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100 Memorable and Great
'Chick' Flicks pt. 1 |
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Often considered an all-encompassing sub-genre, they mostly include dialogue-laden, formulated romantic comedies (with mis-matched lovers or female relationships), tearjerkers and gal-pal films, movies about family crises and emotional catharsis, some traditional 'weepies' and fantasy-action adventures, sometimes with foul-mouthed and empowered females, and female bonding situations involving families, mothers, daughters and children. Actors and actresses typically associated with 'chick' flicks include Meg Ryan, Barbra Streisand, Hugh Grant, Mel Gibson, Emma Thompson, Renee Zellweger, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, or Julia Roberts, among others. From the following list, it appears that 'chick' flicks have become a prominent staple of films beginning in the mid-1980s and after. Compared to the earlier "woman's film," film critic Molly Haskell has written that the:
Note: The
films that are marked with a yellow star
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Together for the first time!
"I come from a long line of stubborn idiots."
It's all about men!
"There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society,
outside of a kennel."
"I've had two years to grow claws, mother. Jungle red."
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Broadway's howling year-run comedy hit of the snooty society beauty
who slipped and fell - IN LOVE!
"Put me in your pocket, Mike."
"Oh, my Dear Friend, my heart was trembling as I walked into the
post office, and there you were, lying in Box 237. I took you out of
your envelope and read you, read you right there."
Casablanca (1942)
They had a date with fate in Casablanca!
"Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to
see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill
of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now...
Here's looking at you, kid."
A story of the most precious moments
in a woman's life!
"I'm a happily married woman - or I was, rather, until a few weeks
ago. This is my whole world, and it's enough, or rather, it was until
a few weeks ago. But, oh, Fred, I've been so foolish. I've fallen in
love. I'm an ordinary woman. I didn't think such violent things could
happen to ordinary people."
All's fair in love . . . with Sabrina Fair and her men!
"We could build a raft and sail on the Pacific Ocean, like Kon
Tiki. Or we could climb the highest mountain like Annapurna."
"Keep talking, David. Keep talking."
"Why didn't you tell me? If it had to happen to one of us, why
did it have to be you?"
It's what goes on when the lights go off!
"Mr. Allen, this may come as a surprise to you, but there are some
men who don't end every sentence with a proposition."
Holly Golightly, the craziest heroine who ever crept
between the pages of a best-selling novel!
"You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks
you are by the earrings he gives you."
Break the rules! Make love! Fall over laughing!
"Paul, I think I'm gonna be a lousy wife. But don't be angry with
me. I love you very much -- and I'm very sexy!"
Relive the songs. Relive the romance. Relive the music. Relive the drama.
Relive the magic.
"Don't let it be forgot / That once there was a spot / For one
brief shining moment / That was known as Camelot!"
People who see FUNNY GIRL are the luckiest people in the world!
(Looking in the mirror) "Hello, gorgeous."
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
"What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That
she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the
Beatles, and me?"
Some memories last forever.
"I feel like I've been invited for drinks, and everyone else is
staying for dinner."
Thank you Neil Simon for making us laugh at falling in love...again.
"And I don't - like - the panties - hanging -- on -- the rod!"
Deedee: "Oh, Emma... if only she knew what we know now..."
Emma: "It wouldn't matter worth a damn..."
Grease is the word.
"Men are rats. Listen to me, they're fleas on rats. Worse than
that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats."
The power behind the throne.
"...Up until now I've been forgiving and forgetting because of
the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you say another
word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that
gun of mine and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one
shot! And don't think I can't do it."
Beyond fantasy. Beyond obsession. Beyond time itself... he will find
her.
"Is it you?"
"You know something, you ain't nothin' special. You got no manners,
you treat woman like whores and if you ask me you got no chance of being
no officer."
"The truth does not make it easier to understand."
"No, I can't choose, please don't make me choose!"
In a cold world, you need your friends to keep you warm!
"They're either married or gay. And if they're not gay, they've
just broken up with the most wonderful woman in the world, or they've
just broken up with a bitch who looks exactly like me. They're in transition
from a monogamous relationship and they need more space. Or they're
tired of space, but they just can't commit. Or they want to commit,
but they're afraid to get close. They want to get close, you don't want
to get near them."
Take your passion... And make it happen!
"Don't you understand? You give up your dream, you die."
Come to Laugh, Come to Cry, Come to Care, Come to Terms.
"It's after ten. I don't see why she has to have this pain...It's
time for her shot. Do you understand? Do something! All she has to do
is hold on until ten, and it's past ten. She's in pain. My daughter's
in pain. Give her the shot. Do you understand me? Give my daughter the
shot!"