Thanks for all the postings - it's really interesting how a little lazy research inquiry (with Godard mispelt incidentally - an unforgivable typo) can set a debate off. Did anybody ever say the band-aid thing (it can't have been a Brit - they would say plaster)? It's funny how some film axioms come adrift from their moorings and others are always linked inextricably to who said them *first* - like Hitchcock on actors as cattle. But then again, I can't recall the exact phrasing of that... Melanie Williams On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:55:23 -0500 mpomeran <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Mark Langer's fascinating reply to the question about the girl and the > gun really makes me want to ask this question: > > WHEN WE ARE FACED WITH A QUESTION like, "Who said this: 'All I need to > make a movie is a girl and a gun'?," HOW do we go about trying to frame > an answer. We've heard Jean-Luc Godard, Abraham Zapruder, Howard Hawks. > But not Nicole Garcia, Jane Campion, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Mann. > > If I asked *this* question, I wonder what kinds of speculations would > come about---note please: this is all about speculation, since presumably > we don't *know* the answer:---- "Who said this: 'All you can say about > movies could be written on the back of a band-aid.'" > > (Murray, Toronto) > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ---------------------- Melanie Williams [log in to unmask] English Department University of Hull HULL HU6 7RX ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite