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If You Think Clean Coal Technology Is The Answer
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:25:33 -0800, Gaston Ryan Coake
wrote in pan.2009.01.10.07.25.25.840684@numb_and_incoheren t: On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:25:15 -0900, Floyd L. Davidson wrote: "Bill Graham" wrote: In the movie, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", the Mexican Bandit said to Humphrey Bogart, "We don't need ANY stinking badges". He did not use a double negative. You too can find a clip of the movie on YouTube.com, where you'll find that the actual dialog in the movie is, "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges." He not only used a double negative, he used it twice. Memorable quotes for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/quotes Gold Hat: Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges. OK, all clear? Fine. Now, the film was directed by the legendary John Huston, and he also wrote the screenplay. But great Directors are seldom good writers of screenplays. Stories, maybe, but screenplays are a very different form of writing, and dialogue is exceptionally hard to do well. Often dialogue writers are used, and are seldom credited. ... This movie is considered one of the greatest of all time (AFI #38, Roger Ebert's 100), so I'd say Huston did a pretty good job, double negatives and all. After all, a great many people speak in double negatives routinely. -- Best regards, John Panasonic DMC-FZ8, DMC-FZ20, and several others |
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If You Think Clean Coal Technology Is The Answer
"John Navas" wrote in message ... Gold Hat: Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges. OK, all clear? Fine. Now, the film was directed by the legendary John Huston, and he also wrote the screenplay. But great Directors are seldom good writers of screenplays. Stories, maybe, but screenplays are a very different form of writing, and dialogue is exceptionally hard to do well. Often dialogue writers are used, and are seldom credited. ... This movie is considered one of the greatest of all time (AFI #38, Roger Ebert's 100), so I'd say Huston did a pretty good job, double negatives and all. After all, a great many people speak in double negatives routinely. Yes, but seldom do the Hispanics........ |
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