Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


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P.M. Marc - May 06, 2008 8:21:51 am PDT #5534 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Crime and Deviance: River's Edge, Deathtrap

Gender and Sexuality: Victor/Victoria


Miracleman - May 06, 2008 8:28:13 am PDT #5535 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

Technology and Society: 2001, Robocop

Ooh, RoboCop. Good call.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 06, 2008 8:32:29 am PDT #5536 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Research Methods: Songcatcher

Socialization: Nell

Social Stratification: Nobody's Fool, Less than Zero, Evening

Families: The Hotel New Hampshire, Safe Passage


Frankenbuddha - May 06, 2008 8:35:53 am PDT #5537 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Ooh, RoboCop. Good call.

I know. I can't believe I forgot that one during the "superhero movies not based on a comic book" discussion. That one probably tops my list.


Dana - May 06, 2008 8:38:07 am PDT #5538 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Technology and Society: Minority Report


DavidS - May 06, 2008 8:45:09 am PDT #5539 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Gender and Sexuality: Velvet Goldmine


Hayden - May 06, 2008 8:46:48 am PDT #5540 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

My favorite American directors version (some may have already been mentioned)!

Socialization: The Player, The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Social Interaction: California Split, Major Dundee, Junior Bonner

Crime and Deviance: Thieves Like Us, The Long Goodbye, Badlands, the Getaway

Social Stratification: Short Cuts, Days of Heaven, Straw Dogs

Development and Underdevelopment: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The New World, The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid

Race and Ethnicity: Cookie's Fortune, The Searchers

Gender and Sexuality: Streamers

Work: The Company, Gosford Park

Politics: Tanner '88, Nashville, Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

Families: 3 Women, A Prairie Home Companion, The Thin Red Line, Stagecoach

Religion: Ride the High Country (obliquely)

Health and Medicine: MASH


Fred Pete - May 06, 2008 9:36:59 am PDT #5541 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.

How newish or well known do these have to be?

Crime and Deviance: Monsieur Verdoux, Rope

Family: Nothing in Common

Gender and Sexuality: The Philadelphia Story

Families: Life With Father, Kildred Pierce

Socialization: Now Voyager

Social Stratification: The Adventures of Robin Hood

Would Social Interaction include "circle of friends" movies? I'm thinking of Steel Magnolias, which I've never seen but sounds like it would fit here.


Aims - May 06, 2008 9:42:05 am PDT #5542 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Gender and Sexuality: The Philadelphia Story

I would actually put that under "Social Stratification".


Fred Pete - May 06, 2008 9:48:43 am PDT #5543 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.

I think it works under either, depending on your focus. I was thinking of all the men's treatment of Tracy, especially her father and Dexter claiming that her failure to "act like a woman" (my words describing their sentiments) causes so many problems.

But if you center on the very class-conscious Mike or George, Social Stratification also works.