I think I'll paint my wagon...

[ForrestGump]

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Was this movie actually a musical, or am I confusing it with another?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. a...way out west..they got a name for wind and rain and fire...

yes it was a musical

on edit: who can forget Clint Eastwood's "I Talk to the Trees"

[ForrestGump]

4. One of the coolest musicals ever, too

:D

Where else can you see Clint Eastwood sing about talking to the trees?

I love that film.



Ben Rumson: Now, don't tell me you've never been with a woman.
Horton: No, sir I haven't.
Ben Rumson: Well, that, that's terrible! Did you know you could go blind?

***

Mrs. Fenty: You should read the Bible, Mr. Rumson.
Ben Rumson: I have read the Bible, Mrs. Fenty.
Mrs. Fenty: Didn't that discourage you about drinking?
Ben Rumson: No, but it sure killed my appetite for readin'!

***

Horace Tabor: Wait a minute! You can't buy a woman for money.
Mad Jack Duncan: You just try and get one without it.

***

Jacob Woodling: Quiet! Brigham Young has twenty seven wives and he hasn't had half the trouble with them that I've had with the two of you!
Elizabeth: Then simplify your life, Jacob. Sell me.
Jacob Woodling: But Elizabeth: you don't know what you'll get.
Elizabeth: I know what I've had.

***

Pardner: Ben, how's married life?
Ben Rumson: Pardner, it was so good that I forgot that I was married.

***

Elizabeth: Did you know that the Fenty's had an apple farm back in Pennsylvania?
Ben Rumson: Apple jack, huh?
Mr. Fenty: No, sir, we did not make apple jack!
Ben Rumson: Then, what did you grow the apples for?
Mr. Fenty: Mr. Rumson, do you think that everything that comes out of the earth should be used to make liquor?
Ben Rumson: Whenever possible, yes.

***

Parson: Ye godless jaspers! Who are ya? Freemasons? Rosicrucians? Heathen emissaries from the depths of Babylon? Boozers! Gluttons! Gamblers! Fornicators!
Steve Bull: Whassa fornicator?
Haywood Holbrook: I dunno. I ain't a religious man.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. It sure killed my appetite for readin'

I LOVED that line! :D but I think I'll paint your ass!


(and, no, that isn't a musical yet but I suspect if we rolled up our sleeves we could write it! :D)

[ForrestGump]

10. Let's do it

"Paint Your Ass"
(NSMA-Gump; published by ASCAP. Brisk polka)

I'm gonna paint your ass
And call it a piñata
Gonna paint that ass
And whack it like a mutha
Gonna paint your ass
And that'll do for starters
Here's the way of the world

I'm gonna tint that mule
The whole enchilada
Gonna tint that mule
And stick in my Lada
Gonna tint that mule
And buy some shoes at Prada
Here's the way of the world

(lead accordian solo)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. I was gonna do a take off on Maria

but I gotta leave...."Gastritis" will have to wait :D

[ForrestGump]

25. I can't wait!

:D

They call the wind....

[momophile]

8. this is one of my favorites!...

my Mom forced me to watch it as a teenager and I've loved it ever since. (my Mom also forced me to watch Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - didn't love it as much).

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. If you paint it red and then lose it

I'll help you go look for it.

[ForrestGump]

5. Thank you. If I paint it black, will you

help me keep Mick Jagger off of it?

[Elidor]

7. Whatever you do...

Don't pay Clint Eastwood to sing. Just a warning.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Now that's not very nice! If Eastwood had never sang in a movie,

we'd never have heard Keith Carradine sing "I'm Easy" in Nashville....I kinda think of both songs whenever I think of one

[Elidor]

11. That scene is so bad I could suffocate from laughter

I literally fell down on the floor and went into a hysterical spazz attack the first time I saw it. I was crying and choking and laughing all at the same time. The rest of the movie doessn't even exist for me, just that one scene.

[ForrestGump]

12. Actually,

he did a pretty good job with his vocalizing. :-)

Lee Marvin was another story, but it sure fit the part, and I love "Wandering Star" -- perfect with his grumbly intonations. It hit #1 on the charts.

I was born under a wandrin' star
I was born under a wandrin' star

Wheels are made for rollin'
mules are made to pack
I've never seen a sight that didn't look better looking back

I was born under a wandrin' star

Mud can make you prisoner, and the plains can bake you dry
Snow can burn your eyes, but only people make you cry
Home is made for comin' from, for dreams of goin' to
Which with any luck will never come true

I was born under a wandrin' star
I was born under a wandrin' star

Do I know where hell is?
Hell is in hello
Heaven is in goodbye for ever, it's time for me to go
When I get to heaven tie me to a tree
Or I'll begin to roam, and soon you know where I will be

I was born under a wandrin' star
A wandrin' wandrin' star

[Elidor]

14. I like that one

Had no idea it hit #1. Wow. But it is a deeply pleasant little tune.

