Posted by John Nichols on March 12, 2009 at 12:07:36 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: The Big Six. Was; AR's 'silly books' ? posted by Peter Ceresole on March 11, 2009 at 19:22:53:
And what Maureen O'Hara said to John Wayne in the last scene of the Quiet Man, which is still secret, but I would love to know.
Go on then. I'm not enough of an old movie buff to make sense of that one.
The Quiet Man is a great movie as it shows Ireland to some extent at the end of WW2. It is very similar in look and feel to the Irish RM books not the show. John Ford was the Director. JF wanted MO'H to say something to JW at the end of the show to have him chase her nicely in a husbandly sort of way up to their house, ie exit stage fade. We movie buffs gather that 2 of the 3 people who knew what was said are dead and the other one is not talking about it. But, it creates one of those great scenes in a great movie. I gather it was slightly risque, but the effect finishes a great movie.
In terms of AR one could quote any number of lines as being better than Shakespeare.
In terms of the two fishing lines, the first shows a young lad who has caught an improbable fish and does not have enough statitistical knowledge to know he is unlikely to repeat it, ie I have caught one hundred fish and one was 32#, against I have fished for 60 years and caught nothing over 10#, where the old man knows he will die without seeing his Valhalla. The D&G's are obvioulsy destined for greatness of some kind.
Of course that is the problem of stats, to hard to predict well.
JMN