Dreams That Money Can Buy Page #3

Synopsis: After learning how to look inside himself, a poetic bum sells people vivid dreams.
Director(s): Hans Richter
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.9
APPROVED
Year:
1947
99 min
105 Views


What's the difference ?

You'll never belong to anything anyway.

Don't hesitate now, dear.

Stick to your promise.

A matter of principle.

Go on. Get it over with.

The Girl With The Prefabricated Heart

Oh, Venus was born out of sea foam

Oh, Venus was born out of brine

But a goddess today, if she is grade A

Is assembled upon the assembly line

How divine. Rise and shine

Upon the assembly line

Now, Julie was born as is proper

Her every proportion was planned

She was poured from a mould,

exquisite and cold

And she grew up untouched by human hand

Oh, how grand ! See her stand

Untouched by human hand

Her chromium nerves and her platinum

brain were chastely encased in Cellophane

And to top off this daughter of science and art

She was equipped with a prefabricated heart

She prepares for life.

Shall I be auburn or dark or fair ?

Shall I unbind my nylon hair ?

Would love make skies look clearer ?

Or should I serenade my mirror ?

A hero would always admire me

He'd pamper and pet and inspire me

Why else were my charms made so drastic ?

Why else were my arms made so plastic ?

What else was my heart electroplated for ?

Oh, send me the mate it was prefabricated for

Then just like the movies, a mail-order male

Was sent by the gods direct from Yale

He was handsome

with biceps of stainless steel

Plus which he was rich,

and his love for her was real

By fate he was guided to knock at her door

'Twas love at first sight for evermore

They were made for each other,

exclusively planned

So he bent his knee

and he asked her for her hand

Her bridal gown was a synthetic

weave of coal tar, milk, and wood,

spun under atomic pressure

in a four-billion-dollar machine.

I'll offer you sterilised flowers

Expensive and scentless and rare

There'll be pedigree birds

Singing songs without words

As they fly through the air-conditioned air

Your fanciful dreams I'll interpret for you

Your hidden desires I will bring into view

All the wheels in your brain

I will polish and shine

To prove they can move in harmony with mine

Oh, nature and art will not win her

So ply her with diamonds and pearls

For bracelets and rings are practical things

That appeal to the mind of a healthy girl

Nature and art will not win her

I'll ply her with diamonds and pearls

For bracelets and rings are practical things

That appeal to the mind of a healthy girl

- Julie, at last you're mine.

- I guess.

- I've always dreamed of this moment divine.

- It will be nice, unless...

Oh, darling, let us seal our marital bliss

with a glorious technicolour kiss.

I suppose so.

You express every ideal I've ever had.

You're as evocative as a full-page ad.

Tell me that you care.

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