casablancalover
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JackFavell wrote:
h4. I agree - they just aren't suited to one another anymore. She'll do just fine with Steve Cochran.
Yes, I would say their goals weren't in alignment. My favorite line is at the end of this exchange.
>Marie Derry: *What do you think I was doing all those years?*
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>Fred Derry: *I don't know, babe, but I can guess.*
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>Marie Derry: *Go ahead. Guess your head off. I could do some guessing myself. What were you up to in London and Paris and all those places? I've given you every chance to make something of yourself. I gave up my own job when you asked me. I gave up the best years of my life, and what have you done? You flopped! Couldn't even hold that job at the drugstore. So I'm going back to work for myself and that means I'm gonna live for myself too. And in case you don't understand English, I'm gonna get a divorce. What have you got to say to that?*
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>Fred Derry: *Don't keep Cliff waiting.*
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> My favorite Civil War film is *An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge*, 29m, made in 1962, based on an Ambrose Bierce short story. I wish TCM was showing it.
Here is a version:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiGICe9ZGwo
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyEuVG4pX0g&feature=related
This is the version I remember best. If I find the Twilight Zone version, I will post that too.
The Twilight Zone version has Rod Serling giving proper attribution to the film maker; the print is shortened, but of higher quality, but then the uploading process was screwed up somehow. So I didn't post it.
Edited by: casablancalover on Apr 4, 2011 6:58 PM
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Cute, cute. Look at what I discovered this morning on youtube! I didn't know if this even existed!
The Best Years of Our Lives suite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDVHzHaZjU
h6. I take it that the answers are out there, just be open to when they present themselves.
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Is there a better line in the movie about reality and illusion? Virginia Mayo did get some great lines in that one. We start out liking Marie, then we start to see her as Fred does. The scene in the nightclub is particularly revealing.
The next one is from memory. I have used it myself! lol...
As Marie and Peggy are heading to the ladies room:
>*Ignore the sign! Go right on in!*
Virginia Mayo, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Thanks for the dialog, Jack!
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>*You see, Mr. Milton, in the Army I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.*
Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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h3. Love those wandering hands!
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Where's my "Thumbs up" button???
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Like Wouldbestar and I say, the passion we feel from Welles' Rochester is not to ignored! Fontaine, (who is such an incredible beauty in her own right, and we had to pretend she was plain) had some tough scenes with Welles. How she can play small, meek, yet with resilience against a scene chewer like Welles? When you see it, watch the staging of the actors in the scene.
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h4. It's Always Plot Hole Season
I was trying to find the thread about things you can do in the movies you can't do in real life to add a circumstance, but just about every movie or story will have holes in it. I find the best ones are in our favorites. Suspension of disbelief.
another Favorite:
In Titanic, during the sinking how does one keep going below decks several times and not succumbing to the cold water? To build the drama, apparently.
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Okay, okay.. In the Casablanca thread, it had been discussed that why would pretending not being married to Victor Laszlo make Ilsa Lund safe, since she was already known to be with him? The Nazi's had abandoned convention long ago. Anyhoo. . .
*Ascotrudgeracer wrote: 1) The extreme public outrage successfully orchestrated by a newspaper over a stupid building ("The Fountainhead")*
I don't know? Maybe it would be more believable if Roarke designed a pro sports stadium.
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>Homer: *. . Well, now you know, Wilma. Now you have an idea of what it is. I guess you don't know what to say. It's all right. Go on home. Go away like your family said.*
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>Wilma: *I know what to say, Homer. I love you and I'm never going to leave you... never.*
Harold Russell, Cathy O'Donnell, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Edited by: casablancalover on Apr 3, 2011 12:41 PM
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Amazing Grace:
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>Fred Derry: *You know what it'll be, don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work, get kicked around...*
>(Peggy- Theresa Wright, smiles and kisses him passionately)
Dana Andrews, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Edited by: casablancalover on Apr 2, 2011 11:52 PM
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One of my favorite movie openings, with the empowering music of Patrick Doyle:
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Did I hear Burton Cummings being mentioned,,? A big favorite. A little get together north of the border.
Por vous:
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>*. . Do you think that's very silly?*
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>*No, I'm a firm believer in that myself.*
Joan Fontaine, Lawrence Olivier
>*She knew everyone that mattered. Everyone loved her.*
Dame Judith Anderson
Rebecca (1940)
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>*I say, marriage with Max is not exactly a bed of roses, is it?*
George Sanders, Rebecca (1940)
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The Music Machine:
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Wow. TalkTalk123. The first time I saw your moniker, I thought of the Music Machine song. I think it a great ID
My ID is what it is because I couldn't use Casablanca, or I think I even tried IlsaLund, and they were both taken..
Nitey-Nite...
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>*I have nothing to say. . .*
Oliver Hardy, in any number of his movies with Stan Laurel.
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>Peggy Day: *Oh I wish I could make a little money writing the way you do!*
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>Nancy Blake: *If you wrote the way I do that's just what you'd make.*
Joan Fontaine, Florence Nash, The Women (1939)
h6. Note to Wouldbestar: I agree. The ending of Seven Men From Now is the most intriguing.
Edited by: casablancalover on Mar 29, 2011 9:43 PM
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> I'm SALIVATING!
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> Better to salivate over Trader Joe's Caribbean Coffee ice cream.
And the dark chocolate peanut butter cups..