There was a thread recently about great movie exchanges. I want to add this one:

[petronius]

Sentry: Do you want the padre?
Harry Morant: No, thank you. I'm a pagan.
Sentry: And you?
Peter Handcock: What's a pagan?
Harry Morant: Well... it's somebody who doesn't believe there's a divine being dispensing justice to mankind.
Peter Handcock: I'm a pagan, too.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. One of my favorites....

In The Goodbye Girl, when Richard Dreyfus wakes up the other tenants of the apartment with chanting and incense at the crack of dawn...

Lucy: "I smell strawberries burning."
Paula: "That's incense."
Lucy: "What's incense?"
Paula: "It is what I am feeling right now."

[CBHagman]

2. Someone's been watching "Breaker Morant."

The way Bryan Brown (as Peter Handcock) utters the word "pagan" in his Australian accent is simply priceless.

[Aristus]

4. "Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!"

The final still from that film caused an upsurge in my father's Vietnam War-derived PTSD. He was YEARS getting over that...

[Brigid]

3. Another one from "Breaker Morant":

Morant (listening as soldiers nail together coffins for their upcoming execution): You could have at least measured us first!

Hancock: I doubt they get many complaints.

[Brigid]

5. And here's one from "Lord of War":

African Warlord: Please bring me the gun of Rambo.
Nicholas Cage: Part one, two, or three?
Warlord: I have only seen part one.
Cage: Oh, the M60. Would you like armor-piercing bullets with that?
Warlord: Please.

[petronius]

8. "...with your Florida and your Supreme Court of Kangaroos, now, the U.S. will shut up forever!"

I was really surprised at LoW - I didn't bother to see it for a long time because I somehow got the impression that it was just a shoot-em-up action thriller (big mistake on my part)...

[Brigid]

11. OMG! How could I forget that one!

:rofl:

Lines like this is why I went out and got this one on DVD just as soon as it came out.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. from: The Best Years of Our LIves

Al Stephenson: I think that, uh, little story has considerable significance; but I've, uh, I've forgotten what it is.

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Al Stephenson: I'm glad to see you've all pulled through so well. As Mr. Milton so perfectly expressed it: our country stands today... where it stands today... wherever that is. I'm sure you'll all agree with me if I said that now is the time for all of us to stop all this nonsense, face facts, get down to brass tacks, forget about the war and go fishing. But I'm not gonna say it. I'm just going to sum the whole thing up in one word.

Al Stephenson: My wife doesn't think I'd better sum it up in that one word. I want to tell you all that the reason for my success as a Sergeant is due primarily to my previous training in the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. The knowledge I acquired in the good ol' bank I applied to my problems in the infantry. For instance, one day in Okinawa, a Major comes up to me and he says, "Stephenson, you see that hill?" "Yes sir, I see it." "All right," he said. "You and your platoon will attack said hill and take it." So I said to the Major, "but that operation involves considerable risk. We haven't sufficient collateral." "I'm aware of that," said the Major, "but the fact remains that there's the hill and you are the guys who are going to take it." So I said to him, "I'm sorry, Major... no collateral, no hill." So we didn't take the hill and we lost the war. I think that little story has considerable significance, but I've forgotten what it is. And now in conclusion, I'd like to tell you a humorous anecdote. I know several humorous anecdotes, but I can't think of any way to clean them up, so I'll only say this much. I love the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and GETTING small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors' money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you.

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Fred Derry: How long since you been home?
Al Stephenson: Oh, a couple-a centuries.

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Fred Derry: Some barracks you got here. Hey, what are you? A retired bootlegger?
Al Stephenson: Nothing as dignified as that. I'm a banker.

[petronius]

7. That movie just blew me away

I saw it on AMC a while ago, and I was actually getting ready to go out, just puttering around with the TV on as a distraction. But the opening few minutes, especially when it got to "I'm all right, but... well, you see, I've got a girl" was riveting. We ended up watching the whole thing, and just going late to wherever we were going...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. yeah...It is a classic and you can see why --

every performance on there was superb. I think it won 7 Academy Awards in 1946.

[CBHagman]

10. "Day at the Races" quote.

"You leave, it's over my dead body."

Well, that's a pleasant way to travel."

[Bucky]

12. From "Three's Company"

Cop: "Might I have you name, sir?"

Jack: "You might, but it'd be a hell of a coincidence."

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