The whole scene: Bacall takes charge

[LuvLoogie]

[longship]

1. "It's even better when you help."

Then there's the whistle thing.

I have been posting this clip all over DU tonight.

One can tell that Bogie and Bacall are in love. The script isn't that great, but by the end of the scene, it just crackles. And Betty pwns Bogie.

[LuvLoogie]

3. Oh come on! The script rocks!

One of the top ten noir scenes of all time. Direction, delivery, timing...all there.

[longship]

4. Well, there's that "Maltese Falcon" echo... "You're good"

Bogie said it to Mary Astor in the earlier film, in a cynical way. Maybe that is deliberate here. Regardless, the two bring the scene home. Love conquers all.

And I agree, it is all there in the end. And Bacall delivers quite an ending. Myself, I like "It's even better when you help" more than the whistle thing, which is only the cherry on top of what has gone before.

And I agree. The scene is absolute dynamite, which is why I have been posting it all over DU tonight. Rachel just played the whistle part tonight, but she missed the "It's even better when you help".

Myself, I think helping is much better than just whistling. Both Bogie and Bacall would undoubtedly agree.

It is an awesome scene.

[msongs]

2. the men who wrote this dialogue and scene knew what they were doing :-) nt

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R

[ismnotwasm]

6. Now I have to go watch the whole movie

[LuvLoogie]

13. I revist those films now and then.

Casablanca always great. Blade Runner, too. Ha!

[intaglio]

7. A slightly different light was shone on this by Ian Fleming

In one of the James Bond books he refers to the complete myth that gay people can't whistle.

[thucythucy]

8. She was nineteen when she made this film!

Nineteen and ageless. What an amazing self-assurance.

Thanks for posting this.

[ismnotwasm]

9. I read that she was actually terrified

And her "look" was from having a difficult time looking bogie in the eyes, so her head is tiled slightly down, eyes up--quite a look indeed

[thucythucy]

10. Wow. It sure doesn't show,

not to me anyway. I guess that's what brilliant acting is all about.

[LuvLoogie]

11. Can you name an actress

in the last 30-40 years with that kind of presence at nineteen? There have been great nineteen year old actresses in great roles (Jennifer Lawrence), but when was the last time American film portrayed young women with such poise and elegance? Bergman in Casa Blanca is another example.

Glowing. Can't take your eyes off of them.

Come to think of it, though, Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone was just fucking mesmerizing. Much presence, poise and elegance in that role.

[GeoWilliam750]

12. Just a small step down from there

Keira Knightley did some impressive stuff before 20.