Kate, he draws them out in Naples because that's how he finds out precisely who is after him, gets the phone to clone, and basically enables him for the rest of the movie.
Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.
'Bushwhacked'
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§ ita § - Aug 01, 2004 6:21:58 pm PDT #1860 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2004 6:22:06 pm PDT #1861 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I just learned this tonight! If my source can be trusted
Kate, that's what I've heard too....
DavidS - Aug 01, 2004 6:24:45 pm PDT #1862 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Plus, I'd never noticed it before so I'm not sure if it's something I just picked up because of all the slash I've read and subtext I've looked for buy Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart have this zing between them.
The scene between Grant and Stewart where Jimmy's character is drunk? Improv.
Allyson - Aug 01, 2004 6:27:46 pm PDT #1863 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
So was the blonde chick satan? What the fuck? I'm angry at this movie. This movie ruined my peachy keen mood.
Kate P. - Aug 01, 2004 6:29:22 pm PDT #1864 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
ita, re: your whitefont, you are so very correct, and I don't know why I didn't suss that out myself. I guess I'd never make a good spy!
askye - Aug 01, 2004 6:30:29 pm PDT #1865 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
The scene between Grant and Stewart where Jimmy's character is drunk? Improv.
Really? I was wondering at certain times (when Tracy is drunk as well) if there was any improv.
That scene was when I really felt it, but there was a little bit earlier.
Nutty - Aug 01, 2004 6:31:04 pm PDT #1866 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yeah, the rosebud = clitoris thing is a story I've heard a bunch of times. One sort of wonders -- unless Hearst and Marion Wassname were having loud, vocal sex in public, how did people know what body parts had pet names?
My paltry film education tells me that yes, Citizen Kane was revolutionary in some ways -- framing of shots, perspective -- but for some reason I don't think it's the first film to tell its story in disordered flashback. Although I can only think of examples after 1941, so I'm not the best source in the world.
Julia Stiles is the worst spy ever. It's entertaining, because Clive Owen wouldn't have been nearly as creepy if we hadn't had that moment of him creeping her out in Paris (in the first Bourne film); but her behavior in the second film suggests she just isn't cut out for the subtlety business.
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2004 6:33:30 pm PDT #1867 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
unless Hearst and Marion Wassname were having loud, vocal sex in public, how did people know what body parts had pet names?
Hearst or Wassname could have told a friend. And they told two friends. And they told two friends. And so-on....
Or maybe a friend told a reporter.
§ ita § - Aug 01, 2004 6:35:23 pm PDT #1868 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Julia Stiles is the worst spy ever.
She's not a spy, is she?
alienprayer - Aug 01, 2004 6:37:26 pm PDT #1869 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
Oddly enough, Polanski's wife is Lucifer. I was shocked myself.
I was under the impression that her reasons for helping/manipulating Corso were similar to those of God in Dogma. If naughty man ascends, or whatever, she screws up the divine order.
The second half of the film is nearly all Roman's work, and I hate him for it. He used up the last of my Chinatown esteem on this movie.