WHO SAID THAT?
Part 3
Here’s another installment of famous quotes from movies for you to test your trivia IQ, or just to have a little fun. Answers at the bottom. No cheating!
1- I coulda been a contender.
2- Wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothing yet!
3- I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
4- Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
5- I am your father.
6- Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
7- I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!
8- I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.
9- Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?
10- After all, tomorrow is another day.
11- You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
12- You’re gonna need a bigger boat!
13- I’ll be back.
14- Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
15- If you build it, he will come.
ANSWERS:
1- Marlon Brando to Lee J. Cobb in On The Waterfront
2- Al Jolson to the audience in The Jazz Singer (first talking movie!)
3- Robert Duvall as Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now
4- The dying Ali McGraw to Ryan O’Neal in Love Story
5- Darth Vader (David Prowse body, James Earl Jones voice) to an astonished Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in Star Wars
6- James Cagney to Margaret Whycherly (his ma) in White Heat
7- Peter Finch as crazy newsman Howard Beale in Network
8- Gloria Swanson to William Holden in Sunset Boulevard
9- Mae West to Cary Grant in She Done Him Wrong
10- Vivan Leigh to the world at large in Gone With The Wind
11- Lauren Bacall to Humphrey Bogart in To Have And Have Not
12- Roy Scheider to Robert Shaw in Jaws
13- Arnold Schwartzenegger to a cop in a police station in The Terminator
14- Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in The Pride Of The Yankees
15- A mysterious voice to Kevin Costner in Field Of Dreams (he came)
12-15 Cinephile
9-11 Fair
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Sunday, August 13, 2017
SAM SHEPARD
Ruggedly handsome, multi-talented Sam Shepard died recently at 73. He was a true modern day renaissance man. He wrote and directed many off-Broadway and Broadway plays, including True West and Fool For Love. He won not only a Tony, but the Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child.
His filmography as an actor is varied and impressive. He knew how to pick his spots.
Shepard’s first film appearance of note is in Terence Malik’s Days Of Heaven (1978). He is billed, simply, as The Farmer. This film is more noted for its glorious cinematography than the story, but Shepard is quite convincing as a rich but dying landowner. Richard Gere and Brooke Adams scheme to entice him into a quick marriage so they can inherit the farm. From there it gets complicated.
Nobody could have played the iconic test pilot Chuck Yeager as well as Sam Shepard, and he garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff (1983). He lost to Jack Nicholson for Terms Of Endearment. Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris join a stellar cast in this highly popular movie about the early days of the US space program.
Sam Shepard appeared twice in movies that are practically all-girl. They needed a manly man and he fit the part to a tee. He was Doc Porter in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart (1986) and Spud Jones in Steel Magnolias (1989). Both are excellent movies and if Shepard didn’t have a whole lot to do in them, let’s just say he did what needed to be done quite well.
Snow Falling On Cedars (1999) is a good adaptation of David Guterson’s novel of murder and racial prejudice. Ethan Hawke plays reporter Ishmael Chambers, sent to cover the trial of a young Japanese-American accused of murdering a white fisherman. Sam Shepard plays the reporter’s father, mostly in scenes of Hawke’s early childhood. There’s also a contentious subplot involving the thwarted sale of part of a farm to a Japanese-American family that has worked the land for years. When the sale is interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, things fall apart.
2007 brought about the big break for current stars Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt. It also brought the film with the longest title this side of Doctor Strangelove. The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is based on Ron Hansen’s excellent novel. Pitt is the legendary Jesse, Affleck the turncoat Ford, and Sam Shepard plays Jesse’s brother Frank. Oddly enough, Robert Ford became something of a folk hero for a while and even had a traveling tent show. But audiences turned on him when they learned he had shot Jesse in the back.
The stars of Mud (2012) are young Tye Sheraton and Jacob Lofland, who play two kids growing up pretty much on their own in Arkansas. Matthew McConaughey is the title character, on the run from the law and washed up on a deserted island where the boys find him and try to help him. Sam Shepard is Tom, who at first refuses to help Mud but later lends a hand (ok, a gun) when things get hairy.
All of the films in this article are available on DVD. All are for grown-ups.
Ruggedly handsome, multi-talented Sam Shepard died recently at 73. He was a true modern day renaissance man. He wrote and directed many off-Broadway and Broadway plays, including True West and Fool For Love. He won not only a Tony, but the Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child.
His filmography as an actor is varied and impressive. He knew how to pick his spots.
Shepard’s first film appearance of note is in Terence Malik’s Days Of Heaven (1978). He is billed, simply, as The Farmer. This film is more noted for its glorious cinematography than the story, but Shepard is quite convincing as a rich but dying landowner. Richard Gere and Brooke Adams scheme to entice him into a quick marriage so they can inherit the farm. From there it gets complicated.
