The Movie Quote Meme: because I don't do enough of this sort of thing in my *other* journal

[pat]

Swiped from wordweaverlynn... how could I resist?

Step 1: Pick out 20 movies you love
Step 2: Pick your favorite quotation from said movies
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what movies the lines come from

1. I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray -- you wore blue. Casablanca

2. No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. Dogma (It was so hard to pick just one quote from this movie.)

3. A toast, Jedediah: to Love on my own terms. Citizen Kane

4. Well, if it isn't Ethel Barrymore! Singin' in the Rain

5. The French don't care what they do actually, as long as they pronounce it properly. My Fair Lady (from "Why Can't The English")

6. Uhhh... the sea monkeys have my money... yes, I'm a natural blue... Finding Nemo

7. NOT THE BUTTONS. Not my gum-drop buttons. Shrek

8. I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that. Shakespeare in Love

9. My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. A Christmas Story

10. You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing. You shouldn't have been that sentimental. Vertigo

11. A boy's best friend is his mother. Psycho (what else? : > )

12. To wives and sweethearts... may they never meet! Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

13. It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage. Raiders of the Lost Ark

14. Close your mouth, Michael, we are not a codfish. Mary Poppins (my favorite non-Pixar Disney -- Finding Nemo being probably my favorite)

15. As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll. This is Spinal Tap (I actually did not use my very favorite quote from this movie because I had used it in a similar meme not too long ago: "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.")

16. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. Henry V, from the St. Crispin's Day speech (Yay, curiousangel!)

17. Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love. Moulin Rouge

18. You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic. Chicago, from "Cell Block Tango"

19. "I want to do something for her -- but what? "Oh, there's the usual -- flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep..." Beauty and the Beast

20. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. American Beauty

Comments

[geekchick]

2. "Dogma"
7. "Shrek" (or was it "Shrek II"?)
9. "A Christmas Story"
17. "Moulin Rouge"?
19. "Beauty and the Beast"

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

1. Casablanca.

and I suspect I'd like 9, though I have no idea of what it might be.

(hey, 5% is GOOD for me for this sort of question)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I think you would like 9. BTW, I got a DVD of Casablanca with a Target gift card I have, if you ever want to seeit.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

I'd love to!

a good chunk of my weekend is currently up in the air (depending on the car's arrival and readiness), and if the rain returns, a movie would be a Very Good Thing.

Also, we floated the idea of my bringing dungeoness crabs to your house for cooking and eating...add Casablanca, and I'd swoon in delight.

[geekchick]

9 is my favorite holiday movie ever.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Is that the one where the dog steals Christmas dinner and the family goes to a Chinese restaurant?

[geekchick]

Yep. And the leg lamp. ("Fra-gee-lay. Must be Italian.") And the tongue frozen the the flagpole, and the Red Rider BB gun. =)

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

I saw it for the first time Christmas of 1986, while on my honeymoon (to snowy New Hampshire). My husband loved it to no end and couldn't believe that I'd never seen it. So we sat down to watch it, with cups of cocoa, popcorn and wooly blankets, in front of a fireplace. It was a lovely and romantic evening.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

"You'll shoot your eye out!"

[rosefox]

No one else got #6 as Finding Nemo yet? Amazing.

I don't recognize any of the others off the top of my head, though 1 and 12 sound familiar.

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

1. I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray -- you wore blue.

That's from "Casablanca".

8. I know something of a woman in a man's profession. Yes, by God, I do know about that.

That's from "Shakespeare in Love".

16. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

That's from "Henry V", the St. Crispin's Day speech.

20. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.

That's from "American Beauty".

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

The Jedediah one is Citizen Kane.

4's Singin' in the Rain.

18's Chicago.

Is 11 Psycho? Can't be much ELSE...

I thought #13 was Mae West, but (since it was driving me crazy) I just cheated. Evidently not.

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

Nah, 13 is Raiders of the Lost Ark. Awesome scene.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

1. Casablanca

7. Shrek

14. Mary Poppins

17. Moulin Rouge (?)

[griffen.livejournal.com]

14. Close your mouth, Michael, we are not a codfish.

Mary Poppins! :)

16. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

If it's from a movie that *isn't* one of Shakespeare's plays, then this is from Renaissance Man. One of the soldiers recites part of that speech on the training field.

[runeshower.livejournal.com]

#10 is Vertigo.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I was beginning to think no one was going to get that one. Vertigo is my favorite Hitchcock movie.

[runeshower.livejournal.com]

It's my 2nd favorite, after Rear Window. oakdragon said that Cinema Club on Sunday (too bad I wasn't there, my hand would have been up SO FAST!) the trivia contest was Hitchcock movie quotes. One of them was "I'd say she's doing a woman's hardest job -- juggling wolves." :-)