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"Not nice to live in fear is it? That's what it means to be slave."

"I think his mind is clear (?) but his soul is mad."

"He will hunt her down and tear her fucking heart out. That's what he does. That's ALL he does."

Never, ever, once after seeing Clockwork Orange has "Singing in the Rain" made me think of Gene Kelly, or umbrellas. Usually, at the end of each line, I kick something. (After all, they used films to . . . revise Alex's autonomic nervous system responses, right?)

"Dave, I can feel my mind going" (?)

When the supply sergeant gives Capt. Willard a bottle of scotch and apologizes for blowing the crew off earlier.

"Who's in command here?" "Ain't you?"

Woody Harrelson to Robert Downey, Jr.: "You and I aren't even the same species" and Juliette Lewis to each victim: "Think I'm sexy now?"

"But I'm trying really hard to be the shepherd."

Not sure they changed my life but they shook me enough to stick around:

When Dennis Hopper puts on lipstick has the knife next to Kyle's eye in Blue Velvet. I didn't know what Frank was gonna do. (BTW, Lynch says he had no conception of what Frank was inhaling -- most of us figured ether -- just that Frank was a sick and dangerous man who became sicker and more dangerous when he did it.)

When Jeremy Iron rolls out the "Gynecological Devices for Operating on Mutant Women" in the O.R. and says with palpable glee "We'll use these!"

When the crowd at a midnight showing of E.T. on Times Square during its original run, back before TSQ got Disnified, who had tried be cool and jeering to this kiddie movie, rose from their seats as one and yelled "yeah!" when the bicycles took off in the big chase.

When the crowd of over a thousand stood for the national anthem at a gigantic Bangkok theater.

When Luke's mother comes to the prison, explains stuff, and gives him a banjo.

When they open the tank in Altered States after the first time Prof. Jessup undergoes actual physical reversion and there's blood around his mouth.

When Jagger sings Memo from Turner in Performance.
 
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I don't really mean changed your life in a profound way, or at least that was not my original intent. Just even a little bit, but in a more than fleeting fashion. Like every time I pick up a phone that is not mine, I look at it, think what the hell has been against it, and should it be disinfected. Almost like an OCD type trigger, but I have no OCD. Same with every hotel room, I think, "If I move the mattress, is there going to be a corpse under there"
 
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Bogie in Key Largo. "When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses."


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"Not nice to live in fear is it? That's what it means to be slave."

"I think his mind is clear (?) but his soul is mad."

"He will hunt her down and tear her fucking heart out. That's what he does. That's ALL he does."

Never, ever, once after seeing Clockwork Orange has "Singing in the Rain" made me think of Gene Kelly, or umbrellas. Usually, at the end of each line, I kick something. (After all, they used films to . . . revise Alex's autonomic nervous system responses, right?)

"Dave, I can feel my mind going" (?)

When the supply sergeant gives Capt. Willard a bottle of scotch and apologizes for blowing the crew off earlier.

"Who's in command here?" "Ain't you?"

Woody Harrelson to Robert Downey, Jr.: "You and I aren't even the same species" and Juliette Lewis to each victim: "Think I'm sexy now?"

"But I'm trying really hard to be the shepherd."

Not sure they changed my life but they shook me enough to stick around:

When Dennis Hopper puts on lipstick has the knife next to Kyle's eye in Blue Velvet. I didn't know what Frank was gonna do. (BTW, Lynch says he had no conception of what Frank was inhaling -- most of us figured ether -- just that Frank was a sick and dangerous man who became sicker and more dangerous when he did it.)

When Jeremy Iron rolls out the "Gynecological Devices for Operating on Mutant Women" in the O.R. and says with palpable glee "We'll use these!"

When the crowd at a midnight showing of E.T. on Times Square during its original run, back before TSQ got Disnified, who had tried be cool and jeering to this kiddie movie, rose from their seats as one and yelled "yeah!" when the bicycles took off in the big chase.

When the crowd of over a thousand stood for the national anthem at a gigantic Bangkok theater.

When Luke's mother comes to the prison, explains stuff, and gives him a banjo.

When they open the tank in Altered States after the first time Prof. Jessup undergoes actual physical reversion and there's blood around his mouth.

When Jagger sings Memo from Turner in Performance.


Those are really good, Lonny.


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The suicide scene in The Royal Tenenbaums really sticks with me. The way he cuts his hair and shaves his beard, indicating he just doesn't want to be who he is. Then when that doesn't take the pain away he goes a step further.


Plus the soundtrack of the scene by Elliott Smith, the man with the most Shakespearian suicide in modern times. That song, "A Needle in the Hay" made that scene what it was.


I did forget to mention that. You are 100-percent correct, Elliott Smith was the lynchpin of the scene.


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"Not nice to live in fear is it? That's what it means to be slave."


I didn't get all of those Lonny but those I did were pretty fucking good.


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Lawrence of Arabia, of course. The scene where Audar (Anthony Quinn) says,

"I must find something honorable."

or actually,

"Yes, the year is running out, Brighton. I must find something honorable."

I find that as my year runs out (my life, actually), I must find something honorable. And I mean it in the same primitive way that Audar meant it.


Yo Trog. I sent you an email. Did you get it?

Fave L of Arabia scene:

Where Alec Guinness describes how now the old men must lie and bargain to create something like a lasting peace.


Didn't get an email... oh wait... to my gmail? I'll check that.
 
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"SHOOT STRAIGHT, YOU BASTARDS! DON'T MAKE A MESS OF IT."


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Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
[Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.
Trinity: What did you see?
Cypher: What happened?
Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

never quite felt the same about déjà vu after that.


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This:

"That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... Haven't you ever felt that way about music?"
"I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here."
"Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget."
"Forget?"
"Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. "That's yours."
"What're you talking about?"
"Hope."

And then later, this:

"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

Shawshank Redemption


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Phil Parma: "Why are frogs falling from the sky?"
(Magnolia)


Albert Rosenfeld : "You listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a nay-sayer and hatchet man in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another, because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method...is love. I love you, Sheriff Truman."
(Twin Peaks)


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From the book, not the film:

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."


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I hated being alone in Timberline lodge(I know, it was only the exterior...) after these particular scenes.


As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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The ˜drunk' ET scene. Had me laughing so hard in the theater I was on the floor, literally.

Errol Flynn in Robin Hood, any of the sword fighting scenes. Never missed this movie as a kid.

Although I can't actually remember anything from the movie, "Saturday the 14th" comes to mind as somehow important to me as a young teenager. Don't know why.
 
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"I don't care who loves who. I won't play the sap for you! You killed Miles and you're going over for it. I hope they don't hang you by your sweet neck. If you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years and I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you."

That line made me realise that I ought to have paid more attention to classic cinma than I had until that point in my life. I was 19, I think, and "The Malteese Falcon" was the first Bogey flick I had seen.


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'Birdcage' when Robin Williams says, "I am maternal, and Albert is practically a breast.'

I still laugh so hard that I have to catch my breath every time I see that scene.


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Top Ten stuff there. Love that scene. That whole movie.
 
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I say "Abner Mercer".
 
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Another one.

I can not hear "Stuck in the Middle with You" without seeing Michael Madsen in my head dancing with a straight razor.
 
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