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Mar 24
2008
10:00 AM ET
What TV or movie scene do you think of when you're feeling down?
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Huh. I was totally going to answer this, but it turn out, no, I don’t have a go-to pop culture moment for feelings of sadness or elation. Now, if you want to talk “oh God I don’t want to deal with the world outside my door” moods, then I would offer my Frasier marathons. But these last at least a week, so they’re not exactly “moments”.
Intro scene in Bridget Jones’ Diary…her sitting on the couch crying and singing “All By Myself.”
Three scenes in “Love Actually” do it for me: the Prime Minister dancing around, the “to me, you are perfect” sign scene and the proposal from Jamie to Aurelia. Heck, the whole movies full of feel good moments, but those specific scenes bring me up out of a funk real fast.
Whenever I am in a crabby mood there are two scenes I can go to to raise my spirits. One is the strip scene at the end of Full Monty and the second is Hugh Grant dancing around to the Pointer Sisters in Love Actually. Apparently watching British men dance makes me giggle.
If you need to cry – Terms of Endearment – start at when Emma has “the talk” with her boys and end when Aurora demands that the nurses “GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!!!” Thank you. I have seen that scene at least 50 times and I still cry. If you need something sappy but still feel good, put Officer and a Gentleman in the DVD and just watch the scene where Mayo goes to pick up Paula.
Good call Rebekah, the ending to Before Sunset is a favorite of mine too!
I don’t like giving presentations, but if I must, then I think of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross – “Put that coffee down!”, or “I’m here on a mission of mercy”. I work in a library, so it makes me smile to think of what would happen if I brought out brass balls (“it takes brass balls to work in a library”) …
Recently, the series, Roswell. The first episode when Max heals Liz from a gunshot wound…the look they give each other after she is healed makes me remember of my first love. Then the final episode, when they get married and go on their great adventure with their friends makes me feel so hopeful.
When I feel all high and mighty, I always enjoy seeing the Alec Baldwin “God Complex” scene in ‘Malice’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svhRi_6dUfs
This is gonna sound pathetic, but whenever I’m having a terrible day and I feel like I can’t take any more, I picture the tournament scene from “The Karate Kid 1.” No matter how many times Daniel got kicked, he kept getting back up. I start singing “You’re the Best” in my head nearly every time.