Home Alone
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:48 pm
So Ian loves this movie. He is interested in the main character and also the plan to foil Pesci and Stern's characters.
But I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes in the movie as he rewatches it (he's a kid, so...).
https://www.shmoop.com/home-alone/john-candy.html
But didja know (in the Midwestern dialect):
https://www.shmoop.com/home-alone/director.html
But I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes in the movie as he rewatches it (he's a kid, so...).
https://www.shmoop.com/home-alone/john-candy.html
LOL. Plus the way he delivered it, so sincerely.GUS: I did leave one [of my kids] at a funeral parlor once. Yeah, it was terrible too. I was all distraught and everything. The wife and I, we left the little tyke there in the funeral parlor all day. All day. You know, we went back at night, when we came to our senses, there he was. Apparently he was there all day with a corpse. Now, he was okay. You know, after six, seven weeks, he came around and started talking again. But he's okay. They get over it. Kids are resilient like that.Trying to comfort Kevin's mom for leaving her kid home alone, he tells her:
But didja know (in the Midwestern dialect):
https://www.shmoop.com/home-alone/director.html
F'ing brilliant!Also, he allowed John Candy to do freewheeling improvisations. As Gus Polinski, Candy made up the speech about accidentally abandoning his kid at a funeral parlor. According to Columbus, "That just came out of nowhere." (Source)