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Post by marshamae on Dec 27, 2019 17:32:42 GMT
i’m Watching The Godfather saga . There is a nice moment in Brando’s first scene with the undertaker, where he says “ Bonasera.....Bonasera” . It’s text book acting , making the two words separate , yet connected , the second not just a repeat, but a more emphatic echo.
A little later John Marley has a similar line when he is showing his prize horse to Tom Hagen and he says “ Khartoum,.... Khartoum” He blows it completely . The repeat is as dead as yesterday’s poached eggs, cold wooden ,with no nuance.
Im not saying this to trash Marley but to point out that repetitions are hard to bring off. It requires a deep sense of what the character is feeling in that moment. More it requires a sharp ear to tune the repeat just right.
Do you recall any moments when an actor had a repeated line like the ones cited above?
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Post by snsurone on Dec 27, 2019 21:33:25 GMT
Oh, the horror!
The horror!
BTW, I don't like poached eggs, cold or not.
In fact, the only way I like eggs is either scrambled or in a cheddar cheese omelette.
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Post by OldAussie on Dec 27, 2019 22:01:00 GMT
Just before the famous final line in Chinatown, doesn't Gittes repeat an earlier line twice...."As little as possible....as little as possible."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 29, 2019 1:18:44 GMT
would this count, marshamae ? Les Misérables  Come with me, where chains will never bind you. All your grief at last, at last behind you. Lord in Heaven, look down on him in mercy.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 29, 2019 1:20:30 GMT
Danger Mouse (1981–1992) Episode: There's a Penfold in My Suit (1992) "The swapping stone of Mellikan the magician. It has the power to make things change places. And with the help of this stone the world will soon be in my power. At last, at last, the world will be mine, mine, all mine! "  |
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Post by marianne48 on Dec 29, 2019 2:16:50 GMT
"I am shocked...SHOCKED!...to find that gambling is going on in here!"
--Capt. Louis Renault, Casablanca
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 29, 2019 4:41:00 GMT
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio): Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was 16."
Brenda Strong (Amy Adams): Frank? Frank? You're not a Lutheran?
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 29, 2019 4:43:32 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 29, 2019 4:53:39 GMT
 More specifically: Henry Frankenstein: Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 29, 2019 5:21:21 GMT
 "Stanley Kowalski: Hey, Stella! Hey, Stellaaa! " |
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Post by marshamae on Dec 29, 2019 10:11:58 GMT
These are all great examples of repeats done right. Claude rains - an actor with a wonderful ear who never, in my memory, struck a false note, even when miscast, as in They Made Me A Criminal.
Brando always came from some deep knowledge of the character that allowed him to tap into the right emotions for these scenes
The Frankenstein one is the least artful. He just shrieks louder, but the whole scene is so over the top that was probably the right call, the only call.
Keep em coming!
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 29, 2019 11:46:31 GMT
Charles Boyer admonishing Ingrid in GASLIGHT: "Oh Paula, Paula!"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 29, 2019 17:09:35 GMT
Two possible from GONE WITH THE WIND :
Mammy: It ain't fittin'... it ain't fittin'. It jes' ain't fittin'... It ain't fittin'.
Scarlett: [to Ashley] Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense.
AND MAYBE :
Scarlett: How do I look?
Rhett Butler: Awful. Just awful.
Bonnie Blue Butler: Daddy, let me, let me!
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Post by marshamae on Dec 29, 2019 17:35:45 GMT
Mammy’s is legendary.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 29, 2019 17:55:31 GMT
"I'm gonna go get the papers. Get the papers."
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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 29, 2019 18:11:35 GMT
"If they move, Kill 'em!"
Pike (William Holden) in The Wild Bunch
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 29, 2019 21:57:07 GMT
"Oh, Moses, Moses, why of all men did I fall in love with a prince of fools? " Anne Baxter The 10 Commandments
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Post by millar70 on Dec 29, 2019 22:19:48 GMT
"Who are those guys?" - Butch and Sundance
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 29, 2019 23:41:51 GMT
Two times: Soldier In the Rain  Jackie Gleason's customary farewell to Steve McQueen, accompanied by a grand flourish of the hand, is, "Until that time, Eustis, until that time."Three times: The Twelve Chairs On her deathbed, Ron Moody's mother-in-law confesses that she hid 50,000 rubles' worth of jewels in the upholstered seat of a now-long-gone chair. Moody groans, "How could you do such a thing? How could you DO such a thing? How could you do such a thinnnng!Four times: The Odd Couple
OSCAR: "Felix, Felix, Felix. Felix."
FELIX: "I know, I know, I know...I know!" To OldAussie: It's indeed a line repeated from an earlier scene, but Jake says it only once at the end.
Escobar, however, says in response, "What's that? What's that?" |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 30, 2019 0:55:03 GMT
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