Favourite animal, favourite movie

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If I was asked - 'What is your favourite animal?' I would immediately respond, 'The tiger!'  (The picture below is from National Geographic.) But if someone asked 'What is your favourite movie?' I couldn't pick one. I'd have to name dozens - not all brilliant, but for me they were memorable for some reason or another. Not much fantasy there, mostly romantic drama. Something where the life of the hero or heroine mattered. Not many of them end up happily either.  Perhaps 'Diva' is first - the operatic music is fabulous, and the simple story of a young man obsessed with a singer just works well. 'Black Orpheus'  - again it is the music. 'Death in Venice' - strange and set in Venice and also the music.

Diva                             East of Eden                          Death in Venice

Wizard of Oz               The Bodyguard                      Gone with the Wind

Shawshank Redemption                  Black Orpheus                Roman Holiday

Doctor Zhivago               Dirty Rotten Scoundrels                 American in Paris

Ryan’s Daughter                           The Piano                    North by Northwest

Sound of Music                      Forrest Gump                 The Year of Living Dangerously

The quiet American               The Green Mile                   Rebecca

Island in the Sun                    Ruthless people              To kill a mockingbird                

Coming to America              Dead Poet’s Society                 Shrek

Guess who’s coming to dinner       African Queen             Gandhi

The Constant Gardener              Slumdog Millionaire