1)
Brick: I don't have to do anything I don't want to!
Now you keep forgettin' the conditions on which I agreed to stay on livin' with
you. Maggie: I'm not living with you. We occupy the
same cage, that's all.
2)
Big Daddy (to his wife):I put up with a lot of bull
around here because I thought I was dyin'. That's when you started takin' over.
Your loud voice and your old busybody buttin' in here, there, and everywhere.
Sashayin' around here, makin' a big noise like a boss. I'm the only boss around
here. I built this place with no help from you. And I'll run this place 'til the
day I die. Now is that plain to ya, Ida? Is that perfectly clear to ya? Now I
ain't gonna die. There ain't nothin' wrong with me but a spastic colon! Made spastic,
I reckon, by all the lies and liars I've had to put up with around here. And all
the hypocrisy I've had to live with these forty years I've lived with you.
3)
Big Daddy: Now, why do ya drink?! Brick:
Give me my crutch. Big Daddy: Tell me first. Brick:
No, you give me a drink first and I'll tell ya. Big Daddy:
Tell me first! First you gotta tell me! Brick:
All right, disgust! Big Daddy: DISGUST WITH WHAT?
Brick: You strike a hard bargain. Big Daddy:
Boy, do you want liquor that bad? Brick: Yes sir.
I want liquor that bad. (Big Daddy hands him his crutch)
Big Daddy: Now tell me, what are you disgusted with? Brick:
Mendacity. You know what that is. It's lies and liars. Big
Daddy: Who's been lyin' to ya? Maggie? Has your wife been lyin' to ya?
Brick: No. Not one lie, not one person. The whole
thing.
Review:Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof, was originally a successful play by Tennessee Williams,
who had earlier success with A
Streetcar Named Desire. This film tells a powerful tale about a neurotic
and dysfunctional Southern family which is swept up in rivalries and tensions.
The most memorable performance is by Burl Ives as the dying Big Daddy. Paul Newman
(Nobody's Fool, Cool
Hand Luke), who plays the alcoholic son, is excellent as always. Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof is about lies and false-fronts and remains a classic to
this day. -Review by Aaron Caldwell
