The Beaucoup section writes about their favorite movie, why and if others would agree with their decision. Here are their thoughts.
Kay Padilla
Allons Editor
I think my favorite movie may be controversial because it is “Cars.” I have been a Lightning McQueen fan since I was a child. And now that I am almost 20 years old it continues to be my favorite movie.
The storytelling is great. I love a good cocky hotshot main character humbled by being forced to live in a rinky dink town. It also shows a story of accepting your faults and becoming a better person, or car. I am also a sucker for main characters being taught by retired old people.
It is great writing is what I am trying to say. But the world of “Cars” also dives deeper because it has been able to show more representation of cultures and regions better than most human franchises. These are literal anthropomorphic vehicles, and they show more diversity through literal cars and planes.
I think other people would also say “Cars” is their favorite movie because everyone knows Lightning McQueen, whether you like the movie or not.
Nyria Mustiful
Allons Writer
Personally, I believe that the best movie ever is “Fat Albert.” It’s the perfect combination of comedy, romance and action, which makes it a film for everyone. The best part of the film is honestly the music. I’m really big on scores and soundtracks in a film and this film has such a good balance of hip-hop and R&B music, which are two of my favorite genres.
I also really enjoyed the casting of the film.
The main character of the film, Doris Robertson, was played by Kyla Pratt, who is best known for her voice acting role as Penny Proud in hit animated series, “The Proud Family.”
I feel like “Fat Albert” is pretty unheard of, so I don’t believe that people would agree with my opinion, but I think that everyone should try to watch the movie at least once.
Marie Ducote
Allons Writer
The 2001 juke-box musical “Moulin Rouge!” directed by Baz Luhrmann is such a self-indulgent movie that it just always puts a smile on my face when I rewatch it. I love everything about it, the use of pop songs for emotional scenes.
The pitch perfect casting of Ewan McGregor as Christian and Nicole Kidman as Satine. I still shed a tear when Christian holds a dying Satine in his arms and they are saying their final words to each other. The film mixes tragedy and comedy perfectly.
Luhrmann draws inspiration from old Hollywood musicals, Giacomo Puccini’s opera “La bohème” (1896) and the tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. When the characters start to sing “Come What May” and “El Tango de Roxanne” I sing along with them. The entire movie is filled with every color imaginable. Anyone who watches the movie will be singing along to it by the end.
Amare Auzenne
Allons Writer
My favorite film has been cemented since I was 12, not because of things like cinematography or pure acting prowess, though the performances in the film are magnetic, but because of the raw chemistry that oozed off the script. Quentin Tarantino’s debut film “Reservoir Dogs” is what I believe to be his best work because it plays to his biggest strengths: writing some of the bounciest character dynamics in Hollywood, and walking a tightrope of tension and comedy over the run time.
A film more akin to a recorded play than a cinematic masterpiece, its relative simplicity in shot composition or visual tricks aren’t necessarily masked by how good the script is, but their sparseness serves to heighten the few times when they are used, and the locked room nature of the heist team trying to suss out the traitor. It’s a film that, regardless of the many times I watch it, never gets old no matter how precise I get the timing of the twists down.