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[shadowkat]

From just about everybody, but I swiped ponygirl2000

Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously). ( Actually I think books or tv series might work better for me on this, but..I'll do movies. Also, it reminds me of a quote or something in Milan Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being - where one of the characters muses that sharing the same musical history is crucial to a relationship or at least understanding it.)

This was interesting, I narrowed it down by focusing on movies that were both personally meaningful and ones that I have no problem watching multiple times:

1.Lawrence of Arabia
2.Heathers
3.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4.Gross Point Blank (what I think of class reunions in a nutshell)
5.Spirited Away
6.Blade Runner
7.The Wizard of OZ
8.Raiders of the Lost Arc
9.It's a Wonderful Life
10. Aliens

For special consideration: Meet me in St. Louis, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Man From Snowy River, and My Brilliant Career.

[I added books and tv shows, because I think they work better in a way.]
Books :

1.Ulysses by James Joyce
2.The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russel
3.The Secret History by Donna Tartt
4.The Kate Daniels series by Illona Andrews
5.The Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Orzy
6. Dorothy Parker's poems
7.The Westing Game by Ellen Ranskin
8.My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
9.The Snow Queen by both Hans Christian Anderson and Joan D. Vinge
10.The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Added: The Perilous Guard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

TV Series

1.Buffy the Vampire Series (specifically Seasons 4-7)
2.Angel the Series (only Season 4 and 5 - equally good depiction of work related issues)
3.Farscape
4.The Wire (specifically S2-5 - perfect depiction of work issues)
5.Veronica Mars
6. Battle Star Galatica (v1 and v2)
7.The Good Wife
8.Once Upon a Time
9. Star Trek the Next Generation
10. The West Wing

Added: Parenthood

Comments

[ann1962]

I kept thinking books would be better too.

I almost added Eternal Sunshine. But I didn't need to want to live in that world. My twist.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Hee, I interpreted the meme slightly differently. Don't want to live in most of those worlds. ;-) Saw them as movies that explain various things about me on a mythic-poetic level - but I'm not sure watching/reading them would help anyone, because of the different interpretation. I mean if you come at Eternal Sunshine from a rational perspective or logical one, you're not going to get why I put it on the list. Or if you come from it from...don't want to live in that world perspective? Won't get it either. I could explain why I put it on the list...

Which is, I think, a fatal flaw in the meme, but that's probably true of most memes?

[sophist.livejournal.com]

Rather than movies, etc. I think it's more telling to list favorite characters:

Buffy Summers
Willow Rosenberg
Veronica Mars
Katniss Everdeen
Arya Stark
Hermione Granger

I'm sensing a pattern here.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I can try that one...but mine tend to change with the wind, of course so does everything else.

* Aeryn Sun
* Spike
* Kate Daniels
* Hazel Grace (Fault in Our Stars)
* Starbuck (version 2 of Battlestar Galatica)
* John Crichton
* Veronica Mars
* Harry Dresden
* Emma Swan
* Katniss Everdeen