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thoughts&views THE OBSERVER | WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014
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few weeks ago, I did a column on “essential” movie quotes, which was prompted by newfound awareness of a growing lack of cultural consciousness, especially among the younger generations. My “oy vey” moment came when I realized a coworker had never heard of the film “Apocalypse Now,” much less the unforgettable line uttered by Robert Duvall: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” I printed a little quiz, but did not provide the answers, assuming that anyone interested enough would find out for themselves. However, not everyone has ready access to the Internet, even these days, and in any case readers have been requesting answers. So here they are, citing both the movies from which they came and the actors who spoke them: • “What do you mean, I’m funny? ... Funny how? Funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?”: Joe Pesci in “Goodfellas”
• “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!”: Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove” • “I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender”: Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront” • “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”: Peter Finch in “Network” • “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night”: Bette Davis in “All About Eve” • “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.”: Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard” • “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli”: Richard Castellano in “The Godfather” • “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”: Gary Cooper in “The Pride of the Yankees” • “Snap out of it!”: Cher in “Moonstruck” • “You talkin’ to me? Well, I’m the only one here.”: Robert DeNiro in “Taxi Driver” • “Round up the usual suspects.”: Claude Rains in “Casablanca” • “The stuff that dreams are made of”: Humphrey Bogart in “The Maltese Falcon”
The headline on the column, “Go ahead, make my day,” was from Eastwood’s “Sudden Impact.” In addition, scattered throughout the column were paraphrased quotes. How many of these did you catch? • “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”: Paul Newman in “Cool Hand Luke” • “You can’t handle the • “Say ‘hello’ to my little bloom again.”: Katharine Hep- truth!”: Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men” friend!”: Al Pacino in “Scarburn in “Stage Door” • “Life is like a box of face” • “Attica! Attica!”: Pacino in chocolates”: Tom Hanks in • “You’ve got to ask yourself “Dog Day Afternoon” one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ I also cited “What a dump!”- “Forrest Gump” • “I’m walkin’ heah!”: Dustin Well, do ya, punk?”: Clint East- - noting that no one recalls the Hoffman in “Midnight Cowwood in “Dirty Harry” movie, but you should know boy” • “Oh, no, it wasn’t the the actress. I have found that •”Houston, we have a airplanes. It was Beauty killed readers did recall both the problem.”: Hanks in “Apollo the Beast.”: Robert Armstrong movie, “Beyond the Forest,” 13”) in “King Kong” and Bette Davis’ role. • “Well, nobody’s perfect.”: • “I have always depended My special thanks to Adele on the kindness of strangers.”: Koci of Nutley, who also knew Joe E. Brown in “Some Like It Hot” (It was the very last line Vivien Leigh in “A Streetcar that the co-stars were Joseph in the film.) Named Desire” Cotten and David Brian. • “ . . . liver with some fava • “We rob banks.” : Faye Thanks, too, to the anonymous Dunaway in “Bonnie and gentleman caller who wanted beans and a nice Chianti.”: Anthony Hopkins in “The Silence Clyde” to make sure I wasn’t conof the Lambs” • “Open the pod bay doors, fusing Davis with Elizabeth As for, “Frankly, my dear, I HAL.”: Keir Dullea in “2001: A Taylor, who parodied “What don’t give a damn,” if you can’t Space Odyssey” a dump!” in “Who’s Afraid of ID that, you’re hopeless. • “The calla lilies are in Virginia Woolf?” –Karen Zautyk
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