I read a fantastic article in The New Yorker today about quotes. It's worth taking a look at, especially when you consider the licentious audacity to alter a quote to make it more, well, quotable. I'm not liking this activity at all. "Whodathunkit?" Read the article here...
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I read that a while back and was intrigued as well. And, by the bye, Casablanca is a great movie. If you haven't seen it you need to. You need some Bogie in your life - start with Casablanca, and move onto Key Largo, In A Lonely Place, and The Maltese Falcon.
I'll not get into it, but I think there may be some PCH examples of misquotes we could talk about. Now, help me with Bogart stuff...what's the appeal? Is it his speech, his demeanor, what? I may yet get into some older films, but so far it's been disastrous. Perhaps it's the lack of explosions, or familiar actors, or horrible sound quality, but something prevents me from really getting into them. I did watch Snow White & then Fantasia after reading the Disney book, but those are cartoons so it's a bit different. I did like Casino Royale; and Babel is really interesting to me. Peace!
Bogart oozes cool. He's a man's man - not a pretty boy like Cary Grant (though An Affair to Remember is a truly great movie).
If you want to see some quality older films then you may want to check out AFI's list of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century. I've seen most the top 20 and the only one I would tell you to avoid is Singing in the Rain, one of those horrible musicals that were so popular mid-century.
Thanks. "oozes cool"? Sounds messy. Anyway, are you saying cool as in James Dean cool or Frank Sinatra cool, or something altogether different? All this gushing over older films reminds me of someone else...Hef! Will you be showing up to our next 2nd Saturday extravaganza pajama-clad? (I'm thinkin' the blonde bombshells might would get us in trouble, though. I'm just sayin'...) Peace!
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