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

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

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

[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).

[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.