Film Moments : Top Most Romantic Movie Scenes
- AuntieWicked
- Sep 11, 2012
- 6 min read
Auntie Wicked’s list of
Top Most Romantic Movie Scenes
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I firmly believe we have all been conspired against, as beings who crave Romance and escapism, we have all been lied to, frequently. You see, your Auntie Wicked has been revisiting Romantic Comedy movies, and she has finally realized how fully her brain has been melted by all this nonsense. For one, she never really realized in the whole span of her Teen-to-Twenties that a good chunk of these Romantic Films are a bunch of very lovely women in their 30’s and 40’s in the crunching awful shudder to finally find love after a long and successful carrier that’s left her alone. You see, she always did wonder where she got the idea that she would long have been some epic successful Woman by this age, who would have long sacrificed ideas of Romance and True Love for an independent life of CAREER SUPER WOMAN. There are so rarely movies that seem to be geared specifically toward young ladies, and much more rarely have we flat out dealt with the fact that this Romantic Comedy seems to have the defining aspect of the undiscussed Female Middle Aged Crisis.
I want you to know something, for as callous as Men seem in their twenties, they are actually at heart terribly romantic creatures. Even if seeing into the mud-pool of their Romance doesn’t seem right to their partners, its quite true. Women, despite their reputation for being histrionic girly lace making pink-wearing romantics are at heart creatures of incredible pragmatism. I don’t know if it needs pointing out, but in gob-fulls of these movies a woman is often quite resistant to the idea of being in love, if only because it rubs her plans the wrong way. They tend to switch between the villain as the True Lover (my Best Friend’s Wedding), to the villain being the Blind Ambitionist (as in The Wedding Planner). I think the natural conclusion that this often Pragmatic gender-spot would eventually end one in a Romantic Crisis, the Midlife Crisis of Bridges in London, and airport chases, where the lady finally finds all that she ever needed, or learns her most powerful lessons about life.
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Having said that, I could say I’m particular about Romance Movies, but really I think we all know that’s just Auntie Wicked’s Post-Post Feminist ideas about it, and that she honestly loves Rom-Coms as much as the next Person.
For another fantastic send up of Romantic-Movies (specifically Meg Ryan), please visit the Nostalgia Chick, she has done some powerfully great work on the subject, and Auntie Wicked barely hobbles in the footsteps of the brave video-blogger.
Let me now share my fluffy, syrupy, grossly sentimental top favorite Romantic Film Moments, sprinkled with a few top favorite films I couldn’t choose only a few Moments from.
[ SPOILER WARNINGS : I go into great detail, give away endings, and gave no f*cks about it! ]
Its a remake of a French Film, which we haven’t seen, and on top of the sins its a movie that is truly one of Auntie’s most shameful weaknesses, a Barbara Streisand Film. I am forever weak, from “What’s Up Doc” to “Yentl”. To be fair, it also has stunning performances from Jeff Bridges to Lauren Bacall (whom we would NOT mind growing up to be!), and it is a subject very close to the heart. An ugly duckling story of a frumpy fat lady named Rose who transforms into a beauty after a loveless agreement with the perennially love-lorn, womanizing professor Jeff Bridges breaks her heart.
Although Youtube deprives me of exactly my favorite scene, i will tell you a secret, he falls for her despite himself, and despite everything he said, and as he always does, begins to waste away in heartbreak, as a good main-character should, leading to my favorite line in Romantic Movies :
“But I love the old Rose! The one with no makeup and baggy clothes, who loves ‘the perfect bite’! She eats carrots now, isn’t that tragic?”
[Recommended Viewing : Strictly Ballroom ]
I am not in love with Julia Roberts, but for whatever reason, her movies cannot be resisted. Maybe its the annoyingly narcissistic quality she exudes (that I identify with), maybe its the pushy alpha-girl personality that many of her main characters have (that I feel have). I know that girl, I am that girl. No matter what you think, “My Best Friend’s Wedding” is one of the most wonderful Rom-Coms ever. Unlike some other movies, the horrible pushy bitch is neither really punished or rewarded, but she learns her lesson and eventually self-actualizes and makes everything right, along with the help of her incredible, sexy, fantastic, Gay-Best-Friend George. Aside from Camron Diaz’s turning what could have been a grossly sickly sweet character into someone charming and likeable, George is the biggest highlight of any modern film, OH Rupert Everette, how we adore you!
