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Post by geddy on Jan 19, 2024 20:47:16 GMT
"Never Get Out of the Boat Unless You're Going to Go All the Way" Apocalypse Now. I must be too prosaic to relate to that one. When I get out of a boat, I'm interested only in stepping onto land. It doesn't really have to do with anything except it reminded me: there's a film called The Legend of 1900, a stylishly enigmatic fable about a man (Tim Roth) who, from infancy, has spent his entire life aboard an ocean liner, never once setting foot on dry land. It's not a film for everyone, but those of us who love it find it quite magical. The quote is a metaphor for life: if you're going to do something, do it and go full throttle.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 20:54:50 GMT
Used in the film “Patton” (1970) The ol' general was a very practical man, wasn't he? The quote above was probably the more accurate, but I liked the way they put it in the film: "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 21:02:32 GMT
I must be too prosaic to relate to that one. When I get out of a boat, I'm interested only in stepping onto land. It doesn't really have to do with anything except it reminded me: there's a film called The Legend of 1900, a stylishly enigmatic fable about a man (Tim Roth) who, from infancy, has spent his entire life aboard an ocean liner, never once setting foot on dry land. It's not a film for everyone, but those of us who love it find it quite magical. The quote is a metaphor for life: if you're going to do something, do it and go full throttle. Thanks. I like to think of myself as having the capacity to appreciate poetic metaphor, but I have my dense days and sometimes overlook the obvious. Maybe it would have resonated if I'd seen the film. I've tried several times, but have trouble enough with the conceptual madness of war. Watching men absorb that madness is, to borrow a phrase, a bridge too far for me.
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Post by politicidal1 on Jan 19, 2024 21:12:01 GMT
I thought I recognized Michael Caine and Christian Bale but didn't know the film, so I had to look it up. I never saw it, but I did see Swingtime, in which Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields put a similar sentiment into song for Fred and Ginger. Never saw Batman Begins? I'd definitely recommend it.
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Post by geddy on Jan 19, 2024 22:06:23 GMT
The quote is a metaphor for life: if you're going to do something, do it and go full throttle. Thanks. I like to think of myself as having the capacity to appreciate poetic metaphor, but I have my dense days and sometimes overlook the obvious. Maybe it would have resonated if I'd seen the film. I've tried several times, but have trouble enough with the conceptual madness of war. Watching men absorb that madness is, to borrow a phrase, a bridge too far for me. You've never seen this classic film? Have you read Heart of Darkness?
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Post by Rufus-T on Jan 19, 2024 22:17:18 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 22:41:22 GMT
I thought I recognized Michael Caine and Christian Bale but didn't know the film, so I had to look it up. I never saw it, but I did see Swingtime, in which Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields put a similar sentiment into song for Fred and Ginger. Never saw Batman Begins? I'd definitely recommend it. I'm afraid that's so. I saw the first Batman with Keaton (and the first Superman, Spiderman and Iron Man) but pretty much gave up on superhero sagas thereafter. They've never really floated my boat. But I respect your opinion and am open to pleasant surprises, so I'll seek it out and give it a shot.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 22:55:31 GMT
Thanks. I like to think of myself as having the capacity to appreciate poetic metaphor, but I have my dense days and sometimes overlook the obvious. Maybe it would have resonated if I'd seen the film. I've tried several times, but have trouble enough with the conceptual madness of war. Watching men absorb that madness is, to borrow a phrase, a bridge too far for me. You've never seen this classic film? Have you read Heart of Darkness? Not all of it in one viewing, but significant chunks of it over the years. A good 90% of the reading I've ever done and still do is comprised of nonfiction, so I'm embarrassingly deficient where literary fiction is concerned and have never gotten around to Conrad. Odd old duck that I am, on the rare occasions I begin a novel, I can't put it down, reading all day, into the night and the next morning.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 23:07:25 GMT
Yoda's a strict old guy. Binary thinking has that tendency. EDIT: Digesting all these submissions en masse, I'm imagining a conversation between Yoda and Harry Callahan: Yoda: "Do or do not. There is no try."
Harry: "A man's got to know his limitations."
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Post by Pippen on Jan 19, 2024 23:11:33 GMT
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Post by Pippen on Jan 19, 2024 23:18:30 GMT
Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me.
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Post by Pippen on Jan 19, 2024 23:21:04 GMT
Del: You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you... but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I'm not changing. I like... I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.
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Post by Pippen on Jan 19, 2024 23:30:32 GMT
Mr. Bernstein: A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.
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Post by primethefirst on Jan 19, 2024 23:42:14 GMT
"Son, stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good, but they will always need land and they will pay through the nose to get it!" Lex Luthor
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 19, 2024 23:48:27 GMT
Mr. Bernstein: A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl. As Karen Richards would say... "Funny, the things you remember...and the things you don't."
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