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[This message was edited by FilmFour Editor on 19-11-02 at 15:26.]
Does this thread mean that a bit of swearing is permitted? SCARFACE and CASINO are full of great quotes -- but few of them are without the "f" word! Then there are the profanity-fests of David Mamet and his ilk. What are this thread's perameters of "decency"?
<theidler>
Posted
"match me sidney."
you had to be there
zardoz
"the gun is good, the penis is evil".
can i say 'penis' here? i wouldn't want to offend anyone by saying 'penis', i hope the invigilators take my 'penis' in the spirit it was meant.
<DanWilde1966>
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QUINT: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know. `Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosom's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He'd a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
<nightingale>
Posted
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror and bloodshed, but they produced Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
<DanWilde1966>
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From Tidyman's original script -- not exactly as shot in the finished film:
3-shot of BLACK PUSHER sitting between DOYLE and RUSSO. DOYLE is at the wheel. BLACK PUSHER is sitting on his hands, wrists manacled behind him, his head down and dripping blood onto the jacket and the canary-yellow turtleneck. All three are breathing hard.
DOYLE What's your name, asshole?
BLACK PUSHER **** you, Santa Claus!
DOYLE hits him across the face.
4.
RUSSO Your name is Willie Craven.
BLACK PUSHER doesn't look up.
DOYLE Who's your connection, Willie? What's his name?
No response.
RUSSO Who killed the old Jew in the laundromat?
BLACK PUSHER's brow furrows, looks up just a little.
BLACK PUSHER I don't...
DOYLE Ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
BLACK PUSHER What?
DOYLE Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
BLACK PUSHER I don't know what you're talkin' about.
DOYLE Were you ever in Poughkeepsie?
BLACK PUSHER No... yeah...
DOYLE Did you ever sit on the edge of the bed, take off your socks and stick your fingers between your toes?
BLACK PUSHER Man, I'm clean.
DOYLE You made three sales to your roaches back there. We had to chase you through all this shit and you tell me you're clean?
5.
RUSSO Who stuck up the laundromat?
DOYLE How about that time you were picking your feet in Poughkeepsie?
The BLACK PUSHER'S eyes go to RUSSO in panic, looking for relief from the pressure of the inquisition.
RUSSO (in pain) You better give me the guy who got the old Jew or you better give me something or you're just a memory in this town.
BLACK PUSHER That's a lot o' shit. I didn't do nothin'.
The BLACK PUSHER's eyes are on DOYLE, frozen in confusion and fear.
DOYLE You put a shiv in my partner. Know what that means? All winter I gotta listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags - then I'm gonna nail you for pickin' your feet in Poughkeepsie.
<DanWilde1966>
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I've seen horrors...horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that...But you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face...And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terrorare your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces...Seems a thousand centuries ago...We went into a camp to innoculate the children. We left the camp after we had innoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every innoculated arm. There they were in a pile...A pile of little arms. And I remember... I...I...I cried... I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized...like I was shot...Like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead...And I thought: My God...the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters...These were men... trained cadres... these men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love...but they had the strength...the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordal instincts to kill without feeling...without passion... without judgement...without judgement. Because it's judgement that defeats us...
...I worry that my son might not understand what I've tried to be. And if I were to be killed, Willard, I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything. Everything I did, everything you saw... Because there is nothing I detest more than the stench of lies. And if you understand me, Willard, you'll do this for me.
1. TYRELL: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you have burned so very very brightly, Roy. Look at you. You're the prodigal son. You're quite a prize!
2. ROY BATTY: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships onfire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tan Hauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die...
<lolo>
Posted
top quotable film in history has to be 'Withnail and I'... you can sit there for hours and go on and on and on... It is quite simply a beauty
<lolo>
Posted
and I quote from Monty... "I mean to have you, boy, even if it must be burglary."
<ohgoditsraininginside>
Posted
I'm going to shake you until you turn into cheese.
<Cuckoo's Egg>
Posted
your own special imaginary down on the dairy farm porno?
<benoitfunk>
Posted
When that little teenybopper girl asks the three go-go dancin' hellcats if they want a soft drink.
Haji glares at her ... "Soft drink? Honey, we don't like nothin' soft."
<kam1nsk1>
Posted
The late great Oliver Reed
"Those giraffes you sold me, won't breed...just eat all day. You sold me...queer giraffes..."
So funny.
Stay Lucky... Minski
<kam1nsk1>
Posted
Dan Goodman as Walter
"This isn't Vietnam, Snowy, this is bowling. There are rules."
Stay Lucky... Minski
<mr flibble>
Posted
this is way up there in the sillyest lines i've heard......
"don't talk to them, they're dead"
<narshty>
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"George Amberson Minafer walked home through what seemed to be the strange streets of a city, for the town was growing, and changing. It was heaving up in the middle incredibly. It was spreading incredibly. And as it heaved and spread, it befouled itself and darkened its sky. This was the last walk home he was ever to take up National Avenue to Amberson Addition, to the big old house at the foot of Amberson Boulevard. Tomorrow they were to move out. Tomorrow everything would be gone. Something had happened. A thing which, years ago, had been the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens of the town. And now it came at last. George Amberson Minafer had got him comeuppance. He got it three times filled, and running over. But those who had so longed for it were not there to see it, and they never knew it. Those who were still living had forgotten all about it, and all about him."
- Narrator (Orson Welles)
<Paul Brookfield>
Posted
There is little point having a film quote thread if you cannot use bad language in the quotes.
Seems to be a few DVDForums members here!
Paul Brookfield Hong Kong film fan
<caniggit>
Posted
In Superman I when Superman takes Lex and Otis to prison at the end, Lex says "You think this will hold the greatest criminal mind of our time".
Classic!
He even says it at the start of Superman II when he and Otis are in the laundry room.
