best scene in chinatown is i hope you don't mind i believe they should be served with the head on
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
either that or when he's looking at the photographs on the walls whistling the way you look tonight
Yelburton: After you've worked with a man a certain length of time, you come to know his habits, his values - you come to know him - and either he's the kind who chases after women or he isn't.
Jake Gittes: Mulwray isn't?
Yelburton: He never even kids about it.
Jake Gittes: Well, maybe he takes it very seriousl
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
heh heh heh. only when you breathe. heh-heh-heh.
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
delivery on "well maybe he takes it very seriously" is peak of jack btw
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
which is why the exclamation point in the screenplay is vulgar
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Do you have a ruler? I forgot my glasses, and i like to read across."
and of course the joke at the barber's when Evelyn walks in.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Whistling and looking at photos, that's when he's tormenting Yelburton's secretary, right? Love that scene. Also:
Retirement Home Guy: "We don't accept people of the Jewish faith."Gittes: "That's okay, neither does dad."
Another guy who could have been nominated: G.D. Spradlin in GF II. "Mr...Cor-lee-one."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
"I take a long lunch."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yeh. Sure. Bad for the glass.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 March 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I voted for The Conversation. The first two Godfathers go together for me--one without the other feels incomplete. I'm guessing Chinatown will win this handily; The Conversation picked a bad year to be a brilliant movie.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos (Paramount) 6The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen (20th Century Fox/Warner Bros.) 5
I <3 you ILX.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link