Oh sorry, I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of mine: I choose the wisest person present to speak to.
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Witness for the Prosecution 1957
Witty dialogue and wonderful performance from Charles Laughton.
Agatha Christie’s famed plot twists are nothing but inane. Her plot devices stick out of this film like a broken collar bone.
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Casablanca 1942
“It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles.”
It’s still Casablanca.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
“If in doubt, Frodo, always follow your nose.”
Masterful, glorious, emotional, iconic, and the definition of the word epic.
It is always tempting with Tolkien to try to elucidate the leviathan of meaning and symbolism lurking beneath the waves. But what makes Lord of the Rings great is that it is just a story. As Chesterton once said:
“The old epic poets at least knew how to tell a story, possibly a tall story but never a twisted story, never a…
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