tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post2271619188130453245..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Movie Moment, 9: Saved by SillinessFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-6731603251287221562008-06-12T12:15:00.000-05:002008-06-12T12:15:00.000-05:00Terrific example!For some of us (like me), movies ...Terrific example!<BR/>For some of us (like me), movies are practically a religion, and we quote from them the way Jews and Christians [used to] quote the psalms for comfort.<BR/><BR/>Here's one of my favorite comforting lines from "Moonstruck":<BR/>"EVERYTHING is temporary!"<BR/><BR/>Or as the King James Bible puts it:<BR/>"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away."<BR/>--1 Peter 1:24<BR/>I better put that in my Quotes of the Moment!Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-8501706943949631182008-06-12T11:39:00.000-05:002008-06-12T11:39:00.000-05:00For those who don't know, in "Moonstruck," Cosmo i...For those who don't know, in "Moonstruck," Cosmo is a wealthy Italian Brooklyn plumber who's just bid on replacing ancient pipes in a Brooklyn brownstone that a couple of older yuppies have bought to restore. Cosmo advocates replacing the pipes with copper, which is pricey.<BR/><BR/>Mona is Cosmo's girlfriend, the existence of whom his wife has begun to suspect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-63955690653245785222008-06-12T11:36:00.000-05:002008-06-12T11:36:00.000-05:00Oh, yes, and movies can save us from dreadful anxi...Oh, yes, and movies can save us from dreadful anxiety, especially at night when it's really dark. <BR/><BR/>For example, in fretting one night recently about the gigantic outlay of cash we just put down for a new boiler, SJG and I began to spontaneously quote from "Moonstruck." The saved-our-minds dialogue goes something like this:<BR/><BR/>Cosmo: The woman, she wanted to be cheap, but the man, he understood.<BR/><BR/>Mona: What did you tell him?<BR/><BR/>Cosmo: I told him, "It costs money. It costs money, because it saves money!"<BR/><BR/>Mona: Oh, Cosmo. You have SUCH a head for knowing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com