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"I wish I knew how to quit you"--THE movie quote of 2005

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Ken from Chicago

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Dec 29, 2005, 6:46:21 AM12/29/05
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"I won't be ignored!"

"I'm king of the world!"

"Klaatu, barada, nikto."

"I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

"Show me the money!"

"I see dead people."

"You had me at 'hello'."

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

"No, ***I*** am your father."

"Rosebud."

Some movie quotes are beyond merely memorable but become seared to your
brain that defy the usual explanation of good to great writing, excellent
delivery, right moment in time, somehow that just click. Say the quote and
you know the scene, the actor, the movie.

For this year, 2005, well, I think it's pretty obvious, if for no other
reason than how many times it's been spoofed, it's gotta be "I wish I knew
how to quit you."

-- Ken from Chicago

P.S. Sorry "YOW! KELLY CLARKSON!!!" but you're still in the top five.


Cat_in_awe

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Dec 29, 2005, 10:23:33 AM12/29/05
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Ken from Chicago wrote:
> "I won't be ignored!"
>
> "I'm king of the world!"
>
> "Klaatu, barada, nikto."
>
> "I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
>
> "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
>
> "Show me the money!"
>
> "I see dead people."
>
> "You had me at 'hello'."
>
> "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
>
> "No, ***I*** am your father."
>
> "Rosebud."
>
> Some movie quotes are beyond merely memorable but become seared to
> your brain that defy the usual explanation of good to great writing,
> excellent delivery, right moment in time, somehow that just click.
> Say the quote and you know the scene, the actor, the movie.
>

Didn't AFI do a whole TV show about these?

--
GPC


Michael Balarama

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"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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"He's an educated man, but I don't like him"
val Kilmers- doc holiday

>
>


Magnus, Robot Fighter.

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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:46:21 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
<kwicker1...@comcast.net> wrote:

>"I won't be ignored!"
>
>"I'm king of the world!"
>
>"Klaatu, barada, nikto."
>
>"I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
>
>"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
>
>"Show me the money!"
>
>"I see dead people."
>
>"You had me at 'hello'."
>
>"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
>
>"No, ***I*** am your father."
>
>"Rosebud."
>
>Some movie quotes are beyond merely memorable but become seared to your
>brain that defy the usual explanation of good to great writing, excellent
>delivery, right moment in time, somehow that just click. Say the quote and
>you know the scene, the actor, the movie.
>
>For this year, 2005, well, I think it's pretty obvious, if for no other
>reason than how many times it's been spoofed, it's gotta be "I wish I knew
>how to quit you."
>

I dont know what thats from.

Ken from Chicago

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Dec 29, 2005, 7:09:20 PM12/29/05
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"Cat_in_awe" <rl31...@excite.com> wrote in message
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That LAST year.

-- Ken from Chicago

P.S. And it was top movie quotes of all time.


Sponky

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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 6:01:46 +0800, Magnus, Robot Fighter. wrote
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Me either.

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Ken from Chicago

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There was a new Doc Holiday / Wyatt Earp / Gunfight at the OK Corral movie
this year?

-- Ken from Chicago


Ken from Chicago

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"Magnus, Robot Fighter." <m...@key.com> wrote in message
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Which one?

-- Ken from Chicago


Magnus, Robot Fighter.

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On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:31:00 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
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"I wish I knew how to quit you"...wifey didn't know either.

Magnus, Robot Fighter.

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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:46:21 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
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I dont know what movie the Kelly Clarkson quote is from either.

Ken from Chicago

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"Magnus, Robot Fighter." <m...@key.com> wrote in message
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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

It's been quoted and spoofed on the radio for months--at least locally.

-- Ken from Chicago


Ken from Chicago

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"Magnus, Robot Fighter." <m...@key.com> wrote in message
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THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN

-- Ken from Chicago


John Harkness

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40 Year Old Virgin. I haven't see the film, but it's in the trailer.

John Harkness

Mason Barge

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Not exactly on par with "here's looking at you, kid".
Mason Barge

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Fred Goodwin, CMA

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Mason Barge wrote:

> Not exactly on par with "here's looking at you, kid".

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"

"I gotta bad feeling about this . . ."

"Open the pod-bay doors, HAL."

"You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

"Who's been puttin' they Kools out on my FLO!?"

"You can't handle the truth!"

Ken from Chicago

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"John Harkness" <jhar...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Yep, that week before it opened every other commercial seemed to be him
yelling "KELLY CLARKSON!"

