'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
If you wanted a Doris Day type blonde, then either Reese Witherspoon or Elizabeth Banks.
I think they fall too far to the prim & prissy and crude, just-one-of-the-guys sides of the spectrum, respectively. You'd need someone who's a motivated go-getter, but neither prudish nor low-class.
I think I have to second Amy Adams, she might have just the sort of persona that would fit.
She wasn't the right age then, but Sarah Chalke would be a good choice if they were making it now.
If you were going to choose a movie as a candidate for 'one of the all time greats' that would be widely recognized and agreed on, what would it be? Not the best movie of all time, but a movie you could get widespread agreement would be a candidate for that (with some people of course considering it the best, but the idea is that almost everyone would consider it one of the greats.) For example, maybe Casablanca?
For example, maybe Casablanca?
Certainly an "all-time great."
Others might include: The Third Man, The Godfather, Sunset Boulevard, Wings of Desire (I'm trying to take one from every decade)...
You'd need someone who's a motivated go-getter, but neither prudish nor low-class.
She's the wrong physical type altogether for this role, but I love Minnie Driver.
Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, and Lawrence of Arabia tend to make a lot of people's all-time lists too.
Dr. Zhivago is one of my favorite epic movies, but it seems to have fallen off people's radar in recent years.
but the idea is that almost everyone would consider it one of the greats.
Hmm... The Wizard of Oz
West Side Story
Rebel Without a Cause
The Graduate
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Sting
Driving Miss Daisy
I can't believe I'm the first to mention Citizen Kane.
ha! I'm already disagreeing with movies already mentioned!
I think it might help to narrow down what "all time great" means: so is this by genre? In which case I suspect most people would put "Blade Runner" on that list over and over again.
"Wizard of Oz" has to be on an all-time great list. I just watched some of that movie again when it was on tv for the holidays and what a crazy weird movie that is when it comes right down to it - and man how successful.
"Memento" would make my personal list, but I doubt seriously that a whole lot of people would agree with me.
Woody Allen movies except for "Hannah and Her Sisters" do nothing for me, but I recognize that at least one of his movies belongs on the list.
I'd say Psycho probably most of Hitchcock's movies would be the one on the list, but maybe Vertigo , too. King Kong , probably.