jeudi, octobre 13, 2005

Amelie

Hello people
Hers something I could scoop up on Amelie

Quotes:
Amélie: It's better to help people than garden gnomes

Georgette: Vive la France.

Narrator
: Amélie still seeks solitude. She amuses herself with silly questions about the world below, such as "How many people are having an orgasm right now?"

Raymond Dufayel aka Glass Man
: So, my little Amélie, you don't have bones of glass. You can take life's knocks. If you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. So, go get him, for Pete's sake!

Amélie Poulain
: At least you'll never be a vegetable - even artichokes have hearts.

[Amélie hands a begger some money]
Beggar: Sorry madam, I don't work on Sundays.

Old Man at the Two Windmills: Still, true love does exist.
Suzanne, Owner Two Windmills bar: I know. After 30 years behind a bar, I'm an expert. I'll even give you the recipe. Take two regulars, mix them together and let them stew. It never fails.

Bretodeau, The Box Man: Time's funny. When you're a kid, it passes slowly, and next thing you're fifty and your childhood fits into a rusty little box.

Trivia:

The photo booth picture collection is based on a real collection created by a friend of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He is credited during the ending credits ("D'après la collection originale de Michel Folco"). A faux photo booth picture collection was created for the film, so that the rights to the real collection did not have to be purchased.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet originally started collecting the stories and memories that make up the story in 1974.

Yann Tiersen was not the original lineup for the soundtrack. Jean-Pierre Jeunet heard the song for the first time while he was being driven to the shooting location.

The one-legged man tap dancing on the TV clip is 'Sam 'Peg Leg' Jackson' , a blues singer

The traveling gnome was inspired a rash of similar pranks played out in England and France in the 1990s. In 1997, a French court convicted the leader of Front de Libération des Nains de Jardins (Garden Gnome Liberation Front) of stealing over 150 gnomes. The idea was later used in an advertising campaign for an Internet travel agency.

signing off
G

3 commentaires:

Anonyme a dit…

Hmmmmmm.....France....yet again....*sigh*
Amelie...il try n woch it....just hope dat i pass!

Dhruv a dit…

Hmph! Indeed, France FRANCE FFRRAANNNCEEE!!


you're Indian for god's sake. Atleast till you get a Green/Blue/Yellow Card or whatever other colours they come in.

Anyways, I must admit that though I've seen very little of Amelie, it did seem to be rather interesting!

Akhil a dit…

Heh Heh. I liked the scene where she takes the blind man for a quick sprint, also the whole senile old man thingy.

The best dialogue, I wonder if it's in IMDB's memorable quotes, is "A dead man afraid of being forgotten?" by the glass man.

Oh, and why is such that everyone in the movie has a "khundak" against lady di?