BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema

Subject: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: mkebenn
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 01:03 PM

Something to distract us from the farce of 21st century world politics. Lines that stuck you from either books or cinema/T.V.

From "The Plainsman". Mr. Cooper as Wild Bill: "You'll leave town when dead men can walk" loved it. Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 01:16 PM

From 'The Leapard' (book and film)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, last Prince of Lampedusa at the time of the Garibaldi Revolution:
"We will have to change to remain the same".
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 01:20 PM

Or; From 'Truly, Madly, Deeply, when a woman's dead husband returns from the grave with a bunch of his mates from beyond and sends her to the local video shop to bring back vintage films, she complains; "My living room is full of dead people watching old black and white films".
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 01:31 PM

Or the final line from Tony Curtis in drag in 'Some Like it Hot' when after rejecting the lecherous advances of Joe E Brown, finally confesses he is a bloke, is told; "Nobody's perfect".
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: fat B****rd
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 02:55 PM

From Hard Times (AKA The Streetfighter)
Lucy (Jill Ireland) to Chaney (Charles Bronson)
What do you do for a living?
I knock people down
So, how does it feel to knock someone down? (Sarcastic)
It makes me feel a lot better than it does him.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: mkebenn
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 02:56 PM

Slim Pickens to "Mongo(senior moment, can't remember his name, lineman for the Packers, I believe), during the campfire scene in "Blazing Saddles" "I'd say you've had enough". Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 03:37 PM

Some movies glorify the insignificant moment of something simple like a handshake or a cat walking across the floor. The more simple the better. A simple action can be more significant than the last words or dialog. If the set up for the smallest act is done correctly, it can be very tear jerking.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: mkebenn
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 03:39 PM

geez, Alex Karris, of course. Also from "Blazing Saddlles" and also Slim Pickins " Forget the ni**ers, save the horses", and Paul Hogan in "Crocodile Dundee" "You call that a knife? THIS is a knife" ( ridiculously huge Bowie that could have been used ti harvest cane

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 03:53 PM

"She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her, that she did pity them."

Othello.

Just about sums up our courtship all those years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: mkebenn
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 04:20 PM

"The snark was a boojum, you see" The hunting of the Snark" Carrol "I'm here,huckleberry", and "You're a daisy if you do", and half the rest of Val Kilmer's lines as Doc Holiday in "Tombstone" Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 07:28 PM

It practically gallops!

-Cary Grant, when asked whether insanity runs in his family.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: michaelr
Date: 31 Aug 16 - 07:34 PM

People think it's hard to do the right thing.

It's not hard to do the right thing.

It's hard to know what the right thing is.

But once you know what the right thing is, it's hard not to do it.

(From the 1999 movie The Confession, starring Ben Kingsley)

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: mrdux
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 12:54 AM

William of Baskerville – "Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."

                        – Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (1983)

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: mkebenn
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 08:29 AM

"Yippie kye aye, motherfu**er" Him in that. Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 11:17 AM

Just because of the context(Kid Shaleen, blind drunk, blowing out the candles on Frankie Ballou's coffin) "Happy Birthday to you..."

    Lee Marvin, in Cat Ballou.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 02:07 PM

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"
Great line. It sets up the whole book.

"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of war": General Chang; Star Trek VI (The undiscovered country). Quoting Shakespeare.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 02:20 PM

"Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap! "
George C Scott - Dr Strangelove
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: gnu
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 03:49 PM

"Where's your spirit of adventure?" gnu, Poached Salmon, cw 2005, unpublished draft, just before "it" happened.

My all time fav... "He says, "Good idea."" Never Cry Wolf (the movie), after the Innu Elder comments at length about Tyler's experiment eating lemmings. One of the best movies I have ever seen, if only for the cinematography.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: gnu
Date: 01 Sep 16 - 03:51 PM

Good idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Mysha
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 03:58 AM

I'm a sucker for the classics:

Made it ma: Top of the world!

Bye
                                                                  Mysha

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: mkebenn
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 08:44 AM

"No need to go heeled with a tub of lard like you" followed by "Go ahead, skin that smokewagon and see what happens" K. Russell as Wyatt in "Tombstone" " I beamed 'em aboard the Klingon vessel where they'll be no tribble at all" James Doolin as Scotty in Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 03:22 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlioUeIUuts

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Kampervan
Date: 02 Sep 16 - 10:46 PM

Half of the script from Josey Wales, including


Lone Watie: I didn't surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: mkebenn
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 09:08 AM

Right on, re: "Josie Walesw" " I'm surprised a white man could sneak up on an indian" "White men been sneaking up on indians for years" Eastwood and Chief Dan George Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 10:07 AM

Lindsay Crouse's (Nurse Caitlín Costello) "because I kept a copy of the report", when her account of the damaging operation was questioned, in Paul Newman's 'The Verdict' does it for me every time.
Same film - the jury foreman asking biased Judge, Milo O'Shea, whether there is an upper limit to the damages they can award, must be one of the great, 'fist-in-the-air - "YES!"' moments in cinema history.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 11:57 AM

Another one, from the film The Railway Children:

"Daddy! My Daddy!" Always has me in floods of tears.

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: meself
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 12:25 PM

"Whaddya tellin' me all this for? What am I - yuh guhrlfriend?" - the gangster/accountant ('Lefty') protagonist of Casino, to his wife, who's been complaining about her life ...

Subject: RE: BS: Great lines, Lit and cinema
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 16 - 01:08 PM

"I love you" SLAP ! "Get over it !"