User talk:bugleboy

A trivial but fun way to profile a person's character is to find out what inspires and entertains that person. As I stated in my guide Finding Your Muse, I’m a self professed and obsessed film music geek. I’ll list a few films and scores that have left a permanent mark on me for one reason or another, and leave it open to your interpretation as to how they define my character.

Films

There are few films I’ll watch more than once. Not because I didn't enjoy them, but because there’s always something new I want to see next, before repeating anything. My film diet requires a good balance of independent, foreign and mainstream flicks. Here are a few that I couldn’t wait to relive as soon as the credits rolled:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) – Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple (1985) – Steven Spielberg

The Mosquito Coast (1986) – Peter Weir

Evil Dead 2 (1987) – Sam Raimi

The Big Blue (Le Grande Bleu) (1988) – Luc Besson

The Sixth Sense (1999) – M. Night Shyamalan

Amelie (2001) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Intacto (2001) – Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella) – (2002) – Pedro Almodovar

Happy Feet (2006) – George Miller

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) - Tom Tykwer

Children of Men (2007) – Alfonso Cuaron

Film Scores

Dr. Zhivago (1965) – Maurice Jarre

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) – John Williams

The Black Stallion (1979) – Carmine Coppola

Poltergeist (1982) – Jerry Goldsmith

Promised Land (1987) – James Newton Howard

The Accidental Tourist (1988) – John Williams

Beetle Juice (1988) – Danny Elfman

Paper House (1988) – Hans Zimmer

The Big Blue (Le Grande Bleu) (1988) – Bill Conti (American Version),Eric Serra (French Version)

Passion (1988) – Peter Gabriel

Basic Instinct (1992) – Jerry Goldsmith

Black Beauty (1994) – Danny Elfman

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – Thomas Newman

The Usual Suspects (1995) – John Ottman

The Prince of Egypt (1998) – Hans Zimmer

All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre) (1999) – Alberto Iglesias

Signs (2002) – James Newton Howard

The Bourne Identity (2002) – John Powell

Batman Begins (2005) – Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)- Tom Tykwer, Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek

Television

“Reality T.V.” gives me hives. I don’t have time to watch television anyway. (I have to make the most of my monthly access pass at Blockbuster.) My compromise is to rent television seasons on DVD and have little marathons every once in awhile. Here are some shows whose episodes I’m willing to watch back to back:

Entourage - A hip, fast-paced look into a cutthroat world I could only love from afar.

Big Love - Any show that manipulates me into empathy for characters whose actions I could never condone gets my vote.

Reno 911! – Whaddya get when you cross a trailer home full of beer with a police badge?

LOST – Sure, it’s become so convoluted it may never pull itself together, but they’re all so pretty when they sweat.

Deadwood – Spaghetti-Western Shakespeare laced with profanity. Cover your ears, mom!

Six Feet Under – Every episode began with an end and managed to make every corpse’s demise poignant enough to leave me misty-eyed.

Twin Peaks - Two words: Black Lodge. (!oot sdrawkcab klat ot nrael ot tnaw I)

CHiPs – Greatest theme song ever to underscore polyester, and the promise of a timely escape from an explosion in every episode.

Knight Rider – Our neighbor, Wendy Pesta, drove a Trans-Am. She said it talked to her and I believed every word she said. She was so cool.

Land of the Lost – Sleestacks still creep me out to this day.