-- Ken from Chicago


Dave in Toronto

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Dec 31, 2005, 7:38:33 PM12/31/05
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"You were just meant to blow off the bleeding door!" (Michael Caine
accent)

"Don't call me Shirley"

"What do these look like - Grapefruit?"

"I have only had sex with one man and that was usually my husband"

"Those folks are sure in a hurry" ( Gabby Hayes accent)

"Isn't he silly mother, how can anyone one possibly be too British".

"Well I'll be ........" (John Wayne accent)

"Build my gallows high baby".

"The Sudan - just a bunch of fuzzy-wuzzis."

"I feel all dead inside . . . backed up in a dark corner . . . and I
don't know who's hitting me."

" Look at her - she wouldn't hurt a fly."

"Why worry? Be a coward and be happy."

"We'll get you to a real doctor".

"Beats flying doesn't it" (Cary Grant accent)

"Ah - what a euphonious appellation" (Guess who)

"A sad case he thinks he's Ethel Merman."

"He choked on his own vomit - actually I think it was someone elses
vomit."

Dave in Toronto

Dave in Toronto

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Marv Raybin

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"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya
punk?"

"Plastics"

"I'yyll be baack!"

"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas Anymore."

"Klaatu Barada Nikto"

"Keep watching the skies."

"Is it safe?"


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Steven L.

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Fred Goodwin, CMA wrote:

"It was Beauty that killed the Beast."

"Rosebud."

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

"May the Force be with you."

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."


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Chris

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"Love is never having to say your sorry" Corniest
>


Robert

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In all movies:

"Are you all right?"

"What are you doing here?"

And:

"Where's Bill?"

Robert


Chris

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"Robert" <writ...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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"Hang On"
>
>


Howard Brazee

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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:54:49 GMT, "Chris"
<chrissi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
>"Love is never having to say your sorry" Corniest

It was a good set-up for _What's Up, Doc?_.

Jane

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"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

"What is it with you people---you think not getting caught in a lie is the
same thing as telling the truth?"


Jack Stalnaker

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"She cut off her nipples with the garden shears...do you call that nawmal?"

--Elizabeth Taylor speaking about Julie Harris's character in "Reflections
in a Golden Eye" (1967).


JCS

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Richard

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Jane wrote:

>
> "What is it with you people---you think not getting caught in a lie is the
> same thing as telling the truth?"
>
>

Where's that one from?

Richard

Jane

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"Richard" <ric...@nospam.edu> wrote in message
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Three Days of the Condor
Redford says it to CIA Cliff Robertson
>


Jane

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"Jack Stalnaker" <mee...@airmail.net> wrote in message
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> "She cut off her nipples with the garden shears...do you call that
> nawmal?"
>
> --Elizabeth Taylor speaking about Julie Harris's character in "Reflections
> in a Golden Eye" (1967).
>
>
> JCS

"You knew it would come to that the first time you condemmed to death a man
you knew to be innocent"

Tracy to Lancaster in Judgment at Nuremberg

David Oberman

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"Jane" <pshe...@houston.rr.com> wrote:

>"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
>
>"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."
>
>"What is it with you people---you think not getting caught in a lie is the
>same thing as telling the truth?"

"Gabrielle, really ... go ... catch a fever."

The same shit, day after day. Are we fucked or what?"

"Loosely translated, I don't like you."

wes wildcat

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Luther said I could learn something from you...I already know how to drink.

Jim Powers

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"Sedagive? SedaGIVE?!!!!"

Magnus, Robot Fighter

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Oh. I saw a trailer for that last night.


>
> It's been quoted and spoofed on the radio for months--at least locally.
>

I have heard of this thing you call......RAY-DI-O

Magnus, Robot Fighter

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> >>>
> >>>For this year, 2005, well, I think it's pretty obvious, if for no other
> >>>reason than how many times it's been spoofed, it's gotta be "I wish I
> >>>knew
> >>>how to quit you."
> >>>
> >>>-- Ken from Chicago
> >>>
> >>>P.S. Sorry "YOW! KELLY CLARKSON!!!" but you're still in the top five.
> >>>
> >>
> >>I dont know what movie the Kelly Clarkson quote is from either.
> >
> > 40 Year Old Virgin. I haven't see the film, but it's in the trailer.
> >
> > John Harkness
>
> Yep, that week before it opened every other commercial seemed to be him
> yelling "KELLY CLARKSON!"
>

Not that anyone cares but my day consists of getting up round 8am to
take care of my son all day.....which means childrens programs and
maybe some of my TV season sets till the wife gets home at 5:30, we
eat, she goes to bed round 8pm, I internet surf till 10pm.