Nobody could have played the iconic test pilot Chuck Yeager as well as Sam Shepard, and he garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff (1983). He lost to Jack Nicholson for Terms Of Endearment. Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris join a stellar cast in this highly popular movie about the early days of the US space program.
Sam Shepard appeared twice in movies that are practically all-girl. They needed a manly man and he fit the part to a tee. He was Doc Porter in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart (1986) and Spud Jones in Steel Magnolias (1989). Both are excellent movies and if Shepard didn’t have a whole lot to do in them, let’s just say he did what needed to be done quite well.
Snow Falling On Cedars (1999) is a good adaptation of David Guterson’s novel of murder and racial prejudice. Ethan Hawke plays reporter Ishmael Chambers, sent to cover the trial of a young Japanese-American accused of murdering a white fisherman. Sam Shepard plays the reporter’s father, mostly in scenes of Hawke’s early childhood. There’s also a contentious subplot involving the thwarted sale of part of a farm to a Japanese-American family that has worked the land for years. When the sale is interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, things fall apart.
2007 brought about the big break for current stars Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt. It also brought the film with the longest title this side of Doctor Strangelove. The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is based on Ron Hansen’s excellent novel. Pitt is the legendary Jesse, Affleck the turncoat Ford, and Sam Shepard plays Jesse’s brother Frank. Oddly enough, Robert Ford became something of a folk hero for a while and even had a traveling tent show. But audiences turned on him when they learned he had shot Jesse in the back.
The stars of Mud (2012) are young Tye Sheraton and Jacob Lofland, who play two kids growing up pretty much on their own in Arkansas. Matthew McConaughey is the title character, on the run from the law and washed up on a deserted island where the boys find him and try to help him. Sam Shepard is Tom, who at first refuses to help Mud but later lends a hand (ok, a gun) when things get hairy.
All of the films in this article are available on DVD. All are for grown-ups.
Sunday, August 6, 2017
WHO SAID THAT? Part 2
The last “who said that” column was so popular (okay three people kind of mentioned it in passing), that I decided to do another. Answers at the bottom. No cheating!
1. I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
2. You talkin’ to me?
3. What we have here is a failure to communicate.
4. Show me the money!
5. I want to be alone.
6. Round up the usual suspects.
7. Plastics.
8. I see dead people.
9. We rob banks.
10. Well, nobody’s perfect!
11. You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
12. I can’t do that, Dave.
13. Where’s the rest of me?
14. You can’t handle the truth!
15. You had me at hello.
ANSWERS
1. Marlon Brando to assorted thugs in The Godfather
2. Robert DeNiro to an unfortunate bystander in Taxi Driver
3. Strother Martin to a shackled Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke
4. Cuba Gooding, Jr. to wannabe agent Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
5. Greta Garbo to everybody in Grand Hotel
6. Claude Rains to the police chief in Casablanca
7. Walter Brooke’s career advice to a puzzled Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate
8. Haley Joel Osment to Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense
9. Warren Beatty explaining his vocation in Bonnie And Clyde
10. Joe E. Brown on discovering Jack Lemon is actually a guy in Some Like It Hot
11. Peter Sellers to battling bureaucrats in Dr. Strangelove
12. HAL the computer’s chilling answer to Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. Ronald Reagan (yes, him!) on discovering his legs have been amputated in Kings Row
14. Jack Nicholson to Demi Moore in A Few Good Men. (He was wrong.)
15. Renee Zellwegger to Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
12-15 Cinephile
8-11 Fair
The last “who said that” column was so popular (okay three people kind of mentioned it in passing), that I decided to do another. Answers at the bottom. No cheating!
1. I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
2. You talkin’ to me?
3. What we have here is a failure to communicate.
4. Show me the money!
5. I want to be alone.
6. Round up the usual suspects.
7. Plastics.
8. I see dead people.
9. We rob banks.
10. Well, nobody’s perfect!
11. You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
12. I can’t do that, Dave.
13. Where’s the rest of me?
14. You can’t handle the truth!
15. You had me at hello.
ANSWERS
1. Marlon Brando to assorted thugs in The Godfather
2. Robert DeNiro to an unfortunate bystander in Taxi Driver
3. Strother Martin to a shackled Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke
4. Cuba Gooding, Jr. to wannabe agent Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
5. Greta Garbo to everybody in Grand Hotel
6. Claude Rains to the police chief in Casablanca
7. Walter Brooke’s career advice to a puzzled Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate
8. Haley Joel Osment to Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense
9. Warren Beatty explaining his vocation in Bonnie And Clyde
10. Joe E. Brown on discovering Jack Lemon is actually a guy in Some Like It Hot
11. Peter Sellers to battling bureaucrats in Dr. Strangelove
12. HAL the computer’s chilling answer to Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. Ronald Reagan (yes, him!) on discovering his legs have been amputated in Kings Row
14. Jack Nicholson to Demi Moore in A Few Good Men. (He was wrong.)
15. Renee Zellwegger to Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
12-15 Cinephile
8-11 Fair
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