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This should be interesting.

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Wow, you have some real classics in there. Great start.

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This is going to be a great list!

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Yeah, awesome start... :)

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Where did you see all these weirdo movies? :cool:

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Love the Goodfellas pick, and really really love the Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans pick. Glad that other people can appreciate what is my favorite silent film so far (though I haven't seen much). Looking forward to the rest of this list!

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Yeah for Ferris Bueller

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Very nice Sarah! I'm liking your inclusion of A Hard Days Night (of course ;)) and Dead of Night a classic creepy film, I like that one too.

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Anyone want to place any bets on exactly how many of these titles are also on Mark's list?

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Only if you stick to his first 100 because at this point, he's written up so many classic films, it's nearly impossible not to share several.

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And by the way, comparing Top 100 to Top 100, it seems to be 54 in common. Whatever that tells you.

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Wow, you have some real classics in there. Great start.

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I'm loving your list for the most part. It's hard to argue with a lot of the movies you've chosen. I especially like your nods to Fassbinder and Powell-Pressburger. And Children of Men is one of my favorites.

But can you explain your inclusion of Song of the South a bit? I only saw part of it, because for the most part, I found it to be pretty racist and extremely offensive. So was Birth of Nation, I guess, but that was innovative and quite significant to the progress of motion pictures. I have heard that Song of the South was a well-made movie, and I'm not discounting or even disagreeing with your selection. I'd just like to know if there was something about it in particular that compelled you to select it.

Was it the combination of live-action and animation, that classic song, or maybe the story? Again, I never saw the entire thing, do I need to give it another chance?

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Well, obviously, if it's in my top 50 I think you should give it another chance. I don't really understand the comments that a lot of people make about it being racist though. It takes place after the Civil War, and of course, around that time there still would have been racist people living in the South, though that's a pretty obvious statement... there will probably be some amount of racist people almost everywhere at any time... But that's beside the point and I'm rambling now. The point is that the movie doesn't really show this. Uncle Remus is one of the most awesome people ever, fictional or otherwise and he seems pretty damn free to me, able to do most anything he wants. Johnny's grandmother, who was no doubt running the plantation during slavery, even has a lot of respect for Uncle Remus. He's the person that the children in the movie want to spend all their time with because he's so much fun, understanding, such a great storyteller, and gives them more freedom (at least gives Johnny more freedom) than he gets under his mother's watch (and this may very well be because Uncle Remus values his freedom so much, being emancipated and all, though the film never says that Uncle Remus used to be a slave). He becomes almost a surrogate father for Johnny while he's away from his father. This all adds to the things I liked about the movie when I was a child- the animation, songs, and comedy. It also kind of started my obsession with Bobby Driscoll and his life story... I could probably go on for a while, but probably not make sense the entire time. But does that answer your question at all...?