Three Rain Clips
Three of my favorite scenes from Karel Reisz's Who'll Stop The Rain? Rich cryptic dialogue on this level (which is largely taken verbatim Robert Stone's novel) has almost completely disappeared from movies. Clip #1 -- "I've been waiting all my life to fuck up like this." Clip #2 -- "All my life I've been taking shit from inferior people...no more!" Clip #3 -- "I hate jailbird chess...I hate the style...like a fuckin' little tweety bird...'eeww, here's a move!"
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 20, 2008 at 3:36 PM
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Gaydos
says ...
Like I was saying about smart action movies....but this one's a MASTERPIECE. Hope someone out there picked up the new "Gunfighter" dvd and the bonus in the three Fox Westerns box is "Garden of Evil," which may be one of the most wonderfullly weird movies I've ever seen. Just watched it for the first time. Wow. Thanks, Jeff, for reminding everyone the difference between butter and margarine.
Posted by Gaydos
at June 20, 2008 4:27 PM
comment #2
huisache
says ...
you left out my favorite -- the retort of Nolte to Moriarty's explanation of why he is smuggling the heroin.
and moriarty's comments about the elephants being shot
great dialogue and a very underappreciated film
Posted by huisache
at June 20, 2008 4:31 PM
comment #3
nemo
says ...
Good movie, even better novel (original title was Dog Soldiers).
A excellent early Nick Nolte performance. An excellent Michael Moriarty performance in full sleazebag weakling mode, up there with Q: The Winged Serpent or Report to the Commissioner.
My memory is that the film made Moriarity's father-in-law a bookstore owner (it appeared to be Cody's in Berkeley). In the novel the father-in-law published a sleazy rag that was a cross between the National Enquirer and the old Berkeley Barb. The Moriarity character had been a star writer for this rag. When he revisits, they stage an impromptu sleazeball headline-writing contest -- "Skydiver! Let's see ... Skydiver devoured by starving birds! Um, uh ... Woman impaled by skydiving rapist!"
That didn't make it into the movie, unfortunately. Great dialog. Ah, the 70s.
Posted by nemo
at June 20, 2008 4:34 PM