danlb_2000
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I love that whole scene!
"Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
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Movies we love so much we know the lines
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I love that whole scene!
"Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
There was this time that my wife played a 4 second spinet of R2-D2 beeping for me and asked me where it was from. From that 4 seconds of audio I was not only able to tell what Star Wars movie it was, but the scene as well.
I looked into therapy the very next day.
I looked into therapy the very next day.
sweetpee_1993
Well-Known Member
I used to be this way with "Gone With the Wind". Seriously. I could start at the beginning and go word for word all the way thru back in my college days. I loved that movie. I watched it every night, sometimes twice back to back. Yes, you read that right. Back-to-back. Insomnia has been a lifelong thing for me. 
"Oh, Mother. I know you'll think I'm horrible, but I just can't bear going around in black. It's bad enough not to be able to go to any parties but looking this way, too."
"I don't think you're at all horrible. It's only natural to want to look young and be young while you are young."
"Oh, Mother. I know you'll think I'm horrible, but I just can't bear going around in black. It's bad enough not to be able to go to any parties but looking this way, too."
"I don't think you're at all horrible. It's only natural to want to look young and be young while you are young."
luv
Well-Known Member
I forgot Ellen's first sentence there, but I remembered the second one as soon as I read your quote.I used to be this way with "Gone With the Wind". Seriously. I could start at the beginning and go word for word all the way thru back in my college days. I loved that movie. I watched it every night, sometimes twice back to back. Yes, you read that right. Back-to-back. Insomnia has been a lifelong thing for me.
"Oh, Mother. I know you'll think I'm horrible, but I just can't bear going around in black. It's bad enough not to be able to go to any parties but looking this way, too."
"I don't think you're at all horrible. It's only natural to want to look young and be young while you are young."
I think that scene contains my favorite (and funniest, to me) Scarlett moment in the movie...when she says, "Atlanta!" That's the best! (Ellen was right...but Mammy was righter!)
On my best day, I didn't look as good as Vivian Leigh in the scene where she complained about how she looked, lol.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
I used to be this way with "Gone With the Wind". Seriously. I could start at the beginning and go word for word all the way thru back in my college days. I loved that movie. I watched it every night, sometimes twice back to back. Yes, you read that right. Back-to-back. Insomnia has been a lifelong thing for me.
"Oh, Mother. I know you'll think I'm horrible, but I just can't bear going around in black. It's bad enough not to be able to go to any parties but looking this way, too."
"I don't think you're at all horrible. It's only natural to want to look young and be young while you are young."
That movie was a great one in many ways. When I was young, so many people knew many scenes by heart. I think it was partly the sweeping grandeur of it all; and it was also the great characters that had a wring of truth to them to a time gone by. Good, bad, and ugly.
I loved Mammie. She could tell a whole chapter with a look. No quote necessary, although had some good ones. ("It ain't fittin', it ain't fittin'. It just ain't fittin'!) She won an Oscar for that role. (I realize that other situations for the actress were limited; but I think she knew the character she played and put everything into it.)
I also liked Prissy. ("I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!")
The movie was so famous that even Carol Burnett's parody of it is still one of her best known skits. I loved the line when she, as Scarlett, wore the curtain on a rod in to see Rhett: "I saw it in a window..."
It's too bad that it has faded from view so much these days. I think it helped us to understand the depth of feeling in the Civil War in the South, even among both races. It was not complete, but it hinted at some of the complexities there, with the human drama fully engaged.
At one point it hit me that the actors in this 1939 movie were likely old enough to have had at least grandparents who were alive during the war, and perhaps were slaves, or at least freedmen dealing with the "new South" and reconstruction. It made me look deeper at their portrayals, and that of the others.
One final thought: I live in Richmond, VA, the former capital of the Confederacy. I am privileged to have seen it on the big screen twice, once on its 50th anniversary with the restored print. The audience's emotion as it went through the war was a memory I will not forget.
dr_teeth90210
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Princess_AmyK
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Monty python holy grail:
"It's just a flesh wound!"
"You're mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!"
The dark crystal:
"HmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm" -by the creepy skeksy
"You look like gelfling. Smell like gelfling. Maybe ya are gelfling!"
I also know the goofy movie, casper, hocus pocus, and titanic forwards and backwards.
"It's just a flesh wound!"
"You're mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!"
The dark crystal:
"HmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm" -by the creepy skeksy
"You look like gelfling. Smell like gelfling. Maybe ya are gelfling!"
I also know the goofy movie, casper, hocus pocus, and titanic forwards and backwards.