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Circus Bus Dialogue

posted 17 years ago by sweett310
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Midget: "No vote, I hate voting!"
Bones: "FASCIST!"

This scene actually made me laugh out loud, but also got me to thinking about theaters in the 1940's. To me in 2008, this was a humorous line, but given the tone of the whole movie (patriotism), I can just imagine movie-goers in 1942 seeing this as a fight for freedom. Given how even this movie portrays movie theaters of the time as being overly-expressive (the scene in which the entire theater is laughing while a woman threatens a man with a gun), it makes me wonder if people would have cheered this line, that I now find hilarious.

Kinda makes me wish I had a time machine to see what the movie-going experience was like back then.

"You know what I'm gonna tell god when I see him? I'm gonna tell him I was framed."

[–] rexshard93 17 years ago

It was Hitchcock and Dorothy Parker who put that political joke in the script.

[–] whitelion43 16 years ago

[–] cash_carstar 15 years ago

the Movie going experiance was vastly different then. remember there were no DVD players or even TV so Radio and Movies were the main entertainment at that time. Great Movie plalaces were built to seat up to a thousand people at a time were built to seat up to a thousand people at a time

These are superficial differences. As much as things change, they stay the same. I've read test audience comments for The Magnificent Ambersons and they are just as stupid as comments about films today.

"That's what a gym teacher once told me."

[–] WishfulDreamer 12 years ago

"Hey, what is this? Halloween?" I loved that line and her face when saying it!

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