Showing posts with label Six Degrees of Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Six Degrees of Film. Show all posts

Monday, March 10, 2014

French Kiss (Movie) / Meg Ryan (Actress) / Six Degrees of Film

SIX DEGREES OF ROMANTIC COMEDIES

French Kiss - A woman flies to France to confront her straying fiance, but gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling a stolen necklace.

A Fish Called Wanda - In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, hide their true identities and then try to double-cross each other for the loot.

True Lies - Harry Tasker is a secret agent for the United States Government. For years, he has kept his job from his wife and leads a double life, but is forced to reveal his identity when his wife is swept into the world of espionage.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith - A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.

RED (Retired and Extremely Dangerous) - When his peaceful life and new budding romance is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants while pursuing the “woman of his dreams”.

Kate & Leopold -   A modern day scientist finds a rip in the fabric of time near the Brooklyn Bridge. Leopold --a man living in the 1870s-- follows the scientist back through the time gap to present day and meets the “woman of his dreams”.  Time proves to be an obstacle.  

*Which links back to French Kiss through common themes of mismatched couples brought together against all odds/fate and actress Meg Ryan.

List courtesy of Lisa K (KR) who put it together while assisting a customer at the desk.

Gallipoli (Movie) / Peter Weir (Director) / Six Degrees of Film

SIX DEGREES OF FILM

A discussion about Australian actors prior to coming to Hollywood began with  ...

1. Gallipoli (staring a very young Mel Gibson) - Two Australian mates face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the (tragically mismanaged) Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Leading to ...

2. Breaker Morant - Three Australian Lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Which lead to a film set in Australia ...

3. Picnic at Hanging Rock - On Valentine's Day 1900, in Victoria, Australia, three students and a teacher from Appleyard College disappear during a class visit to Hanging Rock.

A play on words (with hints back to injustice) lead to ...

4. Bad Day at Black Rock - Shortly after WWI, a one-handed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.

Leading to ...

5. The Fugitive (the motion picture starring Harrison Ford) - Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer (a one-armed man) while being the target of a nationwide manhunt.

Which lead to ...

6. Witness - A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policemen John Book (portrayed by Harrison Ford) goes into hiding in Amish Country to protect him until the trial.

Witness is directed by Peter Weir who also directed Gallipoli.


List courtesy of the RAT Queen with suggestions from her husband.