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Open Thread: Movie Dialogue Edition

by: elwood

Sun Mar 07, 2010 at 19:18:37 PM EST
It's quiet around here.

Maybe... too quiet.

Let's chatter some - what are your favorite movie lines? Mebbe because they're funny, mebbe because they're sad, mebbe terseness, mebbe other associations.

I'll start with "You ain't heard nothing yet" from The Jazz Singer, just  because Zandra thinks I might be too young for it. Or how about, sans attribution:

  • It's the pictures that got small!
  • Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
  • What do I do now?
  • The FALL is gonna kill us!
  • Wherever you go, there you are

Yeh, I'm dating myself - which is still illegal in some states.
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Didn't list Casablanca lines (0.00 / 0)
because that's a subgenre: what's your favorite there?

"Serves me right for not being more musical."

I came for the waters. n/t (4.00 / 1)

[ Parent ]
Hello! (4.00 / 4)
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.
One of the most excellent ever (4.00 / 2)
The Princess Bride is worth watching for that one line alone. Great movie.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
[ Parent ]
LOL! (4.00 / 3)
I once went to a business event where people had those silly stick-on, "Hello, my name is...." stickers and some guy had written in Inigo Montoya....I thought it was hysterical but it was intriguing to see how many people just stared and tried to figure out what to call him...
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My FAVORITE MOVIE, EVAH! (4.00 / 2)
Great lines (yours included):

"Have fun stormin' the castle boys."

"You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means."

"No. He's only mostly dead."

"You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."

"I just work for Vizzini to pay the bills. There's not a lot of money in revenge."

And so much more.

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein

[ Parent ]
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. (4.00 / 1)
That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.  

'Aints no more
From what? (0.00 / 0)
I'll wimp out and ask. I love the lines.
[ Parent ]
Captain Kurtz's dream from a monitored radio transmiussion in Apocalypse Now. n/t (4.00 / 1)


'Aints no more
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A fwiend in need (4.00 / 3)
I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called 'Biggus Dickus'.  

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.
wewease wodawick! n/t (4.00 / 1)

[ Parent ]
Independence Day (4.00 / 1)
Since I can't quote Casablanca, how about Independence Day:

We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

There are a ton from Caddyshack, I particularly  like, "It looks good on you", "T'anks for nothing", and "The heavy stuff hasn't started." Oh, also, "Well, we're waiting", and "My Dad never liked you".

And one of the best political movies ever in history, Dave, I forgot it was a temp job, at that {I may not have that 100% correct]

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

Oh, you can cite Casablanca! (0.00 / 0)
Others too. After all, I already cheated and did.

We'll risk rounding up the usual..

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Go back to Bulgaria n/t (4.00 / 1)


"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
[ Parent ]
I'll be there at ten. n/t (0.00 / 0)

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Classy (0.00 / 0)
In Back to School, after Rodney Dangerfield is told by his prospective date that she can't go out with him that night because she is teaching, he says
"Call me sometime when you have no class."

No'm Sayn?
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Zed's dead. (4.00 / 1)
 What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.  

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A little OT (0.00 / 0)
but if you enjoyed Pulp Fiction you might enjoy this.
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bore...
Pulp Politicians

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.
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From a dumb movie, and an actor (0.00 / 0)
I don't even really like, but I always laugh when I think about the line, and it's stuck with me.  Here it is, spelled with accent:

"Der vill be no going to the baathroom"

Anyone?

Oops. (0.00 / 0)
The power of youtube.  Correctly:


"Der iz no bathroom!"

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"WOLVERINES!" n/t (4.00 / 1)

"By all means.... (0.00 / 0)
...move at a Glacial pace..."  and "No, that wasn't a question...." by Miranda Preistly in The Devil Wears Prada....

AND....

EVERY LINE out of Lauren Becall's mouth in "To Have and Have Not."

I know, it's a TV show, and I'm cheating. See below. (0.00 / 0)


--
"Act as if ye have faith and faith shall be given to you." -Aaron Sorkin
Oh stewardess! I speak jive. (4.00 / 2)
Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da' help!  

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.
Blucher! n/t (4.00 / 2)

You talkin' to me ? n/t (4.00 / 2)


'Aints no more
"leave the gun (4.00 / 3)
take the cannoli."

and

"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy."  

We're gonna need a bigger thread. n/t (0.00 / 0)

"Cosmo, I just want you to know, (0.00 / 0)
no matter what you do, you're gonna die just like everyone else."
Just about the entire of Big Lebowski (4.00 / 2)
...say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

It's so good there is a web site to generate quotes. http://thugbot.net/features/le...



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the dude abides (4.00 / 1)
You're out of your element Donny

Bresler for Emperor
[ Parent ]
Shakespeare wrote a version of The Big Lebowski (0.00 / 0)
well...
close enough. It's still probably worth checking out
The Moft Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance of Two Gentlemen of Lebowski if one gets the chance.

Bresler for Emperor
[ Parent ]
From "Paradise Now" (0.00 / 0)

This isn't so much of a quote, but a scene to an Academy award nominated film, Paradise Now.

