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    Carry On Scriptwriting

    Ever heard a line in a film that could have come straight out of the mouth of Sid James or Hattie Jacques? Double entendres, crude innuendo or downright filth, it can be the best line in a film, so why not share it.

    While you're at it give it a mark out of five:
    1* Hyuk Hyuk
    2* Ooh saucy
    3* Stop messin' about
    4* Ooh Matron
    5* That's quite enough of that, Dr Nookey

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    Carry On Scriptwriting

    For my part (fnarr) I'll give you a quote from Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie is looking at a cut on Mel's hand.
    MG: It's just a graze.
    JLC: No, that's a gash. I'm a nurse, I know a gash when I see one.

    That's got to be worth an Ooh Matron.

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      Carry On Scriptwriting

      Not a film, (though the book's been filmed enough times) but my younger self was greatly struck by a line from Jane Austen's Emma

      He ejaculated in her ear.

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        Carry On Scriptwriting

        I always giggle at "He says he will return incontinent" from Othello.

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          Carry On Scriptwriting

          From "The Blob", Steve McQueen, "Stand back. I don't know how big this is gonna get!"

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            Carry On Scriptwriting

            There's a line in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones where Sophia is described as (from memory) "thrusting her hands vigorously into her muff in order to keep warm."

            It is always possible that if one were to go back to the eighteenth century and buttonhole Fielding about this, he'd raise an eyebrow, waggle his Restoration wig and say "played for".

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