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

[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?

[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 :-)