My favourite Movie

[tvordlj]

I'm watching Shirley Valentine. Again. Have lost count how many times i've seen it but i usually do watch it before i go on a vacation. My friend Jo always says oh no, you won't come back (a la Shirley)! The two best lines are these:

Costas and Shirley making out on the boat, he's talking complete bollocks about her stretch marks... she looks at the camera and says "Aren't men full of shit?" Indeed ;)

Daughter is disgusted by the thought of her mother and a friend going to Greece for two weeks on their own. Obscene, she calls it. Shirley leans out window shouting at retreating back, That's right, Milandra, i'm going to Greece for the sex. Sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea and sex for supper!" Delivery man says "Sounds like a wonderful diet, luv". "It is... have you never heard of it, she calls out sardonically, it's called the F-Plan!" :))

Shirley started out life as a one woman play. I've seen it twice here in Halifax, once with a local actress who did a cracking job and once with the AMerican actress Loretta Swit (aka Hotlips Houlihan). She's supposed to have been performing this for years. She may have but her accent still stinks and i don't care for the way she portrayed Shirley, more tentative and nervous. Shirley doesn't have a lot of confidence in herself but finds it and herself as the plot progresses. But she has spunk just the same. Loretta's Shirley doesn't have that underlying spunk that Shirley had as a girl and is rediscovering. Pauline Collins does the movie and it's perfect.

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[blueberrymoon.livejournal.com]

Hi there, Thanks reminding me about that flick.. I LOVED Shirly Valentine and have forgotten about it. Must pick it up for a view soon. I have spent many happy months in Greece in the past and that film brings it all back to me.

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[tvor.livejournal.com]

One of these days i'll get to greece. I would love to do some island hopping there.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

crumbs - I havn't seen that film in years and yep - it's fantastic - must dig out a copy.

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[tvor.livejournal.com]

I would love to see the British version. You can tell some of the dialogue has been changed for North American's, references to things i suppose that would be unfamiliar here. Like for instance, when Shirley is telling the other tourists about things Greek and asks them where jacuzzis came from, the woman says "K-mart". ... Now i *know* there's no such discount department store over in the UK. There are other things too that you can tell the actors are really saying something else.

[anisoptera.livejournal.com]

kightp has a portrait of herself as Shirley Valentine over her fireplace.