Poeia (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} poeia) wrote,@ 2008-03-09 00:59:00 |
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I know my f-list isn’t very long, but I was surprised at how few classic movie fans it contains. Anyway, here’s a second set of hints (and, knowing this fandom, the new quote for #11 will be the most popular.) I’ll probably post the answers on Monday.
1) A: I asked you a simple question! Do you love her?
B: Yes! But don't hold that against me. I'm a little screwy myself!
Hint: For over 40 years, this remained the only movie to win the top 5 Oscars – Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actress and Actor.
Hint #2: Capra-corn and the walls of
4) Why, everybody in
Hint: I doubt the Adam Sandler remake included that quote. (But I’ll never know.)
Hint #2: More Capra-corn and a trombone-playing lead character.
5) Stop saying “Leopold” like that, tenderly. It sounds funny. You can't do it with a name like Leopold.
Hint: You can’t do it with a name like Archibald, either. That must be why he changed it.
Hint #2: It’s a difficult choice – Jean Arthur or a seat on the Supreme Court.
6) I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter... you're just a little taller.
Hint: Another quote from what I consider the best film noir movie ever.
They're stuck with each other and they've got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery.
Hint #2: All 3 of these quotes were spoken by the same supporting character.
Of all the cases on record, there's not one single case of suicide by leap from the rear end of a moving train. And you know how fast that train was going at the point where the body was found? Fifteen miles an hour. Now how can anybody jump off a slow-moving train like that with any kind of expectation that he would kill himself?
8) What was I supposed to do - call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others?
Hint: Another quote from this Best Picture winner.
Win? I said *place*! ‘Place it on Lucky D-’ That horse is gonna run second!
Hint #2: Another quote.
Luther said I could learn some things from you. I already know how to drink.
10) Please, I know everybody on this island is complete and total crazy. But you, Whittaker Walt? You are crazy too?
Hint: Another quote/dialog exchange.
A: Very clever little boy. Very, very clever, to see that my friend and I are foreigners here… <snip> What would the <snip> be doing on United States of America island, with so many animosities and hatreds between these two countries? It is too funny an idea, is it not? No, we, we are of course... Norwegians. On a small training exercise for the Nyaato countries...
B: NATO.
A: NATO countries, of course, yes. Ah, to reach place of power motorboats it is necessary to make borrowings of automobile, for a short time only, sir.
Hint #2: The sentimental ending with the kid in the belfry in danger almost ‘scuttled’ this movie for me.
11) I'm a one-woman man, and I've had mine, thank God.
Hint: Another quote from this, the newest movie on the list. It is only 34 years old..
You know how it exhausts me to teach books I haven't read.
Hint #2: IMDB doesn’t have many quotes for this movie. I had to go to the play for this one, but AFT’s movies were all very faithful adaptations of the plays.
A: Well, just one of those historical romances where the hero shoves his sword into assorted villains and his cock into assorted ladies. It won’t get the reviews but it’ll make us money.
B: If he did it the other way around you might get both.
12) What do I need manners for? I already got me a wife.
Hint: There’s a barn-raising involved in this musical. Or was that a barn-razing?
Hint #2: Another quote which should be a complete giveaway.
There were no F names in the Bible so Ma named him Frankincense because he smelled so sweet.
13) I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously, unless you keep in practice.
Hint: Another quote from this film noir masterpiece.
When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it.
Hint #2: If this quote doesn’t give it away, nothing will.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Hint: The remake, starring a former Working Girl, was nowhere near as good.
Hint #2: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Garson Kanin arranged for the star to get a small, scene-stealing part in Adam’s Rib as an audition for this movie in which she recreated her Broadway triumph.
Born Yesterday identified by
galaxygirl7615) He looks like a giraffe, and I love him.
Hint: One of two Billy Wilder films on the list. He didn’t direct this one, but he and Charles Brackett did base part of the script on “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
Hint #2:
A: Do you know what this means - "I'll get you on the Ameche"?
B: No.
A: 'Course you don't. An Ameche is the telephone, on account of he invented it.
B: Oh, no, he didn't.
A: Like, you know, in the movies.
Bonus (Because there’s not a chance that anyone will get it.)
That's the kind of a hairpin I am.
Hint: Not James Cagney’s best movie (or even my favorite), but I’ve always loved that quote which is a signature line for his character.
Hint #2: A lyric containing the movie’s title.
Casey would dance with ‘_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _’ and the band played on.
