#fun fact i teared up trying to get the screenshot for the Broadchurch scene

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😳 That’s so many!

Top 5 worst moments

1. The burrow scene between Harry and Ginny in 6. Movie Hinny is 🤮

2. The dawning realisation that Clarke wasn’t going to make it time to be part of SpaceKru

3. Woden leaving Brunhilda on the mountain top in Die Walküre

4. When Kaatang happened instead of Zutara (Imnotstillbitterwhaaaaaat)

5. Monty and Jasper’s last scene 💔

Top 5 funniest moments

1. John Mulaney’s Salt and Pepper Diner bit

2. Harry “not to mention the pincers” Potter

3. Any time Ruby is on screen in AWAE. Kyla Matthews is Killing It right now.

4. The entire Gabriel and Aziraphale jogging scene. Delightful. (Good Omens)

5. Benedick eavesdrops on the gang in David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s MAAN. That staging was Masterful.

Top 5 saddest moments

1. Post bomb scene in The Book Thief

2. Satine’s death in Moulin Rouge

3. The murderer reveal in Broadchurch Season 1. Olivia Coleman out here breaking my heart

4. Allison and her dad at the hospital after Victoria died (Teen Wolf)

5. “I love you zillions, superstar” (Broadchurch) 😭😭😭

Top 5 soundtracks

1. The Waterhorse | James Newton Howard

2. Good Omens | David Arnold

3. Pirates of the Caribbean | Hans Zimmer

4. Treasure Planet | James Newton Howard

5. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Imogen Heap

Top 5 pictures (I’m not sure what this question means tbh - does it mean like ... screenshots? I’m gonna say it means screenshots)

1. Broadchurch, Episode 1.1 - Ellie looks through the blinds helpless as Mark speaks to Danny.

I’ve already mentioned this scene, and it’s one that always makes me cry, mainly due to Andrew Buchan and the way he delivers that line. But I love that we get shots back to Ellie throughout it, the blinds that obscure her face - reminiscent of bars on a prison window - convey immediately how trapped and helpless she feels.

2. Anne with an E, Episode 1.5: Tightly Knotted to a Similiar String - Matthew and Jeannie have tea.

Are you sensing a theme here? Gods, I just love *clenches fist* the-physical-representation-of-intangible-things. Matthew and Jeannie are super cute, and I love that they introduced this relationship but I super love that they don’t let Matthew’s intense introversion get erased in this new storyline. He and Jeannie may be sitting at the table, but his anxiety and their history still sit between them, just as present as the tea she’s serving. The fact that they’re both framed in doorways - that they’re both open to what may be beginning here - but there is still an obstacle between them?? Ugh, it’s just *chef’s kiss*

3. Into the Spiderverse - Miles rising.

People have talked about this shot ad naseum but that does not stop it being Dope As Hell. It’s so beautiful, especially when put in conversation with the previous parallel shot when he falls out of control. As Miles rises, so do we.

4. North and South, Episode 1.1 - Thornton walks through the factory or “I’ve seen Hell”

Please please please watch North and South.

This is a shot from one of my favourite scenes. Margaret writes a letter to her friend, but her monologue reveals all the things she’s not saying. In it she laments “I believe I’ve seen Hell - and it’s white. It’s snow white.” She’s refering to the local mills, which are filled with white cotton fibres, byproducts of the local trade’s production. As Margaret sleeps, we see Thornton’s cotton mill. The man himself walks across the screen, his silhouette dominating the scene. When the scene starts, the cotton fibres are everywhere, but by the end they’re gone. We later find out that Thornton has installed giant fans which whip them away, reducing the chances of his workers inhaling them and developing the fatal disease, “cotton lung”.

But at this moment in time, we don’t know that, we don’t even really notice as the cotton fibres disappear. We see what Margaret sees, a tyrant dominating his kingdom, not the man we come to know later who is overseeing the wellbeing of those left in his care.

Gah! I love this series.

5. Lord of the Rings - Samwise tends to his garden.

And to round it off, I thought I’d have some fun. I’ve been giving analysis for the last four shots, but the question does say favourite, and there’s not a shot in the film industry I love more than this one.

I love Samwise Gamgee so much. He’s one of my absolute favourite characters and Sean Astin brings him to life absolutely perfectly. If I’m “watching” LoTR I usually actually just have it on in the background as I let the soundtrack and dialogue wash over me, but I always always watch the introduction to the hobbits and in particular this shot. It’s such a beautiful introduction to the Little Folk and to Sam himself - A gardener, first and foremost, looking on his charge with such love and care and contentment. He’s so utterly at peace, so utterly where he’s meant to be, and I love him and this shot so much.

This was hard! (and i loved it)