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Need to throw Touch of Evil and Wild Bunch on my netflix queue.
I believe I really liked it but spent the entire movie waiting for someone to say "Play it again, Sam."
Like a number of "famous" movie quotes, it's never actually spoken in the film, but is a telephone-like bastardization of the line "Play it, Sam. You played it for her, you can play it for me."
Also? Seekrit message to Kath: I CAN HAS LINGENBEREEZ?
::takes bite of candy bar::
You're a mess honey. You better lay off those candy bars.
What's the big deal about "Plastics"?
That movie is the one thing that makes Charlton Heston tolerable to me (not his performance, just the fact that he pushed so hard for it to be made -- studios were already getting a little tetchy about Welles and Heston's enthusiasm for the script and the director made it very hard for them to turn Welles away).
What's the big deal about "Plastics"?
Aside from the line in The Graduate?
That's what I mean. Why is it A Famous Line?
Why is it A Famous Line?
For me, it's all about delivery. Well, that combined with the 1960's idea of technological advances being The Thing.
That's what I mean. Why is it A Famous Line?
I think, in part, because "plastic" was a huge perjorative term in the sixties representing all the values the counterculture was against. So it's basically Satan sidling up to you and saying, "Please to sell your soul right here and now."
Also, it's a funny scene. Other than that, I don't know.
Sidenote: there was a TV ad in the seventies that parodied that scene that was promoting the plastics industry.
I think that Casablanca is up there on the Source of Most Famous Movie Quotes list. The AFI show didn't even start showing all of them.
For Sean: Famous Swedes in History--Queen Christina, Greta Garbo, Raoul Wallenberg, and the Swedish Chef.
Bork, Bork, Bork!!
Kathy: No Ingrid (or Ingmar) Bergman? Oh the humanity!