I predict i may be able to see a new movie round...ohhh....2011.

Your Pal Brian

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"Steven L." wrote:

> Fred Goodwin, CMA wrote:
>
> > Mason Barge wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Not exactly on par with "here's looking at you, kid".
> >
> >
> > "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"
> >
> > "I gotta bad feeling about this . . ."
> >
> > "Open the pod-bay doors, HAL."
> >
> > "You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
> >
> > "Who's been puttin' they Kools out on my FLO!?"
> >
> > "You can't handle the truth!"
>
> "It was Beauty that killed the Beast."
>
> "Rosebud."
>
> "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
>
> "May the Force be with you."
>
> "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
>

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too."

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."

"What a dump."

"When you're slapped you'll take it and like it."

"Pardon me, but could you help a fellow American who's down on
his luck."

"I don't have to show you any stinking badges."

"That'll be the day."

"Here's Johnny."

"I shot an arrow in the air/ She fell to earth in Berkeley
Square."

"She was a cross section of the American public."

"Mother isn't quite herself today."

"Apparently the only performance that will satisfy you is when I
play dead."

"Choose your next witticism carefully, Mr. Bond, it may be your
last."

"Nitz, Toto."

"Anything further father?"

"I'm beginning to smell a big fat commie rat."

"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave."

"Will you go to lunch? Go to lunch. Will you go to lunch!"

Brian

Dave in Toronto

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"You're not a jobbernowl, Oggie!"

"I hope that's your gun Marshal."

"I want two dazzen drummusk dinner napkins."

"The pellet with the poison is in the pullet with the parsley."

"There's a cross on the muzzle of the pistol with the bullet, there's a
nick on the muzzle of the pistol with a blank."

"He draws from the left, so lean to the Right."

There's a wind from the East, so lean to the West."

"He crouches when he shoots so stand on your toes."

"The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon."

Dave in Toronto

Forge

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"I'm gonna show you a little trick Mom taught me when you weren't
around. Oh and by the way, I'm sure glad you changed your last name. You
son of a BITCH BLAM BLAM BLAM!!"

trotsky

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Robert wrote:


Two of my favorites:

"You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks."

(Apocalypse Now)

"They brought their fucking toys with them."

(Slapshot)

Ken from Chicago

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"Magnus, Robot Fighter" <pav...@cox.net> wrote in message
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>
> Ken from Chicago wrote:
>> "Magnus, Robot Fighter." <m...@key.com> wrote in message
>> news:ldjdr19i5q4f3m7br...@4ax.com...

<snip>

>> > "I wish I knew how to quit you"...wifey didn't know either.
>>
>> BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
>
> Oh. I saw a trailer for that last night.
>>
>> It's been quoted and spoofed on the radio for months--at least locally.
>>
>
> I have heard of this thing you call......RAY-DI-O
>

Radio = streaming wireless audio--live!

-- Ken from Chicago


Ken from Chicago

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"Magnus, Robot Fighter" <pav...@cox.net> wrote in message
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Simple solution, get cable tv for kid's room. It can be a babysitter,
freeing you to do what you want. It worked for Jim Proffit.

-- Ken from Chicago

P.S. Oh, toss in some food in kid's room from time to time so he won't
starve. Apparently there's some kinda law against that.


Dave in Toronto

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> "Anything further father?"


"That can't be right. Shouldn't it be anything father further?"

Dave in Toronto

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'You remind me of a man." - "What kind of man?" - "A man with a strange
power." - "What kind of power?" - "The power of Voodoo." - "Voodoo?" -
"You do" - "I do what?" - "Remind me of a man." "What kind of man?" "A
man with a strange power"......................

Dave in Toronto

dep

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"Well, maybe there won't be a tomorrow,....there wasn't one today!"

"Groundhog Day"

Tony Whitaker

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"It's the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man!"

"This is no dream! This is really happening!"

"Look how she moves! It's like Jello on springs!"

"I would never call you stupid. You know why? Because calling you stupid
would be an insult to stupid people!"

"I see dead people."

"Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"

"Gooble gobble. Gooble gobble. We accept her. One of us."

"You can call that dog Shithead."

Tony Whitaker

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"Robert" <writ...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> In all movies:

"Noooooooooooooooo!"


