obviously JFK complete and utter bunk as history, though of course donald sutherland makes the craziness seem almost plausible for a split second. one GOOD thing the movie did do was inspire the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act that got out a lot of previously classified documents and historical information about the era.
and i agree with gear the movie is hilarious.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
people like that shouldn't watch movies!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
"oh go back to sleep, Jim"
"Dammit Liz, I been sleepin for three ye-ahs"
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
who could forget the scene where bacon, jones, and pesci are parading about painted in gold watching homoerotic silent 1920's sports footage!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link
"oh...no..."
***shot of sinister clock***
"h-how bad?"
"there's no woid yet, but they think it's in the he-ahd"
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link
"You're way out there, boss, taking a crap in the wind, and I for one am not going along on this ride!"
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link
i assume this poster was made for a country where Joe Pesci is more popular than Kevin Costner.
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link
"Is this off the record Daddy-O? Good. In that case, let me sum it up for you real quick. If I answer that question you keep asking, if I give you the name of the big enchilada, you know ... then it's bon voyage Dino. I mean like permanent. I mean like a bullet in my head, you dig? You're a mouse fighting a gorilla. Kennedy is dead as that crab meat. The government's still breathing and you wanna line up with a dead man?"
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post YO!
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link
JIM I don't know what to tell them. How 'bout the truth - I'm doing my job to make sure they can grow up in a country where justice won't be an arcane, vanished idea they read about in history books, like the dinosaurs or the lost continent of Atlantis.
LIZ That sounds dandy, but it doesn't replace a father and a husband on Easter Day.
JIM (angry, turns away) It's going to get worse, honey.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Quote from Pesci about JFK: "[I was happy to see the Supporting Actor nomination go to Tommy Lee Jones.] When I see that I say, I helped. He worked with me and I helped him be good."
You know, I wonder if there's any behind-the-scenes footage in some vault of the filming of the party scene (where Pesci helped Jones be good).
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link
LIZ (groggily) Huh?
JIM (strangled) He won ... and they killed Robert Kennedy. They shot him down.
LIZ (realizing, with terror) Oh no! No! I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Both of them, both brothers, oh my God!
She clings to him, horrified. He caresses her hair. They look in each other's eyes.
LIZ (CONT'D) You're right, it hasn't ended, has it?
He kisses her gently - They start to make love, numbed, needing each other, needing their love in an increasingly terrifying world.
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Here's a question, who should have been the Criswell figure for this film, reading out that stuff as a narrator?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link
We see the four men in drag, smiling for the flash camera, champagne bottles in hand. Ferrie sniffs some poppers, then shoves a popper in Shaw's face.
FERRIE (to Shaw) You're mine, Mary. Go get the fucking tools out, bitch. Now! I want some ass.
Ferrie forces more poppers on Shaw. The camera movies to Shaw's bedroom, where Ferrie scatters a drawer full of leather tools.
FERRIE (CONT'D) (to Shaw) Come here, bitch. (Ferrie grabs Shaw by the hair) You want this? The only way you get this is do what I say. (Ferrie whacks Shaw) I'm the man. Don't ever forget it. (Shaw begs and whines) You want it? You want it? (Ferrie spits on Shaw) Fuck you and your rich friends. You're nothing but a rich whore! You're my woman! Get the cat! (to young man) Strip! Now, woman. I want to see skin.
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link
They all stop, look.
SUSIE: Who?
BILL: Grab your socks and pull ... Clay Bertrand is Clay Shaw ...
SUSIE(stunned): No! ... Shaw! Director of The Trade Mart? This is incredible.
NUMA: Pillar of the community by day, gay bars at night.
Liz Garrison is the most shaken, as she pours a fresh pot of coffee.
― gear (gear), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link
"Dallas was a slow town back then. You chewed toothpicks, played dominos, spit and dated policemen."
"He said, "Beverly, this is my friend Lee ..." and [INSERT LAUGH THAT SPIKES THE MIC LEVELS HERE] I didn't catch the other guy's name. He was a weird-looking guy with those funny little eyebrows."
"When I saw him tow weeks later on the television, I screamed, "Oh, my God - that's him! That's Jack's friend!"
"If they can kill the President, do you think they're gonna think twice about a two-bit showgirl like me?"
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link
JIM No one's trying to buy you, Willie. It's important to know why you're telling us this.
O'KEEFE (pauses) You wanna know why? 'Cause that mother fucker Kennedy stole that fuckin' election, that's why! Nixon was gonna be one of the great Presidents 'til Kennedy wrecked this fuckin' country. Got niggers all over the fuckin' place asking for their rights, where do you think we got all this fuckin' crime now, 'cause Kennedy promised 'em too damned much. Revolution comin'. Fascism's coming back. I tell ya this - the day that Communist sumbitch died was a great day for this country. I jes' hate to think they're blaming it on some silly fuckin' Oswald who didn't know shit anyway. People should know why that sumbitch was killed. 'Cause he was a Communist. Put me on the stand, go ahead, I'll tell the same goddamn story, I'm proud of it, don't matter fuck all to me, things don't change.
As he talks, Jim shares a sickened look with Bill. Whatever truth he may be telling is necessarily compromised by an attitude that could be destroyed in court.
I wonder if the shooting script for Year Of The Dragon is available.
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link