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Gerard Depardieu does a lovely Cyrano, but you need subtitles if you don't know French.
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quote:Gerard Depardieu does a lovely Cyrano, but you need subtitles if you don't know French.
I could see him in the role. But the subtitles would be a distraction for me. The only film version, not counting take-offs, that I've seen was Jose Ferrer's. Not bad, exactly. But not the same as seeing it in person.
If I remember right, we were even in the front row at the play and it was in a small, intimate theater. Actors came down the aisles to come on stage, including the first appearance of Cyrano. The baker's wife very nearly fell out of her dress. And one of the Gascon Cadets died almost at my feet. It was fun.
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I saw a play production of CYRANO in the last year or so at the Utah Shakespeare Festival (Cedar City, Utah) and it was great--they do good stuff there.
I don't know enough French to be able to avoid the subtitles, but they did't bother me when I watched Depardieu's CYRANO. (I tend to use closed captioning whenever I watch tv--though, since I just got a hearing aid for the ear that has lost hearing, I may not need to use closed captioning in the future.)
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Hub: "We'll see what the man's selling. THEN we shoot him."
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What a way to fly into a war...unarmed and outta gas. Oboe leader to Oboe flight---we've flown smack into the middle of a war---get out as fast as you can, anywhere you can. If you can't make Hickam try Bellows or Wheeler.
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Maybe we should ask that people include the source of the quote. Some of these seem awfully obscure.
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You take the fun out of guessing, but...mine are from, successively, "Gone With the Wind," "The Producers," "A Hard Day's Night," "The Searchers," "Blazing Saddles," "Dr. Strangelove," "2001," "A Night to Remember," "Lilo & Stitch," "Casablanca," "Bridge on the River Kwai," "To Be or Not to Be," and "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
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In my opinion, the strength of a movie line doesn't often lie in the line itself, but in the context surrounding it, and the delivery more than anything.
"Pai Mei taught you the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique?"
"Of course he did."
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"Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!"
"Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend."
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"It don't seem real... how he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever... how he's dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger."
"It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
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This was one of my favorites in the last five years:
"Voilą! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
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philocinemas, that's been my email signature for a long time, now. I can't wait to see Hugo Weaving, Benecio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins in the new version of Wolfman. The adds look awesome. Of course, I feel that way about the upcoming Solomon Kane, too. Posts: 3687 | Registered: Jan 2007
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IB, I listened to that monologue in instant replay at least 50 times back when I first got it on DVD. I put V for Vendetta in my top 5 movies of the past 5 years.
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There's one thing you gotta learn about women. They're all liars. And if they ain't liars, they're worse, laying for you with wedding music. Take that little dame from Oregon. All I was doing was tying her shoe laces and she starts beating me over the head with a preacher. Or that little thing from Minnesota, who tried to marry me while I was so drunk I didn't know what I was doing, if it hadn't been for the parson's mercy, I'd have been hooked good, for good! You just can't trust women. No matter how honest they act, they all want to be wives!
Mr. Incredible: You mean you killed off real heroes so that you could pretend to be one?
Syndrome: Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that *everyone* can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super---[chuckles evilly]---no one will be.
"Polar bears cover their noses before they pounce on a seal. How do polar bears know their noses are black? Did they look in the water one day, see their reflection and say, 'Man, I'd be invisible if it wasn't for that thing.'"
quote:From the best movie I've seen this year: "Polar bears cover their noses before they pounce on a seal. How do polar bears know their noses are black? Did they look in the water one day, see their reflection and say, 'Man, I'd be invisible if it wasn't for that thing.'"
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That was a good line. I thought the movie was ok, a little slow paced for me and I hoped there was some kind of conspiracy. I was disappointed when he turned out to be nothing more than a pathological liar.
quote:I was disappointed when he turned out to be nothing more than a pathological liar.
But they're the best kind of liars.
The movie's definitely not for everyone, and I think it's gotten mixed reviews. I loved the flick because I read way too much into it: a treatise on American culture/values. I mean, the guy wants to be important, creating a biography that he thinks will impress people and espousing the virtues of doing the right thing when he's really just trying to get as much money as he can.
There's voice overs all through the movie, mostly having nothing to do with what's actually going on at the moment, until near the end of the movie a character asks him, "Why?" and, very softly, unlike the rest of the voice overs, "I don't know."
I think we "don't know" more often than not, and this was the cinematic version of this generation's, "Death of a Salesman".
But, again, I'm reading way too much into this flick, plus I've had one too many cocktails.
King Arthur: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England!
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ARTHUR: I am. And this my trusty servant Patsy. We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in my court of Camelot. I must speak with your lord and master. GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse? ARTHUR: Yes! GUARD #1: You're using coconuts! ARTHUR: What? GUARD #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together. ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through-- GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut? ARTHUR: We found them. GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical! Posts: 856 | Registered: Nov 2006
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CONNOR (hung over) Donna's gonna be angry about her cat. ROCCO ****. She's on every drug know to man. She'd have sold that thing for a dime bag. Screw her. (beat) But I do kinda feel like an ass-hole.
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