Wanted Man

[war...@villagenet.com]

While reading the book 'Wanted Man' edited by John Bauldie, I came across an
interesting list and I was wondering if anyone had any comments about it...

MOVIES INSIDE HIS HEAD - 16 MORE LINES STOLEN BY BOB DYLAN FROM FILM
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-I don't mind leaving, I'd just like it to be my idea - 'Shane'

-You can trust me now - 'To Have and Have Not'

-What's wrong with you? Nothing you can't fix - 'The Big Sleep'

-What would a sweetheart like that Hamilton dame be doing in a dump like
this? - 'All Through the Night'

-One day you'll be talking in your sleep and when you do I wanna be around -
'I Wake Up Screaming'

-I figure we're even, maybe I am one up on ya. - 'Bend of the River'

-You don't know what love means. To you it's just another 4-letter word. -
'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'

-Do you know San Fransisco? I've been there to a party once. - 'Build My
Gallows High'

-When you live outside the law, you have to eliminate dishonesty. - 'The
Line Up'

-What happens tommorrow is on your head not mine. - 'The Big Country'

-The love of a lousy buck. - 'On the Waterfront'

-Sulu: How far do we go along with the charade?
-Kirk: Until we can think our way out. - 'The Squire of Gothos': A Star
Trek Episode

-It's not a house dear, it's a home. - 'Mr. Blandings Builds his Dreamhouse'

-No gentlemen makes love to a servant in his mother's house. - 'Sabrina'

-I've got to move fast - I can't with you around my neck. - 'Sirocco'

-I don't know if I'm too good for you or your too good for me. - 'Sirocco'

Warren

[Terence Rossiter]

In message <1997072622...@villagenet.com>
war...@VILLAGENET.COM writes:

> While reading the book 'Wanted Man' edited by John Bauldie, I came across an
> interesting list and I was wondering if anyone had any comments about it...

> MOVIES INSIDE HIS HEAD - 16 MORE LINES STOLEN BY BOB DYLAN FROM FILM

I believe it shows that he saw a lot of movies...but 'stolen'?

"Where will I get my ideas to write my songs and ballads? Answer to
that is: Everywhere you look, out of books, magazines, daily papers,
at the movies...Always keep your pencil and paper handy to jot down
little and big ideas..."

and

"The Tune To Use With The Words to Your Ballads: ...I never waste my
high-priced time by asking or even wondering in the least whether
I've heard my tune in whole or in part before. There are ten million
ways of changing any tune around to make it sound like my own..."

Both quotes from "How to make up a balladsong and get away with it"
published in 'Born To Win' by Woody Guthrie (Harmony Music/Macmillan 1965).

[rune bruteig]

More moviespeak from the Dylan:

"I thought that the rain would cool things down, but it looks like it
don't" - Key Largo

"I've got troubles, I think maybe you got troubles
I think we'd better leave each other alone" - The Hustler

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"Ah well. You can be optimistic and totally without hope."
- Francis Bacon