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by Guest
Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Movies and Emotion
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Movies and Emotion

I was reading through the book "1000 Films to Change Your Life", which discusses the ten most common emotions people experience while watching movies and the films that arouse those emotions. I thought it would be interesting to make our own lists of the movies that elicit strong personal emotional responses, perhaps 5-10 for each category.

These are the ten categories:
JOY (Movies that cause happiness)
EXHILARATION (Movies that cause excitement)
ANGER (Movies that piss you off, whether it be in a positive or negative sense)
CONTEMPT (Movies that arouse disgust, whether it be in a positive or negative sense)
DESIRE (Movies that inspire lust and/or longing)
FEAR (Movies that frighten)
WONDER (Movies that create a feel of magic and/or awe)
SADNESS (Movies that make one feel general sorrow, whether it be in a positive or negative sense)
REGRET (Elegiac movies, or films that make us feel sorrow for what could have been)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT (Movies that engage the viewer on an abstract or intellectual level)

Anyway, here's some that I came up with:

JOY
Love and Death
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Nights of Cabiria (I could put this under Sadness or Regret, perhaps, but Joy is what I feel most strongly)
CQ
Muriel's Wedding
Bluebeard (So ridiculous and cheesy that it brightens my day. Richard Burton's outrage that his wife gave her breasts "Christian names" is hilarious.)
Valley of the Dolls (Bitchiness and backstabbing at its finest.)
Myra Breckinridge
A Woman is a Woman
There Will Be Blood (This is one of the great dark comedies.)

EXHILARATION
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raising Arizona
Suspiria
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
No Country for Old Men
Commando (This is the greatest expression of 80s macho death-dealing action.)
Foxy Brown (Even the opening credits, wher Pam Grier shows off her moves while sporting various fashions, is exciting.)
Goodfellas
Tombstone
Pulp Fiction (This had a huge impact on me when I saw it at the theatre back in the 90s. It's definitely one of my cinematic turning points.)

ANGER/CONTEMPT (I just combined the two, because I have trouble telling the difference.)
White Dog (Racial hatred inflicted on an innocent animal. It just ain't right.)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Unprincipled journalists and callous police drag down an innocent woman. It just ain't right.)
Powder (This movie has attained a mythical status as my most despised movie. I don't even know if I still hate it as much as I did when I saw it over 10 years ago.)
The Firm (1988) (I kinda want to bust some heads after watching the guys in this movie doing it. Some craziness is infectious.)
A Woman Under the Influence (All the yelling and raw emotion. I felt like I was there.)
Taxi Driver
I Spit On Your Grave (Do I feel disgusted with the acts on screen, or with myself for being fascinated by it all?)
Irreversible (Same as above.)
Hostel II (I found an approximation of how much cruelty I can actually stand in a movie.)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Pretty, but annoying and repugnant. Watching this is like mixing pickles with ice cream.)

DESIRE
Vampyres
Cheeky (Yulia Mayarchuk!)
Contempt (My feelings of lust for Bardot reached the pinnacle with this movie. That scene where she says naughty words in French is glorious.)
Elevator to the Gallows (This movie creates the feeling of longing beautifully, and Jeanne Moreau is like a erotic apparition floating through each scene.)
She's 19 and Ready (The greatest of the West German sex comedies I saw on late night 80s cable.)
Supervixens
Viva Las Vegas (Viva Ann-Margret in shorts!)
Black Narcissus (Nuns losing their minds amongst striking visuals.)
Bandidas
ABBA: The Movie (The chicks are hot, and they can belt out a tune.)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Sans soleil
The Man Who Fell to Earth
W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism (Just weird.)
Week End
Salesman
The King of Kong (What an entertaining way to ponder Good vs. Evil)
I Am Curious (Yellow) + I Am Curious (Blue) (I'd like to combine the best parts from both into I Am Curious (Green))
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Entertaining or depressing? Or both?)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (A fun way to ponder one's prejudices.)

WONDER
Blue Velvet (Cinematic magic from the Dark Side.)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (A beautiful, sad, funny cartoon.)
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
A Clockwork Orange
Le Bonheur (Such a visually bright and fresh movie, but so sinister.)
Gate of Flesh
Fuego (The theme song alone is a marvel. This is a soap opera from beyond sanity.)
Blood Freak (This could go under Food For Thought as well. You will never be the same.)
Showgirls (Elizabth Berkley: THE LEGEND)
Pink Flamingos (This one will seperate the men from the boys. Or the crap-eating transvestites from the...?)

REGRET/SADNESS (I combined these, too.)
Soylent Green (Heston. Robinson. "I love you, Sol.")
Cool Hand Luke (Sometimes a man just can't figure out his place in the world.)
Chinatown
Casablanca
Two-Lane Blacktop (The joy of rootlessness and oblivion.)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Grey Gardens (How do people end up like this? Is it a bad thing?)
Bonnie and Clyde (It's all fun until you're turned into a lump of shredded flesh.)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

FEAR (This is a hard one, because I don't get scared so much as disturbed by movies. The following did manage to scare me to some extent.)
The Exorcist
The Wicker Man (1973) (OK, it didn't scare me, but it creeped me out.)
Event Horizon
Mommie Dearest (I was scared for the kid. But I laughed, too.)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Repulsion
The Descent