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The cliché part is due to its enormous popularity. As the article points out, after the cartoon was published, the phrase became part of the common lexicon. Hen
by ternaryoperator 3y ago
The cliché part is due to its enormous popularity. As the article points out, after the cartoon was published, the phrase became part of the common lexicon. Hence, your view of it being cliché.
- aidenn0 3y agoThat's like a friend's reaction to seeing Casablanca: "Everybody is speaking in clichés!"
- cardiffspaceman 3y agoOr Every Shakespeare play. “Out, Out damn spot.”
- svat 3y agoThe dialogue was original to the film, but in terms of plot and characters, Umberto Eco actually thought that Casablanca was full of clichés, and that this was the secret of his success: he titled his essay “Casablanca, or, The Clichés are Having a Ball” (1994), and wrote “Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us.” https://biblioklept.org/2013/05/26/casablanca-or-the-cliches-are-having-a-ball-umberto-eco/ https://biblioklept.org/2013/05/26/casablanca-or-the-cliches...