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Post by SeattleDan on Feb 1, 2008 14:07:23 GMT -5
I think I have it now, Thomas. The lovely, and sweet, "Local Hero" with Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster. I didn't know Mark Knopfler did the music. I loved his score for Princess Bride.
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Post by Thomas Scheuzger on Feb 1, 2008 14:10:04 GMT -5
Yay! We have a winner!
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Post by SeattleDan on Feb 1, 2008 14:21:27 GMT -5
Ok, give me a little time and I'll come up with something that isn't from Blade Runner.
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Post by SeattleDan on Feb 1, 2008 15:07:48 GMT -5
Let's try this one. Shot in black and white and originally a Broadway production:
Well, let me tell you something. You're a forgetful old fool. Any woman's worth everything that any man has to give: anguish, ecstasy, faith, jealousy, love, hatred, life or death. Don't you see that's the whole excuse for our existence? It's what makes the whole thing possible and tolerable.
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Post by Thomas Scheuzger on Feb 1, 2008 18:06:49 GMT -5
Oooof. Something tells me that's one from before I was born.
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Post by michael on Feb 1, 2008 18:25:43 GMT -5
I'm thinking that it was by Tennessee Williams. But if it was, I don't know which play it was from.
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Post by SeattleDan on Feb 1, 2008 18:56:52 GMT -5
Nice guess, but not Tennessee. And, Thomas, I think this was produced before anyone here was born.
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Post by SeattleDan on Feb 1, 2008 19:01:08 GMT -5
Another quote from the movie:
Yes, I suppose I am. And not unreasonably. She has heroic stuff in her. She may be one of the immortal women of France. Another Joan of Arc, George Sand, Madame Curie, or Du Barry. I want to show her that I believe in her, and how else can I do it? Living, I'm worth nothing to her. Dead, I can buy her the tallest cathedrals, golden vineyards, and dancing in the streets. One well-directed bullet will accomplish all that, and it'll earn a measure of reflected glory for him that fired it and him that stopped it. This document will be my ticket to immortality. It'll inspire people to say of me, "There was an artist who died before his time." Will you do it, Duke?
I'll be glad to.
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Post by joew on Feb 2, 2008 0:02:45 GMT -5
Very interesting.
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Post by Brit on Feb 2, 2008 6:15:30 GMT -5
This surprises me.
I didn't know movies had been invented before I was born.
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Post by booklady on Feb 2, 2008 7:49:55 GMT -5
Well, let's see. We have an old movie, black and while, originally a Broadway play, featuring an artist, sort of depressed sounding, an impressive French woman, and a guy named Duke.
Danno has Cary Grant as his avatar, and I can just hear Cary saying those lines, especially the second quote.
What could this be? There just can't be that many possibilities!
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Post by Thomas Scheuzger on Feb 2, 2008 12:21:36 GMT -5
I don't know - this seems to have Bogart written all over it, but I'm no Bogart expert.
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Post by booklady on Feb 2, 2008 12:32:42 GMT -5
Bogart, speaking highly of women?  |
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Post by Thomas Scheuzger on Feb 2, 2008 12:41:08 GMT -5
Maybe I'm wrong. It's just what comes to mind when I think of old black and white movies, and it's one of those narratives that seems right up his alley.
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Post by SeattleDan on Feb 2, 2008 13:55:48 GMT -5
Bogart is right! But he's the one saying "I'll be glad to". The other actor is Leslie Howard.
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Post by booklady on Feb 2, 2008 16:53:29 GMT -5
I'm going to guess The Scarlet Pimpernel. I have no idea why (and I don't even know if I spelled it right). I just think Leslie Howard was in it (the only one I know he was in was Gone With the Wind).
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Post by SeattleDan on Feb 2, 2008 16:58:16 GMT -5
Ooh, good try Books! No, not the Scarlet Pimpernel, though Leslie Howard did have the starring role in it. (He also appeared in the film version of Pygmalion). No, the movie I'm thinking of also stars Bette Davis. It takes place in Arizona.
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Post by booklady on Feb 2, 2008 17:04:44 GMT -5
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Post by booklady on Feb 2, 2008 17:05:47 GMT -5
The google ad up there is driving me crazy -- Mark Knopfler on tour. I'd love to go see him. But when you click on the ad you find out the tour dates are all in Europe. Can't go there!  |
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Post by SeattleDan on Feb 2, 2008 17:37:37 GMT -5
Based on a play by Robert Sherwood...Mark Knopfler didn't do the score. Takes place in the desert.
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Post by Seattle Taz on Feb 2, 2008 22:17:02 GMT -5
Ah. Mark Knopfler (I even remember the show). Older than 1987. So it must be "The Colour of Money" which continued the "Hustler" of which the quote under consideration has the flavour, though "older" by not much if I remembers right. It sounds like a Carmen/Fast Eddy exchange.
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Post by Seattle Taz on Feb 2, 2008 22:24:21 GMT -5
Bogart is right! But he's the one saying "I'll be glad to". The other actor is Leslie Howard. fooey. I thought it sounded like Shakespeare. |
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Post by joew on Feb 2, 2008 22:54:18 GMT -5
I don't think it is "The Color of Money." But I suspect color has something to do with it in a way.
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Post by michael on Feb 3, 2008 0:04:55 GMT -5
I think it's time to call in Ebert and Roeper.
Dan, were you an archivist for the American Film Institute before you opened your book store?
Mike
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Post by doctork on Feb 3, 2008 0:05:35 GMT -5
I'd guess "The Petrified Forest" which starred Bogart and took place in the desert, but I don't remember Leslie Howard being in it, much less that speech.
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Post by joew on Feb 3, 2008 0:15:03 GMT -5
I guess I was wrong about color having something to do with it.
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Post by SeattleDan on Feb 3, 2008 2:03:44 GMT -5
The Doc nails it... Yes, Petrified Forest... listen, folk, not that an obscure movie, really, it's not. It was Bogart's big breakout movie, with the real Leslie Howard as Alan Squiers, turning over his life insurance policy to the young Bette Davis , so she can be free and thoughtful someplace outside the Petrified Forest.... watch this movie, if you haven't... brilliant dialogue, great performances. Ok, over to the doc for the next quote...
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Post by doctork on Feb 3, 2008 15:38:25 GMT -5
I will have to watch The Petrified Forest again, as I really don't remember Leslie Howard at all; I watched the movie because of Bogart. On another thread, I just quoted "Things are always changing at Uranus" but I couldn't remember what movie it was from, some spoof on advertising. Do any of you remember?
Uh-oh. I consulted the ultimate movie authority, my husband, and even he did not recall the name of that movie. I haven't paid attention to "the rules" for this game, but just in case, here's a back-up "Identify this quote" cahllenge.
Also from a movie: I never did care about the little things.
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Post by booklady on Feb 3, 2008 15:47:36 GMT -5
I don't know -- it sounds like something Mike would say.  |
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Post by doctork on Feb 3, 2008 15:51:40 GMT -5
I don't know -- it sounds like something Mike would say. That's no doubt what prompted the memory! |
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