Grendel

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>"It's the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man!"
(same conversation) "Mother PussBucket!!"

"I don't know if you're keeping up with current events, but we just got
our asses kicked, pal!".-Aliens

"Life IS pain, Princess. Anybody who says differently is selling
something."-The Princess Bride

Richard

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"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist
indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist
conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

"I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper
found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind
of mutiny of preverts. "

"Maybe. Just maybe my boys can protect the book. Yeah, and maybe I'm a
Chinese jet pilot."

"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an
idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. "

"Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably
more than she ever did. "

"Even businessmen, who rob and cheat and steal from people everyday,
even they have to pay taxes."

"Hitler... there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in
ONE afternoon! TWO coats!"

"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are
people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."

"My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening
thru a cosmic vapor of invention. "

Richard


Tom Zielinski

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"Think for yourselves! You don't need me, you don't need anyone! You are
all individuals!"
"I'm not."

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

"I *am*... in a world... of shit."

"What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you
enough attention when you were a child?"

"Oh my God, the quarterback is toast!"

"They're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess."

"Good shot! OK, he's dead; let's go get 'im. That's another one for the
fire."

"Shut the fuck up, Donny!"

"The Dude abides."

"May I buy you a drink?"
"I don't see why not. I'm on the pill."

"What is it with this, "baby, baby"? Der Führer never said this "baby,
baby!"

"I'm a dead man, Johnnie? I'm a fucking dead man? Guess again, Johnnie.
Who's the dead man? Who? Who's dead, fuckface? Who? Who? I can't hear
you, Johnnie. Guess again. Take another guess, Johnnie. Take another fucking
guess."

"Every passing minute is a another chance to turn it all around."

"I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats."

"When you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or
not."


Maj_Hoople

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My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I
thank you. ...

Your Pal Brian

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Dave in Toronto wrote:

> "I hope that's your gun Marshal."

"'Scuse me while I whip this out."


> "The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon."

"The chalice with the palace holds the brew that is true."

Brian

Your Pal Brian

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Richard wrote:

> "My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening
> thru a cosmic vapor of invention. "

"Ditto!"

Brian

Your Pal Brian

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Tom Zielinski wrote:

> "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you
> enough attention when you were a child?"

"You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece."

"Oh that's right, Private Pyle, don't make any fucking effort to get to the top
of the fucking obstacle. If God wanted you up there he would've miracled your
ass up there, wouldn't he?"

"Hell I like you. You can come over to my place and FUCK MY SISTER!"

"Who said that? Who the fuck said that? Who's the slimy little communist shit,
twinkle-toed cocksucker down here who just signed his own death warrant? Nobody,
huh? The fairy fucking godmother said it. Out-fucking-standing."

and of course...

"I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even
have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reacharound."

> "Shut the fuck up, Donny!"
>
> "The Dude abides."

"Six thousand years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're
goddamn right I'm living in the fucking past."

Brian

Doubting Timus

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My Daddy always swore he heard this one in a western sometime, and I
believe him, although it marks the nadir of screen dialogue for all
time. The scene features whiteyes attempting a move which presupposes
something about the Cherokee nation, and a member in good standing from
that tribe is presenting his credentials in his own culture:

"Injun know injun way!"

--
Doubting Timus is woesong at yahoo.com
"Je suis plus est plus avide plus que je suis à vide" - Rousseau
"If you cannot put it profoundly then put it in French" - Woesong

Chris

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"Doubting Timus" <woe...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My Daddy always swore he heard this one in a western sometime, and I
> believe him, although it marks the nadir of screen dialogue for all time.
> The scene features whiteyes attempting a move which presupposes something
> about the Cherokee nation, and a member in good standing from that tribe
> is presenting his credentials in his own culture:
>
> "Injun know injun way!"
>
>
>
> --
> Also in one Western I saw they were giving the Indians a Watch.
> The Indian said why do I need this. The white man said it tells you when
> to eat and when to sleep. The Injun goes "When hungry eat, when tired
> sleep"


Captain Infinity

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Once Upon A Time Chris wrote:

>> Also in one Western I saw they were giving the Indians a Watch.
>> The Indian said why do I need this. The white man said it tells you when
>> to eat and when to sleep. The Injun goes "When hungry eat, when tired
>> sleep"

You sure that was an Indian and not a Mexican?


