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Devo 's Hardcore documents the group's beginning as pre-punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, Devo formed as a conceptual art project armed with a radical philosophy of de-evolution. The other two guys are played by John Lurie, who was the Hungarian-American poker player in 'Stranger Than Paradise,' and Roberto Benigni, a previously unknown Italian actor who resembles a cross between Father Guido Sarducci and Woody Allen. Stranger Than Paradise Film To Watch Now Summary movie - Stranger Than Paradise. This is about a self-styled New York hipster who is paid a surprise and quite unwelcome visit by his pretty sixteen-year-old Hungarian cousin.

'Down by Law' is a movie about cheap whiskey and black coffee, all-night drunks and lost jobs, and the bad times you can have with good-time girls. It tells the story of a pimp, an unemployed disc jockey and a bewildered Italian tourist and how they escape from jail and wind up slogging through the Louisiana bayous looking for a decent place to have breakfast.

It's like a collage made out of objects from old gangster movies, old blues songs and old jailhouse stories. At the end, it's like a line of dialogue: 'It's a sad and beautiful world,' someone says. Someone else should say, 'Yeah, but so what?' The movie was directed by Jim Jarmusch. You may remember his 'Stranger Than Paradise' (1984), a deadpan black-and-white comedy in which three strangely assorted friends decided it was too cold in Cleveland in the winter, went to Florida and lost all their money at the dog races. 'Down by Law' has the same sort of feeling. It's about two people who choose to be losers and a third who has bought the American Dream.

Stranger Than Paradise is a 1984 absurdist comedy film about a New Yorker whose life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Willie[edit]

• Here, let me tell you a joke, all right? There's three guys, and they're walking down the street. One guy says to the other one, 'Hey, your shoe's untied.' He says, 'I know that.' And they walk... No... There's two guys, they're walking down the street, and one of them says to the other one, 'Your shoe's untied.' And the other guy says, 'I know that.' And they walk a couple blocks further, and they see a third friend, and he comes up and says, 'Your shoe's untied.' 'Your shoe's un — ' Aaah, I can't remember this joke. But it's good.

Eva[edit]

• [while vacuuming] I'm choking the alligator.

Eddie[edit]

• [watches plane take off] Aw, Willie. I had a bad feeling. Damn. What the hell are you gonna do in Budapest?

Dialogue[edit]

Eddie: You know, it's funny... you come to someplace new, an'... and everything looks just the same.

Willie: No kiddin', Eddie.

Willie: You're sure you don't want a TV dinner?

Eva: Yes. I'm not hungry. Why is it called TV dinner?

Willie: Um... You're supposed to eat it while you watch TV. Television.

Eva: I know what a TV is. Where does that meat come from?

Willie: What do you mean?

Eva: What does that meat come from?

Willie: I guess it comes from a cow.

Eva: From a cow? It doesn't even look like meat.

Willie: Eva, stop bugging me, will you? You know, this is the way we eat in America. I got my meat, I got my potatoes, I got my vegetables, I got my dessert, and I don't even have to wash the dishes.

Eva: I'm going to Cleveland in about a week.

Eddie: Cleveland, beautiful city. It's got a big, beautiful lake. You will love it there.

Eva: Have you been there?

Eddie: No, no.

Eddie: You know, last year before I met your cousin, I never know you were from Hungary or Budapest or any of those places.

Willie: So what?

Eddie: I thought you were an American.

Willie: Hey, I'm as American as you are.

[Silence. They begin driving into Cleveland]

Eddie: Does Cleveland look a little like, uh, Budapest?

Willie: Eddie, shut up.

Willie: How much money we got left?

Eddie: We got a lot.

Willie: Count it.

Eddie: Hey, Willie, why are you always telling me what to do?

Willie: Seems like if I don't tell you what to do, you don't do anything at all.

Willie: You ever been to Florida?

Eddie: Florida? Yeah, it's beautiful down there.

Willie: Uh-huh.

Eddie: You know, white beaches, and girls with bikinis...

Willie: Yeah.

Eddie: Cape Canaveral, Miami Beach...

Willie: Cape Canaveral! Miami Beach! That's right.

Eddie: They got pelicans down there, and flamingos... all those weird birds.

Willie: You been there?

Eddie: Nah, I never been there.

Willie: You're a jerk, Eddie. You know that?... Nah, come on. What do you say we go down to Florida?

Eddie: Yeah?

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Willie: Eva, going out?

Eva: Yeah.

Willie: Look, Clinton Street is two blocks south of here. I wouldn't go any further south than Clinton Street.

Eva: Why?

Willie: It's really dangerous there.

Eva: I can take care of myself.

Willie: Man, listen, you come, you don't know what's going on this city. You've never been here before. You come and stay in my apartment and I don't even want you here! It's just like, 'Yeeeah, I know what's going on.' You think you're so 'know-the-fuck-together!'

Eva: I'm going alone.

Willie: Aw, go alone.

Willie: [watching pro football game on TV] You see, you see the guy that's got the ball? That's the quarterback. He can either hand off to one of the runners or he can pass it down field He's kinda like, he's the - he's like the, eh, General, you know. He's sorta like he's in charge the offense. The quarterback is in charge of the whole offense.

Eva: So, what does the quarterback do when he becomes the defense?

Willie: What?

Eva: What does the quarterback do when his team becomes the defense?

Willie: Quar - the quar - the quarterback's not on the defense, they already have - I - I - I don't know how to explain this to you. Just watch the game.

Eva: I think this game is really stupid.

Willie: How much money we got?

Eddie: I don't know. We got a lot.

Willie: How much is a lot, Eddie?

Eddie: We got a lot. We got almost six hundred dollars!

Willie: You're alright, Eddie. You know.

Eddie: We're a coupla rich men now.

Eva: Well, this is it. Lake Erie.

Eddie: Man, look at all this snow! Man, it's - it's beautiful.

Eva: It's not always frozen.

Cast[edit]

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• John Lurie - Willie
• Eszter Balint - Eva
• Richard Edson - Eddie
• Cecillia Stark - Aunt Lotte
• Danny Rosen - Billy
• Rammellzee - Man With Money
• Tom DiCillo - Airline Agent
• Richard Boes - Factory Worker
• Rockets Redglare, Harvey Perr and Brian J. Burchill - Poker Players
• Sara Driver - Girl With Hat
• Paul Sloane - Motel Owner

External links[edit]

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• Stranger Than Paradise quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Stranger Than Paradise at Allmovie
• Stranger Than Paradise at Rotten Tomatoes
• Stranger Than Paradise at Mojo
• Stranger Than Paradise: Enter Jarmusch an essay by Geoff Andrew at the Criterion Collection

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