"Suddenly, last summer"

6.06.16

Last night I watched "Suddenly, last summer" (1959). Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor... What a film! You can smell Tennessee Williams. I found the following sentence particularly revolutionary, even today (I froze as I heard Hepburn say it out loud): 

"Millions of years ago, dinosaurs fed on the leaves of these trees, the dinosaurs were vegeterians, that´s why they became extinguished... they were just too gentle for their size. And then, the carnivorous creatures, the ones who ate flesh, the killers, inherited the earth... but then, they always do, don´t they?".