[Pturner]

Originally Posted by Boomer

But you just cannot stop there! Oh my! You did not mention symbolism and foreshadowing.......

Like in one of my favorite movies Body Heat. (1981) It's set in Florida. And it is hot. Kathleen Turner is setting up William Hurt to murder her rich husband Richard Crenna. There is a scene early in the movie where a clown drives by in a car. William Hurt has no idea the clown is symbolizing him and is foreshadowing what he's in for. (But for a lot of the movie, ya know....he did not seem to care anyway.)

But I digress....I do not think Body Heat won the Academy Award which is the topic here I guess. But all these years later, I cannot hear wind chimes without thinking about that movie. It had a real 1940's feel to it, too, which I like.

Oh well, enough digressing.....for now. Next thing you know I will be making everybody sing "Happy Birthday" to the best-written book ever -- To Kill a Mockingbird which turned 50 on July 11. And then I will go on and on about how the movie version was every bit as perfect as the book. The only time that has ever happened -- in my opinion.

Boomer Lee

With every word!

[l2ridehd]

Yes, Body Heat, what a great movie. Both Kathleen Turner and William Hurt should have won Oscars for that movie. Some movies you can just feel the moment and Body Heat was one of them.

Another that you felt like you were there was Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum.

[grayesun]

Chariots of Fire...of course with caveat "IMHO"