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Mar 19, 2013 - 6:42 PM
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Olivier
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From my favorite movie, Rio Bravo...
Excellent dialogue throughout, and the humor works all the better because it's so brilliantly delivered, very naturally.
Carlos is a case in point.
Carlos: Senor Chance. It's me, Carlos.
Chance: Come on in. What do you want?
Carlos: I want to talk to you.
Chance: Did the girl.... What happened to your eye?
Carlos: You told me to put the lady on the stage.
Chance: She did that? What'd you do?
Carlos: She did not do it.
Chance: I thought you said she did.
Carlos: I say you tell me to put her on the stage. Consuelo, she hit me in the eye.
Chance: I'm a little mixed up.
Carlos: Do not talk. I tell you.
Chance: Okay.
Carlos: It's better if I tell you. You told me to put her on the stage. The stage she's ready, but she don't come. I yell at her, "Come down." She said, "No." I go and get her, she said she don't go.
Chance: Did she go?
Carlos: I tell her you say go. I tell her I am responsible. She say, no, she is responsible. And I said that may be. I pick her up. And Consuelo say, "What are you doing with that woman?" I say, "I take her to the stage." The woman said she don't want to go.
Chance: Did she go on the stage?
Carlos: Consuelo tell me put her down. I said, "I am responsible." Consuelo thinks that mean something else. So she give me this eye.
Chance: What'd you do?
Carlos: Do? What can I do? My arms is full of the lady. I can do nothing. I drop her on the floor. She yells. And she says I tried to kill her.
Chance: Did the girl get on the stage?
Carlos: No, she did not go! But Jake says he couldn't wait.
Chance: Why?
Carlos: He says he must leave.
Chance: I mean the girl. Did she say why she wasn't going?
Carlos: No. She didn't say. How can I know if she don't say? Please come and tell Consuelo
what responsible means.
Chance: Stumpy, we're going out.
Stumpy: Fine. I like to be left alone. I'm getting used to it.
(Stumpy is great, too.)
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Mar 20, 2013 - 7:45 AM
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jackfu
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Just watched Presumed Innocent again for the umpteenth time. The post-dismissal conversation between Rosat “Rusty” Sabich (Harrison Ford) and Alejandro “Sandy” Stern (Raul Julia, RIP) stands out for me.
Rusty : Sandy, How did you know what was behind Larren's fear of the B File?
Sandy: Ahh, you question the judge's integrity?
Rusty: With good reason, wouldn't you say? You knew that file didn't have a damned thing to do with my case and yet you let Larren know you'd drag it in at any opportunity. That it would come out he was taking bribes. You blackmailed him, Sandy.
Sandy: We speak now, tonight, and then these things are never spoken of again, agreed? Larren's divorce left him in a state of disorder. He was drinking much too heavily and he fell into a relationship with a beautiful, but uh, self-serving woman. The fact is, Larren grew suicidally depressed. He wanted to resign his post. Raymond Horgan talked him out of it.
Rusty: Raymond knew he was taking bribes?
Sandy: Larren told him. Raymond cleaned up the North side and he also rescued a distinguished mind and career that does honor to the bench. I believe Larren today did what he thought was just. You tell me, Rusty. Was justice done?
It wasn’t so much the actual dialogue but the delivery of same, especially Julia’s way of explanation and his unspoken, cautionary tone; clearly, wordlessly reminding Sabich about glass-house stone-throwing.
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"Since Chris is a fellow Allen fan, these are for him."
Please, Storyteller...don't talk about me as though I'm NOT HERE!
And you sir, are a mind reader. I was about to get out my DVD of Jade Scorpion...
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Joe Meets The Billionaire.
(With my most genuine apologies to John Patrick Shanley and my new friend, fellow "Joe" lover Angela, this is an abridged account of Joe's meeting with billionaire Samuel Greynamore. I've done my utmost to include the highlights of this dialogue. Sadly, I find Mr. Greynamore far too verbose and vociferous to document this meeting in its entirety. I hope you can forgive me...)
"Joe Banks? Mr. Joe Banks?"
"Yeah?"
"Have I come at a bad time?"
"Yes. Uh...no...eh, eh...I don't know how to answer that question."
"Mind if I call ya' Joe?"
"No."
