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"You ever been stung by a dead bee before?"

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4/20/04 at 2:45pm
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Finally caught up with "To Have And Have Not" the other day. Bogart and Becall's first pairing, adapted from Hemingway, cowritten by William Faulkner, directed by Howard Hawks,- sounds like it should be great, right?
What a letdown. This was a Casablanca rip-off devoid of charm. Maybe the actors just weren't up to the material, but the dialogue sounded unreal and downright strange. Non-sequitars, like the one in the subject line, and akward conversations abounded. And yet, the plot is your basic Hollywood cliche.
Something went wrong here, I just don't know what.
Anyone else seen this?
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4/21/04 at 11:15am
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Originally posted by Jim Pappas/Jabba
It has one of the classic film lines, so I would call it worth seeing if nothing else.

"You know how to whistle, don't you?" "You just put your lips together, and blow."
Yeah, but after finally seeing the film, I still don't know what the hell that's supposd to mean!
The script is either piss-poor, or working on an Altman level of genius that I'm completely missing.
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