Fast Five Flicks

When Rotten Tomatoes sat down to interview Jake for Enemy they threw in a bit of a challenge name his five favorite films.

That's a tough call.

It's not just the movies Jake listed but what he said about them that made it interesting.

First - Searching for Bobby Fisher

"And just the story of father and son and the score is beautiful. It is inevitably one that I am always drawn to, and I think it's filled with hope but also like a real darkness and the beauty of childhood."    

The darkness of childhood- interesting choice of words from Jake.

La Strada - Fellini's La Strada 

" And it's also personally really resonant because my father said after he saw that movie, it was what made him want to make movies, and when I finally saw it when I was a teenager, I understood why. So it inevitably has a resonance beyond the brilliance of the movie itself.

So it was just something that was prominent in your family, growing up?

La Strada? Yeah when I was an infant we were just talking about it. [laughs] No, I just think it sort of tied to that. I mean, I just wonder sometimes if my father hadn't seen that movie and been so moved by it, you know, would he have met my mother? Would my sister have been born? You know, there's a lot of "would-haves" and eventually all of us have found our way into the movie business, so you know, that's just an interesting thing. And you know, you never know how a movie will inspire someone and how it will lead not just one life but many to come. Sort of an interesting idea"

Another interesting choice, because in the past Jake's talked more about musicals and Danny Kaye movies and his mother when talking about movies growing up. Has he ever talked about Fellini before?

And there's someone else that might have influence that choice.  Austin.  Austin's cinephile influence and he's  a huge fan of the Italian directors

Next he picked Jerry McGuire.  But he talked more about Fast Times than Jerry McGuire. Crowe's Fast Times was ground breaking and changed the teen movie genre.  While it was first R rated teen movie and it was most realistic of a teen movie.  Jake did talk about the infamous scene with Phoebe Cates and the bikini.  Yes that scene with Phoebe is one of the best known scene in movies. it is iconic and I don't think a guy under 40 (gay or straight) doesn't know that one.  (And that's true about the video tape thing -  Cameron  say that in an interview)

Fourth Jake picked the Goonies





"
Goonies, yeah. I mean maybe Goonies is better than Jerry Maguire, though I do love Jerry Maguire. Goonies is just like... I have no words for how awesome Goonies is. I happen to be working with Josh Brolin on this Everest movie I'm about to do, and I still geek out. You know, I want him to wear a headband in the Everest movie because it's such an amazing character choice. If I remember correctly I feel like he wore sweatpants over jeans in that movie? I'm pretty sure. I might be wrong about that. And that was a pretty dope character choice as well. Just incredible acting, and the scenes with Chunk still move me. And Butterfinger... Oh wait, no. Snickers? What is it, Snickers? My first crush was in Goonies too: Kerri Green. She was in Lucas. She was in Summer Rental. OK? Dude, she... Lucas is a very formidable... I had such a crush on her. Oh my god. If you see her in Lucas, you'd understand."

Wait a minute Jakey - what happened to Martha Plimpton?  You said she was your crush when your mom did Running on Empty - which around the same time. Did you just ditch her for the auburn curls as soon as you Kerri? Because honestly River seemed to be closer to who you were probably crushing on (and who wouldn't - it was River Phoenix!)

Speaking of auburn curls. Remember who loves the Goonies?  That's right Austy.

It's one of his favorite movies. They incorporated into OTH for him and he's tweeted about it.  I don't think it's Jake who geeked out with Josh over it, but more like Jake's Tall Texan who did.

And finally he picked, Woman of the Year, with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.

And Jake gave this gem.

 "I remember feeling very specifically about that movie that I love so much, which is how Spencer Tracy cracks his eggs while he's making an omelet. I will always crack my eggs like Spencer Tracy because of that movie.
[laughs]"