The WALKING CARPET is from the 1st STAR WARS movie ("Episode IV")
I remember paying $3.50 for that and wondering why that movie was NEARLY TWICE what a 'normal' movie should cost...
Is the 'hyper-conscious' one form Postcards from the Edge?
Yes and yes!!
I remember being so incredibly overwhelmed by Star Wars--with one little bittersweet thought about it: I had just attended Pauline Hong's 8th or 9th birthday party, at which we'd all watched Tron. And I remembered thinking that Tron would've been recognized as meriting more attention and awards had it come out any year other than the same one as Star Wars--that it was the The Wizard of Oz to Star Wars' Gone with the Wind.
Now with a Tron poster having a central role in a major current show (Chuck, which I love), I feel kinda vindicated for that thought!
Here's a quote from the film I watched last night, specifically because of reading on Roger Ebert dot com that it was one of the 15 most influential films of all time, specifically for engendering 'screwball comedy', and that it was a precursor to The Sure Thing and When Harry Met Sally (both two films I love).
This is from, arguably, the most famous scene in the film (well, at least the one I'd repeatedly seen, in compilations of clips, before ever seeing the film).
[Woman stops a car not by hitching with her thumb, but by hitching up her skirt, showing her leg.]
Man:
Why didn't you take off *all* your clothes? You could've stopped 40 cars.Woman:
Ooh! I'll remember that, the next time we need 40 cars!(Might be slight paraphrase.)
Now here is a quote from the movie I'm going to watch tonight. Which is based on a book, the title of which became a classic catch-phrase.
Again, this is a scene I'd seen (and heard of) extensively, without ever having seen the movie, per se, itself.
Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy any more and I have to keep flying.