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Poirot (1989)
Warning - you better remember your high school French for this one.
During the scene where Poirot is telling the Belgium actress, Marie Marvelle about the duplicity of her husband, Poirot speaks French to her and in return, Marie Marvelle also speaks to him in French.
While I can follow French to a point, they were speaking too fluently and quickly for me to follow. I am afraid that a lot was being filled in and perhaps a few plot points for all I knew.
Would it have been that difficult for the producers to put subtitles, even French subtitles (at least I could look the French words up), under the the scene? Or perhaps make them available on the special features of the menu? I own the whole series and the movies on DVD.
Rosalind Bennett needed to work on her French accent.
The story is good, if a little obvious, but there is no denying that David Suchet has nailed the impersonation of Hercule Poirot, most parfait!
The Final Cut (1995)
Possible sound bites?
I have loved all of the episodes of The House of Cards Trilogies from the very first to The Final Cut. I absolutely abhor the American version of the show. I wish Hollywood would stop taking BBC ideas, paint them thickly with a stupidity brush to then show on our television screens and start making original ideas of their own.
I am curious if any other fans of this original series has or know where one can get sound bites from the third series? In particular, there are two I am most interested in and I believe they are in the same scene. When Jeffrey Boozer-Pitt tells FU about his behavior with a woman who was married, FU makes the following statement, "Jeffrey, Jeffrey." The second sound bite is just a moment later when Jeffrey talks about his improper share dealing with same woman, FU says, You really are utterly contemptible, aren't you" he goes on, "No background, no bottom, absolutely no informing principal but the will to survive. Just a plump little bag of squirming appetites."
Harsh,perhaps, but appropriate. If anyone knows where I can get those sound bites, please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
The San Pedro Beach Bums (1977)
I am a woman, but I still say, Football..You Bet!
The odd thing is, I had forgotten where that line came from until I looked up Stuart Pankin and saw this show and "The Line". I thought "OMG! THAT is where it comes from!"
1977-78 was my senior year in high school and I was so busy making sure I had my civic/scholastic ducks in a row for college resumes and a scholarship. I only watched a few of the episodes from the show, but I use the line a lot. Like every time my hubby and I get out of the car to go into Costco or Walmart, one of us says, "Football" and the other says "You Bet!"
It is always in the looking back, comparing shows of then to shows of today we think of the old ones as lame or boring or whatever the description. But truthfully, it is today's shows that are boring. All cookie cutter, all ridiculous angles and quick cuts. I stopped watching television in 2003. We have a TV to play DVD's, but television programming stinks anymore. Maybe if television programming had more "lame" programs like this I'd buy cable again...but I'm not holding my breath.