From the LJ writer’s block:

What is your all-time favorite, romantic movie scene? What about it speaks to you?

This was a doozy! I thought and contemplated. My answer changes with mood, I think. I have a list of favorite movies and scenes that I watch over and over for the butterfly feeling and on a given day, I might tell you a different answer as to what is my all-time favorite. North & South, with its tender moment of reunion and forgiveness? Anne of Green Gables? “All I want is you.” Persuasion with its reunion of two separated lovers? I browsed through the archived answers of other LJ users. First choice seems to be Titanic. Second choice was a tie between Notting Hill (I hated that movie), Love Actually (I’ve never seen it, but I’ve heard its good) or Casablanca (a very fine choice).

I looked through my own DVD collection. Besides my X-Files box sets, my DVDs are, surprising to no one, mostly period dramas and romantic comedies. Then my eyes alighted on today’s answer. Big Fish. Of course. I had to do a (very small) picspam (my first!), which took me all night.

SANDRA: Daffodils?
EDWARD: They’re your favorite flower.
SANDRA: How did you get so many?
EDWARD: I called everywhere in five states and explained this was the only way I could get my wife to marry me.
SANDRA: You don’t even know me.
EDWARD: I have the rest of my life to find out.

EDWARD: I was drying out.
SANDRA: I see. We need to get you one of those plant misters. We can spray you like a fern.

EDWARD: Come now.
SANDRA: I don’t think I’ll ever dry out.

I love the surreal, colorful fantasy that he spins when telling the story of how he fell in love with his wife, contrasted to the reality of decades of life together. Not a kiss to be seen, but I honestly can’t think of anything more romantic.

What about you? What’s your vote for the all-time romantic movie scene?