Iconic One-Liners In Film

[DaveCinzano]

The Hidden Fortress had this gem:

 

[agricola]

My favourite line in Yojimbo was always this:

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There are so many of them in that film, but then again it is a masterpiece - even the non-speaking bits are amazing (like where Sanjuro and Genji watch the cop handing out bribes to the inspectors, or where Genji is dangling from a rope just before the final fight).

edit: oh and of course the dog

 

[agricola]

The Hidden Fortress had this gem:

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isnt that right at the start as well, before the horsemen come up?

 

[DaveCinzano]

I think the subtitlers might have been coasting by the time they got to Kagemusha though...

 

[Proper Tidy]

Not a film but: we used to make shit in this country

 

[DaveCinzano]

isnt that right at the start as well, before the horsemen come up?

Yep, it's very early on, very C3PO-bitching-at-R2D2-after-landing-on-Tatooine

 

[agricola]

Yep, it's very early on, very C3PO-bitching-at-R2D2-after-landing-on-Tatooine

how those two behaved is the one thing Lucas was mad to drop in Star Wars - you'd understand why the Cantina banned them then

 

[DaveCinzano]

There are so many of them in that film, but then again it is a masterpiece - even the non-speaking bits are amazing (like where Sanjuro and Genji watch the cop handing out bribes to the inspectors, or where Genji is dangling from a rope just before the final fight).

edit: oh and of course the dog

I read a really interesting article on Seven Samurai about how Kurosawa used his frame composition to tell the story for him, and utilised natural geometry and different perspective on succeeding shots to push that storytelling forward non-verbally - not big obvious things, but the sort of stuff that tricks your brain. Wish I could find it again!

 

[DaveCinzano]

If the English language subs are anything to go by, much-loved Finnish war movie Tuntematon Sotilas (the original 1955 version) is choc-full of some very ribald dialogue amongst the soldiers as they await Soviet attack:

 

[Steel Icarus]

No, about you, what the fuck are we going to do about you, if you had any balls you'd stick a knife in the bastards who write all that bollocks, they're wankers

One of my dogs is called Harry and I regularly say to him "You in a baaad mood 'arry?"

 

[sunnysidedown]

Beware the moon, lads.

 

[DaveCinzano]

“I'd rather be a civilian, sir.”

The Dirty Dozen

 

[sunnysidedown]

Some things in their natural state have the most vivid colours.

 

[chainsawjob]

Perusing the DVD shelves, one immediately jumped out:

“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”

Also

"I'm melting... melting!!!"

 

[chainsawjob]

"She's a witch, burn her!"

 

[chainsawjob]

"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy"

 

[chainsawjob]

"It's been emotional"

 

[Proper Tidy]

That lassie got glassed and no cunt leaves here til we find out what cunt did it

 

[BristolEcho]

"wingardium leviosia*

 

[deeyo]

When humanity, subjugated by the terror of crime, has been driven insane by fear and horror and when chaos has become supreme law, then the time will have come for the empire of crime.

 

[Rebelda]

Is this a declaration of war? Is this some white cunt's joke that black cunts don't get?

Ni co las.

 

[Idris2002]

The more I saw of the war, the more I hated lies.

 

[keybored]

"You, you cunt"

(Tony Kebell, embarrassed, looks away; "I can't take him anywhere").

 

[sunnysidedown]

I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle.

 

[Ax^]

Silly Rabbit tricks are for kids

 

[Steel Icarus]

Stay out of trouble

and

I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

 

[sunnysidedown]

Turn those machines back on!

 

[krtek a houby]

You've got me? Who's got you?

 

[weltweit]

 

[DaveCinzano]

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"You, you cunt"

(Tony Kebell, embarrassed, looks away; "I can't take him anywhere").

There's some great ones in that, from Richard in particular:

“You, you were supposed to be a monster - now I'm the fucking beast.”

“There's blood on my hands, from what you made me do.”

“I'm not threatening you mate, it's beyond fucking words - I watched over you when you were asleep and I looked at your fucking neck and I was that far away from slicing it.”

“I'd gather them goonies and get whatever you've got coming, mate... 'cause I'm gonna fucking hit you all.”

“You're fucking there mate!”



Then there's Sonny's line to Richard:

“Do you always paint men? Like women? What are you doing, lad?”

Edit: Cheers keybored