MEMORABLE QUOTE FROM THE MOVIES

Yesterday afternoon, I had watched an old but entertaining movie, entitled 'The Freshman', on StarHub cable television. It starred the legendary Marlon Brando & Matthew Broderick.

The movie - actually a comedy - centred on an unusual bonding encounter between an Italian importer, Carmine Sabatini, whom the neighbourhood believed to be a Mafia boss [owing to his resemblance to the Godfather character], & a young college student, Clark Kellog, from Vermont, who was attending his first-year film course at New York city.

I enjoyed the witty dialogue as well as the numerous quirky scenes in the movie, one of which involved the hilarious antics of a Komodo Dragon.

Best of all, I enjoyed watching one of my favourite movie stars from the sixties, Marlon Brando. It was really fun, for a change, to see him playing a comedy character.

Among his many great movies, my personal favourites included 'Viva Zapata!' (with Anthony Quinn), 'On the Waterfront', 'Sayonara', 'One Eyed Jacks', 'Mutiny on the Bounty', 'Superman' (even though his character role lasted less than 15 minutes), 'Apocalypse Now', & not forgetting the 'Godfather' epic.

Back to 'The Freshman', one particular scene &/or dialogue, during which the young man earnestly wanted to seek an urgent discussion with the old man, while the latter was having a good time with his daughter - playing the young man's love interest - on the ice-skating rink, caught my personal attention:

Clark: "You promise?"

Carmine: "Every word I say, by definition, is a promise."