This morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas
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In... the corner with the Dunces hat on trying to find the joke. Sorry, you can hit me over the head with the Marx brothers as much as you like and I just don't get it. And it's no point saying get a film out and watch it because I don't have a black and white tv licence
Well, if you have to explain the joke, it's not going to work. Suffice it to say that I have heard those 70 year old jokes get huge laughs in Marx Brothers screenings, and they still make me chuckle now.
--Justin
Another great Groucho quote: "East is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does."
But my all-time favorite movie line is probably "Double-dumb ass on you!"
But my all-time favorite movie line is probably "Double-dumb ass on you!"
You must see it. Best film ever. It's structure is as coherent as a laser beam (amazing, considering its genesis) and I always attempt to achieve that same cohesion whenever I write anything.
My other favorite exchange from the film is this:
RENAULT: I have often speculated on why you didn't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.
RICK: Actually, it's a combination of all three.
RENAULT: And what in Heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
RICK: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
RENAULT: Waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
RICK: I was misinformed.
A great movie, and great for quotes. My favorite:
Major Strassa (Nazi SS officer, about Rick) - " He is just another blundering American"
Renaud: "I wouldn't take American blundering so lightly. I was with them in 1918 when they blundered into Berlin".
I love that movie too. The Marseillaise sequence is one of the great punch-the-air moments in cinema history.You must see it. Best film ever. It's structure is as coherent as a laser beam (amazing, considering its genesis) and I always attempt to achieve that same cohesion whenever I write anything.Oh I must remember that*hangs head in shame* I still have yet to see that film.
My other favorite exchange from the film is this:
RENAULT: I have often speculated on why you didn't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.
RICK: Actually, it's a combination of all three.
RENAULT: And what in Heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
RICK: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
RENAULT: Waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
RICK: I was misinformed.
A great movie, and great for quotes. My favorite:
Major Strassa (Nazi SS officer, about Rick) - " He is just another blundering American"
Renaud: "I wouldn't take American blundering so lightly. I was with them in 1918 when they blundered into Berlin".
K'riq Sa
Commodore
or you can just go here...
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/groucho_marx.html
and get an overload.
k'riq
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/groucho_marx.html
and get an overload.
k'riq
And, of course, that climactic "Round up the usual suspects," following one of the most tension-filled moments in movie history.I love that movie too. The Marseillaise sequence is one of the great punch-the-air moments in cinema history.You must see it. Best film ever. It's structure is as coherent as a laser beam (amazing, considering its genesis) and I always attempt to achieve that same cohesion whenever I write anything.
My other favorite exchange from the film is this:
RENAULT: I have often speculated on why you didn't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.
RICK: Actually, it's a combination of all three.
RENAULT: And what in Heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
RICK: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
RENAULT: Waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
RICK: I was misinformed.
A great movie, and great for quotes. My favorite:
Major Strassa (Nazi SS officer, about Rick) - " He is just another blundering American"
Renaud: "I wouldn't take American blundering so lightly. I was with them in 1918 when they blundered into Berlin".
In... the corner with the Dunces hat on trying to find the joke. Sorry, you can hit me over the head with the Marx brothers as much as you like and I just don't get it. And it's no point saying get a film out and watch it because I don't have a black and white tv licence
Don't say things like that. Some people round here will genuinely believe you if you say they make you buy a b&w TV license to watch b&w films
^^It is a great film, and if you look at it, its the supporting players that make it. Obviously, Bogart and Bergman are good, but the story is rather thin. But the perfomances of Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and especially Claude Raines, who I think stills the film, is what makes it.
OOOKAY now
All this love (much deserved, of course) for Groucho and his witticisms, let's not forget some classic Chico Marx quotes (of course, a quick caveat - if you're not familiar with Chico and can't hear these in his voice, you probably won't find them funny):
PROSECUTOR: Something must be done! War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.
CHICO: Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.
PROSECUTOR: No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!
CHICO: Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!
- Duck Soup
Sure we shadowed him:
Tuesday, we sit outside his house all day, but he no home.
Wednesday, we went to the ball game, he fool us and no show up.
Thursday, he go to the ball game, but we fool him and we no show up.
Friday, it was a double header, nobody show up, so we stay home and listen to it on the radio
- Duck Soup
Groucho: That's in every contract, that's what you call a sanity clause.
Chico: You can't a fool a me, there ain't no sanity clause.
- A Night at the Opera
PROSECUTOR: Something must be done! War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.
CHICO: Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.
PROSECUTOR: No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!
CHICO: Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!
- Duck Soup
Sure we shadowed him:
Tuesday, we sit outside his house all day, but he no home.
Wednesday, we went to the ball game, he fool us and no show up.
Thursday, he go to the ball game, but we fool him and we no show up.
Friday, it was a double header, nobody show up, so we stay home and listen to it on the radio
- Duck Soup
Groucho: That's in every contract, that's what you call a sanity clause.
Chico: You can't a fool a me, there ain't no sanity clause.
- A Night at the Opera
Beep beep!
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