An aphorism is not dialog - it is a SINGLE SENTENCE statement that conveys a CONCEPT or abstract idea; for example: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"
my favorites:
"You don't sell the dream of a lifetime" - Harmonica in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
"Time kills critics" - Franz Liszt in LISZTOMANIA
" 'Deserves' got nuthin' to do with it"* - Billy Muny in UNFORGIVEN
more later bruce
*always useful when discussing who got "robbed" of an Oscar!
"Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was coming to mountains to trap and be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Says "Son, make your life go here, here's where the peoples is. Them mountains is for animals and savages."
I says, "Mother Gue, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world", and by God, I was right."
"It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet."
Guess.
And by the way, "Charlie don't surf" IS an aphorism in so much that it sums up Duvall's philosophy, and thus the wider mindset he represents, in that war. It's also very funny. Just reading it here made me crack up.
And by the way, "Charlie don't surf" IS an aphorism in so much that it sums up Duvall's philosophy, and thus the wider mindset he represents, in that war. It's also very funny. Just reading it here made me crack up.
