What's the big deal about "Plastics"?
Aside from the line in The Graduate?
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 10:10:53 am PDT #9488 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 10:13:05 am PDT #9489 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's what I mean. Why is it A Famous Line?
ChiKat - Jun 21, 2007 10:14:33 am PDT #9490 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
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.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 10:15:26 am PDT #9491 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 10:19:53 am PDT #9492 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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!!
Frankenbuddha - Jun 21, 2007 10:24:29 am PDT #9493 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Kathy: No Ingrid (or Ingmar) Bergman? Oh the humanity!
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 10:34:38 am PDT #9494 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Frank: I was going for a broad spectrum--ruler, actress, diplomat/martyr, and icon (can you guess who's my favorite Muppet?).
erikaj - Jun 21, 2007 11:04:24 am PDT #9495 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Love "In The Heat of The Night"...I have lots of Poitier love. And it's a crime story, too. Although I liked "Gump" in the theater, I'm older now and subsequent attempts at rewatch have convinced me it's an unpleasant little film that does not belong as the best of anything. "Plastics" is funny to me because it is so random and because if you're following Ben's story, he has big questions that need more than a one-word answer. And stuff.(I'm not sure that's where Buck Henry intended the humor to come from, but it does, imo. And, yeah, plastics were The Next Big thing, like "One word, Benjamin, cyber-space. " Or "fiber-optics".) And I think I'd do Dustin Hoffman or Katharine Ross in that movie. *love* them. Liked "King of Comedy" better thaqn Raging Bull, too. Though I liked RB well enough, there are enough bio-pics now that I can't see it like it must have looked in 1980. Does that make sense?
bon bon - Jun 21, 2007 11:08:52 am PDT #9496 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
And, yeah, plastics were The Next Big thing, like "One word, Benjamin, cyber-space. "
I was trying to think of a current analogue, and I like this one.
Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 11:10:45 am PDT #9497 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Does that make sense?
Yeah, I think that's what people were saying about some of the other movies on the list, too, like Casablanca. I guess I thought Raging Bull didn't have all that much to say, unlike Scorcese's other movies of that period.