movie meme

[lapsedmodernist]

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. (or in some cases, just remember them.)
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it correctly and the name of the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb/Wikiquote search functions. That would be cheatin'.


1. "I wrote a suicide note."
"You did?"
"Yeah, right after I regained conciousness." The Royal Tenenbaums identified by ricecricket.

2. "It's my best production ever. A pity your Mom will be the only audience." Goodbye Lenin identified by exeleye

3. "All that other stuff, all that history? To hell with it, right? Forget the Alamo." Lone Star identified by brooklyn_jak

4. "Time to die, Sullivan"

5. "My husband was a movie freak. Actually, he was particularly obsessed with one movie, "The Wizard of Oz." He talked about it constantly. I thought it was cute at first. On our wedding night, I was a virgin. When we made love - you've seen the movie, haven't you?"
"The Wizard of Oz"? Yeah."
"Well, whenever he - you know, when he came..."
"Yeah."
"He would scream out, "Surrender Dorothy!" That's all! Just "Surrender Dorothy!" After Hours, identified by theophile who, I suppose, has somewhat of an unfair advantage by way living with me. He gets props for answering with an awesome screenshot from the film.

6. "How come I've never seen you people before?"
"Because we are the people you do not see. We are the ones who drive your cabs. We clean your rooms. And suck your cocks. Dirty Pretty Things identified by ubiquity75

7. "I just mean during the day. Daylight. When was the last time you remember seeing it? And I'm not talking about some distant, half-forgotten childhood memory, I mean like yesterday. Last week. Can you come up with a single memory? You can't, can you? You know something, I don't think the sun even... exists... in this place. 'Cause I've been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here. " Dark City, identified by redheadedmuse and theophile

8. "Huh. Doesn't want his ring back in his mouth, eh? Can't say I blame him. " Labyrinth, identified by redheadedmuse

9. "At least I tried heroin." Me Without You, which someone identified anonymously

10. "What do you want to do to me right now? Come on. Everyone is turning colors. Kids are making out in the street. No one is getting their dinner." Pleasantville identified by omnia_mutantur

11. "It's really about control, my body, my mind. Who was going to own it? Them? Or me? "

12. "Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?" The Matrix, identified by redheadedmuse


13. "All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not. " Fight Club identified by omnia_mutantur

14. this one is kind of a cheat because I am including a scene description, too, but I imagine few enough of you have seen it that it might help.

The protagonist picks up a gun, takes all but one bullet out of the chamber, shuts his eyes tight, puts the gun to the temple and pulls the trigger. There is a click. He is still alive. He picks up the phone, dials a number and says "It's me. I'll do it."

15. "Baby, you're gonna miss that plane." Before Sunset identified by ricecricket

NB these are films that have been released in the US. I could do another whole one of those with Russian movies, but that would be unfair to most of you...

also, from that awesome website where, among other things, Hollywood movies are reinterpreted via folk art and Old Russian, "Rise of the Machines"!

http://www.hiero.ru/2041072



he drinks kerosene!

Comments

[redheadedmuse.livejournal.com]

#8 - Labrynth
#12 - The Matrix

#7 Mirrormask? I know the scene, I can see it in my mind's eye, I know what happens next and I can't...quite...remember...what movie its in...

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

oui on 8 and 12

non on 7...

[redheadedmuse.livejournal.com]

right, I knew that was wrong. It's that creepy 90s movie with the scary people who look kind of like the Gentlemen from that silent Buffy episode. ARGH! I could google this in a heartbeat, or at least check my guesses, but I will be honest and keep embarassing myself. I keep wanting to say City of Lost Children but I don't think that's any more right than mirrormask. Its also not 12 Monkeys or Brazil.

Its about this world where everyone thinks things are OK but they are not, children are disappearing, its always night, its sort of film noirish, there's a mean-but-finally-heroic detective, the whole film has this kind of William S. Burroughs drug-dream quality, but the aesthetic of a NIN video...I am not even sure I knew the name of this movie when I saw it.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

you are totally right about everything, the film is called "Dark City"

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

actually children aren't disappearing in this world, I think you have that mixed in from City of Lost Children; what happens in this world is that the gentlemen-beings switch people's memories and personalities around through Kiefer Sutherland who goes around the city injecting people with cocktails of memories and experiences.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

correct!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

it is. also I assume you meant #6.

[electric-honey.livejournal.com]

is #1 heathers?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

no, Royal Tenenbaums, but initially my boyfriend thought it was Heathers, too.

[amadea.livejournal.com]

I was sitting in a classroom the other day with a whole bunch of smart, misfit teenagers, and NOT ONE OF THEM HAD SEEN HEATHERS. I was like, are you serious?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

you know, there is a level of irony to you having that experience!

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

10. Pleasantville
13. Fight Club

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

oui on both

[twotoedsloth.livejournal.com]

13 = Fight Club?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

yes!

[theophile.livejournal.com]

5.

7. Dark City? except I'm not sure on this one.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

they are both ID-ed now. I think you would quite enjoy both of them, although in very different ways.

[mrfellow.livejournal.com]

#13: Fight Club.

[twotoedsloth.livejournal.com]

4 blade runner
2 Cecil B Demento or whatever the title was?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

re: 4 --it would be sans Sullivan. As it is, it's a very different movie, with sci-fi elements, but not as primarily sci-fi as Blade Runner, which, now that I think about it, I totally should have included.

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

#3 the last line (I think) from Lone Star. I love that line.

[catling.livejournal.com]

#10 = Pleasantville

[paperthinwalls.livejournal.com]

aaarghh, you just beat me to it!! ;)

[birds-hum.livejournal.com]

10. PLeasantville. ?

and I know the gun one, but I cannot think of it gahhh!

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

10: "Pleasantville"

...Which I mostly love for its excellent use of "Rave On".

[exeyel.livejournal.com]

#2 - Goodbye, Lenin I think? Though that's a German movie not an American movie :P

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

it is. but it was released in the US. it played in the movie theaters.

[brooklyn-jak.livejournal.com]

#3 is Lone Star. One of my favorite movies of all time.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

mine too (obv., as evidenced by its presence in this meme)

[(Anonymous)]

9. One of my favourite movies, too, Me Without You.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

correct. who be this?

!

[christophrawr.livejournal.com]

14. this one is kind of a cheat because I am including a scene description, too, but I imagine few enough of you have seen it that it might help.

The protagonist picks up a gun, takes all but one bullet out of the chamber, shuts his eyes tight, puts the gun to the temple and pulls the trigger. There is a click. He is still alive. He picks up the phone, dials a number and says "It's me. I'll do it."

Burnt By The Sun. Nikita Mikhalkov.

I'd like delayed credit, please. :D