After sitting on the champagne glasses and getting 23 stitches on his butt, David wants to send a poem to Sabrina and asks Linus "What rhymes with glass?" What a witty way to get around the censorship of the day. The word 'ass' unless referring to a donkey was Verboten!
shareBut Bogart uses the word ass in the very next scene,
"I'm making an ass out of myself with a girl of 22."
Billy Wilder was lampshading it. He was just that clever.
I understand. Thank you for telling me. -The masked bandit
I missed that, you're right. Funny, but the Sabrina remake stays away from the 'ass' humor and the character of David is never made has ridiculous as William Holden was in the original. (Specially designed hammock with his rear-end sticking through etc.).
shareIn the context, that would have been short for "jackass" and, therefore, acceptable.
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After sitting on the champagne glasses and getting 23 stitches on his butt, David wants to send a poem to Sabrina and asks Linus "What rhymes with glass?" What a witty way to get around the censorship of the day. The word 'ass' unless referring to a donkey was Verboten!
What a witty way to get around the censorship of the day.This was both a witty and almost slapstick funny scene in the movie.
Terrible thing to admit, but the plastic hammock scene is perhaps my favorite because of Bogarts subtle and not so subtle wittiness. Much has been said about miscasting, but I disagree. Bogart was a hoot. Audrey Hepburns wardrobe was absolutely spectacular- so much so that even those that dislike the movie remember the dresses. Didn't Sassoon Jeans make pants with a glass ass in the 70's?! Or was that plastic?
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