Movie Moments XVIII: What this needs is a scene with a deer.

Breaking away from Star Wars is hard to do, but then along comes a movie with a regular rotation on television that I find myself watching for no apparent reason whatsoever and it all becomes a lot less difficult.  No, that movie is not Dirty Dancing or Steel Magnolias, or any of those other movies that you have a good chance of seeing no matter when you turn on the TV.  This movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alyssa Milano.  This movie is Commando.  Yes, Commando.  Now, originally I watched the movie because Vernon Wells, a.k.a. Wez from The Road Warrior was in it, and frankly I hadn't seen him in anything besides that.  So began the random viewings of the movie, with me generally coming in somewhere in the middle or right before the big fight scene at the end with the high body, but somehow never catching the beginning of the movie.  Then one day I did, and a moment was born.  It starts at the very beginning, during a montage that I guess is supposed to show that Arnold (or John Matrix as he is known in the film) is living a quiet life of retirement from the military in the mountains with his daughter, Jenny.  This montage includes such things as Matrix carrying a log/tree on his shoulder, Matrix eating ice cream with Jenny, Matrix and Jenny doing some martial arts, and Matrix and Jenny swimming.  Now, all of these things are funny in their own way, but there is one moment that takes the cake and puts all the others to shame, for this moment is so wonderful and stupendous that it makes you wonder how it even made it into the movie.  You see, amid all of the sort of normal things, there's a brief shot of Matrix and Jenny feeding deer in the wild.  The whole moment seems so out of place and yet right at home with the others.  In fact, after seeing it, my brother commented that, "It looks like an ad for pants."  I have to agree.  It does look like it belongs in an ad for Dockers or Ralph Lauren, and now whenever I see a Dockers or Ralph Lauren ad, all I can do is laugh and think, "They should really have a shot of these people feeding a deer." 

(Coming up next, the moment from Total Recall that makes me laugh because of...well, you'll just have to wait and see what it is when I get around to writing it, unless I forget.)