Favorite Movie Quotes: Todo sobre mi madre = All About My Mother

 

"Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, ma'am. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being." 

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 43]

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Third Man

"What do you believe in?"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 13]

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Dirty Dozen

"I don't know. I never ate anything like this before. Stepped in it a couple times but never ate it."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 41]

Favorite Movie Quotes: Per un pugno di dollari = Fistful of Dollars

"When a man's got money in his pocket he begins to appreciate peace."

Reviewed (sort of) in Cheaper by the Dozen 44

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Dead Pool

"She's right. Oh you can set yourself into a bonfire, and we'll break out the marshmallows and the weenies, but you ain't gonna be on News at Eleven".

[Half of this movie is reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 53]

Morty Comix # 2409 - # 2415 Watercolor Series

Morty Comix # 2409 through # 2415 can be called the Watercolor Series. Before I post these things, they will require some explanation since the final products came out even weirder than normal, and even I will admit that is saying a lot.

Last year when Colin Upton told me "Color is for the weak," I really knew what he meant. So call this a moment of weakness while I was on a staycation.

First, I tied a string between a young elm that is sharing some kind of leaf disease with all the other elms in my yard, and a tree from the Southeast called, I think, the Devil's Walking Stick. This was a tree my Dad, may he rest in peace, gave me to plant. When a guy from Alabama fixed my garage roof a few years ago, he asked why I had this big weed in my yard on purpose.

Then, using some of the very same clothespins I employed in the Bezango WA 985 art exhibit at Batdorf and Bronson in Olympia several years ago, I hung up seven blank sheets of letter size typing paper.

What I was about to do has been on my mind for quite some time. A year ago, maybe more, maybe less, I had purchased a cheap watercolor set and a suction-cup toy gun. I laid them out with a styrofoam cup filled with water on an issue of our local weekly newspaper, the East County News.

I dipped the suction cup end in water and after that in the watercolor set. Then I took aim and fired at close range. I did this over and over, for about 30 minutes.

Yes, here's a case where a gun is really a tool for something good. The "gun is a tool" argument is frequently repeated by the gun crazies. In my situation, I was making something fun. But the real gun is a tool for one thing: wounding or killing someone. And that is not good. 

Here's the ironic part. I dislike guns and think the National Rifle Association is full of paranoid rightwing nutjobs with a penis complex. Oops, I was being quadruple redundant there. My review of Bowling for Columbine in Cheaper by the Dozen 6 pretty much summarizes my mixed feelings on firearms.

Anyway, here's an example of the results of my efforts. This sheet of paper eventually became Morty Comix # 2410 after I finished with it. You'll see.

Sarah happened to be here when I was performing this act of art, wondering what the Hell I was doing as I failed to explain what I was up to while she was visiting. So she took this photo since she is a journalist. I apparently did not inherit my Willis grandfather's deadeye aim when he had his famous 1931 shootout, killing two people and taking three bullets himself and living through it. Even at this close range, I still missed several times.

When this orgy of watercolor violence was over the toy gun was no longer functional. I'm sure members of the NRA can appreciate how Freudian that is. I had to throw all the supplies away.


At any rate, now you have the background on the next round of Morty Comix.

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Petrified Forest

"The trouble with me, Gabrielle, is I, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 5]

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Maltese Falcon

"Look what you did to my shirt."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 67]

The Yard Birds Crow piggy bank was the closest prop I had for this film.

Favorite Movie Quotes: Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

"The patient came to me with a large hole in his abdomen,  heh-heh, caused by a fire poker used on him by his wife. Hee-hee. He almost bled to death and gangrene had set in. I didn't give him much of a chance. There were other complications. Hnh-hnh. The man had cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and a touch of the grippe. Heh. I decided to operate."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 47]

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Frisco Kid

"You are a Rabbi. I'm a bank robber. I'm a card player and a whoremonger. That's what I am. You are a Rabbi. You can fall in the mud, you can slip on your ass, you can travel in the wrong direction. But even on your ass, even in the mud, even if you go in the wrong direction for a little while, you're still a Rabbi! That's what you are, right?"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 62]

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Drowning Pool

"Did you come to that conclusion out of patriotism or just greed?"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 43]

Favorite Movie Quotes: Doctor Zhivago

"The personal life is dead in Russia. History killed it."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 59]

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Barefoot Contessa

"Mind you, if there is one thing I know about its Mr. John Q. Public. He wants clean people on the screen for himself and his children to look at. Don't let the eggheads tell you he wants high class acting and fine stories and fancy dialogue. He wants to forget his troubles for awhile and look at clean people. He wants to escape. He doesn't want to look at drunks, hopheads, sex maniacs, divorcees, communists, murderers ..."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 8]

Favorite Movie Quotes: At the Circus

My fave Groucho musical number:

Oh Lydia, oh Lydia
Say, have you met Lydia
Lydia, the tattooed lady
She has eyes that folks adore so
And a torso even more so
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclopedia
Oh Lydia, the queen of tattoo
On her back is the "Battle Of Waterloo"
Beside it, the "Wreck Of The Hesperus" too
And proudly above 
Waves the red, white and blue
You can learn alot from Lydia

La-la-la, la-la-la
La-la-la, la-la-la

When her robe is unfurled
She will show you the world
If you step up and tell her where
For a dime, you can see Kankakee or Paree
Or Washington, crossing the Delaware

La-la-la, la-la-la
La-la-la, la-la-la

Oh Lydia, oh Lydia
Say, have you met Lydia
Lydia, the tattooed lady
When her muscles start relaxin'
Up the hill comes Andrew Jackson
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclopedia
Oh Lydia, the queen of them all
For two bits, she will do a mazurka in jazz
With a view of Niagara that nobody has
And on a clear day, you can see Alcatraz

You can learn a lot from Lydia

La-la-la, la-la-la
La-la-la, la-la-la

Come along and see Buffalo Bill with his lasso
Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso
Here is Captain Spalding exploring the Amazon
Here's Godiva, but with her pajamas on

La-la-la, la-la-la
La-la-la, la-la-la

Here is Grover Whelen, unveilin' the Trilon
Over the west coast we have Treasure Island
Here's Nijinsky a-doin' the rhumba
Here's her Social Security number

Oh, Lydia oh Lydia, that encyclopedia
Oh Lydia, the champ of them all
She once swept an Admiral clear off his feet
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat
And now, the old boy's in command of the fleet
For he went and married Lydia

I said Lydia
He said Lydia
They said Lydia
We said Lydia, la la

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 1]

Favorite Movie Quotes: Amadeus

"Here. It's all right here in my noodle. The rest is just scribbling. Scribbling and bibbling, bibbling and scribbling."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 1]

[Referenced in Guarding Tess]

Favorite Movie Quotes: Shin Zatôichi monogatari: Kasama no chimatsuri = Zatoichi's Conspiracy

"Your character, it seems, won't improve until you're reborn." 

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 36]

Favorite Movie Quotes: Zatoichi Jigoku tabi = Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

"I don't kill opponents I like."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 35]

Favorite Movie Quotes: Zatoichi sakate giri = Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

"I have no desire to kill anyone else. Kindly step aside."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 33]

Favorite Movie Quotes: Zatôichi abare tako = Zatoichi's Flashing Sword

"It's not the place of a gangster to go strutting around in broad daylight like he owns the world. A proper gangster bows his head and politely yields the way to the common folk."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 32]

Favorite Movie Quotes: Zatôichi kenka-tabi = On the Road

"There is no one worse than a samurai."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 26]