Sweet Charity Page #7

Synopsis: Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): Bob Fosse
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
G
Year:
1969
149 min
1,801 Views


All the cats

were go-go-going down below

Flip your wings

and fly to Daddy

Flip your wings and

fly to Daddy

Flip your wings

and fly to Daddy

Fly, fly

fly to Daddy

Take a dive

and swim to Daddy

Take a dive and

swim to Daddy

Take a dive

and swim to Daddy

Swim, swim

swim to Daddy

Hit the floor

and crawl to Daddy

Hit the floor and

crawl to Daddy

Hit the floor

and crawl to Daddy

Crawl, crawl

crawl to Daddy

Flip your wings

Fly

Flip your wings

Fly

Flip your wings

Fly

Flip, fly

Flip, fly

Flip, fly

flip, fly

Flip, fly, flip, fly

flip, fly, flip, fly

Take a dive

Take a dive, swim

Take a dive, swim

Swim, yeah, swim

Swim, swim

Swim, swim, swim

swim, swim

To Daddy

Daddy?

Yeah?

Ah, Daddy?

Uh-huh.

Oooh, Daddy!

Hit the floor!

Crawl to Daddy!

Hit the floor!

Crawl to Daddy!

Hit the floor!

Crawl to Daddy! Hit the

floor and crawl to Daddy!

Aaah!

Crawl to Daddy!

Crawl to Daddy! Crawl!

Crawl! Crawl to Daddy!

Do, we, do, we

do, we

Do, we, do, we

do, we

Do, we, do, we, do

Do, we, do, we, do Split

it, split it, split it.

Do, we, do, we, do

Do, we, do, we, do

And the rhythm of life

is a powerful beat

Puts a tingle in your fingers

and a tingle in your feet

Rhythm in your bedroom

rhythm in the street

Yes, the rhythm of life

is a powerful beat

To feel

the rhythm of life

To feel

the powerful beat

To feel the tingle

in your fingers

To feel the tingle

in your feet

Daddy, go

Go, go, go

Tell them everything

you know

To feel

the rhythm of life

To feel

the powerful beat

To feel the tingle

in your fingers

To feel the tingle

in your...

Flip your wings

and fly to your daddy

Take a dive

and swim to your daddy

Hit the floor

and crawl to your daddy

Daddy, we've got

the rhythm of life

- Of life, of life of life

- Yeah!

- Let me hear it!

- Yeah!

- Sock it to me!

- Yeah!

- Let it all hang out!

- Yeah!

Gather round.

Yeah, this is where

it's all happenin', babies.

"The Rhythm of Life," number

seven in the top ten religions.

We're gonna climb

to number one, Big Daddy.

I'm hip, baby.

But dig.

Time is runnin' out

on that big L.P. Called life.

And the greatest disc jockey of them all

is gonna come and take us by the hand...

and lead us to the flip side

of life called eternity.

Eternity!

That big coffee break

in the sky.

Yeah, but before we groove

that final date...

before we head for that last...

Eight bars,

we gotta make our peace!

Make it, Daddy. Make it,

Daddy. Make it, Daddy.

You know I'm gonna make it!

I want you cats to listen to everything

I'm gonna lay on ya as of this point.

Number one!

Thou shalt dig thy neighbor as

thou wouldst have him dig thee.

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Number two!

Thou shall not put down

thy mamas and thy papas!

No, no, no, no.

Number three! Thou shall not

swing with another cat's chick.

No, no, no, no.

Number four!

Thou shall not blow thy minds on

school nights and national holidays.

They're a very devout group.

Where did you ever find them?

I'm on a mailing list.

It's a Church of the Month club.

And last!

Come here.

But not least.

Thou shall not indulge thyselves

in the evil marijuana weed...

commonly known as pot,

grass, Mary Jane...

Acapulco Gold,

as it is sinful.

It is harmful!

It's also very expensive!

So I suggest, if anybody's holdin',

drop it before the fuzz arrives.

Love, babies.

Love, Daddy.

Yeah.

Are they gone?

Hey, you're shaking.

I'm scared to death.

Don't... Don't... Don't worry.

I'm right here beside you.

So just relax

and be scared all you want.

Thank you. I will.

Hey, you know something?

I don't mind

being scared with you.

I mean, when you've got

somebody you can depend on,

that you know will be there all

the time to take care of you,

then you can afford

to be scared.

I never had a somebody

like that before.

I've never had anybody

depend on me before.

I think they're gone.

You know what I wish? I wish

we could stay like this forever.

Oh, do you, Oscar?

Y:

- You're the first girl I ever met that I ever trusted...

and believed in.

And my whole right side

is going to sleep.

Wait. I'll scrunch down.

How's that?

Oh, Oscar,

I'm gonna tell you something

about me I don't think you'll like.

Couldn't be anything

about you I wouldn't like.

Remember I told you

I worked in a bank?

A bank in Brooklyn.

What about that bank

in Brooklyn?

We just raised

our interest rates. Mmm.

Hey!

What's the matter?

Did you hear what I said? I said I

wish we could stay in here forever.

D- Did you hear me say that?

Well, look where we are!

In a small, tight place of the type I'm

usually scared to death to be in, but I'm not.

I like it! I don't have

claustrophobia anymore.

I'm cured! You cured me.

I did? How?

I don't know,

but it's gone!

Ha, ha!

For the first time in my life.

It's gone! It's gone!

Gone, gone, gone!

Here was a man with

no dream and no plan

Then one lonely night

I found Sweet Charity

You make life fun for me

Oh, what it's done for me

Having you around

Sweet Charity

Warm words

I've never said

Lately pop off

the top of my head

It's incredible

Suddenly I'm the guy

I never dared to be

Watch me touch the sky

quite easily

So if you are free

Sweet Charity

Please belong to me

sweet, Sweet Charity

Please belong to me

Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity

please belong to me

Sweet Charity

please belong to me

Sweet Charity

please belong to me

Sweet Charity

please belong to me, please

Please

Please?

Charity, I'd just about given

up ever finding anybody like you.

I mean, the world's gone crazy.

Everything's all mixed up.

The old standards

of decency and morality,

they don't seem

to mean anything anymore.

When I see the way the girls at

the office are passed around...

and the jokes

they tell about them,

I get sick, Charity.

Most people would laugh

if I told them that.

I'm not laughing, Oscar.

From the moment we first met,

I knew you were different.

Like the way I knew

you worked in a bank.

Oscar, listen,

there's something...

I knew you believed in the

same things I did. Things like,

Oh, innocence and...

Try purity.

Does that sound corny? No.

Well, yeah,

maybe it is.

B- But that's the way

I always pictured it would be.

The way it had to be.

No one else seems to think those

things are important anymore, but...

that's why you're a very

special person, Charity.

Charity?

Charity?

Do you wanna have fun

Cowboy, I wanna tell ya

something. Fun, fun, fun

A little secret between you

and me. How's about a few

How about it, palsie?

Laughs, laughs

Mister, do you speak

Spanish? I can show you a

Good time

Hey, what's the big idea?

Excuse me,

Miss Valentine!

Your escort shelled out 6.50 to dance

with you, and I do not see you dancin'.

Who dances?

You defend yourself to music!

Now, Miss Valentine... You

want to know somethin', Herman?

I don't like it here

anymore.

So I'm givin' you my two weeks

notice as of two weeks ago.

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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, and after graduating from high school, he began writing comedy scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows from 1950 (where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. He began writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1961), which took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successful plays, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), for which he won a Tony Award. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway." During the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote both original screenplays and stage plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he has garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three. During one season, he had four successful plays running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor. more…

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