Movie quotes meme

[drwex]

I'm going to bet these will be easy, in part because my movie preferences are likely well-known, but here goes. Name the movie behind the quote (I was nice and didn't include any of the non-English films that I like on this list).

1. "Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean what you're fighting for."
"You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die." sweetmmeblue

2. "I'm sure you've discovered my deep and abiding interest in pain. Presently I'm writing the definitive work on the subject" feste_sylvain

3. "How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?" sweetmmeblue

4. "And I thought they was getting off. Didn't we have an intricate plan on how they was gonna be not here any more?" caulay

5. "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave." hammercock

6. "that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in." feste_sylvain

7. "Stampeding cattle."
"That's not much of a crime."
"Through the Vatican?"
"Kinky. Sign here." feste_sylvain

8. The future begins tomorrow (this is seen in the movie, but not actually spoken) feste_sylvain

9. "Sure, okay, I see Charlie Chan, Fu Manchu and a hundred howlin' monkey temples, and that's just for starters, right? Fine! I'm back! I'm ready, goddammit let me at 'em!" heinleinfan

10. "If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut." mrf_arch

11. "All I want to do is graduate from high school, move to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. Now that might not sound too great to a sconehead like you, but I think it's swell. And now you show up and tell me I'm a member of the hairy mole club so you can THROW things at me?" talandra

12. "How odd that it should end this way for us after so many stimulating encounters. I almost regret it. Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?"
"Try the local sewer." heinleinfan

13. "Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!" feste_sylvain

14. "They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls. Let's rock!" qwrrty

15. "It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his fifteenth year crystallized with the pain of puberty." sweetmmeblue

(I promise that the preponderance of violent imagery in these quotes is not related to Valentine's Day.)

Comments

[talandra.livejournal.com]

So as not to be greedy and answer them all... I will take number 11.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the original movie. Kristy Swanson to Donald Sutherland.

[drwex]

heh, you got to it early. I was waiting to see if mizarchivist would recognize this one.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

#2: Princess Bride

#6: American Beauty

#7: Blazing Saddles

#8: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8^th Dimension

#13: Dr. Strangelove

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I thought #12 sounded like it may have come from Banzai.

[drwex]

Nah, I figured that one was one of the easiest to get. I'm impressed he got both the American Beauty and the Strangelove one, though.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Well, the "American Beauty" quote is the crux of the film and the source of its title.

And the confrontations with Colonel "Bat" Guano are some of the most surreal comedy ever filmed. "If you're wrong, you won't just be answering to me. You'll be answering to the Coca-Cola company!"

[c1.livejournal.com]

Actually, I got those straight off as well. The video camera in 'Beauty was so integral to the development of Ricky Fitts' character-- it depends on the balance between what's seen by the human eye v. what's captured by the camera, as evidenced by the mammoth amount of tape he's got in his room.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

A lot of these sound familiar but not quite so much that I can be sure.

#2: The Princess Bride.

#5: Not sure but I'm going to guess V For Vendetta. (My first guess was The Matrix but IIRC you're more of a V fan. :-)

#6: American Beauty.

#7: Not sure here either but I'm guessing Blazing Saddles.

#8: Blade Runner?

#14: Aliens?

[drwex]

You're right that I'm more of "V" fan than "Matrix" but it's close. Actually neither movie appears on this quotes list. Perhaps I'll do another.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

What amuses me is that you have three films from which this quote seems like it could have come. :-) I see a pattern, Doctor!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

5. Blade Runner, I think?

[drwex]

*ding* nice one. Yeah, it's a bit from the scene where he's dangling Deckard. The "I have seen..." speech is much better known but I like this quote because it makes clear why he doesn't just kill Deckard.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

#3. Usual Suspects

#15 Donnie Darko?

[drwex]

Right on both. Very good, dear. I'm surprised you got the Donnie Darko one.

[caulay.livejournal.com]

#4 is, of course, Serenity

[drwex]

yep. really just a test to see which of the brownshirts would read this entry first.

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

Number 4 is Serenity, spoken by Jane to the rest of the crew after the Tams DID NOT get off the ship.

[drwex]

Yes, tho caulay got in just ahead of you. (p.s. it's "Jayne"; I imagine he'd care.)

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

Is #9 Big Trouble in Little China?
And #12 is definitely Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[drwex]

Correct on both accounts! Down to one now I think.

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[drwex]

Two. #1 and #10.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

OOH OOOH! MR. Kotter.

#1 is from your favorite movie. I got it now. Casablanca.

[drwex]

You cheated. You're right, of course.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

In rereading it I could hear the accents and it just took me a bit to place it.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

D'oh! I should have gotten that! But for some stupid reason, my brain was insisting that the quote came from a space opera.

[drwex]

yeah, I had a serious preponderance of SF movies in there. When you cut out non-US films that's probably over 2/3 of my preferred film-watching.

There's still one left, though. I admit it's pretty obscure; wonder if anyone will get it.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

I confess to Googling for the answer, but I am ethically not providing my ill-gotten answer here.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

OMG how did I miss the raider's one. I've only seen that movie like 8 times and in two different languages. *sigh*

[docorion.livejournal.com]

#1 is Casablanca. I forget who asks him the question, but the answer is from Viktor Laszlo.

[drwex]

Rick asks the question. And wifey beat you by three minutes, according to the timestamps on the comment entries :)

[docorion.livejournal.com]

Huh? She cheated! Sleeping with the judge is *definitely* cheating!

:-)

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

i don't know the answer to #10, so this isn't an answer to your meme. but i did want to say that so far of the examples of this meme that i've seen, your list contains more movies that i've either seen, or would see, than any other list. this both surprises me terribly and doesn't surprise me one bit.

i'd make a list, except that i'd be afraid of no one being able to answer them... (or of no one reading my journal often enough to notice that i had a list).

[drwex]

I am amused by the coincidence of lists.

[mrf-arch.livejournal.com]

Isn't #10 from Kill Bill?

[drwex]

You win! Very good. Hattori Hanzo to The Bride.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Excellent choice -- it's a tough quote to place until you know the source. I totally feel now like I should have gotten that one.

[drwex]

I agree it's hard to place. Tarantino gives most of the good speeches to The Bride and Bill, but I'm a sword freak and I love the myth of invincibility that comes with the blade.