Classic Film Texts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If characters in classic films texted each other, what would they say?

Double Indemnity - Walter and Phyllis

Walter: Hey bebe

Phyllis: Oh.  Hi.

Walter: Itll be just you and me tomorrow night bebe

Phyllis: I can’t wait for the fat lard to be dead. Then I’ll finally have peace. And money.

Walter: You’ll finally have me, bebe

Phyllis: Right.

Walter: Oh bebe.  I love you so much!

Phyllis: i <3 u 2

Walter: I

Walter: L

Walter: O

Phyllis: I get it.

Walter: V

Walter: E

Phyllis: I’ll throw my phone into the pool.  Stop.

Walter: Y

Walter: O

Walter: U

Phyllis: I’m going to kill you.

Walter: hahaha oh bebe you don’t have it in you to do that to me.

Phyllis: …No.  I don’t.  Lola’s boyfriend is here.  ttyl

Walter: :* <3 See you tonight bebe.  I’ll be with you strait down the line

The Thin Man – Nick and Nora

Nick Charles: We’re out of gin.

Nora Charles: did  u drink it all again?

Nick: That was you last night, remember?

Nora: no…ur typing as if u were intoxicated. u always type better when ur drunk

Nick: You must be sloshed yourself.

Nora: not yet. with a snooty wife of some important person at the astoria

Nick: Astor!

Nora: weve talked about this

Nick: He sniffed out a dead body in the ally next to our apartment.  Brilliant mutt.  I am now investigating this poor sod’s death.

Nora: hence the gin

Nick: I can’t think without the drink

Nora: keep it up and you wont be a thin man anymore

Nick: Then we’ll have to attend AA

Nora: lmao!

Nick: LMAO!

Gene Kelly and Judy Garland – 1944-1948

Gene Kelly: Can I see you tonight?

Judy Garland: Idk, I have a date with Minnelli.

Gene: I have to see you!  My love for you won’t fit in 140 characters.

Judy: I know another place it wants to fit in.

Gene: You dirty angel I LOVE YOU

Judy: I’ll see if I can break our date.  I’ll just feign exhaustion again.

Gene: You’re the best actress I know.  Oh, my goddess.

Judy: I held up production the morning after we had our last date.  Mayer wasn’t too happy.

Gene: You have Vince and Freed around your delicate, talented pinky

Judy: The sucker ingested my whole, pitiful story.  Where to meet?

Gene: The second L behind the Hollywoodland sign?

Judy: See you soon.

Gene: <3

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – George and Martha

Martha: WHERE THE FRACK ARE U?!?!?!?!?

George: Where the frack are you?  The grad ceremony started 20 min ago and your father is sternly looking at me.

Martha: thats next week U DUMBASSS

George: Then why are hundreds of people sitting in one room donning a gown and cap?

Martha: becuz youre all idiotic baboons

George: Your typing is so horrible I can’t tell if you’re hammered or not.  The same applies to face to face communication.

Martha: FLJFODJFOEFNEOFDFNODSFNOFEOFJDFMK!!!

Martha: R those withered daisys there?

George: Honey is either actually 10 months pregnant, inflated with a hysterical pregnancy, or just cruelly obese.

Martha: jab a pin in her belly.  1 in 3 chances she’ll deflate.

George: There’s the sense of humour I married.

Hooray for Hays!

For those of you who have the pleasure of hearing “old movies are boring” from co-workers, friends, and family — fret no more! Our newest episode, “Hooray for Hays”, debunks their theory by addressing the sex and schmaltz of Pre-Code films and supporting the creativity used by filmmakers under the infamous Motion Picture Production Code. Katie and Hilary play devil’s advocate and defend the Code in this informative and entertaining podcast. Listen to find out if you belong in the “duped” or “clued in” category and enjoy some of the most risque and quotable lines from the Golden Era!

Dangerous Dames: Barbara Stanwyck

To continue our Dangerous Dames Series, we invited a scholarly guest to join us on our show. Jonathan Aaron Baker discusses film noir, femme fatales, and briefly Barbara Stanwyck to shed light on the formula that makes up a “dangerous dame”. One of the most important twists he adds to the show is a literary background to well-known classic films.

Stanwyck's purposefully "awful" wig in Double Indemnity (1944). (Photo courtesy of doctormacro.info)

One of the famous scenes in Double Indemnity (1944) consists of fast-paced, steamy delivery of double entendres between Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck) and Walter Neff (MacMurray).

"I wish you'd tell me what's engraved on that anklet." Double Indemnity (1944). (Photo courtesy of doctormacro.info)

Jonathan mentions writer Raymond Chandler in the podcast and his supposed cameo appearance. Do you think it’s him?

In the 1946 film The Big Sleep, Bogie and Bacall team up for the second time; proceeding To Have and Have Not (1944), the film which sparked their onset romance. They would appear in two more films together (Dark Passage and Key Largo) as man and wife.

“And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine” The Big Sleep (1946)

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall "The Big Sleep" (1946). (Photo courtesy of doctormacro.info)

Barbara Stanwyck was referred to as “The Best Actress Who Never Won an Oscar”. Although she was rarely a “dangerous dame”, her performances in other roles (especially comedic) exemplify Stanwyck’s capabilities onscreen. Other film recommendations for Barbara Stanwyck: Ball of Fire (1941), The Lady Eve (1941), Meet John Doe (1941), Night Nurse (1931).

Barbara Stanwyck. "Ball of Fire" (1941). (Photo courtesy of doctormacro.info)