Saturday morning is here. With Saturday comes my new phone getting ready to use. Neon green, I'm excited. So I get excited easy these days. Billie will come, take it away and put in my music for my numbers and make it slick for me. What would I do without Billie?
I was just sitting around thinking yesterday. Oh, I know that thinking sometime gets me in trouble. But I was thinking about some of the cool classic one liners from the movies. In many movies they will say one line that you will repeat again and again. One of my favorite movies is that sappy romantic movie, "You've got mail." At the end when Meg Ryan is waiting in the park to meet the man she has been emailing for months. She is hoping it is Tom Hanks. "Somewhere over the rainbow," starts playing. Tom comes around the corner, Meg starts crying. Tom takes out his handkerchief and wipes her eyes. "Don't cry shop girl," he says. Oh I love that line. Nobody ever wiped my eyes when I cried and whispered those words. I loved it and have watched that movie over and over just to see that scene again and again.
We all know a line from another Tom Hanks movie. "Forrest Gump. He says, "My momma says life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." I like that one too. In the movie, "Deep end of the ocean, when the two young brothers are talking. And the one that had been kidnapped all those years says to Sam his brother, "Damn Sam, everyone says stuff like that, they don't mean it" I went around saying that over and over, "Damn Sam. For some reason I loved that line.
One classic line that has been around for years is when Robert DeNiro is talking to himself in the mirror, remember that one from "Taxi?". "You talking to me, you talking to me." I've always wanted to walk up to a stranger and say, "You talking to me." I've always wanted too but haven't had the nerve.
Another great line that's been around since 1939,“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”, Rhett Butler said that to Scarlett in, "Gone with the wind."
Humphrey Bogart had some good lines in some old movies.Casablanca , (1942), “Play it again, Sam”, he says, a drink in his hand and a cigarette in his mouth. In that movie he also says to Ingrid Bergman as he is telling her goodbye.“We’ll always have Paris”, Wouldn't it be wonderful to have Paris with someone, then have them tell you that. But the very best line he had in that movie was, “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine”, again he has a drink in his hand and a cigarette in his mouth. Humphrey Bogart died of lung cancer and liver problems in the late 1950's. Ican see why. He always played the dark sided guy, drinking and always smoking.
Then there was the line from Batman , when the Joker said,, “Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight”. Don't you love that line. Jack Nickelson played the Joker in that movie and only Jack could deliver the line the way he did. In Apollo 13, Jim Lovell played by Tom Hanks says, “Houston, we have a problem”, I say that line all the time.
But of course the greatest classic line came from, "Somewhere over the rainbow," when Dorothy says to her dog. "I don't think we're in Kansas any more Toto." No Dorothy I don't think you were. Who would have guessed after all those years people would still be saying that line. Classic movie lines. A few words spoken on the screen that sticks in peoples minds and are repeated over and over. And I like that line from the "Terminator, "I'll be back." And I certainly hope I will. But for now I'm outta here.
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