The Alphabet Meme from Fletch’s BLOG CABINS

From Fletch: This is awfully similar to the Top 50 Films I posted recently, but this time it’s much more about you. Besides, I thought this was a fun idea that could spread like wildfire. Also, I’ve had it in my drafts for some time now and I wanted to post it before some other wildly clever individual did it and stole all my thunder.

It’s a simple concept (my favorite kind) – pick your favorite film for each letter of the alphabet. Some will be tough because there’s too many choices (R, S, T, L, N, E…wait a sec – that’s Wheel of Fortune) and others will be tough because there are so few choices that you have trouble finding much of anything (Q, anyone?). I’m sure I missed some great ones and I’m hoping that you find them.

The Rules

1. Pick one film to represent each letter of the alphabet.

2. The letter “A” and the word “The” do not count as the beginning of a film’s title, unless the film is simply titled A or The, and I don’t know of any films with those titles.

3. Return of the Jedi belongs under “R,” not “S” as in Star Wars Episode IV: Return of the Jedi. This rule applies to all films in the original Star Wars trilogy; all that followed start with “S.” Similarly, Raiders of the Lost Ark belongs under “R,” not “I” as in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Conversely, all films in the LOTR series belong under “L” and all films in the Chronicles of Narnia series belong under “C,” as that’s what those filmmakers called their films from the start. In other words, movies are stuck with the titles their owners gave them at the time of their theatrical release. Use your better judgement to apply the above rule to any series/films not mentioned.

4. Films that start with a number are filed under the first letter of their number’s word. 12 Monkeys would be filed under “T.”

5. Link back to Blog Cabins in your post so that I can eventually type “alphabet meme” into Google and come up #1, then make a post where I declare that I am the King of Google.

From Bill: So here is my Meme and the only rule I am not following is the select five more people one. For two reasons: 1) All the people I know well enough to tag have been chosen, and 2) I feel like an Amway salesman when I do things like that.

Some of my choices may be attempts to reflect genres more than actual films under a certain letter. Certainly The Nutty Professor is not my favorite N film but I like old comedies and it was a chance to reflect that.  Onibaba was the same thing, just trying to show my love for old b/w Japanese cinema. And do I really like Quigley Down Under or was I desperate with the Qs? I actually had three choices in the Qs, with Larry Cohens’s Q, Hammer’s Quatermass films and Quigley, with Tom selleck as a wild west cowboy in Australia.  And yes, I do like Quigley Down Under very much. I love a good western and it more than qualifies.

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