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➛ Pretty Woman
ღ Edward (Richard Gere) snapping the necklace case down on Vivian’s (Julia Roberts) fingers, was improvised by Gere, and Roberts’s reaction (laughter) was totally natural. The filmmakers liked it so much, they decided to leave it in.
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you’re crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out, is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question?
“Then this picture which I always thought this painting was sort of like making the movie, you know the pointillist style, which is very very close to it. You don’t have any idea what you’ve made until you step back from it. I used it in this context to see… he’s looking at that little girl which again is, you know, a mother and a child. The closer he looks at the child the less he sees, of course with the style of painting being really…but the more he looks at it there’s nothing there and I think he fears that the more you look at him the less you see there isn’t anything there. That’s him.”
– John Hughes Commentary: The Museum Scene,
FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986), dir. John Hughes.
Me? I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, about who I am and most of all I’m scared of walkin’ out of this and never feelin’ the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.
Dirty Dancing (1987) dir. Emile Ardolino