Today's Movie Lines

[Greenclay]

 

All over the world, just about everybody loves movies.

Some movies are so famous that everybody can instantly name the movie, after hearing only a single line of dialog.  In America, if someone says, "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more." or "Follow the Yellow Brick Road." or "Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!" we know it's from The Wizard of Oz.

Other well-known examples are, "You're gonna need a bigger boat." or "Show me the money!" or "I'll be back." or "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."  

Just one line, and you know the movie, right?

With that in mind, I'm starting a daily "Movie Lines of the Day" topic.  Every day - or almost every day, I hope - I'll post a few lines of dialog.  I usually won't include the character's names, since that would usually make it too easy.  I'll also include the year in which the movie was released.  As far as I know, all quotes will be in English, and all types of movies will be included - science fiction, drama, romance, historical epics, horror, comedy - a little bit of everything.  For a change of pace, I might just describe the plot of a famous Japanese or German or Russian movie, with a few hints - and I already have a few in mind.

And please, let's be on the honor system - don't go running to look up the lines somewhere on the Internet.  Where's the fun in that?

The day after I post the dialog, I'll post the answer, including the movie name, and some of the actors.  Now keep this in mind - I'll be including a lot of old, classic movies.  Since they are shown on TV over and over and over, nobody can claim, "Hey!  That's from before I was born!"  Sorry, friends- that's not a good enough excuse!

Ok, now that we have that out of the way, here's the first "Movie Lines of the Day" dialog:

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#1
"I bet I know a lot of things you don't know.  I know that's not French you're singing."
"That's right. About ten million people know it's Portuguese."
"I bet you can't speak French."
"Right now I sorry I speak English."

"Wake up, Little Fish.  Hey, wake up, wake up!  Somebody think you dead, they have celebrations."

Year:  1937

ANSWER:  Captains Courageous  --- Spencer Tracy, Freddy Bartholomew

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[Philo_Vance]

Great idea, Gc. This should be fun.

Remember, folks: This is not supposed to be a test of how well you can use Google. You have to know it when you read it.

(I think know the first one, but only 'cause I'm old. Let's let the ink dry and see if someone else can get it.)

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[Greenclay]

#2

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This one should be easy.

"You came to beg a truce, you should be on your knees."
"I came to see your face so that I alone may find you on the battlefield.  And it will be good of you to mark my face, Saxon, for the next time you see it, it will be the last thing you see on this earth."
"Ahhh, finally a man worth killing."


"Dagonet, she wants to get married and give the children names."
"Women!  The children already have names, don't they?"
"Just Gilly.  It's too much trouble so we gave the rest of them numbers."
"That's interesting.  I thought you couldn't count."


[---- has re-set Guinevere's broken fingers]
"How's your hand?"
"I'll live, I promise you."


[While Marius and his men are preparing to attack Dagonet, an arrow flies out of nowhere and kills Marius;  his men look and see Guinevere aiming a bow at them[
"Your hand seems better."
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YEAR:  2004

ANSWER:  King Arthur   Ioan Grufudd, Clive Owen, Keira Knightley

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[Greenclay]

#3

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"God rest his soul."
"He will, He will.  He'll be much more use to God than he ever was to me."


"Don't be nervous, Bishop.  I'm not asking for absolution.  I've something far worse than a sin on my conscience: a mistake."


"There.  That's the Great Seal of England.  Don't lose it; without the seal, there's no more England, and we'll all have to pack up and go back to Normandy."


"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
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YEAR:  1964
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ANSWER: Becket  - - - Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud

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[Philo_Vance]

Turns out I didn't know the first one. I knew it was Spencer Tracy, but I thought it was "The Old Man and the Sea".

I'm glad I didn't embarrass myself by answering. Oh ... wait ...

This latest one sounds familiar but not sure. Maybe "A Man for all Seasons"?

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[Greenclay]

Turns out I didn't know the first one. I knew it was Spencer Tracy, but I thought it was "The Old Man and the Sea".

I'm glad I didn't embarrass myself by answering. Oh ... wait ...

This latest one sounds familiar but not sure. Maybe "A Man for all Seasons"?

Nope, Paul Scofield's not in this one, but you're definitely in the ballpark.

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[Greenclay]

#4

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[Tuco is in a bubble bath.  The One Armed Man enters the room.]
"I've been looking for you for eight months.  Whenever I should have had a gun in my right hand, I thought of you.  Now I find you in exactly the position that suits me.  I had lots of time to learn to shoot with my left."
[Tuco kills him with the gun he has hidden in the foam.]
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."


"It's not a joke, it's a rope, Tuco.  Now I want you to get up there and put your head in that noose."


