26 things the movies taught us

Postby jaime marzol » Wed Jan 30, 2002 5:47 am

a friend sent me this, it was too good not to pass along.

26 Things the Movies Taught You...

1) Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people-whether they are employed or not.

2) At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.

3) Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.

4) Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications system of any invading alien society.

5) It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts: your enemies will wait patiently
to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

6) When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

7) If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.

8) Honest and hard-working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.

9) Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their archenemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

10) All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets
that reach the armpit level on a woman, but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.

11) All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

12) It's easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

13) Once applied, lipstick will never rub off-even while scuba diving.

14) You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone picture of your sweetheart back home.

15) Should you wish to pass yourself off as a
German or Russian officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German or Russian accent will do.

16) The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window
in Paris.

17) A man will show no pain while taking the most
ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

18) If a large pane of glass is visible, someone
will be thrown through it before long.

19) If staying in a haunted house, women should
investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.

20) Word processors never display a cursor on
screen but will always say: "Enter Password Now."

21) Even when driving down a perfectly straight
road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.

22) All bombs are fitted with electronic timing
devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

23) A detective can only solve a case once he has
been suspended from duty.

24) If you decide to start dancing in the street,
everyone you meet will know all the steps.

25) Police departments give their officers
personality tests to make sure
they are deliberately assigned a partner who is
their total opposite.

26) When they are alone, all foreign military
officers prefer to speak to
each other in English.
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Postby Welles Fan » Fri Feb 01, 2002 11:28 am

Funny stuff! I just e-mailed to my wife.
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Postby jaime marzol » Fri Feb 01, 2002 1:50 pm

5 and 9 did it for me.
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Postby Steeler1 » Mon Feb 04, 2002 12:09 pm

I'm sending this one to my screenwriting professor!
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Postby LA » Mon Feb 04, 2002 3:30 pm

Brilliant! 17, 23 and 25, or maybe 18 and 16, are probably my favourite ones. :)
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Postby Obssessed_with_Orson » Fri Mar 08, 2002 2:32 pm

Jaime, in some movies, I found out that the bad guys mostly turn out to be the crime fighting proffessional boss of the new guys coming to work. The ones that are selected to train the new one, actually end up to be the bad one in the end.

If this isn't in the list,add it.
If it is in the list, tell me which number.

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Postby jaime marzol » Fri Mar 08, 2002 3:32 pm

nat:

that sounds like the typical howard hawks western theme, i think
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Postby R Kadin » Fri Mar 08, 2002 8:10 pm

Let's attempt a few more, shall we?

27) no matter the city nor the time of day, there will ALWAYS be a place to park right in front of the building you're going to.

28) all nerdy females are actually just long-haired foxes in honking big glasses.

29) even on the widest, most open prairie, people can never see objects immediately to the right or left until they jump into the frame.

30) no restaurant will hassle you when you leave before getting the cheque as long as you fling a bill onto the table. Any bill will do.
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Postby Jeff Wilson » Fri Mar 08, 2002 8:19 pm

And 31) When a villain is defeated/killed, his complex must begin self-destructing, thus causing a frantic, suspenseful escape which the heroes will make in the nick of time, before a colossal explosion finishes things.
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Postby jaime marzol » Mon Mar 11, 2002 5:18 am

27 happened in every miami vice episode. the nightclub is packed to the rafters, but the space right up front is always open.

28 most of howard hawk's films. he only hired beautifull starlets because he tried to have sex with all of them. and why shouldn't he?

29 happens in every western made before 1947, except stagecoah
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Postby Obssessed_with_Orson » Fri Dec 06, 2002 6:38 pm

how about:


if you plan a murder, or such, and you plan to have hired hands work for you, make sure they are mindless, senseless, but know how to do what is told. because if they are as smart as, or even smarter than you are, they may try to take over the job and get credited, or the cash, or the woman, etc.


a long one, but true.
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Postby jaime marzol » Sat Dec 07, 2002 2:03 pm

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the arch enemies in the batman tv series always had by their side a gold-bricking blonde babe that didn't like to work, and 4 or 5 meatheads in black sweaters, their names in white letters across their chest, and wore derbies.

i always liked that, and decided if i was ever going to become some one's arch enemy i would outfit myself the same way.
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Postby jaime marzol » Wed Dec 11, 2002 2:04 am

i just watched RED RIVER

Indians will creep around in the desert at night making whistling sounds that the settlers recognize, and the settlers have enough time get ready to ward them off.

hawk's film had some great stuff in it; the progression of shots that he used to illustrate the first indian attack on brenan and wayne. it was like a comic book, very cool stuff. he had some heavy handed stuff in it, like close shots of 32 men's faces yelling , Heeeeeaaaahhhhhhhh" to get the cows going.

and when that woman that falls in love with clift towards the end, she was too much. pissed me off. the ending pissed me off. a friend, ric, the walking film encyclopedia, told me that hawk's original ending was that the wayne character gets shot. he returns home with the montgomery clift character. on the trip wayne's condition worsens. they reach the red river. wayne is all messed up. he tells clift he wants to die on his side of the river. the reach the other side. wayne dies.

isn't that an incredible ending for such a great film instead of the trite ending they tacked on?

i loved the film anyway, but it could have been much better had hawks had his ending in. it was produced by hawks. he must have had a lot of colleage pressure to change such a cool appropriate ending for the film.

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Postby Fat Annie » Wed Dec 11, 2002 4:28 am

How do you think it compares with The Searchers??
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Postby jaime marzol » Wed Dec 11, 2002 2:10 pm

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THE SEARCHERS is a tremendous film. RED RIVER is great, but not on the same lofty plateau. could have been better had hawks been able to release it with his ending. but even with hawk's ending, i still don't think it can stack up to THE SEARCHERS, or MAN THAT SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, or MY DARLING CLEMENTINE.

though it is a film by a highly regarded director, has a lot of cool stuff in it. and certainly better to watch than a randoph scott, or audie murphy western.

i don't know if hawk's ending was ever filmed and then replaced, or if it was nixed from the screenplay and never filmed, but hawk's ending would have certainly brought the film up a few notches.

that woman that falls in love with clift, she's right away too hip, too cool. she gets shot with an arrow during an indian attack, and had she been serving tea and crumpets, she would not have flinched or spilled a drop. she acted as if the arrow was an inconveniance in the beauty parlor. what's a little indian arrow in the shoulder anyway? bet ya hawks was having sex with her, thus the color of her character.

look at all the babes in THE BIG SEEP.

bacall was one of those that got the part because hawks wanted to do her, then she fell in love with bogart before hawks got to her. she writes about it in her book. not a bad book.

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