EXCLUSIVE: The American Idols Share Their Favorite Movie Scenes With Movieline
We're bringing back a classic today: My Favorite Scene was a feature from our golden print era, in which a wide swath of showbiz luminaries would share a personal favorite movie sequence with Movieline readers. Now that we're online, we have the added advantage of being able to show the scenes themselves. And we could think of no more auspicious a way to kick things off than with the American Idol Top Ten (save for Scott MacIntyre, unfortunately omitted for time constraints and not his visual impairment), all of whom are headed to your town soon on their 52-city Idols Live tour. What scenes meant the most to Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, and the rest? Some of the answers might surprise you -- and some, not so much.
KRIS ALLEN
"The first one that popped into my head is Independence Day, when Bill Pullman, who plays the President, gets up on a flatbed truck and delivers that speech to the pilots. 'We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.' That was really good."
ADAM LAMBERT
"One of my favorite movies of all time is Velvet Goldmine, by Todd Haynes, and the scene that comes to mind is when Ewan McGregor's character is first introduced and he's a singer, a rock star, and the camera comes in on him -- he's on stage -- and he gets naked, pours beer all over himself, then glitter on top of that. He shakes the glitter can around his crotch like he was jerking off onto the audience and then lights the foot of the stage on fire. And to me, that just sums up everything that a rock star should be. It's like a fantasy sequence. That movie is absolutely brilliant -- and a little underrated in my opinion, too. I was about 22 when I first saw it, and I was just like, whoa. It's a movie loosely based on a Ziggy Stardust-type character and an Iggy Pop-type character. It doesn't specifically name them but they're clearly modeled after those two rock stars, and it's just cool. It's a love letter to the glam scene."
DANNY GOKEY
DANNY GOKEY: One of my favorite scenes is from Disney's Aladdin, when the genie first comes out of the lamp. The genie -- Robin Williams -- just cracks me up. He says all these random things, and he scares Aladdin. It's awesome -- a funny moment. I love Disney, and DreamWorks.
[He sees a journalist he knows.] I'm sorry, I have to ask this guy a question. [He asks the journalist about a young brunette woman in the room. The journalist replies that he thinks she's an intern with one of the TV crews.] Man she's cute.
MOVIELINE: Which one is she?
DG: I don't want to turn around and make it obvious.
ML: In the high-heeled silver shoes?
DG: Uh-huh. She's very cute.
ML: Well, you're the rock star, you're supposed to, you know, be a rock star.
DG: Make a move, right? I'm pretty cautious when it comes to relationships.
ML: Would this be a relationship?
DG: Ahhhh -- even those. None of that. I don't want to be disrespectful. Not that I'd disrespect them. But a one-night stand ... I don't know, I feel would be like I'd be disrespecting them.
ALLISON IRAHETA
"The first scene for some reason that came to my head right now was in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, when Jim Carrey's coming out of the rhino. It's pretty gross. That for some reason just came into my head. It's one of my favorite scenes! When he's coming out of the rhino."
MATT GIRAURD
"In The Godfather, the scene where Pacino does his first crime. Anyway, they're sitting there at the table and they're going to kill that police chief guy at this little Italian restaurant. It's so intense, because that's like the breaking point when he really becomes a gangster. Before that he was just a good little, you know, army guy. A military man. That's when he really makes the change. I love that scene. It's so intense. They hide the gun in the bathroom, and he comes out. It's always sweet. Badass forever."
ANOOP DESAI
"My scene is from the movie Swingers, which is my favorite movie ever. It's the very end of the movie, where Mikey is talking to T, they're in a coffee shop. And Mikey had just met this girl the night before. He'd be sweatin' his ex-girlfriend for six months, and he's really in a rut. And he finally meets this girl, and he's out of it. So the roles are sort of switched. T is the ladies' man, giving advice the whole movie. And in the end, T ends up making a fool of himself and then Mikey is the one that's very content. That means a lot to me, because one of my best friends made me watch that movie when I was sort of going through a rough time in my life, and it sort of gave me hope for the future, gave me a road map for how to be yourself and things will just come -- which fortunately has worked out for me."
LIL ROUNDS
"The movie for me would be The Notebook. I love The Notebook. The scene that I love the most is when Allie gets together with Noah, and they start dating. She finally decides to go out with him. And they're leaving the movies, and they're getting ice cream, and she takes the ice cream and shoves it in his face and starts playing around with him a little. That's like the funnest part for me because I've done that to my husband before. Just playin' around. Then they kiss afterwards. That's the cutest little part of that movie."
MEGAN JOY
"I love movies. There's so many different ones I could talk about, but the one that just came to my mind is from Dancer in the Dark. Right when Björk's character is about to be executed, she's singing and counting her steps as she goes, and her son is involved, and I cried and I cried. I kind of think about it sometimes. Björk is one of the biggest influences in my life."
