Posted on 11/24/2004 8:47:38 AM PST by churchillbuff
The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced that AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Movie Quotes will be the theme for AFI's eighth annual celebration of 100 years of American movies. AFI'S 100 Years . . . 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases will count down America's 100 greatest lines of dialogue spoken in the movies, as chosen by experts of the motion picture community, in a three-hour television event on the CBS Television Network in June 2005.
I believe you have come up with a worthy penance.
I love seeing the young Elisha Cook Jr. (the "gunsul", Wilmer) and showing him to people who only know him from Magnum PI or even the cameo in 1941.
For many of the actors in that movie I think it will be their "immortality" on film. Assuming we're still around, I think that's one of the films that will still be shown, as it was made, a thousand years from now.
I mean, if I went around saying I was an Emperor because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, people would put me away!
I love that movie.
"'o are the Britons?"
We all are. And I am your King!
Well I didn't vote for you.
All 3 quotes are from 'The Usual Suspects.'
If you haven't seen it, go buy it, not rent it, because you will want/need to watch it 4 or 5 times, and even then you will continue to see new things.
Additionally, 'Joy Ride' with Paul Walker has some of the best one liners in recent memory:
"You need serious help, and I mean a psychiatrist, not a psychologist, cuz you're gonna need drugs..."
"Who are you?"
"No one of consequence."
"I must know."
"Get used to disappointment."
"'kay."
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."
John Wayne
I would be hard pressed to find a more concise statement of "American philosophy".
By the way, if you're a Churchill buff (me too) then see if you can get Manchester to write that third volume...
I can never remember the line:
"You're foolin' yourself. We're an anarcho-syndicous commune..." or something like that.
Vy a duck? Vy not a chicken or a horse?..............
....tell Room Service to send up a bigger room.
...he's a-holdin' up the wall
How about Laurel & Hardy's "Fresh Fish....(toot).."
"we're going to cut out the middleman"
Your namesake is being invoked WT.
Ahhhhh! A Marx Fan!
I never saw much of L & H but my Dad was a huge Marx fan. We traveled all over Cleveland to see film festivals.
My fav scene from any Marx movie is the Bridge game in "Animal Crackers"!
"You got the lady's slippers!"
"Bueller?......Bueller?......Bueller?"
>> True. But people like me for my epididymis.<<
LOLOL!!!
"There are two kinds of men: those with guns, and those who dig!" ...Tuco... (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
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"You despise me, don't you Rick?" |
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"If I gave you any thought, I probably would." |
You have a MASSIVE world of high quality entertainment ahead of you in Laurel & Hardy...and a lot of real, on-the-street history with it, too.
A trip to the video store may be in order for me!
Sam the Lion
You will NOT be disappointed !
Even "Babes in Toyland" is excellent.
I can't believe that in 240+ responses, no one has mentioned "Jack" in A Few Good Men.
"You want the truth? You can't HANDLE the truth!"
...as when Stan gets Santa's order for toy soldiers wrong...and it ends up saving the day.
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