40. The Bad Seed (the gardener is a key character)
Recap:
1. Dark Victory (Bette Davis is tending her garden when she realizes she is going blind.)
2. American Beauty
3. Being There (Peter Sellers plays Chance the gardener)
4. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
5. The Godfather
6. Minority Report
7. The Last Emperor
8. Soul Food
9. Saving Grace
10. Friday (Stanley mowing his lawn and Miss Parker watering her garden)
11. Gods and Monsters
12. Mrs. Miniver (the stationmaster grows a breed of rose which he names for Mrs. Miniver, Mrs. M. later finds the wounded German pilot in her own rose garden)
13. Sitting Pretty (the nosy neighbor pollenates roses with a feather)
14. The Big Sleep (first scene takes place in a greenhouse amidst General Sternwood's orchids)
15. The Days of Wine and Roses (one of the most harrowing scenes of a desperate alcoholic that I've ever seen)
16. Return to Me(Minnie Driver's character has a beautiful flower garden behind the family restaurant)
17. Indecent Proposal (Woody begs Demi to tell him about that one night while in their vegetable garden)
18. In the Heat of the Night (slaps all around while in the greenhouse)
19. Steel Magnolias
21. Green Card (1990), Brontë
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Samwise is Frodo's gardener
23. The Karate Kid (1984), Mr Myagi
24. Swimming Pool (2003), Marcel
25. Spoorloos (1988), Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu's character; you'll never look at your flowerbed the same way again!
26. Far From Heaven (Dennis Haysbert as the gardener)
27. All That Heaven Allows (Rock Hudson as the gardener)
28. Born Free (Elsa has an encounter with the elephants in the vegetable garden)
29. The Secret Garden (duh!)
30. To Kill a Mockingbird
31 The Constant Gardener
32. The Bible (Eve picks an apple off the tree in the Garden of Eden)
33. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
34. Gone to Seed
35. Caddy Shack (Bill Murray plays a gardener)
36. The Magnificent Seven
37. Intolerance (the Hanging Gardens of Babylon)
38. Little Shop of Horrors (1960 and 1986)
39. Calendar Girls
40. The Bad Seed (the gardener is a key character)
41. My Fair Lady
I must point this out...
In "The Bad Seed", Leroy is not the gardener per se. Technically he's the apartment building's janitor/maintenance man but there is a scene where he does water the grass so perhaps, under those circumstances, it counts?
42. Phenomenon (John Travolta has a hungry bunny trapped inside his fenced veggie garden)
eoe wrote:I must point this out...
In "The Bad Seed", Leroy is not the gardener per se. Technically he's the apartment building's janitor/maintenance man but there is a scene where he does water the grass so perhaps, under those circumstances, it counts?
What say you, Wandeljw - any flowers or vegetables in that plot of ground that the janitor watered? Watering the lawn doesn't count.
Raggedyaggie wrote:eoe wrote:I must point this out...
In "The Bad Seed", Leroy is not the gardener per se. Technically he's the apartment building's janitor/maintenance man but there is a scene where he does water the grass so perhaps, under those circumstances, it counts?
What say you, Wandeljw - any flowers or vegetables in that plot of ground that the janitor watered? Watering the lawn doesn't count.
Gardening was one of his duties. My friendship with you rides on your decision, raggedy!
Oh! That's too important a decision for me to make.
eoe - anybody - Help!
Maybe this will help. A photo from the film of the Leroy character, looking like a young gustavratzenhofer.
THAT PICTURE IS A HOOT!!!
I would say, you've won your points, Wandeljw!
Make that a new rule. If your pick is questioned-you gotta sell it!!
I'm sold. How about you raggedy?
Me, too.
For you Wandeljw:
40. The Bad Seed (the gardener is a key character)
Recap:
G = A scene involving Gardening (a garden being "A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit." (But, no farming, such as cultivation of crops, please.)
1. Dark Victory (Bette Davis is tending her garden when she realizes she is going blind.)
2. American Beauty
3. Being There (Peter Sellers plays Chance the gardener)
4. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
5. The Godfather
6. Minority Report
7. The Last Emperor
8. Soul Food
9. Saving Grace
10. Friday (Stanley mowing his lawn and Miss Parker watering her garden)
11. Gods and Monsters
12. Mrs. Miniver (the stationmaster grows a breed of rose which he names for Mrs. Miniver, Mrs. M. later finds the wounded German pilot in her own rose garden)
13. Sitting Pretty (the nosy neighbor pollenates roses with a feather)
14. The Big Sleep (first scene takes place in a greenhouse amidst General Sternwood's orchids)
15. The Days of Wine and Roses (one of the most harrowing scenes of a desperate alcoholic that I've ever seen)
16. Return to Me(Minnie Driver's character has a beautiful flower garden behind the family restaurant)
17. Indecent Proposal (Woody begs Demi to tell him about that one night while in their vegetable garden)
18. In the Heat of the Night (slaps all around while in the greenhouse)
19. Steel Magnolias
21. Green Card (1990), Brontë
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Samwise is Frodo's gardener
23. The Karate Kid (1984), Mr Myagi
24. Swimming Pool (2003), Marcel
25. Spoorloos (1988), Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu's character; you'll never look at your flowerbed the same way again!
26. Far From Heaven (Dennis Haysbert as the gardener)
27. All That Heaven Allows (Rock Hudson as the gardener)
28. Born Free (Elsa has an encounter with the elephants in the vegetable garden)
29. The Secret Garden (duh!)
30. To Kill a Mockingbird
31 The Constant Gardener
32. The Bible (Eve picks an apple off the tree in the Garden of Eden)
33. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
34. Gone to Seed
35. Caddy Shack (Bill Murray plays a gardener)
36. The Magnificent Seven
37. Intolerance (the Hanging Gardens of Babylon)
38. Little Shop of Horrors (1960 and 1986)
39. Calendar Girls
40. The Bad Seed (the gardener is a key character)
41. My Fair Lady
42. Phenomenon (John Travolta has a hungry bunny trapped inside his fenced veggie garden)
Raggedyaggie wrote: Me, too.
For you Wandeljw:
40. The Bad Seed (the gardener is a key character)
Thanks, eoe and raggedy! I actually enjoyed researching that classic film. Critical essays are still being written fifty years later. The entire cast has been praised for their "over-the-top" performances.
"The Bad Seed" was very heavy for it's time. I still can't watch it again. Little Rhoda and ol' Leroy just creep me out way too much.
Uh oh. Didn't the photo of the queen used to be a photo of a strange-looking gardener from the Bad Seed? Or am I having one of my spells?
I don't know how to answer that comment, Roberta.
43. Bed of Roses (Christian Slater is a florist)
Am I the only one who sees the queen instead of the gardener?
I think that photo of Elizabeth was raggedy presenting wandeljw with flowers from the queen for winning his argument for the inclusion of "The Bad Seed".
Thanks, eoe. I'm feeling a lot better now.
Roberta, this is the other photo you were thinking about:
