Saturday, February 21, 2004
The Fortune Cookie (1966), directed Billy Wilder and starring Walter Mathau and Jack Lemmon is the not-too-funny comedy about a guy who's lawyer brother-in-law convinces him to fake a spinal cord injury after he gets run into by a football player so that he can sue everyone and get rich. Maybe it's not a comedy at all and that's why I was disappointed.
The movie gets its name from the message inside of a fortune cookie that says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time".
Now, I've seen a lot of fortune cookies, and I know for a fact that that's way too many words to fit on that little scrap of paper. But, because I wasn't totally sure that this couldn't really be a real fortune cookie, I went looking around at custom fortune cookie sites (check out e-fortunecookie.com) and generally the rule seems to be 3 lines of 40 characters. So, 120 characters...including spaces. This phrase is 143 characters. It's actually much closer than I would have thought.
The movie gets its name from the message inside of a fortune cookie that says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time".
Now, I've seen a lot of fortune cookies, and I know for a fact that that's way too many words to fit on that little scrap of paper. But, because I wasn't totally sure that this couldn't really be a real fortune cookie, I went looking around at custom fortune cookie sites (check out e-fortunecookie.com) and generally the rule seems to be 3 lines of 40 characters. So, 120 characters...including spaces. This phrase is 143 characters. It's actually much closer than I would have thought.
// posted by Chris @ 1:48 PM 
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