Btw, did you notice that in the latest Woody Allen, I forget the title, with Allen & Scarlett Johanssen (whom I like, all those curves, even if she is white and blonde), the bad guy whistles In The Hall Of the Mountain King when he's planning to do some poor woman in?
But anyway, there are lots of films where a speech is pivotal. (This paraphrased from memory:) "Yesh, schweetheart, I'm turning you in. (But you said you loved me?!) What'sh love got to do with it? Maybe I do love you and and maybe I don't, and I'll shay this just onsh because you won't undershtand. When a man's partner is killed, he's shupposed to do shomething about it. It doesn't matter what you thought of him; he wasz your partner, and you're shupposed to do something about it. It's bad for business, bad for detectives everywhere to let your partner get knocked off and let it ride. . . . So, yes, schweetheart, I'm turning you in. I hope they don't hang you by that pretty neck of yours. You might get got with a good lawyer and those big eyes, or get 20 years. And if you get out, I'll be waiting for you."
. . . .
"What's that?" (about the Bird) "The stuff that dreamns are made of."
More briefly: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"
Or: "I'm melting!"
Or anything that Howard Hawks or Prestom Sturghes did. His Girl Friday. The Palm Beach Story.
--- Brian Charles Dauth <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> > Look, at the end of "M," Peter Lorre gets to make
> a speech, and it's a
> pretty good speech. You leave the theater thinking
> that maybe good isn't
> as good as you thought; and bad isn't as bad.
>
> But it would have been as just at home on stage as
> screen. Don't you
> think it a little odd that you would point to a
> speech as a high point in
> a work of (supposedly) visual art known as fiilm?
>
> > You never walk away from his movies questioning
> the categories of
> good and evil.
>
> Huh?
>
> Devlin sending the women he loves to sleep with and
> marry the enemy?
>
> Uncle Charlie the serial killer serving as the most
> charming and interesting
> character in the movie?
>
> Scottie's romantic obsessions leading to two deaths?
>
> The good people of LIFEBOAT turning into a crazed
> mob?
>
> > With Hitch, good is good; bad is bad
>
> So all the scenes of transference of guilt and
> identity mean
> nothing?
>
> > But I grant I haven't seen Frenzy.
>
> Make sure you get the new dvd if you cannot see it
> on a screen
> as it should be experienced. It is a beautiful
> evocation of how
> tenuous are the ties that keep society from
> crumbling. It is also
> the only film I know of where violence against women
> is filmed
> contra providing visiual pleasure - it is as if the
> film itself cannot
> maintain coherence as it tries to depict the
> rape/murder. The later,
> the camera acts as if it is in rebellion, and it
> retreats to the safety of
> the street. I feel FRENZY is Hitchcock's
> masterpiece and one of
> the greatest films ever made.
>
> Brian Dauth
> Queer Buddhist Resister
>
>
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