Whose Quote Is It Anyway?
And as my readership (the S.S. Readership?) knows, I've given up tagging people, so if this game floats your readership, feel free to do it in your corner of the internets. Who am I to judge?
1)
Clue--second quote (different character who is the one addressed in the first quote):
V------
Solved in Comment #21 by jqb
Vertigo
Less Coyly Solved in Comment #22 by Drew
2)
The Band Wagon
Solved in Comment #20 by Amy
3)
Character 2: "Now you could strain him through a sieve."
Touch of Evil
Solved in Comment #1 by Tom Hilton (Tom also gets the bonus points--it is Joseph Cotten)
4)
Duck Soup
Solved in Comment #5 by Hogan
5)
Character 2: A cop? That's a funny kind of a friend.
Character 1: Well, he's a funny kind of a cop.
Clue--second quote (said by an actor much more famous for another role for the same director):
T-- K------
Sneakily Solved in Comment #21 by jqb
The Killing
Letters filled in by Mike in Comment #24
6)
Clue--dialog from near the film's end:
Character 2: But things are the way you made them.
Character 1: Oh, no. No, things are the way you think I made them. I didn't make them that way at all. Things are just the same as they always were, only, you're the same as you were, too, so I guess things will never be the same again.
T-- A---- T----
Solved for those who know in Comment #21 by jqb
The Awful Truth
Letters filled in by Melville in Comment #25
7)
Character 2: Yeah.
Character 1: I had a virgin once. I had to fly to Guatemala for her. She was blind in one eye and had a stuffed alligator that said "Welcome to Miami Beach."
The Stunt Man
Solved in comment #15 by Hogan
8)
The Night of the Hunter
Solved in Comment #8 by Rickey Henderson (b/c I know he didn't mean to type Huntress)
9)
Character 2: No.
Character 1: 'Course you don't. An Ameche is the telephone, on account of he invented it.
Character 2: Oh, no, he didn't.
Character 1: Like, you know, in the movies.
Character 2: Well, I see what you mean. Very interesting. Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.
Ball of Fire
Solved in Comment #2 by Tom Hilton
10)
Character 2: There is no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
Character 1: Trouble and desire.
Character 2: That's right. And the funny thing is, when you desire something you immediately get into trouble. And when you're in trouble you don't desire anything at all.
Clue--Amy gave you one in comment #20.
S----- M--
Solved in Comment #21 by jqb, if you trust him
11)
The Shop Around the Corner
Solved in comment #13 by Melville
12)
Wings of Desire
Solved in Comment #18 by Marty
13)
Palm Beach Story
Solved in Comment #2 by Tom Hilton
14)
Days of Heaven
Solved in comment #14 by Mike
15)
All about Eve
Solved in comment #12 by Melville
plus one extra credit:
Laura
Solved in Comment #3 by Tom Hilton
Labels: film, you can't spell memory without meme

