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FAMOUS
*L*AST WORDS – OF BOOKS & MOVIES!
Everyone has personal favourites. As for books, maybe it’s: "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off" - the famous last lines of Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Or: "So we beat on, boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past" of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Or: "Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision" of Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse.
And movies? How about: "Don't
let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!" from Now, Voyager (1942) spoken by Bette
Davis. Now, while it is true there have been movies
that have not ended well, it is also true there have been movies that have not
started well. However, I don’t believe this is the case with any of the
following. Any here your favourites?
1. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
“I’ll go home and I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow
is another day!” The optimistic reaction of the determined southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh, above) when a terminally exasperated Rhett Butler
(Clark Gable) gives up with: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn”.
2. Chinatown (Roman
Polanski, 1974)
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.” (To Jack Nicholson character)
3. The Usual
Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t
exist. And like that – poof – he’s gone!” (Kevin Spacey about criminal
character)
4.
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Said by
nightclub owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) to collaborationist police chief
Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains)
5. Some Like It Hot (Billy
Wilder, 1959)
“Well, nobody’s perfect!” (Much married millionaire Osgood Fielding III (Joe E
Brown, left) after “Daphne’s” (Jack Lemmon) confession “I’m a man!”
6. King Kong (Ernest Schoedsack,
1933)
“Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.” The epitaph
on the giant ape Kong, shot dead by fighter planes after carrying Fay Wray to
the top of the Empire State Building.
7. Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick,
1964)
“Mein Führer, I can walk!” Dr Strangelove (Peter Sellers), the German-born
wheelchair-bound US presidential adviser’s shocking final line that suggests an
ultimate triumph of the will
8. The Maltese Falcon (John
Huston, 1941)
“The stuff that dreams are made of.” PI Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) to San
Francisco cop (Ward Bond) who holds up the fake version of the priceless
Maltese Falcon and asks: “It’s heavy, what is it?”
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