back into Dysfunction"  

As they say in Hill Street Blues: "Let's be careful out there..."   S.

[Argusina]

The mother in White Oleander is SOOOO Narcissistic too (the book is great too)""

[Portia]

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[seeker]

Hi Portia,

Just wanted to reply that I am not familiar with Six Feet Under...I did just watch Sunset Blvd. for the first time.  Wow...

[Portia]

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[Anonymous]

gotta say that you can' beat the mother in the sopranos - complete narcissist

[Dawning]

I'm curious to hear what anyone thinks about The Virgin Suicides in the light of voiceless and emotional survival.

~Dawning.

[Dawning]

Highly recommended: LITTLE VOICE.  Not only does it star Jane Horrocks - who does her own singing (no lip synchs) but the mother in that one seems to fit the N to a tee!