"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and brotherly love. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." - Orson Welles
Something I learned this evening is he ad libbed that line.
In "Apocalypse Now," Marlon Brando made a paper hat out of his lines and ad libbed eighteen straight minutes of dialog.
One of the greatest ad libs of all time came from Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men."
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH
So, you wanna talk about jazz.
(Ed: heya, Satchmo, this ain't that funny)
Well, it's got to be a step up from whining about illness. Ha!
Something I learned this evening is he ad libbed that line.
In "Apocalypse Now," Marlon Brando made a paper hat out of his lines and ad libbed eighteen straight minutes of dialog.
One of the greatest ad libs of all time came from Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men."
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH
So, you wanna talk about jazz.
(Ed: heya, Satchmo, this ain't that funny)
Well, it's got to be a step up from whining about illness. Ha!
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