Thursday, December 20, 2007

Tagline of the Day

"Mysterious City of Sin and Intrigue!"

from Casablanca (1942). Why do I love taglines of old movies? Answer: the shameless use of exclamation marks!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Favorite line from the movie itself comes from the opening narration: "Others wait in Casablanca...and wait...and wait...and wait."

I use variations of that every time I'm stuck in a doctor's office or check-out line. Nobody knows what I'm talking about, but I'm used to that...

Anonymous said...

I'm with you Edward. Liberal use of great quotes from film or elsewhere is a great method of dealing with life.

There's a scene in "Close my Eyes" when Clive Owen tells Alan Rickman that he's taking a certain situation remarkably well. Rickman replies, all insouciant understatement, "Well, I suppose I could start screaming." I've used that one on occasion.