"I see it as a sign of tremendous sophistication that you haven't demanded my name, or asked me what I'm doin' here. My name is Samuel Harvey Greynamore."
"Joe Banks."
"Ohhh, I know. Tryin' to see the HERO in there."
"Whaddya' mean?"
"You dragged two kids down a six story burnin' staircase. Now that was brave. But then you went back up for the third kid! THAT WAS HEROIC! C'mon now, you're a HERO! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"
"Well...that was a long time ago..."
"Yes it was."
"How do you know my name?"
"I know all about ya'. Much as I could learn in 24 hours anyway. Quit your job, huh?"
"Yeah."
"Well it sounded like a dumb job. No family?"
"Nuh uh..."
"Good for you. Families are a pain in the neck. What do ya' know about super conductors?"
"Nuthin'."
"Me neither. But I own a huge company that dominates the world market in super conductors."
"Really?"
"Ahhh. Sit down. Dr. Ellison? You were at his office yesterday?"
"Yes."
"Ehhh. He told me your news. He thought that, uh, you and I might be able to help each other. Ya' got any whiskey?"
"Nope."
"I wanna hire ya', Joe Banks. I wanna hire ya'...to jump into a volcano."
"I...you know...I DO have some whiskey."
(They have a drink.)
"There's an island in the South Pacific called Waponi Woo. The name means "Little island with a Big Volcano". The Waponi's are a cheerful people who live a simple existence. Their one fear is that big volcano. They believe that an angry fire god in the volcano will sink the island, unless, once every hundred years, he is appeased. It's been 99 years, 11 months and 11 days since the fire god got his propers, and the Waponi's are SCARED!"
"How is their god appeased?"
"Of his own free will, a man's got to jump into the volcano. None of the Waponi's are anxious to volunteer for the honor of jumpin' into the Big Woo. So what do ya' do?"
"What DO you do?"
"Ya' do some TRADIN'! HA! There's a mineral on that island, Mr. Banks. I don't know anywhere else on the planet where you can find more than a gram of this stuff, and believe me I've looked, because without [it] I can't make my super conductors! I tried to get the mineral rights from the Waponi's, but I don't seem to have anything they want. But they DO want a HERO, Mr. Banks. And they'll give me the mineral rights if I find 'em one."
"WHY would I jump into a volcano?"
"From your exploits in the fire department I think you've got the courage! Heh, heh, heh!"
"You DO?"
"Well does it take more guts to twice traverse a staircase in flames or to make a one time leap into the mouth of a smokin' volcano? Damned if I know, Keemosabe. All I know is that when you're makin' those kinda' calls, you're up in the HIGH COUNTRY! From your doctor you know that you're on your way out anyway. Ya' haven't got any money. I checked. Ya' wanna wait it out here in this - in this apartment? Ah, it sounds kinda' grim to me. Not the way I'd wanna go I'll tell ya' that. You could SHOP today. Yeah! Get yourself some clothes, ya' know, for an ADVENTURE? And tomorrow, a plane to L.A. First class, naturally. You'll be met, stay at the best hotel. Then the next day you board a yacht. My competitors sometimes watch the airports. Yacht's a real beauty. Belongs to me. Gourmet chef. Sail to the South Pacific, ten, fifteen days, Waponi's come out to meet ya'...ahhh! A total RED CARPET situation. YOU'RE A NATIONAL HERO! You're CHARLES LINDBERGH! It's WINE, WOMEN and SONG in the sweetest paradise you ever saw. And then...you JUMP into the volcano. LIVE LIKE A KING, DIE LIKE A MAN! That's what I say! What do YOU say?"
"..........alright I'll do it."
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Michael24...I always wondered if the Kellogg's Company had a corn flake factory on Mars...
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Just to raise the tone a bit, an exchange from BACK TO SCHOOL (1986) that never fails to make me laugh:
Dr. Barbay (Paxton Whitehead)
"We were just admiring your wife's Klimt."
Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield)
"Oh, you too?"
(Trust me, you have to see it in context!)
And, from 1964's THE BEST MAN:
Ex-President Art Hockstader (Lee Tracy) to presidential contender Joe Cantwell (Cliff Robertson)
"It's not your being a bastard that I mind. It's that your such a STUPID bastard!"
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