I did'nt get that joke....the insult Frenchy gave one of Ray's friends in their first apartment....
can anyone help?..
I thought it was a funny movie....btw
My thoughts... in Allen's 'Love and Death' Berdykov stroked a piece of velvet "for days". And the trained mouse might be a reference to the giant in "Of Mice and Men'. Both men were considered village idiots.
Kim
Well Frenchy does make a comment later that she "was a good student"...but couldn't afford college cause there was always some emergency. I can believe she would know this book.
shareshe was talking about Lenny from "Of Mice and Men." Does every one get the reference?
shareI believe that.
Because she did say in another part of the movie "I was a good student" before I started working.
That would explain how she would know of a story like that.
I think the appropiate way it was delivered was:
"The only thing missing from this guy is a piece of velvet and a pet mouse."
I crack up at the zing every time.
Just to back you up ...
"All that's missing from this guy is a piece of velvet and a pet mouse."
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/small-time-crooks-script-transcript.html
Very witty, but probably over most people's heads as it comes so completely out of nowhere. I certainly didn't get it.
It was a reference to "Of Mice and Men" by Steinbeck. That was what the retarded character Lennie liked to do, pet velvet and dead mice.
shareA totally out-of-character joke for a character who was so literarily-challenged she initially thought Henry James was bandleader Harry James, then corrected herself and identified him as author of "The Hair-ess". (Another funny--but way out-of-character--joke; James wrote "Washington Square," which was basis for film "The Heiress.")
Impossible to believe she had depth of knowledge to know these facts but still manage to screw them up so badly. Still, funny.
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the h is silent
oh, did he write that too