I watch the movie Enduring Love at the Odeon Wardour Street. At one point in all the intense psychological goings-on, there's a rather good joke that's not in the original book by Ian McEwan:
<b>Joe (Daniel Craig):</b> You're mad!
<b>Jed (Rhys Ifans):</b> They said that about Jesus.
<b>Joe:</b> They said it about a lot of mad people as well!
Then I start to think. Where have I heard this line before?
<b>Dudley Moore:</b> You're a nutcase! You're a bleeding nutcase!
<b>Peter Cook:</b> They said the same of Jesus Christ, Freud, and Galileo…
<b>Dudley Moore:</b> They said it of a lot of nutcases too!
<i>- from BEDAZZLED, the late 60s Cook and Moore movie. Script by Peter Cook.</i>
Mr Ifans played Mr Cook in the recent biopic "Not Only But Always", which includes scenes from the making of "Bedazzled". I suspect that has something to do with it.
I feel far too pleased with myself for spotting this.
