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" Cheaper by the dozen " did any film leave a lasting memory for you ?

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Witzend Fri 02-Apr-21 12:50:58

Cinema was an extremely rare treat when I was small (no TV untilI was 11, either) so I still remember being taken to see Disney’s Fantasia when no more than 4 or 5.

A vivid memory of that has always been the Rite Of Spring sequence, with Stravinsky’s score accompanying the story of evolution - at least up to the end of the dinosaurs. I still remember my father explaining the bit where fishes evolved into land animals. He must have been very good at explaining, since I understood at once.

But the Night On Bare Mountain bit was always very scary!
Dds always loved the Pastoral Symphony bit - and I swear that’s where whoever it was got the idea for my Little Pony!

CShotnik Fri 02-Apr-21 12:49:08

I saw Mary Poppins when I was 6 and I love it to this day!
Thomasina, The Love Bug, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, My Fair Lady,

Shandy57 Fri 02-Apr-21 12:39:15

The Killing Fields is also one of mine tiredoldwoman - the skulls and bones from the Pol Pot murders as he ran across the field, plus the scene when Dith Pran's photo went blank because they couldn't develop it. The helicopter scene cribbed from the film for the deodorant advert was a disgrace.

tiredoldwoman Fri 02-Apr-21 12:23:44

The Killing Fields when Dith Pran is reunited, after the Vietnamese war ,and leaps into his old friends arms . The friend says " Please forgive me " but Dith Pran hugs him saying " Nothing to forgive .

Sarnia Fri 02-Apr-21 12:15:59

Schindler's List. I went to the cinema to watch this and it is the only time I experienced a cinema audience sitting silently in their seats after the film had ended. Very moving.

hazel93 Fri 02-Apr-21 12:15:23

Finding studying Shakespeare a bit of a pain way back when, our school screened Henry V with Laurence Olivier - I was mesmerised . I got it then !

Shandy57 Fri 02-Apr-21 11:40:43

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for me, the scene at the end. I love Jack Nicholson.

Daisend1 Fri 02-Apr-21 11:38:35

The Kim Novak and William Holden dance scene in the film 'Picnic'.Wow!
From then onwards I never missed a William Holden film.

timetogo2016 Fri 02-Apr-21 11:29:11

Great expectations,i remember pretty much all of it,and i love the end.

Galaxy Fri 02-Apr-21 11:23:59

It must be amazing to have such talent. I can still remember clearly a scene from The Colour Purple and I havent seen it since it came out originally.

BlueBelle Fri 02-Apr-21 11:18:27

A few
The colour purple
Rabbitproof fence
and very very much earlier The inn of the sixth happiness

Anniebach Fri 02-Apr-21 11:15:12

Definitely Harry Lime lighting his cigarette, wait for it every time I watch the film.

And Bogart in Casablanca saying - ‘we’ll always have Paris’

eazybee Fri 02-Apr-21 10:53:28

Well, I watched 'The Third Man' in almost its entirety last night for the first time and I remembered Harry Lime illuminated in the doorway lighting a cigarette, and the strange child shouting and pursuing Holly Martins in the street. A brilliant film.

Floradora9 Fri 02-Apr-21 10:48:52

I just skimmed through this film which was on TV recently as I had to see if it had the ending I remembered . We it almost did . I remember the little boy telling his sister " our daddy's dead " but where he was sitting was not what I remembered. This film came out in 1950 so I was 6 then . I cannot remember going to see it but it really stuck in my memory. A good few years later " The Railway Children " and Bobby ? seeing a man coming off a train and shouting " It's my daddy " . Anyone else have vivid memories of films , plays operas ?