Just watched Dog Day Afternoon for the first time. It's one of those movies I've seen clips of but never the whole thing. I read up on it on Wikipedia afterward and saw that "Attica!" is on AFI's list of movie quotes. Which reminds me that I was thinking of movies that you could identify by one word.
And thus, a one-word movie quote meme. Some of these go back a ways. ETA: Added the answers to the ones no one had guessed.
Those that have been guessed so far:
1. Serpentine! - The In-Laws (the original)
2. Poppies! -- The Wizard of Oz
3. Precious. -- The Lord of the Rings
4. La-di-da. - Annie Hall
5. Silencio. - Mulholland Dr.
6. Superman. - The Iron Giant
7. Inconceivable! - The Princess Bride.
8. Ditto. -- Ghost
9. Plastics. -- The Graduate
10. Rosebud. -- Citizen Kane
And thus, a one-word movie quote meme. Some of these go back a ways. ETA: Added the answers to the ones no one had guessed.
Those that have been guessed so far:
1. Serpentine! - The In-Laws (the original)
2. Poppies! -- The Wizard of Oz
3. Precious. -- The Lord of the Rings
4. La-di-da. - Annie Hall
5. Silencio. - Mulholland Dr.
6. Superman. - The Iron Giant
7. Inconceivable! - The Princess Bride.
8. Ditto. -- Ghost
9. Plastics. -- The Graduate
10. Rosebud. -- Citizen Kane
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7. The Princess Bride?
8. Ghost?
9. The Graduate?
10. Citizen Kane?
I think that's all I know.
#9!!! God, I need to watch that movie again. Huh, I am a fossil - recognize four, three of which are likely the oldest films of the lot.
edits: You have comments screened - you really do want people to guess. (*headslap*).
2 - The Wizard of Oz
3 - LOTR
9 - The Graduate
10 - Citizen Kane
Edited at 2008-08-30 10:16 am (UTC)
And I had seen clips of Pacino yeling "Attica" but didn't know what that was all about. And all these years, I thought John Cazale (Sal) was the one needing the sex change operation so I was like, "Aha!" when it ended up being someone who looked a little more appropriate for that part!
the Attica scene is....amazing!
Sonny is freakin' adorable ♥
..but I'm biased, I'm like Al Pacino bitch so.. XD
oh yes, baby! I liked that one too! I guess I've seen almost every Pacino movie..I say almost because I "miss" Scent of a woman (I know...I knowwwww ^^;) and The Insider..and I need to fix that XD
3. LOTR? Gollum's precccccccccccioussssssss
4. it looks like some Pacino movie, really XDDD but I've been wrong before
5. ....uhm... " The Princess Bride"? XD
7. ..sounds like something Gary Oldman could say..or at least i'm picturing him in my mind...like..."Leon"?
8. Ghost <33333333333
And you're right on 3, 5 and 8! :)
3. Lord of the Rings (Probably The Two Towers)
7. Princess Bride
8. Ghost
10. Citizen Kane
XD
It's based on a true story.
Think about this one, John Cazale was in The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, The Deer Hunter, and Dog Day Afternoon, as well as The Conversation, tell me how many actors today wouldn't KILL for that resume.
It still pains me that he passed away at such a young age, here's some trivia, his girlfriend at the time, Meryl Streep took her OSCAR winning role in the Deer Hunter to be close to him while he filmed because he had Cancer, Robert DeNiro and Michael Cimino took pay cuts and bascially said they WOULD NOT do that movie if he wasn't in it because it was hard to get insurance for him because he had Cancer.
Now that's friendship..also Robert and especially Al had once said if they could only make movies with him for the rest of their careers, they would have.