Rear Window Flashcards
Lisa, in this job… (marriage)
Jeff to Lisa: “Lisa, in this job you carry one suitcase. Your home is the available transportation. You don’t sleep very much. You bathe less. And sometimes the food that you eat is made from things that you couldn’t even look at when they’re alive.”
Can’t you just… (marriage)
Jeff: “Can’t you just see me, rushing home to a hot apartment to listen to… the nagging wife?” (To editor)
She expects… (marriage)
Jeff and Stella: “She expects me to marry her.” - “That’s normal.” - “I don’t want to.” - “That’s abnormal.”
I need… (marriage)
Jeff about Lisa: “I need a woman who’s willing to go anywhere and do anything and love it.”
Those high… (marriage)
Jeff to Lisa: “Those high heels would be a lot of use in the jungle”
You don’t… (loneliness/relationships)
Dog owner: “You don’t know the meaning of the word “neighbor.” Neighbors like each other, speak to each other, care if anybody lives or dies. But none of you do!”
Kept to… (loneliness/relationships)
Doyle about Thorwald: “Kept to himself. No neighbours got close to him or his wife.”
You’d think… (ethics and morality)
Lisa: “You’d think we could be a little bit happier that the poor woman is alive and well.”
We’ve become… (ethics and morality)
Stella: “We’ve become a race of Peeping Toms”
I wonder… (ethics and morality)
Jeff: “I wonder if it’s ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens.”
Whatever happened… (ethics and morality)
Lisa: “Whatever happened to that old saying, ‘Love thy neighbour?’”
That’s a secret… (ethics and morality)
Doyle: “That’s a secret private world you’re looking to in there”.
We’re two… (ethics and morality)
Lisa: “We’re two of the most frightening ghouls”
Is this… (gender relations)
Jeff, then Lisa: “Is this the Lisa Fremont who never wears the same dress twice?” “Only because it’s expected of her”
In the old days… (gender relations/ethics/morality)
Stella: “In the old days, they used to put your eyes out with a red hot poker. Any of those bikini bombshells you’re always watching worth a red-hot poker?”
Well, that’s fine… (gender relations)
Jeff: “Well, that’s fine, Stella. Now, would you fix me a sandwich, please?”
Let’s let… (gender relations)
Doyle: “Let’s let the female psychology department handle that one.”
I’ll trade… (gender relations)
Lisa: “I’ll trade you… My feminine intuition for a bed for the night”
She belongs… (gender relations)
Jeff about Lisa: “She belongs to that rarefied atmosphere of Park Avenue: Expensive restaurants and literary cocktail parties.”
Next Wednesday… (Jeff’s motives)
Jeff: “Next Wednesday I emerge from this… plaster cocoon”
Right now… (Jeff’s motives)
Jeff: “Right now I’d welcome trouble.” (to Stella)
When a man… (modern marraige)
Stella: “When a man and a woman see each other and like each other, they ought to come together, wham, like a couple of Taxis on Broadway, not just sit around analysing each other like two specimen in a bottle.”
Every man… (modern marriage)
Stella: “Every man is right for marriage when the right girl comes along.”
She’s not… (loneliness/relationships)
Lisa: “She’s not in love with him… or any of them.”
