What movies have red roses in it besides Beauty and the Beast and American Beauty?

Answer 1

One film which features roses is V for Vendetta. The character of V, we discover, was inspired to survive by a letter written on toilet from an unseen woman named Valerie, whose lover, Ruth, grew roses named "Scarlet Carsons" (a fictionalised version of the Violet Carson rose).

Valerie's life story uses roses, repeatedly, as a symbol of love and happiness. Quoting the latter half of this powerful piece of writing,

"In 1986 I starred in "The Salt Flats. " It pulled in the awards but not the crowds. I met Ruth while working on that. We loved each other. We lived together and on Valentine's Day she sent me roses and oh God, we had so much. Those were the best three years of my life.

"In 1988 there was the war, and after that there were no more roses. Not for anybody...

"...The other gay women here, Rita, died two weeks ago. I imagine I'll die quite soon. It's strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and I apologized to nobody.

"I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one.

"An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

"I don't know who you are. Or whether you're a man or a woman. I may never see you or cry with you or get drunk with you. But I love you. I hope that you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better, and that one day people have roses again. I wish I could kiss you."

V also tended the gardens at the Larkhill detention centre, where he grew roses, and used gardening chemicals to craft toxins and explosives with which he made his escape. He also leaves a red rose behind as a signature at each of the killings of the people involved with Larkhill's operation.

I'm not sure whether Cowboy Bebop would count as a movie, but it has a reoccurring flashback in which a bunch of roses falls from Spike's limp fingers into a puddle of water - a memory from the day the woman he loved betrayed and left him.

Answer 2

The Phantom of the Opera. :)