**
Captain Infinity
..."That robot reminds me of you: tell it to stop, it turns.
Tell it to turn, it stops. Tell it to take out the garbage,
it watches reruns of Firefly." --"Bones"

Doubting Timus

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Captain Infinity wrote:
> Once Upon A Time Chris wrote:
>
>
>>> Also in one Western I saw they were giving the Indians a Watch.
>>>The Indian said why do I need this. The white man said it tells you when
>>>to eat and when to sleep. The Injun goes "When hungry eat, when tired
>>>sleep"
>
>
> You sure that was an Indian and not a Mexican?

Naw, the Mexican was attempting to sell the watch. You got the wrong
idea. Why not try to be a li'l more polite? You take the watch, we
take yer gun and leave you in peace. It's made in johr own country,
worth two hundred pesos. Thass a good bidness for you; you bettah take it!

I also remember a long dissertation by Tarzan when presented with a list
of the wonders of bringing modern technology to the jungle. "We'll
bring in the railroads!"

And Tarzan spits "Why?"

"Why, to be able to travel from Nairobi to Mogadishu in ten hours!"

"Why?"

"To bring fish to the Massai!"

"Why?"

You can't beat Tarzan dialectical immaterialism.

wes wildcat

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Maj_Hoople wrote:
> My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I
> thank you. ...
>
Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes

There is no crying in baseball

Dave in Toronto

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Doubting Timus wrote

> You can't beat Tarzan dialectical immaterialism.
>
>
> --

See "Tarzan's New York Adventure" - Great court scene where Tarzan
talks rings around smartass New York lawyers while fighting for the
custody of Boy.

Dave in Toronto

Stephen Cooke

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On 31 Dec 2005, Jim Powers wrote:

> "Sedagive? SedaGIVE?!!!!"

And on a similar note:

"'I have a gub.' What's a gub?"

swac

Al Wesolowsky

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In rec.arts.movies.past-films Fred Goodwin, CMA <fgoo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
: Mason Barge wrote:

:> Not exactly on par with "here's looking at you, kid".

: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"

snippety...

"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"

--
Al B. Wesolowsky o NC: "This is MY kinda road!"
Boston University o KE: "Wow, you really are Neal Cassady!"
--Kid Eternity

Doubting Timus

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Dave in Toronto wrote:

> See "Tarzan's New York Adventure" - Great court scene where Tarzan
> talks rings around smartass New York lawyers while fighting for the
> custody of Boy.

By golly, it's the old prole patronige all over again. All the
down-home yokels out there are flattered one who don't speak gud inglish
is the leader of the clan which includes a woman and a boy who sound
like Oxford dons. And here the apeman flummoxes the essence of southern
yokel fear and loathing, the smart-alecky yankee eenteeleckshal. Tarzan
prefigured the bubble boy, except he did all his own stunts.

We used to wonder why it was Tarzan and Tonto weren't able after all
those years to learn the language.

Ken from Chicago

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"Al Wesolowsky" <a...@bu.edu> wrote in message
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> In rec.arts.movies.past-films Fred Goodwin, CMA <fgoo...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> : Mason Barge wrote:
>
> :> Not exactly on par with "here's looking at you, kid".
>
> : "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"
>
> snippety...
>
> "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"

"I think you're gonna need a bigger boat."

> --
> Al B. Wesolowsky o NC: "This is MY kinda road!"
> Boston University o KE: "Wow, you really are Neal Cassady!"
> --Kid Eternity

-- Ken from Chicago


Dave in Toronto

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Doubting Timus wrote:

> We used to wonder why it was Tarzan and Tonto weren't able after all
> those years to learn the language.
>
>
>
> --

Well you have to remember that the first human language Tarzan learned
to speak was French so he probably would have had a bit of an accent.

Dave in Toronto

Howard Brazee

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On 2 Jan 2006 16:43:07 -0800, "Dave in Toronto"
<dmatt...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Well you have to remember that the first human language Tarzan learned
>to speak was French so he probably would have had a bit of an accent.

He learned to speak English from looking at text in books without
hearing the language. Why should learning French be any less
magical?

Dave in Toronto

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Who said it was? What I was saying that if he learned human speech from
a Frenchman he would probably speak English with a French accent.

Dave in Toronto

snappo

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"Dave in Toronto" <dmatt...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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I have enjoyed reading these quotes.

