[PW] Movie with Hackneyed political expression: "Time for a Change"

[Bill Davis]

Sandra Gufstanson pointed me to a website with a transcription of the 
dialogue from "A Face in the Crowd," and it IS what I was trying to 
recall.   Here it is:

"We've got to face it, politics have entered a new stage -- 
television.  Instead of long-winded debates, the people want slogans -- 
'Time for a change,'  'The mess in Washington,' 'More bang for a 
buck.'   Punch-lines and glamour. Yes, Mr. Furness, even glamour."

The website:

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/f/face-in-the-crowd-script.html

Thanks!

Bill Davis


At 01:52 PM 1/20/2008, you wrote:

>I am not certain whether or not this query has been answered.
>I have just been watching "A Face in the Crowd" where such a scene occurs.
>This movie was, of course, Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan from 1957.



>Sandra Gustafson
>Hutchinson, KS Public Library
>
>On Jan 3, 2008 4:41 PM, Bill Davis <wmadavis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I almost couldn't believe it when Rudy Giuliani revived a hackneyed old
> > phrase, saying of Hillary Clinton, that she "never met a payroll."    I
> > remembered an old movie where Henry Fonda used that  expression,
> > sarcastically -- I'm pretty sure it was THE BEST MAN.     The big buzzword
> > in reference to Barack Obama is "change," and I can't recall the name of
> > an even older movie that has a politico bemoaning how campaigns are run
> > 'these days,' with empty slogans like "Time for a Change."  It might 
> have been a
> > Preston Sturges movie, but I'm not sure.   Does anyone recognize this?
> >
> > Bill Davis