Anyone have a favorite quote from Marnie? The film is full of neat little quips, especially from Mark. Mine would have to be:
(After Marnie and Marks encounter with Strutt at the party)
Mark: "5 Minutes! Iam five minutes behind you, and in those 5 minutes, you've got yourself up like a cat burglar, and packed for a world cruise!"
Just the WAY he says it...Its just so great!
Anyone else have a favorite?
I'd have to go with the incomparable Louise Latham's "There was this boy. . .Billi." and "Get up, Marnie, your achin' my leg." She's priceless!
Dale
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"the idea was to kill myself, not feed the damn fish".
share"I need to go freshen up"
"No, let's go, you are fresh enough already"
"Mr. Strutt, don't you remember? She didn't have any references at all!"
Dale
Mark:
"You're sure you haven't misplaced an old husband or two in your travels?"
Marnie:
"...to know that women are stupid and feeble, and men are filthy pigs!
In case you didn't recognize it; that was a rejection."
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In overall dialogue; Hitchcock loved to push the envenlope with suggestive word play between his leading men and ladies.
The script between Hedren and Rod Taylor upstairs at the pet store in 'The Birds' came close, but didn't quite touch the frank words between Hedren and Connery at the track races in 'Marnie' a year later. The censors were clearly not hip to the (disguised-by-gender) discussion between "blonded" Marnie and equine novice Mark, about placing a bet on a horse named Lemon Pudding.
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I assumed that I wouldn't have to define this.
Lemon pudding is crude slang, suggesting the same thing that Marnie's handbag did in the opening shot.
In origin, it referenced a blonde prostitute - or an otherwise promiscuous woman.
It's use in Marnie, has always raised eyebrows - and question marks. I'd heard about this scene in "Marnie" long before I saw the film.
Whether or not Hitchcock meant anything suggestive with "Lemon Pudding", is debatable.
The race horse in question, was male - ridden by a male jockey. Does this mean that the term's use was innocent? Or, was that Hitchcock's way of sneaking it by the censors?
I've heard all arguments - some work, some don't.
That this tiny piece of dialogue sparked controversy, no doubt pleased Hitchcock, and perhaps that was all it was meant to do. It's metaphorical value, if any, can be argued to armagedden.
Wow. I've never heard this (about the horse's name).
And, I was thinking I was the only one who noticed the opening handbag. IMHO, that's WAY more blatant…!
Thanks for posting..! (seven years ago..!)
Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
"I always thought a girl's best friend was her mother"
I just couldnt help but think of the oh-so-similar line from that other Hitchcock movie....you know the one ;-)
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Death is but a door, time is but a window...I will be back.
Mark Rutland: I'm fighting a powerful impulse to beat the hell out of you.
I love that one. I use it all the time...
"I want to be able to trust you. You know; It's about trust". -A.Rothstien
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1. Marnie to the horse in the beginning: "If you want to bite someone you should bite me"
2. Mark to Lil when they're off to their honeymoon: "We'll bring you back a noble savage"
“Oh, Furio; if you want to bite someone bite me.”
“Lady animals figure very largely as predators.”
“Your thinking is untidy, like most so-called thinking today.” (Murder, My Sweet)
I love Mark's response to what Marnie says here:
Marnie-
"You don't love me. I'm just something you caught. You think I'm some kind of animal you've trapped."
Mark-
"That's right, you are, and I've caught something really wild this time haven't I? I've tracked you and caught you and by god I'm gona' keep you."
"Git up, Marnie. You're achin' mah leg".
"We don't go for jokes about the Bible in this house, missy!"
And much of the dialog where Hedren regresses to childhood and speaks like a little girl is very good, too. Plus most of what all said above.
I really like Lil. She's awful in a delightful way.
After Marnie's bad dream - Mark and Lil are in her room. Marnie says she's cold and Lil looks at Mark and says "that's your department, isn't it, old boy?" Her look is classic.
And when Mark brings her horse and Marnie jumps up on the horse and rides off like a pro jockey - Lil says a couple of good things.
"Well, she did say she could ride a LITTLE."
and something like
"If you need help, Mark, I'm a fighter. I have no scruples whatsoever."
No kidding!
And Mark has a line after the Strutts show up at dinner. It's something like:
"You're the very well-known, friendless, orphan" to describe her charade.
I loved the whole word association thing between Marnie and Mark, especially towards the end.
"Red!" Jabs his finger.
"White-white-!" Scrambles to grab hold of the bed.
Or something like that.
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And when Mark brings her horse and Marnie jumps up on the horse and rides off like a pro jockey
Marnie-
"You don't love me. I'm just something you caught. You think I'm some kind of animal you've trapped."
Mark-
"That's right, you are, and I've caught something really wild this time haven't I? I've tracked you and caught you and by god I'm gona' keep you."
“Jane, be still; don’t struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.”
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”
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“God pardon me!” he subjoined ere long; “and man meddle not with me: I have her, and will hold her.”
"L’amour est un oiseau rebelleshare
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser,
Et c’est bien en vain qu’on l’appelle
S’il lui convient de refuser.
(Love is a rebellious bird
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain
if it suits him not to come.)"
"Oh, MEN! You say no to one of them and, bingo, you're a candidate for the funny farm!"
"..it's animal, degrading". (Marnie's opinion of marriage.)
"Men and a good name don't go together." (Marnie's mother's take on men.)
"I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes"!
Yes, my favorite quote by Sean, in response to "My name is Pussy Galore". Sean: "I must be dreaming". - Goldfinger, 1964
shareAt the racetrack, when Rutland was suggesting that they bet on the horse named "Telepathy," Marnie starts to have one of her "red" episodes and when Rutland asks why she advises not to bet on him and wants to leave, she replies without hesitation, "He's walleyed."
The horse went on to win by 4 lengths....
wall⋅eyed  /ˈwɔlˌaɪd/ Show Spelled [wawl-ahyd]
–adjective
1.having eyes in which there is an abnormal amount of the white showing, because of divergent strabismus.
2.having large, staring eyes, as some fishes.
3.marked by excited or agitated staring of the eyes, as in fear, rage, frenzy, or the like: He stood there in walleyed astonishment.
4.having an eye or the eyes presenting little or no color, as the result of a light-colored or white iris or of white opacity of the cornea.
"Was Fiji grisly?"
"...even something about computers!"
"It was LIL!"
"Do you remember when you were ten and you wanted to go to New York? I warned you then that travelling was a nasty business."
Slightly paraphrased, since I can't remember Mark's exact first line:
Mark: "Atlantic City's open 'til the end of the month. We can drive down there next weekend if you like."
"Alright....are you fond of horses?"
"No. Not at all."
Mark Rutland: Marnie, it's time to have a little compassion for yourself. When a child, a child of any age, Marnie, can't get love, it takes what it can get, any way it can get it. It's not so hard to understand.
Marnie, min mah leg.
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