“You ever watch the Mickey Mouse club? ‘Cause you know what today … today is? Today is Wednesday. It’s ‘Anything Can Happen’ Day.”
“Toots Sweet is dead?”
“Yeah. Toots Sweet. Technically, asphyxiation by his own genitalia. But not-so-technically: Somebody cut his dick off, stuffed it in his mouth and choked him to death. Took to redecoratin’ his apartment with the poor jerk’s blood. So, when’d you see him, Angel?”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“Here. This your name?”
“Yeah.”
“That your hotel?”
“You’re standin’ in it, ain’t you?”
“Your handwritin’?”
“I think so.”
“Then perhaps you’d like to tell us why … we found that in the hand of a dead guitar player?”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“That’s quite a dream you were having.”
“I was on my way to Mandalay again.”
A reference to the famous opening line of the 1938 novel Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“Hey, only cops and bad news don’t knock.”
“Only private dicks sleep so late.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“What about the chicken foot in the john, huh?”
“Means I got a big mouth.”
“Not big enough, Toots.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“I ain’t up on all this voodoo shit. I’m from Brooklyn.”
“We ain’t all Baptists down here, Sonny.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“What’s going on, Toots?”
“Nothing. Mind your own business. I wanna piss.”
“So take a tip honey, and just leave my door. Because your key don’t fit in my lock no more. You got the right key, you’re knocking on the wrong door.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“What are you? Some kind of cop?”
“No. My name’s Harry Angel.”
“How are you?”
“I’m a private detective. So what’s …?”
“Epiphany.”
“Epiphany?”
“Yeah.”
“Your Mama left you a beautiful name, Epiphany.”
“Not much else.”
“Oh.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“Jesus! Oh shit! I got a thing about chickens.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“Let’s go see Grandma. Who’s over there?”
At Evangeline’s grave.
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“For colored patrons only”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“Hey, did you ever hear of a … of a Margaret Krusemark?”
“Don’t be a gazoony, fella. Madame Zora was Margaret Krusemark.”
“Well, what happened to her?”
“Packed up her stuff one day and closed up for good. Went back home. Down south.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“I was just talkin’ to your husband over there! I was inquiring about a Madame Zora!”
“Yeah, I knew her before the war. Madame Zora, you say?”
“Yeah, she was some kinda Gypsy fortune teller.”
“Yeah, she used to have the booth across the boardwalk from me. She weren’t no Gypsy. She was a debutante. She was messin’ with more than reading tea leaves.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
“Listen. What do you do around here in the summertime?”
“I bite the heads off of rats.”
“What do you do int he winter?”
“Same.”
Angel Heart (1987), directed by Alan Parker, and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. Adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
Scix in the Back Row
Screen Shots, animated gifs, reviews and sound clips from films, specializing in the weird, noir, cult, camp, horror and obscure, from the beginning of film to just yesterday.
(And occasional Minecraft posts.)
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