Ronny Cammameri:
Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!
I referenced this speech just now in an email to someone ... it's been on my mind quite a bit, this speech.
Thanks for the words of wisdom, Ronny.
Posted by sheilaThis is pretty much my all-time favorite speech made in a fim. It's the main reason I am crazy in love with Moonstruck (that and the scene at the end where they are all eating breakfast and people keep showing up - which was brilliant). It's such a perfect rant and I hold my breath when he says it and I can't imagine any sentence better to be shouting in a dark city street than, "We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die!"
I just LOVE that sentence. With everything in me.
Posted by: Marisa at February 23, 2007 9:48 AMMarisa - me too. Totally.
Posted by: red at February 23, 2007 10:44 AMI love this movie--pretty much everything about it. I finally got it on DVD last year and it's one of the ones I re-watch most often. The commentary on the DVD is one of the few I can actually tolerate and, if I'm remembering this correctly and Ronnie's giving this speech outside, I particularly appreciated the commentary on this scene. I think this scene is also where Loretta says, "I'm freezing to death" and to me it wasn't about the cold.
Posted by: Kate P at February 23, 2007 11:04 AMI want Loretta's parents' house.
(I've always thought that Cher was gorgeous, but the montage where she's getting ready for the opera and she walks out in that dress with her hair all dyed? I swear I gasped out loud.)
Posted by: Lisa at February 23, 2007 12:21 PMHuzzah! The house is for sale!
For $4,250,000, though. I'll have to write a check.
Posted by: Lisa at February 23, 2007 12:38 PMDamn. Link didn't work.
http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/22772-townhouse-19-cranberry-street-brooklyn-heights-brooklyn
Lisa, I *love* that you found that house and it's for sale. I love the house too. Do you think we could all take up some kind of group collection and make an offer? Actually, the taxes are really not too bad (at least compared to what the city of Chicago is sticking me with this year). What's Brooklyn Heights like anyways?
Posted by: Ann Marie at February 23, 2007 1:27 PMLisa - hahahaha That is so cool you found the house!!! I love that house, too.
Brooklyn Heights is great - it has some of the most spectacular views of the city.
Posted by: red at February 23, 2007 1:32 PMGod. Look at the gorgeousness of that house. It's so solid, so beautiful.
Posted by: red at February 23, 2007 1:34 PMHa ha, AnnMarie--we can live on Mrs. Castorini's oatmeal after we buy the house.
Lisa, my sister and I were teenagers the first time we saw that movie on TV and we totally swooned over Loretta all dressed up.
Posted by: Kate P at February 23, 2007 2:18 PMOh, and the dressing up - I know!!!!
Her SKIN, and her lipstick color and that raven black hair ... she was also filmed like she was a painting on the Sistene Chapel - truly stunning.
I love the early-dawn scene where she walks down the middle of the street and kicks at the can, whimsically, with her high-heeled shoe. Just a magical shot ...
Posted by: red at February 23, 2007 2:21 PMI didn't even notice the estimated mortgage payment on that page. $25,129 a month!?! Holy crap.
I always notice houses in movies, sometimes more than the actors. I think I would've made a good set scouter-outer.
Posted by: Lisa at February 23, 2007 2:58 PMLisa - that reminds me of a really cool post I read, on one of the film sites I frequent. It was a post about "the best movie houses". And all of these great houses were compiled - I know the house from Something's Gotta Give was on the list, but there were many others. I'll see if I can track it down - there were some great ones on there.
Posted by: red at February 23, 2007 3:01 PMMy all-time favorite one is the house in Home Alone. There's not one room that I don't absolutely love, even the dark scary basement.
All the better that it's a real house in Winnetka.
Posted by: Lisa at February 23, 2007 3:20 PMLisa - yeah, I think it's especially cool when they find real houses, and not sets. like the Something's Gotta Give house on the Hamptons which I just WANT TO LIVE IN. GOD.
Posted by: red at February 23, 2007 3:23 PMI think my favorite movie house is the one from Meet Me In St. Louis. God, I love that house (and that whole movie). The Moonstruck house is way, way up there on my list too. I can't believe it's for sale!! Cool ...
Posted by: Another Sheila at February 23, 2007 3:36 PMYour comments (plus my bizarre mood today) are making me think of Joel's line in MST3K about the kid's house in "Pod People" - "This is the House of a Million Foyers."
Posted by: Nightfly at February 23, 2007 5:22 PMBest house to me? Pemberley in BBC's Pride & Prejudice. I mean, too overwhelming to actually LIVE in, but in terms of perfect houses (where house=mansion) for a movie/character? Yep.
I'm sorry. The crazy part of me had to go look it up in my "The Making of Pride & Prejudice" book (spooky). Pemberley, in real life, is Lyme Park (or the exterior is), which is on the Cheshire/Derbyshire border.
Geekily yours,
Ann Marie
If I get that house I could just walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to work...
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at February 24, 2007 2:33 PMThe house in Something's Gotta Give is a fantastic home. I always liked Jenny Field's house in The World According to Garp, and that wonderful Tuscany artist colony in Stealing Beauty. If any of you are thinking birthday present, one of those three little pieces of real estate would make me very happy.
Posted by: DBW at February 25, 2007 1:33 AMMy all time favorite house in a movie - the house in The Big Chill. Incidentally, The Great Santini was shot in the same house.
Posted by: Marisa at February 26, 2007 10:22 AM