Here's three:-
"Wake up! Wake up! Time to die!"
(Blade Runner - Harrison Ford forced back over
a car hood by one of the androids)

"Who's the Daddie?"
A very young Ray Winstone from the tv movie Scum.
(Before it became used more generally)

Rooster Cogburn:(True Grit) "Fill your hands, you
son of a bitch."
:-)
--
snappo


Al Wesolowsky

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In rec.arts.movies.past-films snappo <Ti...@flies.com> wrote:

: "Dave in Toronto" <dmatt...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message


: news:1136265054....@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
:> Howard Brazee wrote:
:>> On 2 Jan 2006 16:43:07 -0800, "Dave in Toronto"
:>> <dmatt...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Tarzan stuff deleted....

: Rooster Cogburn:(True Grit) "Fill your hands, you
: son of a bitch."

Not bad, but what about Lucky Ned Pepper's preceding line:

"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."

Message has been deleted

Mason Barge

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Jan 3, 2006, 4:40:13 PM1/3/06
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I always liked Roseanne Arquette's reaction to the scene where the guy
ramss a giant hypo of adrenaline (or ephinephrine or something) into
the middle of Uma Thurman's chest in "Pulp Fiction":

"Trippy"

But the quote doesn't stand on its own, sigh.

Mason Barge

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Ken from Chicago

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"Dave in Toronto" <dmatt...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>
>> "Anything further father?"
>
>
>
>
> "That can't be right. Shouldn't it be anything father further?"
>

"Hello, mudder. Hello, fodder. Here I am at, Camp Grenada."

-- Ken from Chicago


Ken from Chicago

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"trotsky" <gms...@email.com> wrote in message
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> Robert wrote:
>
>> In all movies:
>>
>> "Are you all right?"
>>
>> "What are you doing here?"
>>
>> And:
>>
>> "Where's Bill?"
>
>
> Two of my favorites:
>
> "You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks."
>
> (Apocalypse Now)

"You're my assistant. You're supposed to back me up and go get me juiceboxes
whenever I want. Now go get me a juicebox!" "DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING
TO?!?!!!" "I'm talking to the the juicebox guy!" "You're crazy!" "I'm not
crazy. I'm just thirsty!"--'Phil Weston' & 'Mike Ditka', Will Ferrell & Mike
Ditka, KICKING & SCREAMING

-- Ken from Chicago


Ken from Chicago

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"Tony Whitaker" <tony...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> "Robert" <writ...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:6MydnbeAc5B...@comcast.com...
>> In all movies:
>
> "Noooooooooooooooo!"
>

"Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!"

-- Ken from Chicago


Forge

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Jan 3, 2006, 11:24:54 PM1/3/06
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In article <w5tuf.56205$Cj5....@newsfe6-win.ntli.net>,
"snappo" <Ti...@flies.com> wrote:

> "Wake up! Wake up! Time to die!"
> (Blade Runner - Harrison Ford forced back over
> a car hood by one of the androids)

Leon: "Y'know what it's like to have an itch, you can't scratch?"
Rachael: "Here, let me scratch that for you KA-POOM"

Usagi

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Immortal is the Godfather:

"Deal you can't refuse"

I think it was voted top quote by AFI.

Brigid Nelson

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You asked for it:

Khhaaaaaaannnn

brigid

Ken from Chicago

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"Brigid Nelson" <irja...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!" (there was an echo)

-- Ken from Chicago


Ken from Chicago

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"wes wildcat" <wil...@ucar.edu> wrote in message
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"A man stands alone at the plate . This is the time for what? For individual
achievement. There he stands alone, but in the field part of what? Part. Of.
A. Team. "

-- Ken from Chicago


Captain Infinity

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"They're heeeeeere." --Poltergeist

"BRAAAAAAAAINS!!" --Return of the Living Dead

"You should see the other guy." --Fargo

"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" --Batman (1966)

"All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." --Willy Wonka

Richard Schultz

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Jan 11, 2006, 6:29:24 AM1/11/06
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In rec.arts.movies.past-films Captain Infinity <Infi...@captaininfinity.us> wrote:

: "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." --Willy Wonka

If you're going to quote Willy Wonka, why not "We are the music makers,
and we are the dreamers of the dream"?

-----
Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
-----
"I've lost my harmonica, Albert."

John Harkness

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:16:17 GMT, Captain Infinity
<Infi...@captaininfinity.us> wrote:

>Once Upon A Time wes wildcat wrote:
>
>>Maj_Hoople wrote:
>>> My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I
>>> thank you. ...
>>>
>>Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes
>>
>>There is no crying in baseball
>
>"They're heeeeeere." --Poltergeist
>
>"BRAAAAAAAAINS!!" --Return of the Living Dead
>
>"You should see the other guy." --Fargo
>
>"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" --Batman (1966)
>
>"All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." --Willy Wonka
>
>

Doesn't count when the movie character is just quoting a poem.

