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Romance where you least expect it

With that day fast approaching, I intended to blog about romantic movies. While I’ve been married for, ahem, quite a few years now, I still like to do something Valentiney. When it falls on a weekday that usually means something home-based, as hubby and I work long hours and don’t always feel like going out again. So we do the candlelight dinner scene, and I get flowers from him, but hubs draws the line at a slushy (as he calls them) movie.

My taste in movies is pretty eclectic, so I searched our DVD collection for something we’d both enjoy watching next Thursday. Searching through, I realised that some of those movies most definitely not classified as romantic did, in fact, have some of the most memorable lines and moments which tug mercilessly at my heart.

Some examples:

Poltergeist (first one) – Diane Freeling is preparing to journey into the depths of evil to rescue her daughter. Steve, her husband, ties a rope around her waist and wraps the free end several times around his hand. Diane looks up and pleads, “Don’t let go” and Steve, with a hitch in his throat, mouths “Never.”

Troy (the movie ;) – The warrior Achilles lies dying with the arrow in his heel, while his love Briseis weeps and holds him. Through a veil of tears Achilles tells Briseis “you gave me peace, in a lifetime of war” … then he dies to the swell of orchestral music and sweeping camera frames.

Saving Private Ryan – surrounded by all the carnage, Ryan tells his captain he can’t remember the faces of his dead brothers. Miller tells him he needs a context, like when he himself thinks of home he sees his wife pruning the roses in a pair of his old work gloves. Ryan tells a story about his brothers, then asks Miller “now tell me about your wife pruning the roses”. Miller leans back, amid the debris of war, lowers his gaze as if lost in the past, and says, “No. That one I save just for me.”

That’s just a few of my fave lines from non-romantic movies. Anyone have any others to share?

Tricia
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