Re: Why I Hate Stanley Kubrick - dialogue speaks

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:53:07 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Shelps) 
wrote:

> Geezer wrote:
> 
> >Like it or not, films clips such as:- 
> >T1000 re-moulding in the ironworks in
> >Terminator 2 Forrest Gumps face when
> >he finds out he's a dad Samuel L
> >Jackson's speech in Pulp Fiction 
> >Those are ones that sprang to mind
> >immediately, i'm sure I could think of
> >others with time. I'm also sure a lot of
> >you will disagree with me. Thats fine. 
> 
> I don't think any of these will have
> the staying power of Chaplin, Lloyd,
> or Hitchcock.  These are memorable
> moments---not iconic images that
> sum up the films that they represent.
 

-More like the new films have iconic "dialogue"
Gump is more often remembered by the line
"Iife is like a box of choc-o-late..."

Apocalypse Now by the line: "I love
the smell of napalm in the morning..."

Very few images of these newer films spring
to mind, but dialogue does.

LT