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Marty (1955)

Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair
Director: Delbert Mann
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Marty
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.

Added by Orion Reasoner
on 11/01/2004, 10:39pm

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