Yes,jjjnettie, a fabulous film
Remember that bit when they were captured on the
German ship.
They are about to be hanged as spies
Bogart says to the Captain, " Sir, your are empowered to marry people. It would mean so much to the lady if you could marry us"
The German captain duly obliges and says - after the vows are exchanged -
" I now prounounce you man and wife, proceed with the execution!"
MAGIC I have watched that film dozens of times, and still enjoy it. It will be on my Christmas viewing list
Dorothy: Weren't you frightened?
Wizard of Oz: Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe... I was petrified.
or
"Ding dong, the witch is dead!"
or
Wizard of Oz: They have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitartus Committiartum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of ThD. Scarecrow: ThD? Wizard of Oz: That's... Doctor of Thinkology.
… but of course the real classic line is by Dorothy;
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more!
The Best Bogart / Bacall movie is "To Have and Have Not" (1944
It has the classic line (among many), said by the Lauren Bacall character Marie "Slim" Browning;
"You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."
Great thread, you guys have fine tastes in movies
I searched through just before posting one of mine and
sure enough, Les beat me to it
Well sorta...I was going to write:
" I'm afraid I can't do that Dave"
and: DeNiro: ''Are you talkin' to me?"
Another line from a favourite fillum of mine:
" I am Juan Sanchez Villa Lobos Ramirez, chief metallurgist to
King Charles the fifth of Spain, and I am at your service"
Another is "The Naked Jungle" (1954) with Charlton Heston [Christopher Leiningen] and a young (32 years) and absolutely yummy Eleanor Parker [Joanna Leiningen] (oh la la).
The story is set in the South American jungle, where Langdon grows cocoa for making chocolate. Being so busy, he is unable so he orders a mail order bride (in the older sense, being married by proxy) to marry. He plays the physically brave guy, but he rejects her because she had been married before. This created one of the best lines in this movie;
"If you knew anything about music, you’d know that the best piano is one that’s been played."
Ouch!
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I also like the following interchange;
Christopher: The jungle's corrosive. It swallows up everything.
Joanna : Even men, sometimes.
Christopher: You've been reading…Joanna?
Joanna : I found it in your library. Poetry.
Christopher: I don't read much myself. I bought all those books by weight. Eight hundred pounds of books is what I ordered.
Joanna : Whoever selected them for you has very good taste. It was you, wasn't it? Why lie about it? Are you afraid I might think you weak for reading poetry?
Christopher: Perhaps. (pause) As Fontaine says somewhere in there, "Each man is three men: "What he thinks he is, what others think he is and what he really is."
Joanna : And which Leiningen is this?
Christopher: The last. The real Leiningen.
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and...
Christopher : You surprise me. You're very beautiful, intelligent, accomplished... There must be something wrong with you. I'm not that lucky, to get a perfect woman, just like that, out of the grab bag. There's something wrong somewhere.
Joanne: I thought you didn't like me. I thought you were disappointed in me. And instead, you're afraid of me.
Christopher : You think so?
Joanne: You're looking for a fault in me, anything so you can ignore me.
Christopher : You know a lot about men, don't you?
Joanna (trying to ignore him): Something nice-looking to go with the rest of the furniture. Brought up the river with great difficulty, just keep it dusted and see that the termites don't get at it. That's the kind of a wife you wanted. Instead, you got a woman. And you're afraid of me.
Christopher : I said, you know a lot about men.
Joanna : More than you know about women.
Ouch!!
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or him summarising
You'd better see exactly what you're up against down here. Come with me, madam. Without these locks, my whole plantation would be six feet under the river, where I got it from. It took me five years to get a foothold here. I started with acres and four men. I nearly forgot the English language in that time. I was twenty years old.
My irrigation moat. Built by men who had never seen one in their lives. I had men by that time.I used to lose two or three a week. Headhunters. This is what we get. (shows her the cocoa beans)
Eight hundred Indians working for me on nearly acres of river bottom, eaten by flies, worms, lice. With a half a dozen diseases men get in the jungle, all for that. So that your friends can drink chocolate with their breakfast in New Orleans. Go ten miles in any direction from here and it's civilised. But go ten paces beyond where I stopped and you're in the bush, the living jungle, where no man has a name and the only law is to stay alive, even if you live like a beast.
In the jungle, man's just another animal.
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or braking the ice…
Christopher : You were right about that piano. It's much better when it's played.
Joanna : It needs tuning.
Christopher : Tell me about women.
Joanna : Where shall I begin?
Christopher : Anywhere. I find the subject interesting.
Joanna : Well, there's very little to tell, really. There are men and there are women. They're like, oh, spoons. If they are alike, they go together quite well. Tell me about spoons.
Christopher : I do believe you're developing a sense of humour.
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or, when facing the soldier ants - the Marabunta - who are just about to wipe out his while livelihood...
Joanna : Christopher?
Christopher : Come in. You might as well see this. Caught him this afternoon. He's an advance scout of some kind. Handsome devil, isn't he? I've been studying him all evening. The face of my enemy. Who knows? Perhaps he's been studying me.
Joanna :Even alone they look frightening.
Christopher : Well, where they go, no life is left but their own. That's what we're up against. If I were a sensible man, Joanna, what would I do? Fight or run?
Joanna : You have to fight. A man like you doesn't run. In any case, you're not a sensible man. You wouldn't have chosen a wife by mail if you were.
Christopher : I'm beginning to think the only sensible thing I ever did was send for you.
Joanna : Why do you say that now?
Christopher : Maybe because it's too late.
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or when facing the end…
Christopher : I never leave you now. For whatever it's worth to you, now that I have nothing else to give… ...I love you.
