June 16, 2006

Quotable Crowe


I stumbled onto a video montage of Cameron Crowe's films on the internet yesterday and it got me thinking about this guy's work. With Say Anything, Singles, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky and the yet to be seen Elizabethtown, he's got a pretty good set of movies. He also wrote Fast Times at Ridgemount High, which may make up for Vanilla Sky being a remake. He won the Oscar for Original Screenplay for Almost Famous. There are two things that are clear when thinking through his work. First, his movies are quotable. Secondly he has some great soundtracks, not just the CD's that come out with the movie poster as the cover, but the songs he uses in the films all seem to be part of the fabric of the film. Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," Springsteen's "Secret Garden," Elton John's "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" all are significant songs away from these movies, but who can hear "In Your Eyes" and not think of Lloyd Dobler holding up the stereo? So, here's the challenge, post a comment with a quote from a Cameron Crowe movie to prove my point.

5 comments:

Bradley Herring said...

"And one more thing - about the letter. Nuke it. Flame it. Destroy it. - It hurts me to know it's out there. Later."
- Lloyd Dobler

And, because it's so amazing.

"Bitches, man!"
- the kid in the parking lot with Jeremy Piven

Kiley said...

Dorothy (Jerry Maguire): Shut up...you had me at "hello".

:-D

(BTW, though your tagline proclaims this to be "pretty much the worst blog ever", I'll have to strongly disagree. Added you to my favourites). :-)

Matt said...

Thanks ariadnek, it actually a rip off from Napoleon Dynamite.

Anonymous said...

Here are my faves:

http://krecken.spaces.msn.com/blog/cns!A8C5F20682D5B83C!719.entry

Matt said...

Now I remember that post. I can't believe I posted that comment about Katie Holmes.