I've got an opening line stuck in my head - thing is I can't remember where it's from nor even if it's a film I've seen or a book I've read.
The line is "Things were different then" - of course it could be "things were different back then" or some thing similar.
If it's a film I'm thinking something dark, empty and dystopian - Mad Max, Bladerunner that sort of thing. If it's a book it could be anything - Evelyn Waugh springs to mind.
So what is it from? Or did I make it up? Unlikely - I'm a great plagiarist, less good as a creative type.
Someone out there knows.
Off the top of my head, Catcher in the Rye
Edit: just checked, it's not that but it does ring a bell
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"
The Go Between, L P Hartly - that the one?
Made into a very good film btw.
Nope - I'd know the "past is a foreign country" quote, but I haven't read the book.
And I agree it's the kid of rings a ball line. I have picture of a middle aged narrator about to introduce a story about their younger self - which I admit doesn't quite ring true with Mad Max or Bladerunner.
[i]"He used to bring me roses.........I wish he could again.
But that was on the outside, and things were different then......."[/i]
Is what ye are lookin' for.
Word.
Goodfellas?
"the pasty is from a foreign county" - Fly fishing by J R Hartley
I'm sure it's Mad Max
Just Googled it and the top hit was this thread.
How the hell does Google do that eh? Of all the billions of things on the interweb it finds this instantly.
Witchcraft... it has to be.
try imdb.com
I would, but I gotta go out now. See you later.
Louis: 1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now. [b]But times were different then[/b], I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth, and she and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would have been happy to join them. I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. I longed to be released from it. I wanted to lose it all... my wealth, my estate, my sanity. Most of all, I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it. A release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. To the whore at my side. To the pimp that followed. But it was a vampire that accepted it.
Probably not.
heh heh, I don't actually need to google it, its from one of my all time favourite films...
The man who wasn't there
by the Cowen brothers.
happy now! 😀