The Silver Screen Oasis

Nice! Merry Christmas, my friend.

"I've got a saddle older than you."

The distinguished John Wayne to the beautiful Ann-Margret in THE TRAIN ROBBERS. The high point of that mediocre western.

"LASSIE! You're my Lassie come home."

Waaaah!

Ah! The telephone, that miracle of modern communication. I often wonder why it is that we communicate so much less with all these marvels at our disposal than we did in a more primitive day, without the wireless and the television.

- Bunny Lake is Missing

I've got an honest man's conscience... in a murderer's body.

-- Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) in FEAR IN THE NIGHT

I could not understand why this was the worst line in PRETTY WOMAN ... until one of my friends let me borrowed his DVD because I could not hear it very well in the movie theatre and my older brothers and some of their friends were laughing about it.


THE MOVIE: Pretty Woman (1990)

THE SCENE: Hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold Vivian (Julia Roberts) looks down her fire escape to see her favorite ”John” Edward (Richard Gere) climbing up to ”rescue her” from her crappy life.

THE LINE: ”And she rescues him right back.”

I now see the complete picture ... Pretty Bad Indeed!

PRETTY WOMAN is not bad until they all live happily ever after. It has some wit and charm. The "feel good" ending was undoubtedly forced by the studio. I read the writers wanted him to leave, and her to go back to drugs!

RedRiver wrote:PRETTY WOMAN is not bad until they all live happily ever after. It has some wit and charm. The "feel good" ending was undoubtedly forced by the studio. I read the writers wanted him to leave, and her to go back to drugs!

Thanks for sharing that ... I did not know that!

That's an excellent point, Mrs. L. There would have been a conflict in tone between the fluffy and the tragic. I'm thinking a compromise ending is called for!

Speaking of PRETTY WOMAN...

Ever since I was a little girl, I dreamed I'd meet a drunken slob in a bar who'd give me fifty bucks and we'd live happily ever after.

-- Lilli Marlowe (Ida Lupino) in PRIVATE HELL 36 (Don Siegel 1954)

Ha! Before I even finished reading that line I knew it had to be Ida.

More on relationships:

Maybe you move in with me for a while. As long as we handle this in a mature way. As long as I'm mature about it, you're mature about it, both of us are mature, we can achieve a certain maturation, that guarantees maturiosity.

-- Allan (Woody Allen) in PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

-- Lorraine Minosa (Jan Sterling) in ACE IN THE HOLE