After Bjornstrand's character clumsily falls into a huge mud puddle, he asks Dahlbeck, who has just placed a silly-looking nightcap on his head, "How can a woman love a man?" Dahlbeck replies, "She can turn out the lights."
shareAs a former student of theatre, my favorite quote is from old Mrs. Armfeldt, when she's throwing a party for her daughter's friends:
"Who are we inviting? If they are actors, they'll have to eat in the stables."
Ha!
Cheers, all.
EP in DC
"I don't want life to imitate art; I want life to BE art." -- Postcards from the Edge
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I really laughed a lot when i saw this film. .P
SO funny. They must've had a lot of fun, shoting this. :P How can anyone be so riddiculous like Jarl Kulle's character? :P
(as a little trivia, Ingmar Bergman lives in the same house as one of my best friends. :P)
No, he solely lives in his house at Fårö nowadays... :-)
shareApparently there was some ill humour and irritation seething during the shoot, but like the S&G "Bridge over Troubled water" album, this is one of those things where the commitment to creating subsumed the anger and tiredness that surrounded its birth.
shareCould you please expand on this, Strausszek? What were some of the specific problems?
shareWell, Bergman has spelt out sometimes that there was a great deal of tension during the shooting of the movie: he felt ill (indigestion) and got short-tempered with the actors and I think shortly before starting filming, SF (Svensk Fimindustri) had turned down his script for "The seventh Seal" which made him justifiably angry.
In "Bergman on Bergman" he quotes a note in the filming diary by his longtime script girl Katinka Farago, saying, like "for the umpteenth time X yells at Y and everybody's very tired and just feeling they wanna cry".
It does make me think of the stories surrounding "Bridge over troubled water" -I remember reading an interview where Art Garfunkel said quite candidly "there was a lot of fighting and differences about how to do things, and I recall thinking "When this is over I want a long rest from Paul Simon. And I'm positive he feels the same. If he doesn't, he's crazy." "
My favorite line would have to be the quote during the early stage play that people in love are constantly juggling 3 balls - and on from there. Funny quotation, excellent delivery, and then great exposition of the quotation in the rest of the movie.
sharehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048641/quotes
One I like:
Desiree Armfeldt: For once, I was truly innocent.
Mrs. Armfeldt: It must have been early in the evening.
"Desiree Armfeldt: For once, I was truly innocent.
Mrs. Armfeldt: It must have been early in the evening."
A good one. ;)
I love Madame Armfeldt's line that goes something like "You can never protect another person from suffering - that is what makes one so terribly tired."
"I don't use a pen: I write with a goose quill dipped in venom!"---W. Lydecker
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