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wasnt that the dog in Up?!
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Dec 4, 2014 - 2:28 PM
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Broughtfan
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Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge:
Gunnery Sgt. Highway: "The Marines are looking for a few good men. Unfortunately, you ain't it."
Gran Torino (Walt to girl who invites him next door for Korean barbecue):
Walt: "Yeah, well just keep your hands off my dog.'
Girl: "No worries. We only eat cats."
Sylvester Stallone in Rocky 2: (Rocky chasing a chicken as part of Mickey's training regimen)
"(I) feel like a Kentucky-Fried idiot."
Sean Connery in Thunderball
James Bond: "Do you mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead!"
Steve Martin in Bowfinger:
Bowfinger: "Yeah, she was good, but she didn't have 'IT.' "
Paul Rudd in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Surfing Instructor: "When life give you lemons, just say 'F*** the lemons,' and bail."
From Citizen Kane
(Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane, throwing lavish soiree).
Reporter - "Is there a song about you Mr. Kane?"
Kane - "You buy a bag of peanuts in this town, you get a song written about ya."
(Everett Sloane as Bernstein, talking to reporter about the late Charles Foster Kane)
"Well, a fella will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896 I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all. But I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl."
(Orson Welles as Kane to Joseph Cotten, Jededidiah):
Kane - “A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms; those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”
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WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)
This minor exchange between Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) and his daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) is a brilliant forerunner of what is about to occur between the earth and the alien invaders:
"Whatza matter?"
"Got a splinter."
"Oh. Where'd ya' get it? C'mere."
"On the porch railing."
"Do you want me to take that out?"
"Absolutely not!"
"Come here. Let me see it."
"Dad, just look. Don't touch it!"
"It's gonna get infected."
"No, it won't."
"Yes! It's gonna get infected!"
"NO IT WON'T! When it's ready, my body will just push it out."
"Push it out?"
"I read that."
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"...Yes, fine, i can hear you now, Dmitri, clear and plain and coming through fine. Im coming through fine too, eh? Well then as you say we are both coming through fine. Good. Its good that youre fine and im fine. I agree with you Dmitri, its great to be fine...!...Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb....you know, the bomb, Dmitri? The hydrogen bomb?..well,...."
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Broughtfan, that monologue of old Bernstein about the girl on the ferry is a very often cited highlight of KANE. (And one ripped off for that movie with Robert Redford paying to sleep with Demi Moore.)
But I've always loved Bernstein's one pithy line in that same scene, apropos the late tycoon Mr. Thatcher, after the reporter comments that Thatcher had made a lot of money:
"It's not hard to make a lot of money, if all you want -- is to make a lot of money."
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And Bill, thanks for including that STRANGELOVE exchange, which to this day my brother and I often quote to each other on the long distance telephone.
(Funny thing -- so of speak -- about that Sellers phone scene. The first time I saw it was before the movie itself had even opened, excerpted on the old NBC documentary series, "Hollywood and the Stars." I thought then, and still do, it's one of the funniest movie scenes I've ever seen. But whenever I see the film in a theater, the audience only responds with a few tepid laughs. There's perhaps a lesson here, about context in comedy, but I'm not quite sure what it is.)
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hi preston, hadnt seen strangelove in years, - since i was young and unable to appreciate its subtlety and nuances etc and i knew sellers was superb in his multiple roles but that exchange with the russian premiere, and the whole I think hes drunk! line from the russian ambassador and Can you turn your music down Dmitri ? was just priceless.
Very cleverly written.
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"Of course it's a friendly call, Dimitri…"
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CANDY (1968)
The 17 year-old Candy Christian (Ewa Aulin) meets an eastern mystic named Grindl (Marlon Brando).
Here are a few of his choice nuggets of wisdom, pontificated while seducing her:
"They say in my country that the centipede has a thousand legs, but he can't tap-dance."
"I don't quite see the connection."
"Well it loses a little something in the translation."
"Oh…I'm so hungry! So thirsty!"
"You must travel beyond thirst…beyond hunger…to the Legend of the Pig and the Flower…"
"What legend of the pig and the flower?"
"The Legend of the Pig and the Flower was a very beautiful story, told by my people in song and dance. The pig came upon a bush. In the bush he saw a flower growing. A very large, purple flower. The only one for miles around. And then the pig fell deeply in love with the flower. And then the pig confessed his love. And then the flower said to the pig, "You're a pig! And you're extremely dirty, even for a pig!" Then the pig began to weep. And the flower took pity on the filthy animal, and he said, "I will love you when you are clean!" And the pig's heart swelled with joy, and he went down to the river to wash himself…and he stepped into the water…and he got eaten by a crocodile."
"But what does that story mean?"
"You got me!"
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Falling Down (1993)
D-FENS (Michael Douglas) confronts the truth about himself:
"Am I the bad guy?
How'd that happen?
I did everything they told me to!"
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"...Im shaking it, boss,.. im shaking it!! "
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"..any man caught smoking in a prone position in bed spends a night in the box...!! "
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You're being a PILL, BILL!
I can't guess the "shaking" line, and I'm guessing the "night in the box" line is from "Cool Hand Luke", but I'm not sure.
The rules here are posted just above the door as you walk in.
GIMME THE MOVIE TITLE!
This ain't no Chickenhearted contest we got here.
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Chris, you worry me!! Ha ha.. As an afficionado of good dialogue, and a man of your age, should know they are both from Cool hand Luke.
I admit, posting forgettable dialogue from obscure and forgettable 80s and 90s films should merit a film title.
But from a widely-seen all-time classic, i didnt think it was necessary!
I expect anyone bothering to read it mostly knew it right off.
Its scary that you didnt. So it proves you should watch it again!! The im shaking it - as some will recall - is when he ties a string to the bush and keeps shaking the bush to prove hes there to the bosses above. But slips away and escapes.
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THE DIRTY DOZEN
General Worden (Ernest Borgnine) to Major Resiman (Lee Marvin):
"Now you hold it right there! This war was not started for your private gratification, and you can be damn sure that this army isn't being run for your personal convenience either!"
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Today is February 17, 2015, and I am delighted that my thread is now celebrating its SECOND Anniversary! I've saved the following piece of writing for this very moment:
The Natural (1984)
"You know, I believe we have two lives…
The life we learn with, and the life we live with after that."
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BillCarson, you are indeed correct, sir!
It has been far too many years since I revisited Cool Hand Luke.
Thanks for the inspiration!
I'll hard boil me about 50 eggs or so, and have another look see….
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To be honest chris, you could make a thread on great lines from Cool hand luke on its own!
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