False Movie Syndrome
Sep. 30th, 2010 06:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
supergeePlay it again, Sam.
Come wiz me to ze casbah
Judy, Judy, Judy
Beam me up, Scotty
Why do we remember so many movie and TV lines that weren't actually said? Tony Curtis just died, and I expect at least half the obituaries to quote, "Yonda lies da castle a my fodda." He did not say that in a movie. In his autobiography, American Prince, he reports that the quote was made up by an actress (name justly lost to history, or at least he mentioned it and I didn't recognize it) to mock the inherently ridiculous idea of a Jewish sex idol.
Come wiz me to ze casbah
Judy, Judy, Judy
Beam me up, Scotty
Why do we remember so many movie and TV lines that weren't actually said? Tony Curtis just died, and I expect at least half the obituaries to quote, "Yonda lies da castle a my fodda." He did not say that in a movie. In his autobiography, American Prince, he reports that the quote was made up by an actress (name justly lost to history, or at least he mentioned it and I didn't recognize it) to mock the inherently ridiculous idea of a Jewish sex idol.
