Yeah, some real life couples come off as flat and uninteresting when they play a couple onscreen. But those two are probably responsible for random strangers making out in the theater when their movies originally played and there was too much chemistry to stay contained in the screen.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 22, 2004 11:21:16 am PDT #1148 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Vonnie K - Jul 22, 2004 11:25:03 am PDT #1149 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I'm telling you, for several months after watching To Have and Have Not, it took *major* effort to stop myself from slinking around town and calling random strangers "Steve".
Lauren Bacall was so freakin' cool. Sigh.
Scrappy - Jul 22, 2004 11:36:30 am PDT #1150 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Grant and Bergman in Notorious. Colin Firth and Scarlett Johanssen (although they never touch each other) in Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 22, 2004 11:42:15 am PDT #1151 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm telling you, for several months after watching To Have and Have Not, it took *major* effort to stop myself from slinking around town and calling random strangers "Steve".
It wasn't until I saw that movie that I finally got one of the running gags in WHAT'S UP DOC.
Which also stands as my #1 "loathe both the main actors yet still adore the movie" movie (WHAT'S UP DOC, that is, just to be clear - do not even REMOTELY loathe Bogie and Baby).
erikaj - Jul 22, 2004 11:44:24 am PDT #1152 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
WUD is a cute movie, FB.
DXMachina - Jul 22, 2004 11:55:55 am PDT #1153 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Which also stands as my #1 "loathe both the main actors yet still adore the movie" movie (WHAT'S UP DOC, that is, just to be clear
I love What's Up Doc. Ryan O'Neal doesn't bother me, but it's the only Streisand movie I'll watch.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 22, 2004 12:01:23 pm PDT #1154 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
WUD is a cute movie, FB.
It really, really is. I probably saw it at the right age (i.e. before either actor was on my radar) and seeing that kind of movie with my dad was always a hoot - he loved slapstick.
Ryan O'Neal doesn't bother me
He annoys the hell out of me, and yet he's in several movies I really like, and usually quite good in them: WUD, The Driver, Barry Lyndon, Zero Effect, hell, even Paper Moon.
JZ - Jul 22, 2004 12:33:05 pm PDT #1155 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Vonnie and Robin, that scene in The Lady Eve is my absolute utter favorite too. And erika is me WRT Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (except that I find him sexay in other films too).
I also love the chemistry between Hepburn and Grant in Holiday, especially when they are in the attic room waltzing the New Year in with a music box and they don't kiss. That scene kills me.
The weirdest unexpected chemistry I've ever seen was between Bette Davis and Humphry Bogart in one single scene in Dark Victory, when she comes stumbling into the tackroom late one night, all bitter and drunk and wrathful over her illness, and he propositions her. They are two of the uglysexiest people in film history, and that one scene just ruins the rest of the movie for me; there's something so smouldering and dirty and alive between them that the actual ending (whitefonted just in case anyone hasn't seen DV and wants to) makes me want to throw things at the screen. I mean, come the hell on. If you were filthy rich and had just six months to live, do you really expect me to believe you'd settle down and live the quiet domestic life of the mistress of a doctor's country manor if you had the chance to go out in a blaze of glory and hot monkey sex all over Europe with Bogie? No. Fucking. Way. When he shows up briefly at the end, all shuffling cap-in-hand Yes Ma'am middle-aged stableboy, it makes me want to cry and then go pummel the director.
Whew. Glad I got that off my chest.
Vonnie K - Jul 22, 2004 12:55:45 pm PDT #1156 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oh, man. Holiday kills me. It's one of my top five favorite movies *ever*. I love Linda and Johnny and the backflip and the Potters and the sad drunken sweet Neddy and... did I mention I love Linda? She's so brave and vulnerable that she just breaks my heart every time I watch the movie.
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Sorry. I'm kinda known to become an incoherent mess whenever Holiday is mentioned.
Re. Dark Victory. Hmmm. I liked the vibe between Bogie and Bette Davis characters, but I kind of had a hard time buying Bogart as an Irish stable-hand. But I definitely see the appeal of the pairing because George Brent was just so staid and suave and solid and...Zzzzz.
Favorite Bette Davis soaper is still Now Voyager. The damn flick almost makes me wish I smoked.
erikaj - Jul 22, 2004 1:21:25 pm PDT #1157 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I think, JZ, that I may not have seen hot Stewart yet, aside from PS. I mean, you're a kid, you watch "Harvey" and "It's A Wonderful Life" and um, something else on which I'm blanking. And even I am an insufficient mess to find "Rear Window" guy hot. And my type is more like Jon Stewart, anyway.