Stop! STOP! I love you George!MARRY ME YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!!!.
To the most Romantic Ro-Com moment of this movie, after which the Main Character does what she was supposed to do, she runs off with her very best friend. We couldn’t possibly approve more.
[Recommended Viewing : Philadelphia Story, Muriel’s’ Wedding]
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Its one of those wonderful French-style Films about characters, as well as L’Amore. Juliet Binoche is a stunning outsider seeing and meddling (good-witch style) into the affairs of a tiny backwater. If there’s nothing we like more, is to see a meddler end well, for there is enough of the tragic in all our our lives. There is very little to this film that is -not- romantic, it was incredibly difficult when Auntie was musing including this in her list, to find a pitch perfect moment.
What isn’t Romantic? The story, the setting? The lush clothing? Juliette Binoche being the one woman I’ve ever seen Johnny Depp kiss like KISS on screen? Maybe. Maybe its watching his River-Rat Pirate King slowly unravel the always-assured oracle with a mixture of seething gazing and witty patter that would have made Tracy and Hepburn proud.
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Sadly, the most romantic part of the film is again not on Youtube (likely due to the whole thing being up for rent on the same site!). It is not a love scene, or the resolution there of, but the moment where Vianne and her Rival, the uptight Mayor (Alfred Molina is ever-stunning!) , come to an understanding. She has been tormented, hounded, and called any number of things by this man, but when his screws finally crack, she finds the most incredible sympathy for him, and its really one of the truly most amazing emotional moments in a Romantic Film. Not because she is some pushover who should have done the thing, learned the lesson, but because it results in her finding her own love story, the finding of a Place in the World, and the story of her accepting, and being accepted in it.
[ Recommended Viewing : Amelie ]
We don’t need to tell you that while Jane Austin tends to be wordy and unromantic to some, that her stories translate beautifully to film.Our personal favorite is Sense & Sensibility with Emma Thompson & Kate Winslet, and what we consider to be an all star cast of really fabulous people. (Although it almost lost to Pride and Prejudice, if only due to Colin Firth’s glittering, passionate eyes.) For those that don’t know the story, a family of four ladies loose their father & Husband, who was a man of good fortunes. Because none of them are Men, the property goes to his son from another marriage, and they are cast out of all good society, with the story focusing on the love lives of Marianne and Eleanor Dashwood’s love stories.
Its hard to count our favorite moments. Is it the Youngest Miss Dashwood being a perianal tomboy and pirate? Is it Alan Rickman’s gentle send up of Col. Brandon, using that swish walk for a Romantic figure at last? Possibly it is the villainous wicked girls we all know well, or the genuinely ambiguous fortunes of people’s motivations in love and life. For Maryanne’s own heartbreak leading her into a gentler-formation of her stubborn Romanticism, but especially for the story of the Strength of Eleanor, who stands as the backbone through every turn of fortune toward the worse, and after all she had been through, finds her love after all. Its the best scene in a love-movie, ever.
[See Also : Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Holiday, and Love Actually ]
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Muriel’s Wedding : Extremely awkward girl grows up, does the right stuff, and Lives Happily Ever After with her Best Friend. MOST AWESOME WAY TO END UP EVER!
Ever After :Cinderella saves herself. No really! But seriously, if we have to tell you that a sparky intelliegent strong fantastic Cinderella is Romantic, then pfft. Arthur : Forever Manchild learns to be Man. In his own special way. Its got Liza Minelli being adorable and earthy, the most wonderful Theme Song EVER, and of course, the magical, wonderful, beautiful Sir John Gielgud.
Other Recommended HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Romantic Movies :
Princess Bride, Bringing Up Baby, Pillow Talk, It Happened One Night, HisGirl Friday, Breakfast at Tiffanies, and of course any of the Thin Man Series.
Yours,
Auntie Wicked
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