Voice 1: Why are you doing this?
Voice 2 (male): If we can't live as equals, than at least we'll die as equals.
Voice 1: If you can kill and die for equality, you should be able to find a way to be equal in life.
Voice 2: How? Through your human rights group?
Voice 1: For example. Then at least the Israelis don't have an alibi to keep on killing.
Voice 2: Don't be naïve. There can be no freedom without struggle. As long as there is injustice, someone must
make a sacrifice.
Voice 1: That's no sacrifice, that's revenge! If you kill there's no difference between victim and occupier.
Voice 2: If we had airplanes, we wouldn't need martyrs. That's the difference.
Voice 1: The difference is that the Israeli army is still stronger.

My hero, Jack Shaheen (no relation to Jeanne Shaheen), analyzed this scene the best in Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People.

These Palestinians are different from each other. They're not just crazed terrorists. And they're not just freedom fighters. They're human beings, with all the faults, successes, ideals, and pain of human being. I'm an optimist, and I believe in the future, particularly in young filmmakers. The stereotype will change. It will change because young men and women who are entering the profession will see that there has been a grave injustice committed, and they'll make attempts to correct it. It's only a matter of time as to when this will happen. But it will take place. Look, we've unlearned many of our prejudices against blacks, Native Americans, Jews, other groups. Why can't we unlearn our prejudices against Arabs and Muslims? What matters is not to remain silent. I think whenever we see anyone being vilified on a regular basis, we have to speak up, whether we're image-makers or not. We have to take a stand and say this is morally and ethically wrong to demonize a people.

I hate movies and I'll tell you why. (0.00 / 0)
Movies are designed to manipulate emotions and I don't have any emotions to spare.  Letting someone else play with them is a real waste of energy.  

On the other hand, I do like "Padre Padrone" for what the wind and the bell tell the boy.  It's a movie about a linguist in which there is almost no talk.

Frankly, my dear... (4.00 / 4)
I don't give a damn.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
[ Parent ]
#1 all time line n/t (0.00 / 0)


'Aints no more
[ Parent ]
outdated imperialist dogma (0.00 / 0)
King Arthur: Old woman.
Dennis: Man.
King Arthur: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
Dennis: I'm 37.
King Arthur: What?
Dennis: I'm 37. I'm not old.
King Arthur: Well I can't just call you "man".
Dennis: Well you could say "Dennis".
King Arthur: I didn't know you were called Dennis.
Dennis: Well you didn't bother to find out did you?
King Arthur: I did say sorry about the "old woman", but from behind you looked...
Dennis: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior.
King Arthur: Well I am king.
Dennis: Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.  

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.
My last one for this thread - Hoffman: (4.00 / 1)
"I'm WALKIN' here!"
"Walk this way" n/t (4.00 / 2)


"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
[ Parent ]
Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges! n/t (4.00 / 4)


"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein
What we got here is... (4.00 / 3)
...failure to communicate.

'Aints no more
Mutton, Lettuce, and Tomato (4.00 / 1)
when the mutton is nice and lean...
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders (0.00 / 0)
The most famous of which is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
...But only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line"!  

Bresler for Emperor
[ Parent ]
Pahdon me, (4.00 / 2)
While I whip this out.

Stand back, or I shoot the nigger.

Think of your secretary.

All right... (0.00 / 0)
...we'll give some land to the n*ggers and the chinks. But we don't want the Irish!

Bresler for Emperor
[ Parent ]
On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells. n/t (0.00 / 0)


"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Where's your Moses now ? n/t (0.00 / 0)


'Aints no more
Live from the Crystal Ball Room with Sal Stewart (0.00 / 0)
Ladies and Gentlemen, everywhere I look soldiers are fighting sailors. Soldiers are fighting sailors. Sailors are fighting marines. Directly in front of me I see a flying blonde floozy. Everywhere I look, everywhere, pure pandemonium!

Bresler for Emperor
depending on who you ask Glengarry Glen Ross or Nick clemons circa 2000 (0.00 / 0)
The f*cking leads are weak? You're weak.  

Bresler for Emperor
A B C (0.00 / 0)
Always be closing.

'Aints no more
[ Parent ]
Second prize's a set of steak knives. (4.00 / 2)
Third prize is you're fired.

Bresler for Emperor
[ Parent ]
Coffee's for closers only (0.00 / 0)


'Aints no more
[ Parent ]
"That's cheating!" "uh, duh... Pirate?" (0.00 / 0)
I think we've all arrived at a very special place. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically.  

Bresler for Emperor
No.... I'm not procrastinating at work or anything (0.00 / 0)
You've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?  

Bresler for Emperor
God, Veronica, my afterlife is soooo boring. If I have to sing Kumbaya one more time... (0.00 / 0)
Shut up, Paul. Now I've seen a lot of bullsh*t. Angel dust. Switchblades. Sexually perverse photography exibits involving tennis rackets. But this suicide thing... guess that's more on Pauline's wavelength. Well, we're gonna just write off today. And on Friday she can hold her little "Love-In" or... whatever. Whatever.  

Bresler for Emperor
Cool Hand Luke (4.00 / 2)
I miss Paul Newman.




'Aints no more

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