Hurricane Sandy Open Thread
Monday, October 29, 2012 at 4:40PM To all our Eastern Seaboard US readers, stay safe! "Sandy" is raging toward us. Should I lose power there are are a few posts ready to be published. The storm begs a movie question... What movie scenes or entire movie sequences come to mind when you think about stormy weather?
I mean besides Dorothy & the twister and her sudden transport to Oz... which has never and will never be bested in human movie history... especially once you include her technicolor recap of the events. Which is like the best in-movie "previously on..." moment ever.
♫ It really was no miracle.
What happened was just this.
The wind began to switch,
the house to pitch
And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch.
Just then the Witch,
to satisfy an itch
Went flying on her broomstick,
thumbing for a hitch. ♩♪
My god, I just love that movie so much, don't you? Judy. Judy. Judy. Any chance to think of her is welcome. Even if it means violent house threatening weather.
But oddly the first thing I thought of out in the rain today was the climax of Four Weddings and a Funeral when Andie MacDowell was all...
My brain is so weird.
Before I embarrass myself further, I'll turn it over to you. Favorite stormy movies?
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Love the Four Weddings scene. Another similar one: Breakfast At Tiffany's with the drenched but luminous Audrey Hepburn
Besides showering his wife with affection, Blake Edwards also enjoyed showering Julie Andrews with rain. Darling Lili features a rather charming row between Julie and Rock Hudson over her furor regarding his alleged lying to her--the spy. The storm withers in the face of Hurricane Julie. And in Victor/Victoria, both she and Robert Preston get improperly soused by a rainstorm. Julie eventually gets into dry clothes--a man's trousers (you know what I mean).
Key Largo, with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson takes place during a huge storm, as Robinson, a gangster, and his thugs terrorize the other characters. It's pretty great. John Huston directed it. Definitely worth a watch.
Am I the only pervert who prefers a soaking wet Montgomery Clift in I Confess, even if the movie is not that good, or even if I don't remember the storm or Anne Baxter in it?
I guess I am. Can I be redeemed for not liking Hugh Grant even at the peak of his sexiness?
iggy, wasn't Montgomery pretty soaked as well in From Here To Eternity?
The end of breakfast at tiffany's. Him. Her. The trenchcoat. The cat. The cab. The rain.
I love Four Weddings and a Funeral, but Andie McDowell's reading of the line about the rain will never stop being cringe-worthy.
Yay! Thanks for the post Nathaniel! We cabin-fevered creatures are in dire need. What actually came to mind, during this mind-numbing, repetitive Sandy coverage, is Groundhog Day. We keep hearing about the blizzard and it's the impetus for the story...
ooh i love these movie memories flooding back to me. get it? flooding. Oy, i need some sleep.
Well, the actual "storm" doesn't occur until the end of the sequence but I immediately thought of Lena Horne singing "Stormy Weather" in the film of the same name.
Also: Take Shelter , Dr. T. & the Women (because it was on TV yesterday) and Magnolia, which really only came up because thinking about Altman made me think about PTA.
Nothing beats the two pivotal storms in The Little Mermaid, though. I love that movie.
I still say The Old Mill by Disney.
But for romance? I always liked Ormomd and Ford's moment in Sabrina. I know it's looked down on, but I always loved Pollack's take on it. :)
"Why has the car stopped?"
"It's frightened."
thefilmjunkie -- I almost included that video. ha!
The last version of Jane Eyre has a very interesting use of rain and weather in general. Objective correlative at its best. Loved it.
I also thought of Cape Fear climax and Little Children wet encounter.
Sjostrom's The Wind with Lillian Gish is the greatest storm movie I've seen - her powerlessness against mother nature's raging beast as it slams against the wooden frame of her isolated house, compounded by her desperation to escape from her raging beast of a husband, makes for a seriously visceral and claustrophobic kind of terror.
Thanks for the post and for thinking of the rest of us East Coasters, Nathaniel! Hope all is well for you in NYC...or at least as it can be given what I've seen of photos of it so far. *Le sigh* But luckily I've still got power here to read TFE =)
To celebrate tonight, I'm watching Take Shelter for the first time: I figured it would be an appropriate night to do so.
wasn't Montgomery pretty soaked as well in From Here To Eternity?
Wasn't everyone in that movie? I guess I'll have to force myself to rewatch it. ;)
Yes! Take Shelter!
Have you seen Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley?
There is a beautiful scene with two naked lovers in the rain. Really beautiful.
The first movie storm I thought of (after Oz, of course) was Young Frankenstein.
"Could be worse. Could be raining."
Of course, that probably has something to do with the fact that Dr. F. has been on the brain because of last week's Once Upon A Time.
And now suddenly I'm thinking of the storm in Rocky Horror.
"There's a liiiiiiight..."
80% of my town in CT is without power, so I consider it a miracle that we have lights and internet. Hope everyone else out there in the area is safe and sound!