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Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:56 pm
by LQ
Allons-y, Alonzo...mais c'est Pierrot, no?
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:02 pm
by domino harvey
Oui
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:05 pm
by teddyleevin
Happy Christmas.
"What a pathetic creature I am..."
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 10:41 pm
by gcgiles1dollarbin
É Brazil, eu penso.
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 10:44 pm
by teddyleevin
Si, Si.
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 10:52 pm
by gcgiles1dollarbin
I must confess, though, I not only googled the quote, I googled the Portuguese. I'm a Xmas fraud.
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 11:07 pm
by teddyleevin
The equivalent of a shopping mall Santa. It's Christmas so I'll forgive and forget. Quote away.
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:20 pm
by colinr0380
I'm feeling in the mood for another round of the quote game, so hope it is OK to post another quote. Here's an easy one:
"I tell you, every letter this guy writes you is the same. They all begin like true love and descend into open pornography."
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:07 am
by vsski
Surprised nobody has answered yet, maybe everyone feels it's too easy.
It's the character of Alex played by Ewan McGregor in Shallow Grave who says it while reading a letter addressed to Kerry Fox' character.
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:46 pm
by colinr0380
That's it vsski. Do you want to choose a quote?
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 5:42 pm
by jindianajonz
I'll go:
"I only stole a few coins. A petty thief. But you've killed hundreds and robbed whole domains. Who is wicked, you or I?"
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:32 am
by Brian C
Kagemusha
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:52 am
by Gregory
Great quote. I'm sure similar hypocrisies have been pointed out in similar ways throughout history, but I still wonder if that was meant as an homage to St. Augustine, who wrote in
The City of God,
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:51 am
by The Narrator Returns
Now it's the Narrator's time to shine!
"I may not know much, but I know that the wind sings your name endlessly, although with a slight lisp that makes it difficult to understand if I'm standing near an air conditioner."
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:59 am
by vsski
"Schizopolis" voiced by the great Steven Soderbergh himself
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:48 am
by Professor Wagstaff
"Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell."
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:35 am
by AfterTheRain
Professor Wagstaff wrote:"Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell."
That's the 1946 version of The Killers; probably my favorite quote from the movie.
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:43 am
by Brian C
Got an easy but somehow always timely one from a recent viewing:
"I don't know what the government is coming to. Instead of protecting businessmen, it pokes its nose into business. Why, they're even talking now about having bank examiners. As if we bankers don't know how to run our own banks!"
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:47 pm
by Drucker
Stagecoach, oh lord I love that movie.
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:05 pm
by vsski
Here is one from a CC disc I watched last night that made me laugh:
"You can't even take a shit around here without stepping in it."
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:27 pm
by jwd5275
Gregory wrote:... I still wonder if that was meant as an homage to St. Augustine, who wrote in
The City of God,
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
The image of Kurosawa sitting down to read some Augustine somehow really makes me smile.
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 11:34 am
by colinr0380
You've got me stumped vsski! Withnail & I maybe?
Here's another quote while we are guessing:
"First I thought it was that apple for sure…then I sunk my teeth into that peach and…I just couldn’t seem to make up my mind. So I sampled the apple again. So it goes…first one, then the other."
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:04 pm
by Duncan Hopper
Young Mr. Lincoln?
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:20 pm
by colinr0380
Yes, that's right, it was Fonda's Lincoln judging the pie contest.
Re: Criterion DVD Quote Game
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:19 pm
by Gregory
vsski wrote:Here is one from a CC disc I watched last night that made me laugh:
"You can't even take a shit around here without stepping in it."
Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate