Hard Boiled: Great Lines from Classic Noir Films
Some days--you know the kind, the kind where you can feel the heat rise off the gritty pavement and the smog is so thick you could slice it up and serve it like day-old bread--you feel the need to change your lingo. A little kick in the teeth for the dames and mugs down at the corner dive. That's when a book likeHard Boiled: Great Lines from Classic Noir Filmswalks in.Hard Boiledcollects the snappiest, toughest, most bitter dialogue from the greats into one easy package, ready for whipping out when the opportunity strikes. Need to describe that fatal ex? Why not borrow detective Walter Brown's line fromThe Narrow Margin: "What kind of a dish was she? The sixty-cent special--cheap, flashy, strictly poison under the gravy." Want to make the bartender stand up and take notice? OrderThe Blue Dahlia's "Bourbon, straight! With a bourbon chaser!" End a relationship in style withImpact's "I'll never think of our moments together without nausea." For more tender moments, cop a line fromSudden Fearto show that special someone you care: "I'm so crazy about you I could break your bones." Or you can simply emulate the classics withFollow Me Quietly's immortal "Follow that car!" Life may be a crooked game of blackjack with no more chips left to play, but maybe you can bring in a little glimmer of something wonderful if you slide up to your favorite cannon, slip him this book, and mutter softly, "The next person that says Merry Christmas to me, I'll kill them."