Woody Allen – Match Point (2005) [2]
☛ Match Point by Woody Allen, United Kingdom, 2005, screen capture at 00:22:03:00. [Nola] – I don’t think my career has… really gone as planned. [Tom] – Oh, you just need a break. [Chris] – I think it’s important to be lucky in anything. [Chloe] – Well, I don’t believe in luck. I believe in […]
Woody Allen – Match Point (2005)
☛ Match Point by Woody Allen, United-Kingdom, 2005, official website. The screen capture from the opening sequence. An off-stage narrator (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) tells the following lines: The man who said “I’d rather be lucky than good” saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. […]
Lose – Online Etymology Dictionary
O.E.losian “be lost, perish,” from los “destruction, loss,” from P.Gmc. *lausa (cf. O.N. los “the breaking up of an army”), from PIE base *leu– “to loosen, divide, cut apart, untie, separate” (cf. Skt. lunati “cuts, cuts off,” lavitram “sickle;” Gk. lyein “to loosen, untie, slacken,” lysus “a loosening;” L. luere “to loose, release, atone for”). Replaced related leosan (a class II strong verb whose pp. loren survives in forlorn and love-lorn), from P.Gmc. *leusanan (cf. […]
