For class I had to write a thing about the scene in a movie that made me want to make movies. Casablanca? Citizen Kane perhaps? Oh no. The zing moment for me was in Edward Scissorhands where the little girl says “You cud have seen him. You still cud go.” OH SNEEF. Bring on the sneef. I mean, what kind of power does a movie have when it builds and builds and all it has to do is show you a little girl stuffed in a huge bed saying “you still cud go” and then SHA-POW waterworks.
So you’re saying the same guy who played this character played Gilbert Grape, Ed Wood and Jack Sparrow? So how many Academy Awards has he won by now? NONE?! (Insert spit take. Interrobang!)
There are lots of good examples of “you still cud go”:
- Forrest Gump asking Jenny, �Is he smart?�
- Tom Hanks� character in Castaway saying to Helen Hunt (as he returns her watch; �It belongs in your family.� OH FRICK.
- Djimon Hounsou�s character burying Maximus� clay figures at the end of Gladiator and saying, �We�ll meet again. But not today.� I AM DYING OF SNEEF.
- Titanic is so stuffed with them I can’t pick: the Irish mother tucking in her kids, the elderly couple on the bed as the room fills with water, Victor Garber�s character setting the clock on the fireplace, Jack’s his �you�re going to have lots of babies� speech, Jack’s death, old Rose dropping the necklace, and, of course, the fantasy sequence reunion at the Titanic staircase. Dying. Of. Sneef.
So today’s question, what line or tiny moment in a movie just plowed you down? Like, Aragorn bowing to the hobbits at the end of ROTK plowed. Totally plowed.
Hey, remember that time I forgot how Monster’s Inc. ended and got sneefed up all over again like it was the first time? That movie was awesome.
