“Ah, life is like that. Sometimes at the height of
our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the
world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us.”—Narrator (voice of Jean
Shepherd), A Christmas Story, screenplay by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and
Bob Clark, directed by Bob Clark (1983)
Sam Kashner’s recent Vanity Fair article on the making of A Christmas Story reminded me of this hilarious scene that
sometimes gets lost amid the more famous sequences most listeners fondly about
(e.g., Flick getting his tongue stuck to a frozen pole). Jean Shepherd’s droll lines
above occur as The Old Man is sitting down to read the comics, blissfully
unaware of the dogs trooping past who are about to devour his family’s dinner.
1 comment:
The narrator is so very eloquent��This is my favorite line of the show��
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