I learned to rollerskate because of a scene in Rollerball where Jonathan E just kind of ...drifts through a corridor into the changing room.

And when I see a bowler hat now, I think Droogie. Even when I'd rather not.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
"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.

Question: What is the last line spoken in that film?

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Originally posted by PradaWillie:
I say "Abner Mercer".

Oh damn! Like when he's playing Russian Roulette with himself in his trailer, holds the gun to his head and then notices he's gonna blow brains allover the lampshade on the other side of him.... he covers that side of his head with his hand!

Greatness!

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Originally posted by shake:
Another one.

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

You and me both. I liked Reservoir Dogs, but I fast-forwarded through that scene.

The original, "The Blob" and the "Zombies of [sp?]Morrataw" freaking had me checking my bedroom closets and under the bed as a child. I remember positioning my sheet 'just so' so I could breathe AND protect myself in case of attack.
Damned drive-in movies...

Little Big Man

The scene in which these lines are spoken. Delivered by the blinded chief.

The full dialogue goes,

Little Big Man (impassioned): Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now?

Old Lodge Skins (holds up a white soldier's scalp): Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them... like that hair. The man from whom this hair came, he's bald on the other side, because I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man, they believe EVERYTHING is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people! Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. THAT is the DIFFERENCE.

There are a lot of good lines and scenes here, but how did they change your life, alter your behavior, or affect you say 10 years from seeing them?

Well... sorry about the thread hijacking.

I suppose Star Wars changed my life.
If you want a scene... I can't be sure but it might be the fight between Vador and Kenobi :
chivalry, treachery, emotion and laser sabers. all in one scene !
I was already a weird kid but then the few midi-chlorians of normality remaining in me vanished like Obi-Wan.

RESERVOIR DOGS.

The opening scene: Mr. Pink's tipping rant. Changed my life. Seriously did not tip for about 10 years after. Anyone gave me a flack about it, I'd quote that part back to them almost verbatim.

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Originally posted by Gromit:

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Originally posted by shake:
Another one.

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

You and me both. I liked Reservoir Dogs, but I fast-forwarded through that scene.

It's a brilliant example of less-is-more. They had two versions of the scene: one where the camera stayed on Madsen cutting the cop's ear off, and the other where the camera pans away just before, so while you don't see the act, you hear the cries of pain. The second version was always more effective than the explicit version in preview screenings, the imagination being a powerful thing.

Thanks to Star Wars, I was afraid of the security cameras in Boots the Chemist for my entire childhood (Hell, I'm not entirely comfortable with them now) as they looked like the robot with the syringe attached which comes to torture Princess Leia.

Lith:

"This is the stuff that dreams are made out of."

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Originally posted by lithos:

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
"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.

Question: What is the last line spoken in that film?

"The stuff that dreams are made of."

heh.

I hate to say it, but mainly most of the movie The Grudge... its the whole idea of some thing completely inescapable. I guess it was the scene where the girl is on the bus and she sees the reflection of the ghost in the mirror that really got me. Just no way to get away...

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I hate to say it, but mainly most of the movie The Grudge... its the whole idea of some thing completely inescapable. I guess it was the scene where the girl is on the bus and she sees the reflection of the ghost in the mirror that really got me. Just no way to get away...

Cosigned. The Grudge and The Ring were underrated, I think.

Favorite Bogey line:
--I don't like your manners.

Bogey: I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like 'em myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. I don't mind you ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a bottle. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.

EDIT: Its good writing but hearing him deliver it is all the better

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Originally posted by Pigkilla:
RESERVOIR DOGS.

The opening scene: Mr. Pink's tipping rant. Changed my life. Seriously did not tip for about 10 years after. Anyone gave me a flack about it, I'd quote that part back to them almost verbatim.

How often was your food spit in exactly? And did that policy hold at strip clubs?

I tip like crazy. I tip door people at clubs because I am one and I know if I need special consideration from the staff a friend at the door is valuable. Maybe the difference between getting arrested or not, getting laid or not.

Servers I typically tip 20% for good service, shit the math is just easier than 18%. Also a lot of those girls are ex-cons who can't work many places and it is a tough job where, at least in Florida, they make either nothing per hour or half of minimum wage.

In the end I figured that $1 meant very little to me, but over a whole night a lot of $1 tips meant good money for somebody that needed it.

Thank You Edit. It's good tippers like you that helped me put my daughter through school, when she graduates, it will be good tippers like you that will pay for her breast implants so she can work at a strip joint.