John Harkness

Captain Infinity

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Jan 11, 2006, 6:48:15 AM1/11/06
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Once Upon A Time Richard Schultz wrote:

>In rec.arts.movies.past-films Captain Infinity <Infi...@captaininfinity.us> wrote:
>
>: "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." --Willy Wonka
>
>If you're going to quote Willy Wonka, why not "We are the music makers,
>and we are the dreamers of the dream"?

Because that wouldn't trollerize *anybody*.

Richard Schultz

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In rec.arts.movies.past-films Captain Infinity <Infi...@captaininfinity.us> wrote:
: Once Upon A Time Richard Schultz wrote:
:>In rec.arts.movies.past-films Captain Infinity <Infi...@captaininfinity.us> wrote:

:>: "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." --Willy Wonka
:>
:>If you're going to quote Willy Wonka, why not "We are the music makers,
:>and we are the dreamers of the dream"?
:
: Because that wouldn't trollerize *anybody*.

Oh. I thought that it was because you didn't know the source of the
latter line.

-----
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Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
-----

"Life is a blur of Republicans and meat." -- Zippy

dep

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Jan 11, 2006, 8:45:11 AM1/11/06
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"Well....what if there is no tomorrow....there wasn't one today!"

Phil Connors

Doubting Timus

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Jan 11, 2006, 11:48:26 AM1/11/06
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"Coffee grounds do not make a Mexican."

Ana, to Matteo, as he is using that substance to darken his features
preperatory to a junket across the border to retrieve his prize pony.

John Harkness

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"There are two things I know to be true. There's no difference between
good flan and bad flan, and there is no war."

"All combat takes place at night, in the rain, and at the junction of
four map segments"

"Well, everyone's your brother 'till the rent comes due. "

"Worry is like interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes
due"

Frank R.A.J. Maloney

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"Richard Schultz" <sch...@mail.biu.ack.il> wrote in message
news:dq2q6k$f6t$1...@news.iucc.ac.il...

> In rec.arts.movies.past-films Captain Infinity
> <Infi...@captaininfinity.us> wrote:
>
> : "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." --Willy Wonka
>
> If you're going to quote Willy Wonka, why not "We are the music makers,
> and we are the dreamers of the dream"?

Or, "Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4%
evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple."

Which as Mrs. Teevee so rightly notes adds up to 105%, making them the
perfect words to live one's life by.

--
Frank in Seattle
____

Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
"Millennium hand and shrimp."


Steven L.

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Jan 12, 2006, 1:55:28 PM1/12/06
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dep wrote:

> "Well....what if there is no tomorrow....there wasn't one today!"
>
> Phil Connors

"Win one for the Gipper"
-- Ronald Reagan, in "Knute Rockne"

"Mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know
what you're gonna get"
-- Forrest Gump, in his movie


--
Steven D. Litvintchouk
Email: sdli...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net

Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me.

George Peatty

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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:55:28 GMT, "Steven L." <sdli...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net>
wrote:

>
>"Win one for the Gipper"
> -- Ronald Reagan, in "Knute Rockne"


If you're going to go there, I like better:

"Where's the rest of me?"
- Ronald Reagan, in "King's Row"

Howard Brazee

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Jan 12, 2006, 6:47:32 PM1/12/06
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:55:28 GMT, "Steven L."
<sdli...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote:

>"Win one for the Gipper"
> -- Ronald Reagan, in "Knute Rockne"
>
>"Mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know
>what you're gonna get"
> -- Forrest Gump, in his movie

Why is one quote from an actor, the other from a character?

Tom Zielinski

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"Can you try and be a good Catholic for fifteen fucking minutes? Is that so
much to ask?"


Paskunia

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Your Pal Brian <brian...@iFreedom.com> wrote in
news:43B858AA...@iFreedom.com:

> "You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece."
>
> "Oh that's right, Private Pyle, don't make any fucking effort to get
> to the top of the fucking obstacle. If God wanted you up there he
> would've miracled your ass up there, wouldn't he?"
>
> "Hell I like you. You can come over to my place and FUCK MY SISTER!"
>
> "Who said that? Who the fuck said that? Who's the slimy little
> communist shit, twinkle-toed cocksucker down here who just signed his
> own death warrant? Nobody, huh? The fairy fucking godmother said it.
> Out-fucking-standing."
>
> and of course...
>
> "I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and
> not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reacharound."
>

And don't forget:
"The days of fingering Becky Sue Rottencrotch in the balcony of the movie
theatre are over. Give your rifle a girl's name, because it's the only
pussy you'll be getting for the next six weeks."

