I love this movie, I thought it was hysterical, especially Jennifer Tilly. But there is a scene where she is playing cards, and Nicky wants to flirt with her and she keeps brushing him off. Anyway, he wants to open this new wine, and she looks at him and says something like "pasadena?" and walks off. I do not get what she means, or maybe I just cannot understand her funny but annoying voice!
shareDon't remember this particular exchange, but I'll hazard a guess...
The movie is set during Prohibition. Back then, the gov't only allowed the production of alcholic beverages for religious or medicinal purposes. If the wine came from Pasadena, it would be next door to cough medicine. If you wanted quality wine or liquour, you'd have to smuggle it in.
Olive expected Nicky to give her the best of everything. Going from how she rejected his "defective" black pearls, she'd probably settle for nothing less than a fine wine "brewed" in Paris, France.
Nope, sorry, that's not it. "Pasadena" is just a way of saying "I'll pass." Other people in the same situation will say "El Paso."
shareOHHHH!!! Thank you for clearing that up for me! I have never heard people saying that, but Ill think Ill use it.
shareThe whole point of using that phrase was to make her look even more ditzy.
I wouldn't suggest you use it unless you don't mind putting that image across.
I disagree with it being used to make her look more ditzy. I think it's more just a cutesy thing.
"My brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome."share
So much for that theory, rorshock-1.
shareIt's just Woody and Douglas McGrath's script employing 1920's slang, of which the script abounds.
My favorite is Cheech's put down of "Sins of the Fathers": "It stinks on *beep* hot ice!" I heard my grandfather use the expression from time to time (minus the F word)