CINEMA REBORN - DW Griffith via Jean- Luc Godard leads to WOMAN ON THE RUN (Norman Foster, USA, 1950)

I thought it was Jean-Luc Godard who asked what do filmgoer's want? and answered "A girl and a gun." But I stand corrected. Here is the definitive explanation from a website named  the Cine Tourist.  

All over the internet and in scholarly works, the phrase 'all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun' is  attributed to Jean-Luc Godard, and that despite his insistence that 'c'est Griffith qui a dit ça, ce n'est pas moi' ('it was Griffith who said that, not me').

Godard seems to have first attributed the phrase to Griffith in 1964, in the trade-press spread announcing his forthcoming film Bande à part:

'What do filmgoers want?' Griffith asked. 'A girl and a gun'.  It's to meet their wishes that I have made, and that Columbia  will distribute, Bande à part, a sure-fire story that will  sell a lot of tickets. Now you all know. CINEMA REBORN’S girl and a gun can be found in  Norman Foster’s Woman on the Run  Click on the link to go  to the Cinema Reborn website for the program notes by Eddie  Cockrell

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