{"id":9781,"date":"2012-02-04T14:49:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T19:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=9781"},"modified":"2012-02-06T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T22:00:59","slug":"the-fifteen-movie-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-fifteen-movie-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fifteen Movie Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

In yesterday’s post<\/a> ruminating about questions whose answers (at least in theory) may be more obvious than they first seem, I included a fifteen-point “meme” about movies; I didn’t actually respond to the meme there. In a comment, Jules asked what my choices would have been.<\/p>\n

Here y’go.<\/p>\n

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1. Movie you love with a passion<\/h3>\n

“Passion”? Oh, my. Ha ha. You must be thinking of someone else. And the one<\/em>\u00a0movie?!?<\/p>\n

Asked to name my “favorite movie,” I usually say Citizen Kane<\/em>. But that’s not really what this question asks; I’ve seen Kane<\/em>\u00a0enough times, and read and talked about it enough, that my soul was long ago pretty much drained of all passion<\/em>\u00a0for it. But to love a movie with a passion, I believe, one would have to (a) own a copy of it, and watch it periodically, and\/or (b) seldom (if ever) click past it when it shows up on TV or a local movie screen, and\/or (c) love watching it beyond reason<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Let’s see…<\/p>\n

Well, let me put it this way — off the top of my head it would probably be one of the following (in no order to speak of):<\/p>\n