Old black/white movies with fast talking guys

veryangryman

Just watching some Family Guy and noticing a couple of clips of the funny old-style chatter people did in the old movies. Is there a name for this?

I find the sh1t hilarious!

andy winter

Script?

fruvai

veryangryman wrote: »

Just watching some Family Guy and noticing a couple of clips of the funny old-style chatter people did in the old movies. Is there a name for this?

I find the sh1t hilarious!

You're Family Guy's target demographic

Jicked

"Fast talking guys" jaysus, I'm not sure that's exactly a sub-genre

I recommend His Girl Friday or Arsenic and Old Lace, both are fantastic and very funny

Jicked

In fact His Girl Friday seems to be on youtube in its entirety.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZQ8-MmHwM

Giselle

Also check out White Heat starring James Cagney.

Theres all the fast talking guys you'd ever want or need in that one.:)

bigwormbundoran

Family Guy was last funny when them voices were still in use, by God tis shíte

Dudess

Are they the ones where "buster" is often used as an insult?

E.g. the gin-drinking, chain-smoking, sultry femme fatale wearing a satin negligée at all times saying to the hard-boiled detective in a husky voice: "You got some nerve turnin' up here buster"... before blowing him?

Sinfonia

The coppahs ain't got nothin' on us seee? Hnyee

christ on a bike!

Think this was actually the done thing, people just reading a script and if it was lighthearted attempting to be zany.

then Brandos 'On the Waterfront' introduced us to method acting

starbelgrade

Why you insignificant, square-toed, pimpled-headed goon. I outta bust your puny littlle ass. If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong, you great big bubble-headed baboon.

Donkey Oaty

starbelgrade wrote: »

Why you insignificant, square-toed, pimpled-headed goon. I outta bust your puny littlle ass. If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong, you great big bubble-headed baboon.

Well how do ya like that? I don't even know this guy!

Let's get out of here!

(Puts on hat and leaves)

christ on a bike!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3s8sEYzHWQ

Giselle

Dudess wrote: »

Are they the ones where "buster" is often used as an insult?

E.g. the gin-drinking, chain-smoking, sultry femme fatale wearing a satin negligée at all times saying to the hard-boiled detective in a husky voice: "You got some nerve turnin' up here buster"... before blowing him?

Nobody did any blowin' in the days before the world was in colour, on camera anyway. And they weren't femmes fatale, they were dames and loose women.:)

mikom

W.C Fields is the man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y189-69cQPs

imme

yeah you should deffo check out the old Black & Whites OP, such style, glamour and acting we'll never see again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf6e6dY1F0E

take everything

Some swell posts in this thread.

Dravokivich

Sinfonia wrote: »

The coppahs ain't got nothin' on us seee? Hnyee

See what I say, ya heer?

bonerm

OP, people had to talk faster back then because the average life expectancy was shorter.

You might be looking for "screwball comedies" btw.

Dudess

Giselle wrote: »

they weren't femmes fatale, they were dames and loose women.:)

And "broads".

PaganKing

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