I never knew there was a remake. I only know the 1934 version with very different character names. I read your post and started scratching my head as I thought I knew the movie fairly well and you were describing a different movie.
I haven’t seen the whole thing, but I don’t understand this line. The cane in the house means he really is Santa Claus, right? So why would Fred think he didn’t do such a good thing?
It was re-written entirely, but both films were based on the Fanny Hurst novel.
It wasn’t until I was out of college before I realized what the lyrics to Greased Lightning in Grease were saying. I always thought they were saying that the girls would be green.
In the movie there was a recent conversation about how ‘good’ a job Fred did in proving a nice old man was Santa. Upon seeing the cane, Fred realized that maybe all he really did was prove that Santa was Santa. So it was not that Fred didn’t do a good thing but that the job was not was tough as it seemed.
Was in real life, too. And his wife and her lover (not Mel Gibson) later made war against and imprisoned him, then had him assassinated supposedly by henchmen shoving red-hot pokers into his nether regions.
Ah, gotcha.
I also got the sense that Longshanks would have just ignored it had sonny dear not been so flaming about it.
I’ve heard people say this before, and I agree about the Scarecrow and Tin Man…but in what way is The Cowardly Lion the bravest? The only thing that makes him “brave” is that he goes along with all those plans and shenanigans while al lthe while being a self-proclaimed coward. If he never claimed to be a coward, or jsut wasn’t one, he would be no braver than the other too, and thu not the “bravest.”
It’s a fascinating line, since the literal meaning clearly conflicts with the intent. Watching the film, you come away with the impression that he is saying that that he is thinking that Kris is really Santa. But grammatically, it seems to say he did something wrong by defending him.
The intent is “Proving Kris is Santa wasn’t a bit of fancy legal manuvering; it was just stating the truth.” In context, that’s perfectly clear.
Next to “And that song ain’t so very far from wrong,” it’s one of the best examples of a line that everyone thinks means one thing, but which, upon analysis, means the opposite.
But, “The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who acts in spite of his fear.” The Lion was crippled by his fear but he is ready to face danger, and he does this frequently.
The face that he has to constantly overcome his fear makes him the bravest.
That Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was a high class prostitute. I was young and naive when I first saw that movie so no, I did not get it the first million times I saw that movie.
Actually that is up for debate. She may well be just a kept woman that goes from rich man to rich man as a party girl. In the movie Paul is actually a kept man. They have this in common.
However in the book I believe Holly Golightly was clearly an eccentric call girl. The movie and book don’t share all that many similarities though.
Jim