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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!
Frank: I was going for a broad spectrum--ruler, actress, diplomat/martyr, and icon (can you guess who's my favorite Muppet?).
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?
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.
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.
Oh, thanks, Bon. I suppose it doesn't hurt that I've seen that particular video over twenty times. I had a hard time when I graduated, too.ETA: Not compared to Taxi Driver, Corwood. "You talkin' to me? You must be talkin' to me cause I don't see nobody else here." Thank God for the internets cause when I quote that in real life it's like I feel like I gotta give my Chick Card back. And I liked Diane Keaton in The Godfather, but it is a chick part...The Girlfriend.
I guess I thought Raging Bull didn't have all that much to say, unlike Scorcese's other movies of that period.
Tell me about Mean Streets, which I found totally pointless.
I'm confused. Are people saying Manchurian Candidate is not on the list? I'm seeing it (newly added) at #67. (edit: ohhhh I'm reading it backwards. Yep new list = teh dumb)
Also The African Queen is one of my hatiest movies of all time and I will never understand why she didn't get tossed into the river after the booze.
Ditto on My Fair Lady. I'm sorry but these sterotypical masculine/feminine movies Do Not hold up over time.
Unless we're talking about The Quiet Man. For some reason it's OK for John Wayne to drag Maureen OHara around by her hair. I can't explain why but... I'll be in my bunk.