MICHAEL SARVER
"The movie Tombstone, when Val Kilmer's character Doc Holliday was supposed to be sick in the bed. Doc goes out to take care of a duel that was supposed to happen between another person and his pal Wyatt Earp, played by Kurt Russell. And Wyatt comes out, and Doc said, 'Oh, I wasn't quite as sick as I made out.' I don't know why, but that was one of my favorite lines ever."
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It should just be known that Seth owes me five bucks for correctly predicting the exact scene Adam Lambert would pick, beforehand.
He did predict it.
Did you all not include scott b/c he can't see movies? That is so racist.
Their choices are so perfect.
ALLISON IRAHETA's is awesome.
Glambert is Velvet Goldmine, which is why I love him. You could smell it on him from his first appearance on Idol, which is why his selection of the movie is so surprising--it was so predictable.
Megan, who would have thought... maybe there was actually more to that movie than the swan dress she wore to the Oscars. Well played.
Do you have this on audio/video? We creepy fans want to hear/see Adam say that paragraph on tape.
-ontd_ai
These are so good, and so perfectly to type, that you must have made them up. Adam's and Danny's are priceless, especially one following the other.
Oh Adam you dirty, sexy, mofo... I love you to pieces. You are so not Idol material...naughty naughty naughty
Kris and Adam have good taste.
And I feel extremely uncomfortable when Danny talks. I am embarrassed for him. What the hell was he doing??? Checking out girls while doing an interview? That is really dumb and lame. *barf*
Oh Lambert. Never, ever change.
Suddenly I'm in the mood for a glitter shower! So, does this mean Adam will be pulling off those leather pants of his when he does his solo tour?!
Why include that scene from Danny? Why? It's not relevant, it doesn't add anything to the story; it's just salacious and intrusive.
Every journalist could include moments from meeting interviewees that are private - the good ones are able to apply a filter as to where that is appropriate. I fail to see how that exchange added anything to a story about the Idol's favourite movies.
Rubbish journalism. Epic fail.
I think you should retract and apologise. But I won't hold my breath.
Michael Sarver is such a walking Country Bear Jamboree. Love him and his chin dimple. I have no memory of his singing though...
I kept staring at that rather disturbing picture of Danny Gokey up there, wondering why it looked so familiar - and then it hit me. He looks almost exactly like Robert Downey Jr., with highlights.
Fuck how much I love Adam. I love how he picked that scene, it's so Adam. He even did that scene when he did the photoshoot for Rolling Stone. With the glitter and all! So cool!
Wow, Danny is SO disgusting. Publicly he makes a huge show of his grief and raising money for his wife's foundation and being a Christian but in private he's checking out girls and randomly talking about hooking up with them? His wife has barely been dead a year. He makes me SICK.
OMG I did not read Gokey's comment because I never read what he says... BEcause he has a tendency to have "foot in mouth" disease. After reading these reviews I thought "what the heck did he say?" i just read what he said and OMFG... why an earth would you lose focus during an interview and talk about a random girl walking by? He totally grosses me out.
And note to Allie: Why shouldn't the reporter put that in. He was there to interview Danny and Danny decides to focus on another topic other than the Q asked! Rude on Danny's behalf to the interviewer. Doesn't he realize that press at this stage in the game is what gives them what they need. Exposure.
Danny -> FAIL
Hilarious! That's the shit we want to read! The real people behind there garbage picks for movies. I dont care about a scene from Aladdin for chirssakes. I wanna know whether all that goody two shoes shit was malarkey.
And this isn't journalism. No one's unearthing Watergate here. Now TMZ...that's journalism.
I just love Adam. He is so true and honest. Velvet Goldmine is a great movie by the way.
That girl Gokey is checking out better be careful. He'll kill her and start a fake charity in her name next.
Oh sweet Jesus, two things just happened.
A)
I was reading this article on the computer with my child nearby, and thank God she was not looking when I played Adam's favorite movie clip -Please put a warning on that!!!! It is SO not suitable for minors.
B)
I just realized that if THAT is what an Adam Lambert concert will be like after his obligations with American Idol are over, then I better start saving $$ for front row seats (and a babysitter)!
oh adam, you dirty boy, you. that's one of the things us fans love about you, you're a total sex god! that scene totally sums up who you are-an amazing glam rockstar! love you to pieces!
Seconded. And it's not creepy. Purely for academic purposes.
Cheers to Adam for loving "Velvet Goldmine!" It's one of my all time faves as well. Before I even knew he liked it I thought he'd be great in the Rhys-Meyers role if they ever made a stage musical of the film. It's good to see that the current Idols have somewhat more sophisticated taste in movies (Gokey excluded) than their predecessors. I remember when Idols past were queried about their favorite films and they all named some tame Disney pic like "Finding Nemo."
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