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Movies are fiction, of course, but I've seen some parallels between art and life. Some of my favorites:
The Cutting Edge (D.B. Sweeney as an Olympic hockey player who sustains an injury to his occipital lobe and loses peripheral vision in his right eye, which forces him to retire from professional hockey, so he reluctantly accepts an invitation from a Russian trainer to figure-skate with a temperamental Olympic ice queen who was one step from winning the gold medal and threw it all away, only to go through dozens of partners before being coupled with this unlikely male. The two begin their relationship adversorially, as a fierce competition, not only of ice-skating prowess but of matched wits).
Far and Away (a similar improbable relationship of the poor tenant farmer, Joseph, played by Tom Cruise, fiestily bantering with the rich-but-stifled daughter of the plantation owner Christie, Shannon, played by Nicole Kidman. Shannon rescues Joseph from a "pistols-at-dawn" showdown and the two immigrate to America, where Joesph develops a taste for prizefighting to better pay the rent, whereas Shannon descends into Joseph's world of drunkenness. Jealousy and competition also ensues)
Titanic (another unlikely but not impossible relationship between the rich-but-stifled daughter of a wealthy family, Rose, who is destined to marry a man who she doesn't love, and, about to jump off the deck of the massive boat, is talked out of it by dirt-poor artist, Jack. The two enjoy a brief-but-passionate love affair before the doomed ocean liner strikes ice and sinks and Jack confesses his undying love to Rose before he freezes to death in the icy waters of the north Atlantic. The two were attracted to each other's melancholy and aesthetic tastes for the visual arts)
Anyone else (favorites)?
The Cutting Edge (D.B. Sweeney as an Olympic hockey player who sustains an injury to his occipital lobe and loses peripheral vision in his right eye, which forces him to retire from professional hockey, so he reluctantly accepts an invitation from a Russian trainer to figure-skate with a temperamental Olympic ice queen who was one step from winning the gold medal and threw it all away, only to go through dozens of partners before being coupled with this unlikely male. The two begin their relationship adversorially, as a fierce competition, not only of ice-skating prowess but of matched wits).
Far and Away (a similar improbable relationship of the poor tenant farmer, Joseph, played by Tom Cruise, fiestily bantering with the rich-but-stifled daughter of the plantation owner Christie, Shannon, played by Nicole Kidman. Shannon rescues Joseph from a "pistols-at-dawn" showdown and the two immigrate to America, where Joesph develops a taste for prizefighting to better pay the rent, whereas Shannon descends into Joseph's world of drunkenness. Jealousy and competition also ensues)
Titanic (another unlikely but not impossible relationship between the rich-but-stifled daughter of a wealthy family, Rose, who is destined to marry a man who she doesn't love, and, about to jump off the deck of the massive boat, is talked out of it by dirt-poor artist, Jack. The two enjoy a brief-but-passionate love affair before the doomed ocean liner strikes ice and sinks and Jack confesses his undying love to Rose before he freezes to death in the icy waters of the north Atlantic. The two were attracted to each other's melancholy and aesthetic tastes for the visual arts)
Anyone else (favorites)?
"Listen, I don't know who you are or where you came from, but from now on, you do as I tell you. K?"
"Look, your worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight--I take orders from just one person--ME!"
"It's a wonder you're still alive. Will somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way?"
"No reward is worth this."
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"C'mon...you want me to stay because of the way you feel about me."
"Yes! You're a great help to us. You're a natural leader!"
"No! That's not it! C'mon...AHHHHH! C'mon!"
"You're imagining things."
"Am I? Then why are you following me? Afraid I was going to leave without giving you a goodbye kiss?"
"I'd just as soon kiss a Wookie."
"I can arrange that. You could use a good kiss!"