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.
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
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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.
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.
Fiona - Jan 03, 2011 9:49:45 pm PST #12667 of 30000
Cool Train Films:
You forgot "The Lady Vanishes" (original version, natch).
billytea - Jan 03, 2011 10:27:53 pm PST #12668 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
I enquired of my Shanghainese wife whether she would agree with you. She approves of your message.
Jon B. - Jan 04, 2011 2:11:20 am PST #12669 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Silver Streak! t ducks
Sue - Jan 04, 2011 5:02:58 am PST #12670 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Shanghai Surprise?
erikaj - Jan 04, 2011 5:17:19 am PST #12671 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Teppy, that's so funny! Because one time over Christmas, Mom and I happened to hear that same song that Matt did in the gay chorus, and so I told my mother that and about his "high school boyfriend" Ben. She thought it was really funny just from my description.
megan walker - Jan 04, 2011 6:33:48 am PST #12672 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I love Silver Streak! Of course, not more than The Lady Vanishes or The Palm Beach Story. I remember being disappointed by Twentieth Century.
JZ - Jan 04, 2011 7:12:44 am PST #12673 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The Lady Eve isn't really a train movie, but does have one key (and brutally hilarious) scene on a train.