January 2004
How about it, dear readers? What movie, TV, novel or comix dialogue do
you quote regularly? Send 'em to flipsockgrrl @ yahoo.com.au
and you, too, can be famous for a week on Sneedle Flipsock.
Top 10 lines from the entertainment industry that have wide application
to life
Thanks to subscribers Katherine and Rebecca for spending a goodly part
of their working Friday coming up with this excellent list of lines from
movies that you can apply in everyday life:
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"The watch took a lickin', but it kept on tickin'." (Get
Smart: The Nude Bomb)
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"Houston, we have a problem." (Apollo
13)
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"Of all the gin joints in all the towns, she has to walk into
mine." (Casablanca)
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"Round up the usual suspects." (The
Usual Suspects)
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"Explain it to me like I'm four years old." (Philadelphia)
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"You may dispense with the pleasantries, Commander." (Return
of the Jedi)
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"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." (Wizard
of Oz)
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"I've heard cats fuck with more harmony." (The
Adventures of Ford Fairlane)
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"Get away from me you lazy eyed psycho." (Austin
Powers)
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"Sell crazy some place else, we're all stocked up here."
(As
Good As it Gets)
(Lest we forget, the Internet Movie Database links above are not to the
movies' home pages but to the writers' credits. It's the writers who give
us these immortal lines, despite the best efforts of agents, producers
and actors to stuff them up: if you're unconvinced about this, see William
Goldman's Which
Lie Did I Tell? )
Co-conspirator Corey comments:
Great list gals! I'm going to try and weave number eight into a
conversation at work this afternoon without getting fired or slapped.
Wish me luck.
Another good line, heard recently (not sure it has application
to life, but stuck with me nonetheless):
"I've seen you without clothes on before but this is the
first time I've seen you naked." (Firefly)
[editorial chortles]
Robert Cook's top 10 movie/TV/song/etc lines
After reading Katherine and Rebecca's list, the lovely Robert G Cook
notes:
"I think number 4 of your 'Top 10 lines from the entertainment
industry that have wide application to life', "Round up the usual
suspects", is not, oddly enough, from 'The Usual Suspects', but
from 'Casablanca'
(spoken by Claude
Rains at the end)."
He's right, of course, that was a famous "Casablanca" line.
My bad, as they say in the classics ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
in this case).
Robert also observes:
"Much as I love 'The Usual Suspects' I just can't think of
a good line from it off the top of my head."
That's where the Internet Movie Database
comes in handy: here's a whole
page of "Usual Suspects" quotes (and an ABC-style strong
language warning).
And here's Robert's Top 10 useful-in-daily-life movie/TV/play/song lines,
in no particular order:
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'The minority is always right' - An
Enemy of the People
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'Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming...' - Finding
Nemo
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'I have a very bad feeling about this' - Star
Wars
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'What a beautiful day, hey hey' - The
Levellers (doubly useful - when you sing it, it has a distinctly
lifting effect; when you say it deadpan, it has a nicely ironic twist)
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'I fart in your general direction' - Monty
Python and the Holy Grail [.au
sound file]
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'Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries'
- ditto
[.wav
sound file]
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'Can open, worms everywhere' - Friends,
The One Where Joey
Moves Out
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'You lookin at me?' - Taxi
Driver
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'Ohhhhh... ship!' - The
Road to El Dorado
-
'We don't know what the hell it is, except that it's very large and
it has a purpose' - 2010
Thanks, Robert! I used one or two of these myself, just this week :-)
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