"" Uh, no, let me start this over...an industrial area in Chelsea, with a footbridge over a busy city street (an unused railway line)the Queensboro Bridgethe EMPIRE DINER (on Tenth Avenue in Chelsea)the snow-covered and lamp-lit streets of Park Avenuetrucks on the West Side (with the World Trade Center in the background)crowded streets and a streetside fruit marketpeople waiting to cross a street at an intersection (with a "DON""T WALK" sign)CORNY""Chapter One: He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else.Due to the film""s raw, controversially-offensive and critical assessment of hypocritical French military and bureaucratic authorities who callously condemn and sacrifice three randomly-chosen innocent men with execution (for cowardice) for their own fatal blunder, it suffered poor box-office returns, and was banned in France and Switzerland for almost twenty years (until the mid-1970s) following its release."As he forced a kiss on her lips, he heard a click - she had handcuffed his left wrist to hers, as he threatened: "I""m really pressed for time, so where""s the key?" When she wouldn""t answer, he reached for a meat cleaver, raised it in the air, and said as he grabbed her: "Above or below the wrist, Clarice....You used to believe that a single kiss could solve everything." As she was leaving, she abruptly turned and kissed Shrek, but then wiped off her mouth.The kiss was ineffective to rescue everyone - because it wasn""t really "true love""s kiss." Fiona had become disillusioned over the years waiting for a true love "that never came" in the miserable tower of the dragon""s keep ("It""s all just a big fairy tale").I must ask you to forgive their somewhat lackadaisical manners, but I have conditioned them - or brain-washed them, which I understand is the new American word.