Memorable Lines From Films

[Freddy]

Hi djdave, it was about 15 - 20 years ago so am not sure it just simply pricked his bubble if you get my drift, as I remember JL keeping a totally straight face when he said it. Wish i could be more helpful, it is just nice to be able to tell it to a big audience.

Freddy

[djdave]

(Freddy @ Mar 15 2006, 08:45 PM) Hi djdave, it was about 15 - 20 years ago so am not sure it just simply pricked his bubble if you get my drift, as I remember JL keeping a totally straight face when he said it. Wish i could be more helpful, it is just nice to be able to tell it to a big audience. Freddy

No worries - it's a funny story, made more so by JL resisting the temptation to laugh.

A friend - who'd been to the US on holiday a few times - once told me that some American entertainers, who may genuinely have been born into working class families, are prone to exaggerating how poor they really were.

Perhaps GC is like that. I heard him being interviewed on the radio once and he did sound full of himself.

[sanndevil]

Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
He's over there.
Splitter!

[ollie]

"If you think nine inches is an average one,youve been spoilt"

"I've got sore missgivings"........"you want to put some talcom powder on that"

"i was once a weak man" "once a week is enough for any man"

"Frying tonight!"

"I'm Dan......Dan Dan the lavortory man"

"i've done a time and motion study"..."well if youve got the time ive got the motion " ..."and dont think i havnt noticed it mrs moore,epecially in your main production department!"

"Whats a nice girl like you doing with an old cow?"...."i'm taking it to the bull" ....."cant your father do that?"
"No, it has to be the bull!"

Carry on everyone

cheers Ollie.

[samkydd]

(theuofc @ Mar 14 2006, 12:50 AM) What are your favorite lines from films? Barbara

A Marx Brothers one, the name of which escapes me:

Businessman: Something must be done. War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes!

Chico: Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.

Businessman: No, I’m talking about taxes, money, dollars!

Chico: Dollars. Thassa where my uncle lives, Dollars, Taxes!

[Marky B]

Groucho Marx:"I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know"
Ta Ta
Marky B

[Rob Compton]

...all of which reminds me of the Marx's "Getta your tootsie-fruitsie ice-a cream-a" routine from "A Day at the Races"

Goes on for 5 or 10 minutes and is just memorably funny!

And while I'm on "funny" memorable:

Lou Costello (of Abbot and Costello) - to a fierce looking Irish American cop: "Are you a public servant?"

Cop (scowling) "Why, what of it?"

Lou "So go and get me a glass of water!"

rgds
Rob

[Freddy]

Taken from Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Dreamers'. Written by Gilbert Adair.
The speaker is Mathew, on why some people sit at the front of the cinema

I was one of the insatiables. The ones you'd always find sitting closest to the screen. Why do we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. When they were still new, still fresh. Before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us. Before they'd been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator; until worn out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp, it returned to the projectionist's cabin. Maybe, too, the screen was really a screen. It screened us...from the world.

(thanks to IMDb for reminding me of it)
regards

Freddy

[arty-dave]

Harbottle: "I brought those plants up by hand"

Porter: "Well they're coming down by foot"

And SO many others from Oh Mr Porter!

[Ascoyne D'Ascoyne]

(Freddy @ Mar 16 2006, 01:36 PM) Taken from Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Dreamers'. Written by Gilbert Adair. The speaker is Mathew, on why some people sit at the front of the cinema I was one of the insatiables. The ones you'd always find sitting closest to the screen. Why do we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. When they were still new, still fresh. Before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us. Before they'd been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator; until worn out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp, it returned to the projectionist's cabin. Maybe, too, the screen was really a screen. It screened us...from the world. (thanks to IMDb for reminding me of it) regards Freddy

I used to sit at the front because it was cheaper!
Sorry, the lines are rather lovely.

[arty-dave]

Still with Will Hay, Windbag the Sailor
The film's finest scene occurs when Cutlet (Hay), after nine weeks at sea, comes to suspect that the ship may not be headed for Norway as he had been led to believe. He, Albert and Harbottle try to calculate their position with hilariously inaccurate results.

[samkydd]

A nice line from The Sopranos "Even a broken clock is right twice in a day!"

[foha80]

From Barefoot in the Park
After an argument
Fonda: :"I don't want you staying here tonight"
Redford: "I haven't got any place to go."
Fonda: "Why can't you stay at your club"
Redford: "It's not that kind of club,if I want to stay all night
I have to hold my serve."

[Steve Crook]

(Freddy @ Mar 16 2006, 01:36 PM) Taken from Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Dreamers'. Written by Gilbert Adair. The speaker is Mathew, on why some people sit at the front of the cinema I was one of the insatiables. The ones you'd always find sitting closest to the screen. Why do we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. When they were still new, still fresh. Before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us. Before they'd been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator; until worn out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp, it returned to the projectionist's cabin. Maybe, too, the screen was really a screen. It screened us...from the world. (thanks to IMDb for reminding me of it) regards Freddy

What a strange reason for wanting to sit at the front.
Given a cinema of about 100 yards from the front row to the back row, that'd mean that they saw the images about 0.000000026 seconds (26 nano seconds) before the people in the back row.

A much better reason is just that then there's no chance of anyone sitting in front of you and blocking your view. Or is that ruining a nice bit of flowery prose with a few realities?

Steve

[samkydd]

(Steve Crook @ Mar 16 2006, 07:19 PM) What a strange reason for wanting to sit at the front. Given a cinema of about 100 yards from the front row to the back row, that'd mean that they saw the images about 0.000000026 seconds (26 nano seconds) before the people in the back row. A much better reason is just that then there's no chance of anyone sitting in front of you and blocking your view. Or is that ruining a nice bit of flowery prose with a few realities? Steve

"We should've sat in the ninepenny's Mr Mainwaring?"

"No, no, no Pike, no. I couldn't sit down near the front in those cheap seats, you never know whose been sitting in them!"