quote:NEW YORK (AP) -- Remember the scene from "When Harry Met Sally ..." when Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are sitting at the diner? Or when Jack Nicholson exclaims "You can't handle the truth!" to Tom Cruise in "A Few Good Men"?
Or how about the dance number in "Flashdance" when Jennifer Beals gyrates around in leg warmers to the song "Maniac"?
Anastasia Fite knows them all -- and acts them out on stage at "movieoke," which is essentially like karaoke but with movie scenes instead of songs.
Fite, 24, runs the event out of a campy little theater called the Den of Cin in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday nights.
In other words, we can now look forward to having the opportunity to watch some of our favorite movie scenes trashed in bars - or do the trashing ourselves!
But it's pretty equal opportunity - you don't have to carry a tune to participate. But then again, that doesn't stop some karaoke performers, either, does it? Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I did an abridged movieoke of Return of the Jedi for my friends once. They all enjoyed it. The question is, why did I do it? If I remember correctly, I think I was on a date, and my date hadn't seen it. She seemed to enjoy it, too, but she didn't go out with me again after that.
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My 4-year-old daughter has the whole scene from Finding Nemo where Marlon meets Dory for the first time down perfectly -- the pauses, the vocal intonation, everything. She cracks us up every time she does it.
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At one time I could quote the scene where Russell Crow confronts Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator. The "My name is Maximus Desimus Meridius..." one.
I was a big Gladiator fan - even named my car Max
This also reminds me that a couple of friends and I used to act out scenes from Omen when I was at School - can't remember why?
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quote:My 4-year-old daughter has the whole scene from Finding Nemo where Marlon meets Dory for the first time down perfectly -- the pauses, the vocal intonation, everything. She cracks us up every time she does it.
Trog,
I think it's great when talented 4-year-olds of any age have favorite scenes and can perform them. Heck, when I was two years old, my parents would set me up on a table and I'd recite favorite commercials (I was a weird kid).
But this could make it unsafe to walk into a bar. One could walk in and find oneself confronted with scenes from your favorite movies slurred beyond recognition by some partier on his or her 4th beer.
Be fun to take a bunch of people I used to hang out with. Not so many years ago, most of my friends were people with labels like Aspergers and "high-functioning" autism.
Guess what movie they all had memorized?
Rainman.
(In spite of the grin, it's true. I swear.)
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My little brother can do the whole bit from On the Waterfront, "My night! I coulda BEEN somebody! I coulda been a contender!" I love to hear him do it. I think it's hilarious.
My dad used to do the bit from Hamlet with the gravediggers, <cockney voice> "A tanner'll last ye nine year" <lordly voice>"Why he, more than another?" <cockney voice>"Well sir, a tanner's hide is so tanned with his trade that it'll keep out water a great while. And water's a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body."... etc.
He also could recite the latin thing the priest used to say when he gave each person a communion wafer. He would spit it out very quickly the same way the priests used to do. <laughs>
Yeah, my dad was a weirdo.
The other thing I remember him reciting was some scary bigbrotheristic type spiel from an education class about how education was for making people conform in thought and action to society's ideal or something like that.
He never did learn any digits of pi, that I know of, though. So he wasn't clinical or anything. Posts: 5509 | Registered: May 1999
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Oh, I do this all the time... with MANY movies! Just ask my friends, it is much to their chagrin that I am constantly quoting movies... Posts: 7877 | Registered: Feb 2003
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When my wife was deliriously sick in Thailand and we didn't have a TV or radio or anything else to draw her attention away from how terrible she was feeling, I acted out So I Married an Axe Murdererin its entirity. It succeeded in distracting her from whatever it was that she had.
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