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What movie brings your dad to mind?
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Now that Father’s Day is almost at hand, that brings the movie The Color Purple to my mind.
The Color Purple? A female-centered movie? In which most of the men are ogres or dimwits? On Father’s Day?
Well, yeah, with my dad there’s a connection. I don’t know that it’s his favorite movie of all time, but it’s certainly up there - so much so, that a phrase from that film has entered our lexicon.
Remember the scene in the juke joint when Oprah Winfrey is about to knock the wind out of Rae Dawn Chong? Right before the big fight, the piano player, knowing what’s coming, quickly gathers his things and says “Time to go!”
Dad parrots those three words almost every weekend. It’s remarkable how widely it can be applied.
I gotta grab the pizza. Time to go!
Oh, crud, I just broke this expensive lamp. Time to go!
A tornado is headed straight for our house? Time to go!
Paris Hilton is off to jail? Time to go! (If only that could apply to her whole career.)
And that’s not the only reason The Color Purple stands out. When one of the characters shouts “Mama!” at the end, that’s dad’s cue to lose it. Never fails. He’s a sap like me. Or maybe I’m a sap like him.
Besides, my being so into movies is largely because of my dad. He was the one who brought home movies like Taxi Driver and 2001, and I started noticing what a director does. So whenever he gets on my case about devoting too much time to movies, I can always remind him who REALLY started it! ;)
Most of us have a particular movie that brings our dad to mind. What’s yours?
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By SRCputt
June 15, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this
I remember seeing “The Sure Thing” in a theater with my dad and when John Cusack oversleeps and franticly is getting up to get to his 8 am class, my dad leaned over to me and said, “That’s going to be you in 2 years.” Also, The Graduate is a fave of his, so that always makes me think of him.By Derwood
June 15, 2007 2:02 AM | Link to this
One small note.. The piano player that uttered that line was none other than Laurence Fishburne aka Morpheus from the Matrix trilogy. I’ve only seen that movie a couple dozen times ;-) One of Spielberg’s best. As far as movies that remind me of my father? I dunno.. Full Metal Jacket, or anything with R Lee Ermey..