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Thread #127600   Message #2852372
Posted By: alanabit
28-Feb-10 - 02:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films
Subject: RE: BS: Unfortunate quotes from films
I can't remember anything that bad from Lawrence's books MtheGM, but as I have not read them for over twenty years, I will take your word for it. Nothing quite sticks in my mind quite like the line from the wretched "David", "Oh woman come and know me!" which you can neither play for rhetoric and somehow does not come across as erotic. Then there is the stage direction from the same atrocity, "Throws himself to the ground in a paroxysm of grief." (I should think the poor director might have cause to!)

Going back to films, I am surprised to be the first here to mention the Roman soldier at the foot of the cross in Cecile B de Mille's "The Greatest Story Ever Told" - "There truly was the son of God!" (drawled by John Wayne). Only he could have introduced comedy to a scene like that.