Monday, September 17, 2007

Bad Lieutenant and Cherry Tree NOW with PRIZES

UPDATE: Hola! Add your entry to the comments, please! The more legit entries, the more I'll up the contribution. (I must confess Backstretch is leading with Behind the Green Door. It just fits, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.)

Movie haiku's an occasional critic pastime, but I never indulged (didn't write poetry for about a dozen years, remember? Yeah, that counts.). But I was looking for a quote from a script and found these. They have a few on obscurities like Buffalo '66 and ...

Bad Lieutenant
big bad lieutenant
spiralling towards the abyss
killed by strawberry

Here's mine:
The House of Mirth
A little too free
Shunned by good society
Drink some chloral tea.

Do you get a hat trick if your haiku rhymes, or does that ruin it? Anyway, I issue a challenge to all my imaginary friends to do movie haiku with the most obscure one you can think of. Extra points for Middle Eastern, Nigerian or Cuban.

UPDATE: There's a prize! A Why A Goat t-shirt and $10 to the cause of your choice, and I hope it's hers.

6 comments:

  1. Bad Lieutenant

    Harvey Keitel moans
    Caught doing blow with ho's
    Don't bet on the Mets

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  2. Behind the green door
    something so unspeakable
    in the Seventies

    J.S.

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  3. Big, hairy King Kong
    the id of Peter Jackson
    and lots of money

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  4. "Rumble Fish"

    Midwestern ennui
    In beautiful black & white
    Nobody got it

    "Brazil"

    Dizzying design,
    Byzantine bureaucracy:
    Gilliam's opus

    "Sweetie"

    Jane Campion's best,
    Its secrets hidden inside
    Criterion disc

    "Joe Versus the Volcano"

    Director: "Make Abe
    Vigoda wear a skirt of
    Orange soda cans"

    "The Moon In the Gutter"

    Be still, libido
    I'd like Nastassja Kinski's
    Lips in a wee box

    "River's Edge"

    Keanu seemed cool;
    D. Hopper as Boo Radley..
    Pass me the Feck-weed

    "Drugstore Cowboy"

    Epic.. seen with my
    Friend who went on to become
    The Pomba Gira

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  5. MP said:

    Elevator to the Gallows:

    Jeanne Moreau's pain,
    Maurice Ronet stuck in box,
    Miles Davis blows horn
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    Wings of Desire

    Angels in Berlin
    For Wim Wenders' fantasy
    With Nick Cave soundtrack

    Sweet Hereafter

    Bus crashes, kids die
    A town reels, palms to the sky
    It's so freaking sad

    Russia House

    Not obscure, too bad
    Michelle Pfeiffer super hot
    Tom Stoppard script? Right.

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