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[fufaraw]

Everybody knows, right? that Dean was quoting Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke?

(I can't get the vid to embed, so you get a link)

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=tightropetb&p=cool+hand+luke+failure+to+communicate#id=4&vid=ebaba4e0d4501f0ce6a414706acbe305&action=view

Comments

[tabaqui]

YES! And i loved it.

Because it just points back to endless days and nights in crappy hotel rooms, with basic cable and all the ancient westerns and prison dramas and stupid sitcoms you can shake a stick at.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

What she said! And the second time that they referenced the movie. :)

[fufaraw]

Oh, was it? Man, the first time must have just been so apt I really didn't make note of it--when was it, do you remember?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

It was 9x5, Dog Dean Afternoon, wherein they play with the line, "Still shakin' it, Boss, shakin' it!"

[fufaraw]

Oh, right! I remember that now. Thanks for the memory jog.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I adored it :D It just reminds me that all they did was crappy cable in motels, as kids, and it sank in!

[fufaraw]

Childhood influences remain strong, it's true!

[anniespinkhouse.livejournal.com]

I guessed he was quoting something (he revels in doing just that) but no, not a film I know, whether because it is U.S. centric or just wrong era (though I suspect we're similar ages). There wasn't much TV watching before I was 14 though - and only holiday binges then because stuffy old boarding schools didn't have television (except for the News on a communal TV) back then. Imagine the fuss that ban would cause now!

[fufaraw]

I can imagine! But then, tv's almost been superceded by streaming and online rentals-there's not much appointment tv anymore.

I do remember staying up late on Friday and Saturday nights though, watching 40s and 50s b/w movies on late night.

Yes, it is an oldie, c. 1967. If you've ever been a Paul Newman fan, Cool Hand Luke is a classic. It's about the Florida prison system in the 40s and 50s. It's amazing character work by Martin and George Kennedy and Newman himself, plus a cast of actors who collectively did an awful lot of film and tv work in the last half of the 20th century.

If you can rent it or stream it, it's certainly well worth watching. Not as pretty as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but a Newman classic.