"What he did to Shakespeare we are doing now to Poland."
One of the greatest movie quotes EVER!
I love that line!
I also love the "ham" running gag.
- Greenberg: Mr. Rawitch, what you are I wouldn't eat.
Rawitch: How dare you call me a ham?
- “I hate to leave my country in the hands of a ham”.
Let's see if you bastards can do 90.
I like the:
"Jump!"
"Hile Hitler!"
"Hile Hitler!"
"...obliging fellows, weren't they?"
"Hile Hitler!"
"Hile myself."
Awesome movie. How is it that my favorite classics are never in the top 250, whereas the most boring snoozefests always seem to grab a top spot?
Oh, no, I'm not tired. But my finger is!
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To Be or Not to Be is certainly one of the best Hitler/Nazi satires ever made.
It's probably the best--I can't think of any other Hitler/Nazi satires, except The Great Dictator, and I haven't seen it.
My favorite line is Carole Lombard's entrance:
Think of me being flogged in the darkness, scream, suddenly the lights go on and the audience discovers me on the floor in this gorgeous dress!
Sobinski: You might not believe it, but I can drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.
Maria Tura: Really?
Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: Does that interest you?
Maria Tura: It certainly does.
I don't get how that is a double entendre. Sometimes I think that with our modern perspective we sometimes recolor things in our own minds to mean something different than what was intended for the time. I just think it helps to remember sometimes that not everything was a dirty joke.
shareTrue, our modern perspective probably makes us interpret things in the dirtiest way possible wayyy too often, but the way Carole Lombard reacts makes it seem like very deliberate innuendo. It's her expression I guess, I just don't think she'd really be that dazzled if they were JUST talking about airplanes. LOL.
Plus the double meaning is kind of reinforced when she repeats it back to him, "this is the first time I've met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes." Maybe the fact that she doesn't say anything about the plane at all there, just "man"? I dunno. To me it almost looks like he meant it innocently, but HER mind went elsewhere haha...
And this is a Lubitsch picture, after all!
"I'm not drunk, I just had a little sip or so and then all those buffaloes ran over me..."
i agree that double entendres were there at the time.
i found some carbon copys of "dirty jokes" in ww2 era peoples files,just like e-mails now.
we forget that the people of the era were young just like we are/were.
sorta like we do not want to imagine our parents having oral sex.
Ha...and yet, they did...and maybe better at it than you or me!
shareI just think it helps to remember sometimes that not everything was a dirty joke.
Yeah, Maria was just a really big fan of bombing raids. That's clearly what she meant.
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I WANT THE TRUTH! http://www.imdb.com/list/ze4EduNaQ-s/
That's probably my favourite line ("Heil myself!"), among many excellent ones, from this great movie that I watched for the first time early this morning. It holds up incredibly well and is beautifully clever and risque for a post-Hays Code production.
When Joseph is lamenting that "someone" (though we know who) walked out on his "to be or not to be" soliloquy...
Joseph: "But he walked out on me!"
Maria: "Maybe he didn't feel well. Maybe he had to leave. Maybe he had a sudden heart attack!"
Joseph: "I hope so."
Maria: "If he stayed, he might have died!"
Joseph: "Maybe he's dead already! Oh, darling, you're so comforting!"
If you tickle us, do we not laugh? http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=8093247
The line that OP mentioned is my favorite quote in comedy cinema(the other one is Nobody s Perfect. you all know from what movie!)
Woody Allen was also influenced by that line(watch Annie Hall where Alvy jokes about Eisenhower)
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"Here you have a man with a beard and you didn't even pull it!"
"So they call me Concentration Camp Erhart."
Come on... :-) I never get tired of quoting that one.
That was HILARIOUS! Really funny!
share"So they call me Concentration Camp Erhart."
Come on... :-) I never get tired of quoting that one.
"So they call me Concentration Camp Erhart."
Come on... :-) I never get tired of quoting that one.
I love that line. Brilliant and funny (even the fake chuckle afterwards). This is one of the great comedies of all time.
shareMy favorite is when Tura-as-Silensky meets the real Colonel Ehrhardt and they mimic the previous scene with Tura-as-Ehrhardt and Silensky. Colonel Ehrhardt says the line above, just how Tura did, and Tura-as-Silensky says, "I thought you would react just like that!" Perfect satire of both Nazis and an egomaniacal actor at the same time.
shareyeah, that dialogue by JT was just perfect deliverance.
I love the Shakespeare-Poland line as well. The whole movie is very good.
Don't forget the follow-up when Tura told it to the real Erhardt.
"I thought that's how you would react!" He feels so relieved that his instinct as an actor is vindicated!
Something like:
If I don't come back, all is forgiven
(Turns to leave, then turns back)
But if I do come back you're in a lot of trouble.
--
GEORGE
And all's fair in love and war?
MRS. BAILEY
[primly] I don't know about war.
The delivery of that line was top notch.
I myself loved the "Heil Myself" line, "it will get a laugh"
Come at the king, you best not miss.
One of my favorites is the way Jack Benny yawns his way through the "Heil Hitler" during the opening rehearsal scene, then quickly repeats it properly.
I also love the bit where his conversation with Colonel Earhardt mirrors the rehearsal scene, vis-a-vis the line about how Hitler will end up as a cheese, and the apoplectic attempt to explain the wisecrack, ending with a round of "Heil Hitler!" from everyone in the scene.