| What a truly great movie... Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky cuts through all the plastic superficiality of so-called "love" and gets right down to what really connects two people... and two hearts.
Here is a short explanation that Marty gives to his impromptu dance partner for the evening, Clara, when she expresses that she doesn't know why some girl hasn't snatched him up already:
I don't know, either. I think I'm a pretty nice guy...
I also think I'm a pretty smart guy in my own way.
Now, I figure: two people get married, and they gonna live together forty, fifty years. So it's gotta be more than whether they're good-looking of not.
You tell me you think you're not very good-looking... Well, my father was a really ugly man, but my mother adored him. She told me that she used to get so miserable sometimes, like everybody, you know? And my father always tried to understand.
I used to see them sometimes when I was a kid, sitting in the living room, talking and talking, and I used to adore my old man, because he was so kind. That's one of the most beautiful things I have in my life, the way my mother and father were. And my father was a real ugly man. So it doesn't matter if you look like a gorilla.
So you see, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are.
If you ever... ever... want to see a movie that will truly fill you with a happy courage about your lonely, misfit life, then you really have to watch Marty.
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