In a message dated 11/01/2003 02:24:51 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< She says she wants to go off and help poor people, go help people with leprosy, live in a leper colony. In desperation, Woody says something along the lines of, "Leprosy! I love leprosy! Leprosy, cholera, I love all the major skin diseases ..." [...] he wakes up from being knocked unconscious, feels the back of his head where he got butted with a gun, and says, "No more Polish women!" >> I can zoom in just a little closer than Bob, Lindsay: this is *definitely* Bananas, although funnily enough it's one of the few Woody films I haven't seen. I am a big fan - has anyone else written so many treasurable one-liners? My favourite remains the line from Sleeper where he is being pressed to join the resistance against the totalitarian regime, and protests "But I'm not the heroic type - I was beaten up by Quakers." << We had to go to bed finally but we were reviewing lines while going to sleep. >> Aha! My girlfriend and I had one of these moments last week with a line from Living in Oblivion. It's a lovely little comedy about an indie film-maker and his trials and tribulations trying to get a film made. Some of my favourite "alternative" actors are in it, particularly Catherine Keener, Steve Buscemi and Kevin Corrigan. Anyway, there's a ludicrous dream sequence our Steve is trying to nail, and it isn't being helped by a rather pathetic smoke machine. Eventually he snaps, and this is what he comes out with: "And Bob, what the fuck is with that smoke, man? Whaddya got in there, two hamsters blowing smoke rings??" We were still laughing about that one hours later! Anyone else care to suggest their funniest lines from films? If so, can we place a moratorium on "Nobody's perfect"? :-) Azeem in London NP: Passion - Peter Gabriel
