Off topic: A game for people who love movies ...

[sweetnpied]

I know! Such an appropriate line for this forum. "You were willing to compromise your virtue for a meatball."

[capistrano37]

WAIT A MINUTE!!! I JUST noticed something! A little bit of a technicality here, but we might need a ruling. The musical/movie is actually, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon BARBER of Fleet Street." Mrs. Lovett was the baker. Sweeney Todd was the barber who would shave many of his customers a little too close for Mrs. Lovett to use as the meat in her pies. I guess knowing it was Depp as Todd and Burton as director/producer it should count. But I don't know. Anyone have a rule book handy?

D'oh, how could I mess up the name of the movie like that? You are indeed 100 percent correct, but since someone else has already gotten mine, I guess the game should continue on..

[MJ.]

I know! Such an appropriate line for this forum. "You were willing to compromise your virtue for a meatball."

Lady and The Tramp?

[sweetnpied]

LOL, No, MJ. Interesting guess, though!

[sweetnpied]

I think I'd better give up quoting from movie-musicals. (I promised earlier I'd stop quoting from Broadway musicals that became movies... well, I did stop. This was a major motion picture first in 1982 that later became a Broadway musical in 1995.)

Okay, here's a clue. Not a very big one, but a clue nonetheless. The lead actress in this movie actually pulled this same trick some twenty years apart with two totally different movies. On each occasion, she was the lead actress in an Oscar-nominated movie that years later took the original movie/musical and presented it on Broadway as a live musical. So in each of these, the movie came first, and then the Broadway show version later. The quote I've used is from the more recent of these two movies (the 1982 movie that became a Broadway show in 1995). The previous movie this actress appreared in that later became a Broadway show was first a movie released in 1964, but was not brought to Broadway until 2006, with a different lead actress, of course.

The 1964 movie the actress appeared in was a BIG hit. It made her famous. The 1982 movie/musical was not nearly as big in popularity. A bit more of a cult classic.

And another clue, the lead actor in the movie that's quoted by me (in fact, he's the one that says the quoted line about compromising one's virtual in exchange for a meatball), was also the lead actor in a movie/musical at least twenty-five years earlier, although his musical WAS on Broadway first (in 1957), and then became a movie (in 1962). In this "other movie" he was the lead actor in both the Broadway version and the movie version.

However, in the movie that the quote is from, this actor was NOT carried over to the Broadway version of it even though his leading lady WAS(probably because he died in 1987, some 8 years before it went on Broadway).

Okay, now that I've given you several obscure and probably confusing clues, if nobody gets this in a day or two, I'll give more obvious clues.

Actually, before I signed off on this post, I thought I'd give you a couple of more clues.

This actress in being discussed in this post has appeared in two other musicals that started out on Broadway and later became big-hit movies. In one she appeared in the Broadway show (in 1960) but did not make it to the later movie version (in 1967), something that bothered a lot of people at the time because the actress who appeared in the movie version couldn't sing. She had to be dubbed.

In the second Broadway musical that became a big-hit movie, this actress was in the movie (in 1965), but not the original Broadway musical (in 1959), which also caused a lot of controversy, because those who had seen the Broadway musical demanded that the Broadway actress carry over to the movie. This particular movie is also one of the all-time top money-making movie musicals ever.

[Mike Nomic]

I know! Such an appropriate line for this forum. "You were willing to compromise your virtue for a meatball."

That's 'Victor Victoria'.

OK, from a cult '60s movie: -

"Oh ... oh, I've got a helmet".

[sweetnpied]

I know! Such an appropriate line for this forum. "You were willing to compromise your virtue for a meatball."

That's 'Victor Victoria'.

Great, Mike. Okay, to fill in the previous clues. The actress is Julie Andrews who became a big star world-wide with the famous 1964 Disney movie "Mary Poppins" which is currently running on Broadway. The Broadway musical turned movie where Andrews appeared in the former but not the latter was "Camelot" with Vanessa Redgrave playing Guenevere (and Richard Harris replacing Broadway's Richard Burton). The other major musical performed by Andrews in the movie version but not Broadway was "Sound of Music." (Mary Martin, who played the lead in both the Broadway and movie versions of "South Pacific" was the original Maria in the Broadway version of Sound of Music). And finally, the male lead in "Victor/Victoria" was Robert Preston who had the lead in both the Broadway and movie versions of "Music Man."

And I have not a clue what Mike's quote is. I think I should, because I am quite a follower of cult classics. But can't come up with this one, at least not yet.

[capistrano37]

OK, from a cult '60s movie: -

"Oh ... oh, I've got a helmet".

Can you give us any hints? Two weeks and nobody's even guessed so far..

[TheTruePhantasm]

i wanna say easy rider for the "Oh ... oh, I've got a helmet"


hears one for you

"What do you want me to do, put salt on her tail?"

[Mike Nomic]

i wanna say easy rider for the "Oh ... oh, I've got a helmet"

Well done Phantasm ... spot on!!

Mike.

[Mz_Mess]

Okay, my favourite movie of all time here, hope someone knows it:

'Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.'

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[sweetnpied]

Wait a minute? Did anyone ever solve TruePhantom's clue? Isn't that a prerequisite for the next clue?

[Mz_Mess]

Wait a minute? Did anyone ever solve TruePhantom's clue? Isn't that a prerequisite for the next clue?

ack, sorry, thought I'd put it in my comment. *blonde moment*

It's 'Attack of the 50 foot woman'??

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[sweetnpied]

Thanks MM. I was DYING to find out the answer to that one. I've seen both versions, but obviously didn't remember the line. Which is a little odd for me because I'm am such a fan of great lines like that one. Is it in the 1950s version, the relatively recent one with Daryl Hannah or both? (Not that I need you to answer that, but just curious.) And I KNOW I've heard your clue. Fuck it if I can't remember from what film.

[sweetnpied]

I've got it. (Okay, I cheated. I was so desperate to say the next line that I came across recently that I called hubby at work and asked him, and he knew it.)

The Princess Bride.

Now for a line that's not 100% appropriate for this forum, but damn close enough.

"My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!"

And the line that follows HAS to be included:

"Let's strike a flint and see."

And this is from one of my top 5 favorite movies.