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Des Monts Akraceroniens…

… In the Acrocerauagaran mountains (Shelley, Arethusa)

Wyler, Peck, Hepburn
Roman Holiday (1952)

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Ariane se dressa sur sa couche neigeuse

Arethusa arose From her couch of snows… (Shelley, Arethusa)

Wyler, Peck, Hepburn
Roman Holiday (1952)

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O brave new world, that has such people in’t

The Tempest (2010)

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Surprise, wonder

Que faisait Victor Hugo, enfant ?

Frankenheimer, Lansbury, Malden
All Fall Down (1962)

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De Shelley ! — Keats !

Wyler, Peck, Hepburn
Roman Holiday (1952)

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Elle chemine, belle de nuit

(more Byron)

Dieterle, Fonda, Carroll
Blockade (1938)

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Inspirational, advice

Laissez tomber les poètes et mettez le pyjama…

Wyler, Peck, Hepburn
Roman Holiday (1952)

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Excuses, justification Inspirational, advice Refusal

I cannot hide what I am

I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad when I have cause and smile at no man’s jests, eat when I have stomach and wait for no man’s leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and tend on no man’s business, laugh when I am merry and claw no man in his humor. (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, Scene 3)

Branagh, Reeves
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

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Excuses, justification Refusal

Je ne peux pas. Il faut une plume féminine

Hawks, Grant, Russell
His Girl Friday (1940)

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Inspirational, advice

Selon lui, le secret de l’écriture était l’économie

Redford
A River Runs Through It (1992)

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Love Reproach, rudeness

Vous auriez pu dire : “Mon amour, levez-vous”

“Awake thee my lady love, awake thee and rise… the sun through the bower beats into thy eyes”, or something like that. (Jean Simmons quotes George Darley, Morning Song, 1827)

Preminger, Simmons
Angel Face (1952)

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La dernière fois, vous m’avez dit que vous écriviez de la poésie

Dmytryk
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

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Et quand elle a souri, c’est comme si la lune était apparue

“And when she smiled, it was as if the moon came out”, a remark by T. S. Eliot

Dmytryk, Capucine
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

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Remarque de T.S. Eliot

(attribution fantaisiste et ironique de “And when she smiled…”)

Dmytryk, Capucine
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

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Quelqu’un a même demandé qu’on le retire de la bibliothque

Logan, Novak
Picnic (1955)

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J’ai eu une petite amie qui lisait

Logan, Holden
Picnic (1955)

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Inspirational, advice Reproach, rudeness

Ce n’est pas parce qu’on lit des livres qu’on est intelligent

Smart from books ain’t so smart

Dmytryk
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

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Excuses, justification Hope, desire

Des livres, je veux lire

Hathaway, Peters
Niagara (1953)

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rohmer
La Collectionneuse (1967)

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Get well soon, health Sex

Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life

Sigmund Freud, Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens, 1901

Curtis
Captain Newman, M. D. (1963)

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Les Liaisons dangereuses

Autant-Lara
Douce (1943)

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Avez-vous lu Dostoïevski ?

Rossen, Beatty
Lilith (1964)

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Crime et Châtiment et Les Frères Karamazov

Logan, Beatty
Lilith (1964)

Tu as essayé les poèmes ?

Nomadland (2020)

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Congratulations, compliments Love

Devrais-je te comparer À quelque jour d’été ?

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate…

(Shakespeare, Sonnet 18)

McDormand
Nomadland (2020)

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Boasting Seasons

L’été dernier, j’ai appris tous les sonnets de Shakespeare

Logan, Holden, Novak
Picnic (1955)

It is a tale told by an idiot

(see next)

Coen, Washington
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

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Disappointment

Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Coen, Washington
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

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Birthday, aging Boredom Disappointment

Demain, puis demain, puis demain

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

(see next)

McDormand
Nomadland (2020)

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Birthday, aging Disappointment Sadness

Nos hiers n’ont fait qu’éclairer le chemin de la mort poudreuse

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death…

(see next)

Nomadland (2020)

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Birthday, aging

Éteins-toi, court flambeau

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

(Shakespeare, Macbeth, V, 5)

Nomadland (2020)

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Congratulations, compliments

Lord Tennyson n’a plus qu’à bien se tenir

Lord Tennyyson will have to look for his laurels

Hamer
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

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Surprise, wonder

Quel poème ?

Daves
Cowboy (1958)

Bien que rien ne ravive la splendeur de ces heures

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower…

(see next)

Kazan, Wood
Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Nous ne sombrerons pas dans le chagrin, nous nous raffermirons face au destin

We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.

(Wordsworth)

Kazan, Wood
Splendor in the Grass (1961)

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Sadness

Et si rien ne peut ramener la splendeur

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass…

(see next)

Redford
A River Runs Through It (1992)

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Sadness

Ni la gloire des fleurs

… of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.

(Wordsworth)

Redford
A River Runs Through It (1992)

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Hope, desire Threat, orders

A horse! A horse!

“A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!” (Shakespeare, Richard III, act V)

Cumberbatch
The Hollow Crown (2016)

L’alcool attise le désir, mais tue la performance, selon Shakespeare

[Drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance (Macbeth, II, 3)

Allen, Wilson
Midnight in Paris (2011)

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Apparemment, Joyce y mangeait choucroute

Allen, Wilson
Midnight in Paris (2011)

Si tu aimes lire, pourquoi pas ?

Sidney, Kelly, Sinatra
Anchors Aweigh (1945)

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Disappointment

Tu voulais être écrivain

Tashlin, Lewis, Martin
Artists and Models (1955)

Lisez-le. — Vos conseils ne m’intéressent pas

I’m not interested in your literary recommendation

Capra, Williams, Harlow
Platinum Blonde (1931)

It’s important for politics… and for poetry, too

Bertolucci
Prima della revoluzione (1964)

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Congratulations, compliments Happiness, satisfaction

C’est poétique !

Walsh, Bogart
High Sierra (1941)

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Elle aime la poésie. — Ou le contraire

Pacino, Goodman
Sea of Love (1989)

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La poésie, pour moi, c’est…

Pacino
Sea of Love (1989)

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Au cabinet, en lisant l’Encyclopédie

(autres modèles de lunettes)

Losey, Burton
L’Assassinat de Trotsky (1972)

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Congratulations, compliments

Byron couldn’t have said it more graciously

Mankiewicz, Ritter, Davis, Baxter
All About Eve (1950)

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Surprise, wonder

Alexandre Dumas !

Cukor, Monroe
Let’s Make Love (1960)