Paskunia

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"Dave in Toronto" <dmatt...@sympatico.ca> wrote in
news:1136248987....@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Well you have to remember that the first human language Tarzan learned
> to speak was French so he probably would have had a bit of an accent.
>
> Dave in Toronto


If that were the case, he wouldn't have said "Umgawa" but "Umgawé," "accent
'grave' over the 'e'."

John Harkness

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But you used an accent aigu.

John Harkness

Paskunia

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Jan 14, 2006, 8:11:34 PM1/14/06
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Nice responses. Here are a few more:


Did get you the story from him?
- No. Actually, I got it from the Mother. Norman no longer exists.

Here's a note: "Please come to my dwessing woom after the show."

All the time your scientists were asking "Could we?", they never stopped
to ask "Should we?"

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't
reach.

Well, Mr Ismay, it looks like you finally got your headlines.

I'd like to see Paris before I die- Philadelphia will do!

"It's just a jump to the left…"

I picked the wrong play, the wrong cast, the wrong director- where did I
go right?

HO HO HO! You'll shoot your eye out, kid!


See you at the flickers!

Tony Whitaker

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Jan 14, 2006, 8:23:42 PM1/14/06
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"Paskunia" <OldMac...@TheFarm.eieio> wrote in message
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> I picked the wrong play, the wrong cast, the wrong director- where did I
> go right?

I watched the original "The Producers" last week, and couldn't stop
laughing. What a great movie.


smee

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Jan 14, 2006, 9:15:55 PM1/14/06
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Paskunia wrote (in part):

> Nice responses. Here are a few more:
>
> Did get you the story from him?
> - No. Actually, I got it from the Mother. Norman no longer exists.

I'm not a list long-timer, so apologies if this is an old bone. But am
I the only person who really disliked Simon Oakland's exposition in the
next-to-the-last scene in _Psycho_? Perhaps its presence was at least
in part a function of when the film was released, Hitchcock and
screenwriter Stefano feeling that the audience wouldn't have the
requisite background to properly interpret/understand Perkins'
insanity. Looking at it now it comes off (well, perhaps just to me) as
glib and unnecessary. Fortunately, Perkins' final scene cements the
film's iconic status. (And it's really nothing against Oakland, a fine
character actor. I could never bring myself to see the Gus Van Sant
remake, so I've never seen Robert Forster's version of the scene.)

Yrs,

Michael

David Matthews

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Jan 14, 2006, 10:44:08 PM1/14/06
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>> Well you have to remember that the first human language Tarzan learned
>> to speak was French so he probably would have had a bit of an accent.
>>
>> Dave in Toronto
>
>
> If that were the case, he wouldn't have said "Umgawa" but "Umgawé,"
> "accent
> 'grave' over the 'e'."
>
>
>

Ah! but when he said "Umgawa" he was speaking animalese not human. The
charging herd of Elephants understood him anyway.

Dave in Toronto


Doubting Timus

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Jan 15, 2006, 1:22:22 PM1/15/06
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David Matthews wrote:

> Ah! but when he said "Umgawa" he was speaking animalese not human. The
> charging herd of Elephants understood him anyway.

So did Louis B Mayer. F Scott Fitzgerald deplored in a legendary story
session how the most prominent statement in movies of that day was the
Tarzan yell, and Louis very enthusiastically agreed, celebrated, jumped
up on the table, imitated it. That's the kind of movie we want to make,
he rhapsodized.

I think it's what they call "creative differences."

Fred Goodwin, CMA

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Jan 16, 2006, 4:16:08 PM1/16/06
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"Is it safe?", Marathon Man (1976)

snappo

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"Doubting Timus" <woe...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dq3ct...@enews4.newsguy.com...


3 final scenes:-
"Is this the end of Rico?"
Little Ceasar 1930

Cody Jarrett: "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
White Heat 1949

Unusual one:-
Boyz'n The Hood 1991
Tre Styles: Hey, Dough!
Doughboy: W'sup?
Tre Styles: You still got one brother left, man.
Doughboy: Thanks, man... Later, G.
Tre Styles: Later.

It's really most memorable as a scene.

--
snappo


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