What was your favorite line from the movie. I have to be honest my favorite line was in Billy told Jigger that Julie was going to have a baby and Jigger says...
"So What about it?
"Nuthin'" Billy.
Then comes my fav. line.
"My mother had a baby once!"
I laugh at that all the time. I know I'm a bit of a dork. But I think that it's funny.
I have to admit that "My mother had a baby once" makes me laugh every time too. But my favourite would have to be, "You were right about there being no wind. The blossoms are just coming down by themselves. It's just their time to, I reckon." So simple, yet profound.
share"I loved you, Julie. Know that I loved you."
shareMy favourite line is ' my mother had a baby once'. lol
shareThat line is good too. That almost always makes me cry or gives me a lump in my throat.
shareThe "I loved you Julie. Know that I loved you." is my second favorite line. The line "My mother had a baby once!" Is just the best. Like I said it's my favorite.
shareMy favorite line is Carrie's.
In response to her husband saying,
"You'd think that a woman who had none children would have more sense!"
She says,
"If I had more sense, I wouldn't have had nine children!"
Sam Tomaino
One line of the Ephrons, not in the play, I always found poignant came from Mr. Bascombe: "Where do you think you're escaping to--the sky?"
And how about this bring-out-the-hanky admission by Julie to her dead husband: "There's somethin' I never told you. Skeered you'd laugh at me. I'll tell you now. I love you. I love you. (her voice breaking) I love you."
It just seems to me it is not the funny lines--good as they are--the rest of you have been citing that really separate "Carousel" from other musicals, but the emotional ones.
Though I stand by my pick I have to say that all the lines that have been mentioned are very good ones.
shareThis wonderful screenplay--full of great lines--is ONE of the reasons this is one of my very favorite films.
shareBest line for me is when Billy explains he doens't have a cent and says "Money thinks I'm dead." My dad and I used that line for years, and now he's dead so when I watched this film today with my own kids I was crying my eyes out. But it's a great line.
shareA line with foreshadowing! A few hours later, Billy WOULD be dead--because of money!
Thanks for your post; I too have a personal connection with this film--for me, it's my late grandfather.
There used to be a book called "Six Plays by Rodgers and Hammerstein", published in the 1950's by Modern Library. I got it when I was in high school. If it's out-of-print now, it should be brought back.
But I did see a revival with that line cut. Billy simply ran offstage, where he was shot by one of the policemen (rather than stabbing himself or falling on his knife).
I agree with those who picked:
"I loved you, Julie. Know that I loved you." When Julie senses Billy's presence in her front yard after he slaps Louise and then again at Louise's graduation, I get chills every time.
Rorysa - Who is your late grandfather?
shareHe took me to see "Carousel" when it was re-released when I was about seven years old. I had known nothing about it (or R & H, for that matter) and was totally blown away by it.
shareWhat a wonderful memory. I would have loved to have seen "Carousel" on the big screen. I grew up watching it on TV. It's one of my very favorite movies and is definitely my favorite musical.
shareI've gotten to see it several times on the big screen over the years, as our Museum of Fine Arts or a local theater showing classic films would screen it. And you're right, it's a great experience.
shareWhen was it ever re-released? I thought it had only one run in theatres because it was a box office flop. I saw it for the first time in 1966, on television, and that was only ten years after it was made.
shareIt is a fact that I saw it in a theater about 1963. It was the second half of a double feature, as I recall. It may not have been part of a nation-wide re-release. I think that some films in those days were re-released on more of an ad hoc basis to fill out double-features. Unlike today, many theaters then were individually owned, not part of a big chain, and they made their own deals with distributors. However it worked, I am very grateful that particular theater ran it when I happened to be there, because I was HOOKED!
Since then I've seen it in at least three different art-house/non-first run theaters, all of which rented it for limited showings.
Can't decide between the two "I love you" lines - Julie's when Billy's just died, & Billy to Julie at the graduation. Shame they were never able to exchange the lines when they were both alive - makes them more meaningful when actually said.
Catriona x
[green]"A little love never spoiled anybody" - Kitty Moran, "My Blue Heaven" [green]
"I loved you, Julie. Know that I loved you."
For sure. That line makes me tear up a little every time I watch this movie! I can't help it; I'm such a hopeless romantic.
~ Quod me nutrit me destruit ~
What nourishes me also destroys me