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Topic: more quotable quotes |
panacynic
Initiate |
posted December 08, 1999 12:32 AM
  
'I've just narrowly avoided having a buggery. And I've come in here
with the express intention of wishing one on you.'
'Shut up will you, you're giving me the fear! Give us a downer
Danny, I've gone and fucked my brain.'
There, that's covered the entire film, I reckon!
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 02:34 AM
I've got the complete script on disc somewhere which I downloaded
from Drew's Script-o-rama a while ago (it doesn't seem to be
available anymore).
If anyone's interested I can email it to them, I'm talking to you
here Jackie S. I'd be interested to know how it reads to someone who
hasn't actually seen it. Do these lines work without Richard E's
delivery?
Also, check out scriptorama for the script of David Lynch's 'One
Saliva Bubble', his unproduced comedy. It's well worth a read.
http://www.script-o-rama.com/
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 06:42 PM
"The government is best which governs not at all" - Henry David
Thoreau
"What fucker said that?" - Withnail (sorry).
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JackFrost
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 07:44 PM
"Something kind of sad about
The way that things have come to
be
Desensitized to everything
What became of subtlety?" -
Maynard James Keenan
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 08, 1999 08:35 PM
Loz: I appreciate your summing up the story for me, but I have
actually seen the film; I just didn't like it.
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Jackie Susann
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 10:05 PM
Twig, I'd love a look at the script, although I fear my eyes will
turn inside out if I try to read a whole feature length film script
on this stupid machine. But please send me a copy, I'll give it a
go.
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 08, 1999 11:52 PM
It's full of 'hilarious' comedy homosexual jokes, Jackie, that
staple of good old British comedy. I suppose I should be grateful
there are no comedy fat people or blokes 'caught out' in hilarious
cross-dressing situations just as their boss/the vicar pops round
unexpectedly for sherry.
Okay, it's a little more subversive than your standard British
sitcom. Not that much, though...
<cowers from expected retaliation of Withnail fans>
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 10, 1999 09:34 AM
And , um,a few days late but here it is:
Withnail & I isnt
homophobic , its a thousand times more sophisticated than "oh-er
missus" sitcom humour.
Uncle Monty isn't a figure of fun because
he's gay - he's a figure of fun because he's a pompous senile old
bufoon , and I doubt that anyone, gay or otherwise, would relish the
prospect of being raped by him.
And Withnail himself is a fairly
ambiguos(sp?) character - he behaves very effeminately and theres a
good argument that he was actually enamered (I dont think thats
actually a word - try saying it aloud) with Marwood.
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Loz
Operative |
posted December 11, 1999 11:30 AM
Ganesha- Fuck, sorry! And I also disagree on the homophobic charge,
for mostly the same reasons as have already been said.
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 11, 1999 02:10 PM
I didn't say it was homophobic. I just reckon that a lot of the
'comedy situations' are slightly better-written versions of the
usual tired old British stuff.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 11, 1999 02:37 PM
I always thought the point of the film was that Withail was
"secretly" in love with Marwood. Withnail is a fairly sexless
character anyway and would probably profess to never having been in
love and would say he doesn't know what love is. Uncle Monty lusting
after Marwood is, I agree, almost Carry On-esque, but of course
without the "Ooh, Matron!" overtones. Withnail's closing monologue,
where he's quoting from Hamlet, is the most telling: "Man delights
me not, no, not women either."
The closest he's ever come to love
is Marwood, and that's what the film's about: the highest
friendship.
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