Stephen Glenn has a movie quote game on his blog that I thought I would emulate. He explains the rules:
So here are my 20 quotations. Please leave your answers as a comment.Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
Post them in a note for everyone to guess.
NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions.
I shall fill in the answers as they are guessed. It may help you to bear in my mind that, thanks to my taste in films, not many of these are terribly recent.
The winner gets tea at Bonkers Hall (terms and conditions apply).
Film 1
I was sorry about the girl, but found some relief in the reflection that she had presumably during the weekend already undergone a fate worse than death.
Film 2
What are we going to do with this one, Frank?
Film 3
Poor Baines. He did want it so badly. When she comes back, I'll ask her for my freedom, too.
Film 4
There are more ways than one of getting close to your ancestors. Follow the old road, and as you walk, think of them and of the old England. They climbed Chillingbourne Hill, just as you. They sweated and paused for breath just as you did today. And when you see the bluebells in the spring and the wild thyme, and the broom and the heather, you're only seeing what their eyes saw. You ford the same rivers. The same birds are singing. When you lie flat on your back and rest, and watch the clouds sailing, as I often do, you're so close to those other people, that you can hear the thrumming of the hoofs of their horses, and the sound of the wheels on the road, and their laughter and talk, and the music of the instruments they carried. And when I turn the bend in the road, where they too saw the towers of Canterbury, I feel I've only to turn my head, to see them on the road behind me.
Film 5
The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. Am I right? Eh?
Film 6
What are you doing? Stop it! Stop it! Give me those pictures. You can't photograph people like that.
Film 7
Vindaloo. Evil. It's a beast of a curry, yea, it's a real wicked bitch. Pilau rice, sweet rice, yellow rice. Rice is rice, and forever more shall be so. Potatoes with cabbage. Bombay sag potatoes. Have you ever had 'em? Beautiful. I promise you.
Film 8
She takes care of my mum. She used to take care of me and my sister Susie, until Susie was killed.
Film 9
But you're my personal bodyguard and champion gladiator, I don't want to die! I may not be a very good live emperor but I'd be a worse one dead!
Film 10
Call me Dutch.
Film 11
What? You think this is the wheel of fortune? You think you can make your dough and fuck off? Leave the table? Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like a fat blob laughing at me, you think I'm gonna have that? You really think I'm gonna have that, ya ponce? All right, I'll make it easy for you. God knows you're fucking trying. Are you gonna do the job? It's not a difficult question, are you gonna do the job, yes or no?
Film 12
Position - nil, repeat nil. Age - 27, 27, did you get that? Very important. Education - interrupted, violently interrupted. Religion - Church of England. Politics - Conservative by nature, Labour by experience. What's your name?
Film 13
People around here are very poor I suppose.
Not poor, they just haven't got money.
It's the same thing.
Oh no, it's something quite different.
Film 14
You know, I was so surprised when I heard what you were playing. It brought back something that, really, I'd completely forgotten all about: my 21st birthday party. You see, my father had engaged a string quintet to come in and play in the evening; and while they were playing Boccherini, someone came in and said the old queen had passed away. And everyone went home. And that was the end of my party, all that time ago, in Pembroke.
Film 15
Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays.
Film 16
Ye can't feed a dog on the dole, and ye can't feed a family either.
Film 17
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts:
Think when we talk of horses that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs in the receiving earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
Admit me Chorus to this history;
Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray
Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
Film 18
There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
Film 19
Do you think that we Hollanders who threw the sea out of our country will let the Germans have it? Better the sea.
Film 20
Why does there have to be evil?
I think it has something to do with free will.
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