I adore John Cusack. People in my age group have grown up alongside him, watching his movies. Tomorrow - June 28th - is John Cusack’s 40th birthday. In honor of that, I present my High Fidelity -style Top 5 Favorite Scenes with John Cusack:
1. In Better Off Dead (my favorite Christmas movie), Lane Meyer gets a crap job at Pig Burgers. There’s this whole mad scientist fantasy sequence, kicked off with some awesome maniacal laughter. Then as Van Halen’s song “Everybody Wants Some” plays, claymation hamburgers and fries come to life! The boy hamburger and the girl hamburger (the girl had eyelashes, duh!) start dancing together, lady french fries are sunbathing around a fryer of oil. That scene is so delightful, even robots approve.
2. The scene in Say Anything where Lloyd Dobbler and Diane are in the car and they are making out. He is all shaky and vulnerable, and has this look on his face that always made me swoon.
3. Sixteen Candles finds John Cusack playing one of Anthony Michael Hall’s geek friends. At the end of the raging party, we assumed the geeks got their asses kicked by the jocks. But then a car of jocks pulls up outside a house, they get out and open the trunk, and inside is John Cusack and the other guy. They just lay there in the trunk and wait to be gently picked up rather than climb out. And the other guy even scoots over near the edge to be helpful after John Cusack is lifted to safety. Hilarious!
4. Here is one from High Fidelity. When Tim Robbins comes into the record store, it looks like the guys all kick his ass. They even pull the air conditioner out of the wall and put the smackdown on that girlfriend- thieving hippie! Except, it ends up being what he imagines doing while just standing there. Who hasn’t fantasized about just once letting your rage overpower reason and play out like that?
5. The first part of the high school reunion in Grosse Pointe Blank. John Cusack is talking with a woman, and she asks him to hold her baby. The baby - who is the World’s Most Perfectly Gorgeous Baby - and John Cusack have this moment where they look at each other. Melts my heart every time.
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Ramona, what a great top five category. The scene from Better Off Dead where John Cusack's mom cooks green gelatinous sludge that actually crawls off his plate surely deserves a nod, though. But you like raisins!.
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