This is topic Quotes in unusual places, or I Don't Think That Means What You Think It Means in forum Books, Films, Food and Culture at Hatrack River Forum.
In the cafeteria here, there is a bulletin board that is usually filled with family or childhood pictures of the employees and some sort of warm and fuzzy message. This month is families, and the board is covered with cute couple with babies and several quotes about families scattered about.
In the center is the following:
quote:"You're my older brother and I love you, but don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever." --Michael Corleone
Anyone else get the feeling someone missed the context? Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Awww... how sweet.... family. Posted by Pepek (Member # 3773) on :
Kind of an evil threatening quote for such a sweet display..
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Once again, I'm reminded how much I'm missing out on by not having seen the Godfather or any of its sequels.
I gotta see that movie.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I haven't seen any of them either. You can get a serious feel for it, though, by reading the quote pages on IMDB. It's basically transcribed there.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
No you can't, Francis Ford Coppola gave it it's feel, and that feel is achieved through cinematography, set design, acting, despite what our wonderful host says, the director has far more control over how the movie turns out than the writer or anyone else does.
Hobbes Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Not for the movie, but for the quotes and the language. Enough that I can recognize it out of context. Kind of like picking up on LOTR here - OF COURSE its not the same as watching the movie, but if you don't want to watch the movie, it's enough to be able to recognize the quotes.
quote:despite what our wonderful host says, the director has far more control over how the movie turns out than the writer or anyone else does.
Your opinion.
[ June 15, 2004, 04:19 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
I think this one would be more fitting:
"Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
oooo...That is good. I wonder if it's there? When I saw the center one, I started giggling so hard I had to go back to my desk.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
"I have a sentimental weakness for my children as you can see."
Hobbes Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
No fair sticking an edit on me! I almost missed that!
Yes it is my opinion, and though you can disagree I'll stick to it, and I don't think anyone will say that the director has a very large impact on a film.
Hobbes Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Maybe you could sneak this one on the board while no one is looking:
quote:"Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family." --Homer Simpson
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
quote: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- despite what our wonderful host says, the director has far more control over how the movie turns out than the writer or anyone else does. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Your opinion.
Just look at the last Harry Potter movie for proof.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Yes! Thank you! Exactly.
*explains* The movie was different, and darker, and better, and more magical, but it was still a Harry Potter. We weren't suddenly watching a Spanish love story or a movie about people in comas.
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sndrake, that's a great idea...
[ June 15, 2004, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
An off-topic anecdote:
Last weekend, my mom went with one of her artists (she runs a gallery) to a posh garden party in Missoula that is part of some week-long conference of writers. For some reason there was some guy there who won an emmy for set design on Frasier. So I don't know who these people were. Anyway- Yesterday my mom called up Carol (the artist) and was chatting with her and found out she was having lunch with one of the people who had been at the party. "The Coppola guy" is what she called him. "Oh, so she's hanging out with Francis Ford Coppola, is she?" I quipped. "Oh yeah, I think that was it," Mom replied. "What? Carol is having lunch with Francis Ford Coppola?" I said incredulously. "I think so," said Mom. "Everyone kept calling him Frank.
O_o
Did my mom go to a party with Francis Ford Coppola?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Dang. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
The thing is what you just said was that the plot was still the same even with a new director. Which is saying that the plot is the most important part of a movie. Of course that's opinion so it's not like I can call you wrong, but let's just say that the reason I enjoy just about every Kubrick movie isn't that he always does the same plots. It's about how the film is shot, and then edited back together. And not just sequencing, what comes after what, but which shot goes in from diologue, what angle, how long? I agree, it's an opinion, but that doesn't mean I don't think I'm right.
Hobbes Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I'm sure you do. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Annie, your mother did not go to a party with Francis Ford Coppolla. Know how I know? Because I would be green with envy right now, but I'm not, right now I'm in Love with you.
Hobbes
[ June 15, 2004, 04:57 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
quote:or a movie about people in comas.
I think you're confusing Alfonso Cuaron with Pedro Almodovar Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Well, I think the fact that she has no idea whether she did or not basically negates any envy rights there, Hobbesy. Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
And Katie, It is possible they they got the context perfectly. It may have even been a...joke!
Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
Sounds to me like the person who put it up is making fun of all his cutesy neighbors. Sounds like something I would do.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
It's possible. It depends on whether or not you think the warm and fuzzy schmaltz is done with a straight face or not.
You haven't seen these bulletin boards. I don't anyone designing them is acquainted with irony. Part of me loves this place for that.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Of course, the other part of me is giggling insanely, so there you go.
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