Movie Connections Game

So we haven't had a game in a long long time, and I thought this one might be fun (and vibration-boosting ).

One person starts off with a movie, and the next posts another movie that is connected in some - any - way to the first.

The rules are as following (from the bleepingcomputer forums):

In this game, you post a movie that is somehow connected to the previously posted movie, and how it's connected. The same director, an actor, the genre, the year of release, a word in the title, whatever. For example, if one person posts

Bram Stoker's Dracula

the next could post

connection: Director Francis Ford Coppola
movie: The Godfather

or

connection: Vampire movie
movie: Let the Right One In

or

connection: Dracula in the title
movie: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave


Sounds fun, and easy; actors, places filmed, plot elements can all be used as connections to find films that match. So if I posted Breakfast at Tiffany's, someone else could post any other Hepburn movie for example, or a movie about a call girl, or something else directed by Blake Edwards, or another movie set in New York, or something else from the 60s, or something in the same genre...you get the idea.

If you like and want to get creative, you can also post (perhaps briefly?) about elements of the movie that have to do with LOA, spirituality, or esoteric themes, much as we did in Kazoo's amazing movie threads.

So I'll start off with Titanic:

By the way did you  know there was a very low budget movie called Titanic 2
where a 100 years later another ship called Titanic sails off in the same route on the same day and happens to hit a .....drum roll, wait for it.... an ICEBEEEERG!!  
and sinks .. 


OK how abouuuut- Sense and Sensibility
Connection: Kate Winslet

Oh Luney, you've seized on not only one of my favourite movies (of all time) but on one of my favourite actresses - alright, I included her as well lol. But Sense and Sensibility is right up there at the very very top for me. I even visited the castle that stood for Combe Magna (Willoughby's house) in the movie. Compton Castle, Devon:



Some beautiful spotted sheep (that looked like spotted cows) in its pastures. Beautiful gardens, too, with amazing roses and magnolia flowers. It's a National Trust property.

Hmmm I was trying to go for things most people would know, but I can't resist giving another Kate Winslet movie that is one of my favourite movies of all time -- Hamlet (1996).

Where she plays Ophelia. It's an all-star cast - Julie Christie is Gertrude, and you have Derek Jacobi, Richard Briers, Jack Lemmon, Gerard Depardieu, Robin Williams, and others as well... it's an amazing production.





OR I could say The Reader, which I haven't seen but want to:





OR

there is connection: Ang Lee, the director of Sense and Sensibility

who did a lot of films afterwards (and it was a struggle for him, his career I mean, before Sense and Sensibility if my memory is correct)...

such as Life of Pi



I wasn't *that* keen on it, but it was a good movie.


So the next person is spoilt for choice: movie Hamlet or The Reader or Life of Pi...

ok so for Hamlet i pick Romeo and Juliet the connection being Shakespeare?

Ohhh
I could choose Moulin Rouge (connection: Baz Luhrmann, director) but I've never seen it...



...and it isn't really my kind of movie.

I could say, from the same connection, Australia, but that has to be the worst film I've ever seen, ever.



Or second worst, after Honey.

This movie looks cool...



but it has nothing to do with Luhrmann's R+J

Isn't it funny how we keep having Kate Winslet and now we have Leonardo DiCaprio in another film?



Anyway, I'll put connection: Claire Danes.

Little Women (1994)





Here you see her at the piano as Beth, the musical sister.

And here's Jo meeting Laurie, just because I adore Laurie (Christian Bale):

Ok, let's do a Winona Ryder connection and pick 'Dracula'- 

ok i'll go with BeetleJuice

I love this!

Much Ado About Nothing dir. Kenneth Branagh.

Connection: Michael Keaton

President Roosevelt will love this clip:



(Michael Keaton and his scenes are kinda my least favourite parts of the movie, but that's just my sense of humour... )

Mind you. Dogberry has some good lines:











P.S. Benedick shares many of PR's attitudes to marriage....

DON PEDRO
Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull
doth bear the yoke'. [allluding to marriage]

BENEDICK
The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible
Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set
them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted,
and in such great letters as they write 'Here is
good horse to hire', let them signify under my sign
'Here you may see Benedick the
married man'.