Something about Clint holding a flower and singing about...whatever he was singing about...love, wasn't it? What else do you sing to flowers about under the moonlight? Yeah. I just wasn't ready for that.

And I'm still not. :rofl:

[ForrestGump]

26. I liked the contrast between his rather sweet singing and the patented

Clint Squint that he displayed a couple of times while singing. :D

[no name no slogan]

15. Gonna paint my wagon, gonna paint it fine

gonna use oil-based paint, because the wood is pine

[frogmarch]

16. I love PYW

and I think Clint's singing is really good in it. I heard him say in a TV interview once that he actually fell into acting. It wasn't his goal in life. His real dream was to become a jazz pianist. I think a son of his is a professional classical guitarist.

Lee Marvin didn't have a wonderful singing voice, but I liked it when he sang "Wandering Star" in the movie. Good song, and I thought his voice was just right for it.

[ForrestGump]

27. Yeah, Lee Marvin was great on that song...he MADE the movie, for me

If you watch the movies Clint has directed, jazz often pops up fairly significantly. It even did in Bridges of Madison County, and he directed Bird, didn't he?

I always get a bit sad when I see Jean Seberg. She's incredibly beautiful in this film, and what the FBI did to her was absolutely disgusting...Hoover deserves the worst possible posthumous hell for what happened to her, alone.

[merh]

17. Can I help you paint your wagon?

[ForrestGump]

28. Waggin'?

That's not my tail that's waggin'

:P




Who said that?

[merh]

37. Darlin', whatever nickname you want to give it is okay with me.

;)

[momophile]

18. Lee Marvin was my favorite drunk in movies...

Remember him in Cat Ballou - great drunk!

[frogmarch]

23. Marvin outdid himself

in Cat Ballou. He was fabulous.

So was that horse, the one that was leaning against the building with him on it. lol

[ForrestGump]

29. Yeah, he was great in "Cat Ballou"

He was the best thing about it, by far.

[ForrestGump]

36. One of my family members was involved with the production and told me

that Lee Marvin actually was drunk to one degree or another through much of the filming, starting with when they went out to meet him at the airport. :-)

[KitchenWitch]

19. Forrest!

I have MISSED you!

:cry:

[ForrestGump]

30. You need to work on your aim, then

:P

Hi!

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

32. LOL

:hug:

Hubba Hubba!

:woohoo:

[momophile]

20. I once voted with a line from this movie in mind:

Referring to Elizabeth being bid on by a bunch of men, her present husband says,
"Elizabeth, you don't know what you'll get"

and she says back, "I know what I've had!"

[ForrestGump]

31. True story!!

I'll remember that, next election... :D

[Ilsa]

21. Great movie! Wonderful music, intelligent premise, and

I love the line Elizabeth gave her Mormon husband when he threatened to auction her off. "Elizabeth, you don't know what you'll get," he tells her. "I know what I've had," she replies and all the men crack up laughing at him.

[ForrestGump]

33. I agree! And I like songs like this, that connect pretty deeply with me:

God made the mountains
God made the sky
God made the people
God knows why

He fixed up the planet
As best as He could
Then in come the people
And gum it up good

The first thing you know

They civilized the foothills
And everywhere He put hills
The mountains and valley below

They come along and take 'em
And civilize and make 'em
A place where no civilized
Person would go

The first thing you know
The first thing you know

They civilize what's pretty
By puttin' up a city
Where nothin' that's
Pretty can grow

They muddy up the winter
And civilize it inta
A place
Too uncivilized
Even for snow

The first thing you know

They civilize left
They civilize right
'til nothing is left
'til nothing is right

They civilize freedom
'til no one is free
No one except
By coincidence
Me

The first thing you know

The boozer's in prison
And the criminal he isn't
And only the rascals have gone

When I see a parson
I gotta put my arse in
A wagon that follows the tail of a crow

[Maddy McCall]

22. I have that movie. I've seen it 20 times, at least.

One of the best movies ever made. :hi:

[ForrestGump]

34. I don't know how many time I've watched it, too, but it's been a lot!

:D

It's a great one. Lee Marvin, in particular, never fails to crack me up in it.

:hug:

[Maddy McCall]

38. Especially when he's not melancholy. :-)

:hug:

Also love him in Cat Ballou. :hi:

[WCGreen]

24. Great Movie.....

I sang MAriah for my audition to deliver singing telegrams.....

[ForrestGump]

35. That's a great song

And Harve Presnell had quite the voice on it.

I used to sing it on a certain island I lived on, when the winds picked up and when I wanted to be just about anywhere but there (which was all the time).

I like what William Least Heat Moon wrote in Blue Highways, I think about Montana -- something like "they call the wind sonofabitch." :D

[WCGreen]

39. I read that book in the summer of sobriety....

2003....

When I was struggling with myself...

Trying to find myself....

And that book, a real life quest book, helped me get through the very tough spots....