As part of Film Club's ' ' campaign, we asked our followers on wh꧋ich movie changed their lives.
The responses ranged from earnest and moving ( Schindler's List - It made me understand my grandparents' hardships just a little more) to downright weird ( Blade Runner - Since watching i've gone out and retired r🌳eplicants or people who I think are replicants). Take a look below to see them all.
For those who ♊aren't following us on Twitter, post your own in the comments b🤡elow.
Touching
A Christma🌳s Story, watched my dad watching the movie made me realize he did get it because he was a kid once too
Casablanca taught me that sometimes there are more important things than ꩵyour own personal happiness.
Schindler's List - because it made me understand my grandparents' hardships just a littl𓆏e more. Amazing a film 🌠can do that.
Ghandi. The only time I went 🍌to the cinema with my mum. A journey of a thousand miles begins with✱ a single step.Confucius
One of the movies that changed my life is Good Will Hunting. I ๊have had to overcome to obstacles in my life so it inspires me
Earnest
Jaws changed my life, ever since I was a child have wanted to be a marine biologist. Have now travelled the world studying them! (Based on some of Ste's other responses, we're not entirely sure we believe him - ed)
The ♌Man Who Would Be King - money isn't as important as friendship, and Michael Caine is a brilliant actor!!
Dead Poets Society taught me never to miss opportunities and i've since lived every moment as if it 💧was my last! "CARPE DIEM"
Crash by Paul Haggisꩵ changed the way I see things, I never rely on first impressions of people anymore, 💞I get to know them first
An Inconvenient Truth made me cut down my flights, be more thoughtful about energy use and𓆏 vote for The Green Party.
Swingers. Because I realizeඣd it was about༒ me and decided to make some changes.
"Kinsey" heওlped changed my persp🀅ective on love and freedom.
The Notebook. I've always felt like I sh🦩ould have been alive in the 30's-40's. That POWERFUL movie is like Imagned my love life.
Forman's Amadeus as it taught me grief and made me grow-up and Slumdog as it gave me back hope. Couldnt choose only one. :)
The Life of David Gale, it's🔯 a remarkable story, it makes me believe they kill innocent people over the real killers in the US. @
"One Flew Ove🍰r the Cuckoo's Nest" made an indelible mark on me. Society's notion of mental is clearly a convenience solution.
Fandango: taught me that when u are jealous, it's more dignified 2 be q༺uiet and let others have the limelight, than 2 be selfish.
I first saw Night Of The Living Dead on C4 when 🐷I was 9, it was the first time I realised that not everything has a happy ending.
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Inspired
Amores Per🐟ros. Simply because after seeing it I wanted to be ꦗa filmmaker. Which is what I am doing... sort of.
Children Of Men. Its themes and narrtive. And THAT tracking shot𒉰 are what made me go into ꦗfilm making
Aliens. Got stuck in Germany for a wee⛎k when I was 12 and watched on repeat. The first film I ever lo▨ved and got me into film.
The Crow - at the🔯 age of 15, iꦯt made me realise i wanted to be in the movies: writing, directing etc. Now im on my way there.
Peter Tscherkassky's Instructions for a Light & Sound Machine because until then I didn't know ci💧nema could be so wonderful.
B🥂ambi, simply because it was the first film I ever ജsaw. From that moment on I was hooked.
Coming To America beca🎐useಌ it made me fall in love with film
Shaun of the Dead (and Spaced) as Edgar🐬 Wrights work here inspired me💟 to make my own films. Not as funny though, makes me sad.
Godard's Weekend - like swapping Hollywood's 9-5 conformit💟y for ♔a 48hr drink'n'drugs riot in the company of a deranged Frenchman
Speed - evil journalists in it put me off being one for years, now I'm an underpaid one, cur🎶se you Keanu Reeves!
Apocalypse Now - Watched it repeatedly 🌼in college, wrote my MA dissertation on it and am now a sometime film hack thanks to it.
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Weird
The film that rocked 1977 and set itself up for nuꦑmerous spoofs and homages. Yes, the one and only Smokey and The Bandit
Ferris Bueller. Do I need to explain? A character th💝at manages to make Broderick ub✱er-cool. There's a life template.
Nil 🔜By ꧒Mouth: coz it made me ache in every way possible
The Break𒁃fast Club: I was an 8 yr old wondering what a hot beef injection was, now an ad✱ult whose sarcam is influenced by Bender
One Missed Call chang🍬ed my life. After that dross I never wanted to see a crap "horror" film ever again!
Blade Runner. since wat♛ching i've gone out and retired replicants or people who I think are replicants, keep making unicorns tho!
Fellowship of the Ring - not only did it cement my undyi𒅌ng love for cinema, it introduced me to the Bible, AKA Lord of the Rings.
The Matrix t🧔aught me that as sucky as my day-to-day office life m༺ay be it's possible that there might be a much worse alternative
L🅷os amantes del circulo polar from Julio Medem.. i d♔on't know why but i love it hahaha
The Big Lebowski. I had just moved to LA and it wa𓂃s the perfect "no🅺ir" setting. I have never heard dialogue like that, either.
Michael Clayton beca𒁏use it made me realise any idiot can make a film and get it released, crap or not.
The film that changed my life is The Empire Strikes Back, from that magical poin🥂t on I knew I was destined to be a Total Nerd! "sigh"
Just Plain Wrong
I'd never considered killing as a hobby til I saw Am🐎erican Psycho. Thanks to that film I'm now knee deep in the blood of my foes.
Let The Ri❀ght One in turned me of♛f 12 year old girls for life. HIYO!
What movie changed your life? Let us know in the comments.
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