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I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it.
2001:ASPACEODYSSEY(1968)dir. Stanley Kubrick
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The prairies, and wind leaning on the tall grass, lazy streams down in the meadows, angry little midgets of water up in the mountains. Cattle moving down the slope, against the sun. Campfires and snowdrifts. Everybody ought to have some of that, sometime in his life.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) dir. Frank Capra
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The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda/ The Making of OHMSS by Charles Helfenstein
In 1963, when Chicago journalist Roy Newquist told [Ian] Fleming of his displeasure with killing Tracy off in OHMSS, Fleming defended the tragic ending: “Well, James Bond couldn’t really be married. I can’t have him settling down. His wife would be irritated with his constantly going abroad, she’d change his way of life, his friends, and Bond would worry about the measles epidemic back home and his own faithfulness and – no, it can’t be done.” Fleming went on to explain that [Raymond] Chandler ran into the same problem with [his character] Marlowe, who was going to marry a French Countess and slowly lose his identity in catering to her wishes: “He’d take to the bottle, and between her wealth and his faults, the personality of Marlowe would be quashed. So in OHMSS I took the easy way out. Tracy is no more.”
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Though I’m left without my Penny
The wolf was not smart, he left me my heart
And so, I cannot go for anything
But the la belle, la perfectly swell romance
Never gonna dance, never gonna dance
Only gonna love you
Never gonna dance
FRED ASTAIRE andGINGER ROGERS inSWING TIME (1936)
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Why, I’ve never even thought of marriage. Well, it would mean giving up a whole way of thinking, behaving… a whole existence. I don’t know if I could. But I wish I could… Oh, I wonder, I wonder. I wonder if I could.
KIM NOVAK andJAMES STEWART inBELL,BOOKANDCANDLE(1958)
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