10 of my Favourite Films | The Trysting Trees Tag

Ok, it's not actually 'called' that, but just run with it.

I was tagged by my friend Ellie on Facebook to take part in a little viral tag where you list your 10 favourite films during 10 consecutive days. Although I should technically be sharing this list on my timeline I decided that, amidst my barrage of Beyonce videos and political rants, I would just post them all on here - the site I created solely to talk about movies. 

The following films aren't ranked in any way, they're just films that really impacted my life or furthered my love of film (or, in the case of Avengers 3 and Harry Potter 3, stand as reps for franchises that helped define me as a movie-goer). I've spoken a lot about most of these films throughout my blog, so instead of telling you why I chose them I'm just gonna use my favourite quotes from each one on the list. 

Call Me By Your Name

"We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty, and we have less to offer each time we start with someone new...but to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste. How you live your life is your business, just remember: our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Before you know it, your heart is worn out and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow, pain...don't kill it, and with it the joy you've felt."

Avengers: Infinity War

"Okoye: When you said you were going to open Wakanda to the rest of the world, this is not what I imagined.

T'Challa: What did you imagine?

Okoye: The Olympics, maybe even a Starbucks."

Lemonade

"I tried to make a home out of you,

But doors lead to trap doors; a stairway leads to nothing. 

Unknown women wander the hallways at night.
Where do you go when you go quiet?

You remind me of my father, a magician, able to exist in two places at once.

In the tradition of men in my blood you come home at 3 a.m. and lie to me.
What are you hiding?
The past and the future merge to meet us here.

What luck. What a fucking curse."

Wall-E

Wall-E doesn't have many lines, it's practically a silent film, but this is my favourite scene. There's something so beautiful about it.

Mustang

"The house became a wife factory that we never came out of."

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

"I want you to listen very carefully, Harry. You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. that's who we really are."

"Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light"

The Wizard of Oz

"Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!"

Stardust

"A philosopher once asked, 'Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?' Pointless, really... 'Do the stars gaze back?' Now that's a question."

La La Land

I was going to quote this entire song when I re-remembered that YouTube exists. If you didn't cry during this you have no soul.

The Dark Knight

"Don't talk like you're one of them! You're not, even if you'd like to be. To them you're just a freak, like me. They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out—like a leper. See, their morals, their "code"…it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you, when the chips are down, these—ah—"civilised people"? They'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."

Honorable mentions that almost made the list include: 13th, Finding Nemo, Get Out, The Conjuring, Mad Max: Fury Road and Mrs Doubtfire.

Written by James Green