Totally agree with this - DH and I were noticing that in the original it takes almost an hour for them to head out of town!
So true! And they got to keep the buttermilk line--only it was delivered by Barry Pepper.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
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Cashmere - Jan 03, 2011 5:23:46 pm PST #12657 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Jesse - Jan 03, 2011 5:27:51 pm PST #12658 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Matt Damon was Pippin in high school!
Sophia Brooks - Jan 03, 2011 5:29:41 pm PST #12659 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Matt Damon was Pippin in high school!
Hee! Because I was just mentioning Elijah Wood, my first thought was that he was a hobbit!
Jesse - Jan 03, 2011 5:35:30 pm PST #12660 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh. Not that Pippin!
Dana - Jan 03, 2011 5:38:24 pm PST #12661 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I am so womanfully refraining from bursting into song.
le nubian - Jan 03, 2011 5:41:11 pm PST #12662 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'd hope Matt Damon could out-act Glen Campbell
OMG, that was Glen Campbell? That explains a lot.
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2011 5:46:12 pm PST #12663 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
We know he can sing "My Funny Valentine!"
He sang in Will and Grace, too, when his character pretended to be gay to be in the gay men's chorus.
Matt Damon was Pippin in high school!
I am so womanfully refraining from bursting into song.
Right there with you.
Typo Boy - Jan 03, 2011 8:06:42 pm PST #12664 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Been a long time since I read True Grit. But the *style* of the dialog was very true to the book. The phrasing, the rhythm. So I'll bet a lot of it did come from the book.
Cashmere - Jan 03, 2011 8:46:26 pm PST #12665 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm waiting for the rude person who checked out True Grit from the library to return it so I can read it!
DavidS - Jan 03, 2011 9:36:21 pm PST #12666 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So I took a flyer and Tivoed Shanghai Express because it's Sternberg & Dietrich. How can that be bad?
Answer: You may trust that combination.
Of course, it's all 1932 with the exotic orientals and whatnot, but it's lush and it's the young Dietrich (not just beautiful, but vulnerable) and most imporantly it's on a train.
Look, train films are cool. I even look forward to all the scenes in the HP movies on the Hogwarts Express. (Famously, JKR conceived of the entire series while taking a train from Edinborough to London that broke down for five hours.)
Cool Train Films:
Palm Beach Story
From Russia With Love
Twentieth Century
Night Train to Munich
Orient Express
Von Ryan's Express
Emperor of the North (Lee Marvin v. Ernest Borgnine)
In short if it's on a train or has "Shanghai" in the title (like, the must see "Shanghai Gesture") it's worth taking a flyer on.