What movie inluenced you the most growing up?

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For me absolutely positively Big Country is in my top ten. For a lot of reasons. Between learning that the rRfleman can be a bad guy, and you can still be hot and not a blonde, the best lesson I ever learned was in the soliloquy when he stops the dance.

It's just the best.

Major Henry Terrill: What do you want Hannassey?


Rufus Hannassey: Just payin' back the call that you and your men did to my boys this mornin'... sorry I wasn't there to give you the proper welcome. I got me something to say that's about thirty years overdue.

This is a mighty fine house, Major Terrill, a gentleman's house. Those are mighty fine clothes your wearin'. Well, maybe you got some of these folks fooled, but you ain't got me fooled, not by a damn sight!

The Hannassey's know and admire a real gentleman when they seen one, and they recgonize the smell of a high tone skunk when they smell one.

Now, I'm not here tonight complaining about twenty-three of your brave men, beating three of my boys until they couldn't stand. Maybe they had it coming anyway - they're full grown and can take their lickin's.

I'm also not here complaining that you're trying to buy the Big Muddy, to keep my cows from water.

It's interesting to see the daughter of a genuine gentleman like Glenn Maragon under this roof!

I'll tell you why I'm here, Major Terrill. The next time you come a busting and blazing into my place scaring the kids and the women folks, when you invade my home, like you was the law or God Almighty... then I say to you, I've seen every kind of critter God ever made, and I ain't never seen a more meaner, lower, pitiful, yellow, stinking hyprocrite than you!

Now you can swallow up a lot of folks and make them like it, but you ain't swallowing me,

I'm stuck in your crawl, Major Terrill, and you can't spit me out! You hear me now! You've rode into my place and beat my men for the last time and I give ya warning, you step foot in Blanco Canyon once more and this country goin' to run red with blood until there ain't one of us left!

Now I don't hold mine so precious, so if you want to start, here, start now!


I love it!!!!:eusa_angel:

AND THEN it gets even better

He goes to walk out the door and challenges him to shoot him in the back.

And you have to remember this is the same man that sang Frosty the Snowman.:eusa_angel:
 
The Bad Seed.

It made me realize where Republicans come from.

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She’s a charming pigtailed eight-year-old whose apparently perfect manners mask a genetically engineered mini-murderess.

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/28/badseed.php
 
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Mr Smith goes to Washington

Little Shop around the Corner

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjWQHpu3bY"]Kelly's Heros [/ame]
 
Mickey One.

Can't honestly say I filly appreciated the plot or Mickey's character, really when I first watched this film at 14 or so, but something about the predictament he was in resonated with me for years after.

The soundtrack blew me away, that I am certain.

Recorded at Fine Recording, New York, York on August 16, 17 & 20, 1965. Originally relesed MGM (4312). Includes liner notes by Doug Ramsey and Arthur Penn.

Personnel includes: Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Eddie Sauter (conductor); Harvey Estrin (alto saxophone, piccolo, flute, alto flute, clarinet); Al Block (tenor saxophone, piccolo, flute, clarinet); Clark Terry (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jimmy Buffington (French horn); Eddie Bert, Sonny Russo (trombone); Herbert Baumel, Norman Carr, Bernard Eichen (violin); Charles McCracken, Bruce Rogers (cello); Roger Kellaway (piano); Barry Galbraith (guitar); Richard Davis (bass); Mel Lewis (drums); Elden Bailley (percussion).

source
Here's the trailer.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrRUg4pvQns"]MICKEY ONE - WARREN BEATTY - 1965 - YouTube[/ame]
 
I loved the movie Stand By Me. I don't know how it influenced me, possibly had something to do with integrity and courage.
 
I saw my first porn flick when I was 15 years old. It was called the Sex Boat.
I was more determined than ever to find a girlfriend that day.
 
Silver Bullet.

I was an only child and this movie defined why I was so happy being one lol. Just keeding. I think this was one of King's most poignant stories.

I am so glad just like Stand by Me, his stories were just so simply wonderously transferred to film. Now this movie of course had nothing to do with my childhood, but I loved holding my kids hands while eating popcorn watching this movie over and over.

And I know that Gary might be a madman these days, but his delivery as the one and only loving crazy uncle in this film is to die for.
 
Now, not kidding. My mom took me to see Sinbad the Sailor Sails the Seven Seas. Yes there was actually a movie called that.

Now you ask.....how could that influence you tinydancer?

Because my mother told me that the cyclops lived on the other block and if I ever crossed the road the cyclops could get me.

I never left the back yard for a freaking year. I still have issues with my mother (god rest her soul) on this parenting tactic.
 
Books influenced me and Television entertained me.

I read Victor Hugo's Les Miserables when I was around twelve. It has effected me more than any other book that was not related to the practice of my belief.

It helped me clearly realize that some fundamental concepts revolve around humanity and not simply practice of belief.

It extended me.
 
For me it was "The Old Man and the Sea".
I have been in awe of the ocean and nature ever since.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHqQ3FyWVU&feature=related]The Old Man And The Sea - Spencer Tracy - 1958 - YouTube[/ame]
 

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