[Tuco has captured Blondie and is planning to hang him.]
"Get on that stool and put the rope around your neck.  I have a different system; I don't shoot the rope, I shoot the legs from under the stool."
[Sound of distant rumbling]
"That might be cannon fire."
"Thunder or cannon fire, it's all the same to you.  Adios, Blondie."

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YEAR:  1966

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[Philo_Vance]

Easy one, Gc.

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" with Clint Eastwood, Lee van Cleef and Eli Wallach.

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[Greenclay]

Easy one, Gc.

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" with Clint Eastwood, Lee van Cleef and Eli Wallach.

Absolutely.  

Since that was so easy...

#5

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"Listen, I work for the CIA.  I am not a spy.  I just read books!  We read everything that's published in the world.  And we... we feed the plots - dirty tricks, codes - into a computer, and the computer checks against actual CIA plans and operations.  I look for leaks.  I check for new ideas...  We read adventures and novels and journals.  I... I... Who'd invent a job like that?"


[After Joubert unexpectedly kills Leonard Atwood]
"Why?"
"I don't interest myself in 'why.'  I think more often in terms of 'when,' sometimes 'where,' always 'how much.'"


"I'd like to go back to New York."
"You have not much future there.  It will happen this way.   You may be walking.  Maybe the first sunny day of the spring.  And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe someone even trust, will get out of the car.  And he will smile, a becoming smile.  But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift."
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YEAR:  1975
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Answer:  Three Days of the Condor --- Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Cliff Robertson, John Houseman

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[Greenclay]

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"I have no time for this!"
"Now just a minute! If we're going to get this job done she has got to be killed! And we all know how keen you are about getting the job done! Now I can't speak for the others but I've never killed a woman, traitor or not, and I'm finicky! So why don't you do it? Let us off for once! Go on, be a pal, be a father to your men! Climb down off that cross of yours, close your eyes, think of England, and pull the trigger! What do you say, Sir?"


[After Anna has been killed and everyone else leaves, Mallory, still holding his gun, turns to Miller.]
"You think you've been getting away with it all this time, standing by. Well, son... your bystanding days are over! You're in it now, up to your neck! They told me that you're a genius with explosives. Start proving it!"
[gesturing with his pistol]
"You got me in the mood to use this thing, and by God, if you don't think of something, I'll use it on you! I mean it."


"First, you've got that bloody old fortress on top of that bloody cliff. Then you've got the bloody cliff overhang. You can't even see the bloody cave, let alone the bloody guns. And anyway, we haven't got a bloody bomb big enough to smash that bloody rock. And that's the bloody truth, sir."


[On Andrea] "He's going to kill me when the war's over."
"You're not serious."
"Yes, I am. So is he."
[pause]
"About a year ago, I gave a German patrol a safe passage to get some of their wounded into hospital. I guess I still had some romantic notions about fighting a civilized war. Anyway, they wanted Andrea pretty badly, even back then. As soon as they got behind our lines, they shot their casualties, went over to his house, and blew it up. He was out on a job at the time, but his wife and three children were in the house. They were all killed. I helped him to bury them. And then he turned to me and said that as far as he was concerned, it wasn't the Germans who were responsible, but me. Me and my stupid Anglo-Saxon decency. Then he told me what he was going to do, and when."
"You think he still means to do it?"
"He's from Crete. Those people don't make idle threats."
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YEAR:  1961

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[Philo_Vance]

"Guns of Navarone" Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, David Niven.

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[Greenclay]

"Guns of Navarone" Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, David Niven.

Yup.  I thought that was pretty easy - but still, well done.

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[Philo_Vance]

I love that line by Gregory Peck, "You're in it now. Up to your neck!" All while he's waving the pistol at David Niven. Great scene.

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[Greenclay]

#7

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"Look, I asked you if we could start rehearsals next week and you said yes."
"Well, we can."
"So let me see it. Where is it?"
[Pointing to his head.]
"Here. It's all right here in my noodle. The rest is just scribbling. Scribbling and bibbling, bibbling and scribbling."


"Are you sure you can't leave these and, and come back again?"
"It's very tempting sir, but it's impossible, I'm afraid. -------- would be frantic if he found those were missing, you see they're all originals."
"Originals?"
"Yes, sir, he doesn't make copies."
"These, are originals?"


"But they showed no corrections of any kind. Not one. He had simply written down music already finished in his head. Page after page of it as if he were just taking dictation. And music, finished as no music is ever finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and the structure would fall."
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YEAR:  1984
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ANSWER:  Amadeus  - - - F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge

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[Philo_Vance]

Not sure about this one.

"Amadeus", maybe? I saw it just once when it was in theaters.

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