Overture, curtain, lights/This is it, we’ll hit the heights*
by chuckofish
Our New Year’s Eve party was a very low-key family get-together. We never even got the 45s out for a dance party. The boy and his family were pretty tired from their early morning trip home from Sarasota, but they were game and joined us for pizza and assorted dips.
We managed to do our ‘movie clip night’ and I thought you might be interested in what we all chose to share. (It’s all a plot where I am trying to whet the younguns’ desire to watch these great movies in their entirety when they are a little older.)
I opened things up with the car chase scene from Bullitt (1968).
The wee bud was, of course, enthralled and recognized the bad guy’s car as a Dodge Charger. He also knew who “McQueen” was. I told him I thought he kind of looked like him and he was pleased. (I will note that Lottie thought this car chase was not quite as good as the car chase in The Gnome-Mobile.)
Daughter #1 chose the musical interlude from Rio Bravo (1959)…
…which led to the boy’s choice of another musical interlude from Hatari (1962)…
For daughter #3 we played the classic intro to Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1962)…
The bud chose the Genie-is-released scene from Aladdin (1990)…10,000 years and such a crick in the neck!
Then I chose a famous scene from The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)…
Daughter #1 chose another classic musical interlude from Pillow Talk (1959)…
And then we finished up with Lottie’s choice of a song from Frozen II…
By this time the little bud was falling sleep and we wound things up so that they could hit the road and go to bed. Daughter #1 stayed and we watched Last Holiday (2006) with Queen Latifah and L.L. Cool J. which is our New Year’s tradish.
We will definitely do this again!
*Bugs Bunny theme song
dual personalities 
It’s interesting so many chose musical interludes — DN and I were discussing the prompt and I was inclined toward a number from White Christmas (probably a Judy number, maybe The Best Things Happen When You Dance). But what about Henry Orient, when the girls first have their friend date around NYC? Or something from the Princess Bride (maybe the cliff climb and sword fight). From Breakfast at Tiffany’s I might have chosen the party scene (timber!) or the closing scene in the rain. ❤️
I think we were trying to choose scenes that were a) age-appropriate for 7-year olds and b) ones they could relate to. Your choices are excellent! Lauren would have chosen something from 21 Jump Street, but there is absolutely nothing appropriate!
I replied before I saw your reply 🤣 yes, a G rating makes it harder!!
I also think for good measure, it would have been fun to add a scene from 21 Jump Street, perhaps when they sample the narcotic in question 😆
It was very fun and made me want to watch the movies in their entirety!!
We always used to show movie clips on New Year’s Eve, often including favorite fight scenes. Fun times!
I remembered that you did this but not that it was on New Year’s Eve! It is the perfect entertainment.
We watched Last Holiday after we got the kids to bed! Lauren fell asleep almost immediately 😂