Joanna : That's all I've ever wanted. We'll start from here. This is where we meet, Christopher.
Christopher : And where we say goodbye too. The ants are still out there…
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Sadly, they don't make movies like this anymore!
IMO it is possibly the sexiest movie of all time. Worst Eleanor Parker does not even take her clothes off!
COMMENTS:
The title music of this film is great, composed by Russian Daniele Amfitheatrof (1901-1883) He wrote the music to the 1946 Walt Disney's children movie "Song of the South", with the song "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" winning an Oscar. It was condemned for its racist overtones to African Americans. It was shown in Sydney on 15 May 1947, and was reasonably popular. Amfitheatrof also made the title and incidental music for the TV series "The Time Tunnel', which I remember for some odd reason. He did many others movies scores in US films during WII.
Eleanor Parker was also in "The Sound of Music" playing the nastie Baroness Elsa Schraeder. This was one of her last film roles. Took away some of the mystique for me, sadly! Pity.
My favirite line from Naked Jungle is when Christopher is surveying his mail order bride (Jaonna) for the first time and he hasnt seen a woman for quite some time and they have this exchange
Christopher: Madam...
Joanna: My name is Joanna.
Christopher: I know that, madam.
Joanna:Leave something on me.I'm getting chilly.
And this
Christopher:You have a sense of humor.I don't like humor in a woman.
Christopher : Well... I wanted to say these things. We won't have time to talk on the way.
Joanna : Then this is goodbye.
Christopher : I'm sorry it started the way it did. I don't know what went wrong. I guess I'd never be able to get it out of my head that you loved someone before me. I don't know how to be second. I can only be first.
Joanna : That's very important, I know. Christopher... You don't dislike me anymore?
Commissioner (William Conrad) Marabunta!!! Soldier ants. Billions and billions of them on the march. For generations, they stay in their anthills. Then for no reason they start to move, gathering up others as they go. Until they become a flood of destruction.
Christopher How do you stop them?
Commissioner : You don't. You just get out of their way.
One of the greatest piece of dialogue in a movie that has deep meaning for the world today and through the ages. Truly moving and unforgettable.
High Lama: "It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La. It came to me in a vision, long, long ago. I saw all the nations strengthening, not in wisdom, but in the vulgar passions and the will to destroy. I saw the machine power multiplying, until a single weaponed man might match a whole army. I foresaw a time when man, exalting in the technique of murder, would rage so hotly over the world, that every book, every treasure, would be doomed to destruction. This vision was so vivid and so moving, that I determined to gather together all things of beauty and of culture that I could, and preserve them here, against the doom toward which the world is rushing. Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! What unintelligent leadership! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity, crashing headlong against each other, propelled by an orgy of greed and brutality. A time must come my friend, when this orgy will spend itself. When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword. Against that time, is why I avoided death, and am here. And why you were brought here. For when that day comes, the world must begin to look for a new life. And it is our hope that they may find it here. For here, we shall be with their books and their music, and a way of life based on one simple rule: Be Kind! When that day comes, it is our hope that the brotherly love of Shangri-La will spread throughout the world. Yes, my son; When the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled and the meek shall inherit the earth."
Robert Conway: I understand you father.
Brilliant!!
Oh and Chang, answering the question on eternal life…
"You'd be surprised, Mr. Conway, age is a limit we impose upon ourselves."
Absolutely a brilliant film, far too many quotes to mention;
E. K. Hornbeck: [about Barry] He's the only man I know who can strut sitting down.
E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly): Disillusionment is what little heroes are made of.
E. K. Hornbeck : Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
E. K. Hornbeck: I may be rancid butter but I'm on your side of the bread.
E. K. Hornbeck: Aw, Henry! Why don't you wake up? Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape. His creed's still a totem pole. When he first achieved the upright position, he took a look at the stars - thought the were something to eat. When he couldn't reach them, he decided they were groceries belonging to a bigger creature; that's how Jehovah was born.
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Henry Drummond: Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."
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Matthew Harrison Brady: Why is it, my old friend, that you've moved so far away from me?
Henry Drummond: All motion is relative, Matt. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.
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E. K. Hornbeck: You know, that's a typical lawyer's trick - accusing the accuser.
Henry Drummond: What am I accused of?
E. K. Hornbeck: Contempt of conscience, sentimentality in the first degree.
I could probably quote the whole movie by memory - especially the closing argument. One of the Top 5 movies of all time!!
Oh. ANd the quote of the movie title….
Matthew Harrison Brady: Remember the wisdom of Solomon in the book of Proverbs. "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind."
Atticus Finch: I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Jem Finch: Why?
Atticus Finch: Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us.
Another very thought provoking American movie… ★★★★★
"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"
Commander John J. Adams: Nice climate you have here. High oxygen content. Robby the Robot: I seldom use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.
"Forbidden Planet"
Robin Hood
Lady Marian: Why, you speak treason!
Robin Hood: Fluently.
I Heart Huckabees
Tommy: What are you doing tomorrow?
Albert: I was thinking about chaining myself to a bulldozer. Do you want to come?
Tommy: What time?
Albert: Mmm, 1, 1:30.
Tommy: Sounds good. Should I bring my own chains?
Albert: We always do.
Casablanca
Cpt Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Cpt Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
That's a classic movie. I even have a first edition (13th printing) of this fine book. A classic. And yes, I have the DVD too.
Dave
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Originally Posted by Enchilada
Another brilliant quote;
Atticus Finch: I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Jem Finch: Why?
Atticus Finch: Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us.
Another very thought provoking American movie… ★★★★★
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
The Naked Jungle
