I can’t wait to hate-watch Materialists (A24, 6.13).
“Aren’t you funny? Don’t you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You might not marry a girl just because she’s pretty, but my goodness, doesn’t it help? And if you had a daughter, would’t you rather she didn’t marry a poor man? You’d want her to have the most wonderful things in the world. So why is it wrong for me to want those things?” — Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) to Gus Edmond, Sr. (Taylor Holmes), the super-loaded father of Gus Esmond, Jr. (Tommy Noonan), at the very end of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (’53).
Posted on 5.9.25: “I feel this way because I’m a money whore, and you’ve got a lot of money so…perfection, right?” — Dakota Johnson‘s Lucy to Pedro Pascal‘s Harry Castillo in Celine Song‘s The Materialists. Okay, this isn’t an actual quote.
Ditto: One of life’s darker ironies is that the relationships that I know could last forever are always the ones that I can walk away from without too much concern because I’m less smitten than she is. The ones that eclipse sooner or later are ones in which the tables are reversed and I know I’m lucky as hell — one of those “God smiled and the heavens parted” deals in which she’s holding the strong cards and knows it. Romantic agony was inevitable.