Weekend Small Talk: Rabbit Related
My original Weekend Small Talk was going to be about Easter candy but that's kind of a given; Peeps are the king. After that, there really aren't that many options outside of jelly beans, mini milk chocolate eggs and rabbits, and delicious Reese's peanut butter cup eggs. Oh, and the disgusting Cadbury eggs.
Instead, I decided to just throw out the best rabbit/bunny related moments in film. I thought about Jack Rabbit Slim's from "Pulp Fiction" but I just don't think that scene really stands up over the test of time (the whole movie, in fact, doesn't hold up as, or at least not nearly as well as something like "Reservoir Dogs" or "True Romance").
So I'm just going to throw out the five that first came to me. Which are your favorite Rabbit/Bunny moments? Which classic material did I forget?
I'm sure there are better performances as or by Playboy bunnies but this is the one that came to mind.
4. Bunny ColvinOne of the more intriguing and underrated characters on "The Wire".
EDIT: For some reason it JUST dawned on my that Bunny Colvin shouldn't be eligible because The Wire wasn't film, it was TV. (Okay, it wasn't TV, it was HBO). So with that in mind, I'm going to move commenter Todd's suggestion of Brown Bunny up to #4. I haven't seen the film but it includes an infamous scene and prompted one of the great war of words in recent film history between director Vincent Gallo and critic Roger Ebert.
You can't say the Honky doesn't listen to the people.
3. Fatal AttractionA classic scene in film history.
2. Who Framed Roger RabbitThis is one of my favorite films of all-time, especially because the nefarious plot of the bad guys is something that actually did happen in real life. Roger was hilarious, Jessica Rabbit was the hottest cartoon out there, and the film was an instant classic.
1. Monty Python and the Holy GrailI'm sure that I missed some Rabbit/Bunny moments and characters but I really don't think that there's a moment better than the killer rabbit (and the related Holy Hand Grenade).
