it's better in the matinee...

[janne_d]

Meme by way of torakowalski, a film quotes meme:

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb, and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. No Googling/using IMDb search functions.

Want to play?

1. Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush. L.A. Confidential, guessed by syllic who is now officially a film buff of high magnitude

2. Get busy living, or get busy dying. The Shawshank Redemption, guessed by syllic

3. That is the last time we take directions from a squirrel. The Emperor's New Groove, guessed by fireflower314

4. Yeah, I'm a legend. You know, they call me the cautionary whale. Juno, guessed by syllic

5. It was question and answer, all right. Twenty-seven questions he got out in ten minutes, and answered three! I was waiting for you to *delve.* "When is he going to start delving?" I asked myself. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, guessed by merelyn

6. Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no? Silence of the Lambs, guessed by syllic

7. This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf. Schindler's List, guessed by thisissirius

8. Really? When was the last time you stabbed a corpse? Gosford Park, guessed by elisabeth_438

9. Those giraffes you sold me, they won't mate. They just walk around, eating, and not mating. You sold me... queer giraffes. I want my money back. Gladiator, guessed by syllic

10. Ride now!... Ride now!... Ride! Ride to ruin and the world's ending! Death! Return of the King, guessed by syllic

Comments

[thisissirius.livejournal.com]

#7 is Schindlers list, right? Ugh, I love that movie.

[syllic.livejournal.com]

10. is Return of the King. 2. is Shawshank Redemption. 9. is Gladiator. And I swear I recognise more of these--if you'll just give me a minute?

SO we apparently have the same taste in films, y/y?

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Correct! I haven't seen it for ages - I have to be in the right mood - but it is incredible.

[syllic.livejournal.com]

6. is Anthony Hopkins being freaktastic. And 4. is Juno. And I think I recognise 1., too, but I won't say because I don't recognise the line itself--I just feel as if it must be from the movie I think.

I want someone to guess 8 so I can find out where it's from--I love that anyone would say this.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Correct for all three! We certainly seem to have some significant overlap, don't we? *is amused*

I was going to have one of the more dramatic lines from Gladiator but I just couldn't resist the queer giraffes.

And the line from RotK... just reading that speech of Theoden's makes the hairs rise on the back of my neck.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're sprinting away with these! Yes, again correct for both (though I demand to know the film as well for 6!)

8 is a very good film. And 1... well, they say that line more than once in it so you should recognise it...

[syllic.livejournal.com]

J, I watch films with very little restraint. I think it's a decade-old holdover from my father, who had no idea what to do with us post-divorce and cheerfully decided: "CINEMA. BOWLING. ALSO, CINEMA."

And good lines--they're addictive. Do you find sometimes that you see something twice and words from it will just... will not go away?

Theoden's speech: YES. "A sword day, a red day..."

I love Aragorn later on, too--"...when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day!"--but I think Theoden's hope for glory--here, and more despairingly at Helm's Deep, is chilling.

AHH, GEEKDOM.

The image of Anthony Hopkins came to me before the face mask, I'll admit, but it's Silence of the Lambs?

[syllic.livejournal.com]

YES--they repeat it? Then L.A. Confidential?

[syllic.livejournal.com]

I clearly have to do this on my own journal, so that you can, uh, recognise all of mine back.

Also: clearly queer giraffes were the only option

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

OK, now you're getting them faster than I can edit the entry! I bow before your scary memory!

[syllic.livejournal.com]

Uh, I'm concerned that this edited entry now makes me look like a freaktastic Anthony Hopkins.

And oh, if only my memory served any useful purpose...

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

a decade-old holdover from my father, who had no idea what to do with us post-divorce and cheerfully decided: "CINEMA. BOWLING. ALSO, CINEMA."

Sounds like a reasonable plan to me - I'd like to go more than I do at the moment but I'm usually too lazy to get round to it. Which is a a bit pathetic really.

Yeah, it is Silence of the Lambs. One of those films that for me, like several others on this list, is as close to perfection in casting, writing, acting and directing as anything could get.

Do you find sometimes that you see something twice and words from it will just... will not go away?

Yes! Though annoyingly, I get lines stuck in my head, complete with intonation, but no clue where they are from or even what gender the speaker was and it drives me nuts trying to figure out the source. (Especially since sometimes they are from books and the voice has only ever been in my head.)

"...ere the sun rises." Theoden got all the really good speeches, didn't he? Aragorn's is pretty darn good too, I agree, but Theoden's do make me physically shiver. The one at Helm's Deep about "Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain..." Just magnificent.

And yes, you do have to do this meme so I can have a go! Though I can't promise I'll be as good as you :-)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Hah, yes. If I could only remember as many details from my flaming degree as I can remember about the LotR films. I mean, it's not like my degree is related to my job or anything. *sigh*

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Just to let you know, I'm off to bed now, so if you get any more I won't see them until tomorrow.

Nighty night.

[fireflower314.livejournal.com]

3. The Emperor's New Groove! ("I NEVER LIKED YOUR SPINACH PUFFS. NEVER.")

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

"That's it. She's going down."

Yes! Totally correct - I adore that film beyond the telling of it. The first time I saw it I actually cried I laughed so hard. And it was a toss up between that quote, "Why do we even have that lever?" and "Hey, I've been turned into a cow, can I go home?"

[fireflower314.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen that movie in years- since before I graduated high school, iirc! I really need to do something about that.

[elisabeth-438.livejournal.com]

isn't #8 from Gosford Park?

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

#5 IS ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. YES. <3333

[nicolasechs.livejournal.com]

Looks like syllic has beaten me to all the those I would have known. I'm hazarding a wild guess that #8 comes from Buffy?

But I can tell you that I love that Frank Ferdinand song. :)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Then I am very impressed with your memory! I don't know I'd remember that line without having seen it recently.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Yes, absolutely correct! Such a good film - and it has such an amazing cast.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

YES! Totally right. I need to watch that again - I was going through the list of quotes just giggling to myself. And Gary Oldman and Tim Roth are so adorable together in it (it may be the only film either of them are adorable in at all, come to think of it).

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Actually, #8 is a quote from Gosford Park, but it would seem much more likely to come from something like BtVS!

Franz Ferdinand do some great lyrics - I love the line in the song about "I'm on BBC 2 now, telling Terry Wogan how, I made it..."! Brilliant.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

They're all guessed now - the ones you didn't get were:

3. That is the last time we take directions from a squirrel - The Emperor's New Groove

5. It was question and answer, all right. Twenty-seven questions he got out in ten minutes, and answered three! I was waiting for you to *delve.* "When is he going to start delving?" I asked myself - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

and

8. Really? When was the last time you stabbed a corpse? - Gosford Park

But the last one just seems so unlikely!

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Seeing Gary Oldman being rather charmingly dim and silly instead of SCARY AND BATHSHIT is just...odd.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Yeah - it is definitely a departure for him to play cute! But he pulled it off very well, I spend half the film wanting to hug him.

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

It was also like his role in the new Batman movies, where he's so down to earth and normal while everyone else is crazy. It was very suspicious. I kept expecting Commissioner Gordon to go on a rampage or develop a meth addiction.

But yeah, he did a good job as Rosencrantz. The sandwich bit is maybe my favorite thing ever.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Maybe the villain in the third one will be Gordon on a meth fuelled rampage!

It is odd for him to play someone so low key - though I suppose from his POV it is restful.

My favourite scene is when they are in the garden and he says "Oh. You mean you pretend to be him, and I ask you questions" followed by the two very fast recaps of Hamlet and their total inability to connect what they've just said to Hamlet's behaviour.