Great movie exchanges?

[mcctatas]

I love this one from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) great movie!

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Guildenstern: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Rosencrantz: Or just as mad.
Guildenstern: Or just as mad.
Rosencrantz: And he does both.
Guildenstern: So there you are.
Rosencrantz: Stark raving sane.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. The Thin Man

Reporter: Say listen, is he working on a case?
Nora Charles: Yes, he is.
Reporter: What case?
Nora Charles: A case of scotch. Pitch in and help him.

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Marion: I don't like crooks. And if I did like 'em, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool pigeons. And if I did like crooks that are stool pigeons, I still wouldn't like you.

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Lieutenant John Guild: You got a pistol permit?
Nick Charles: No.
Lieutenant John Guild: Ever heard of the Sullivan Act?
Nora Charles: Oh, that's all right, we're married.

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Nora Charles: Oh, Nicky, I love you because you know such lovely people.

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Nora Charles: Waiter, will you serve the nuts? I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?

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Nick Charles: The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time.

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Nick Charles: How'd you like Grant's tomb?
Nora Charles: It's lovely. I'm having a copy made for you.

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Nora Charles: Pretty girl.
Nick Charles: Yes. She's a very nice type.
Nora Charles: You got types?
Nick Charles: Only you, darling. Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

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Nick Charles: I'm a hero. I was shot twice in the Tribune.
Nora Charles: I read where you were shot 5 times in the tabloids.
Nick Charles: It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids.

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Nick Charles: Oh, it's all right, Joe. It's all right. It's my dog. And, uh, my wife.
Nora Charles: Well you might have mentioned me first on the billing.

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Nora Charles: You know, that sounds like an interesting case. Why don't you take it?
Nick Charles: I haven't the time. I'm much too busy seeing that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.

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Mimi Jorgenson, the former Mrs. Wynant: I'm Mrs. Jorgenson!
Mrs. Jorgenson: Put it over there, sister. I was Mrs. Jorgenson before you were.

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Tanner: Your daughter's here, Mr. Wynant. Mr. Wynant! Mr. Wynant!
Clyde Wynant, the thin man: Haven't you got any more sense than to shout at me like that?

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Nora Charles: Nicky... Nicky, put Asta in here with me tonight.
Nick Charles: Oh, yeah?


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Nora Charles: Take care of yourself
Nick Charles: Why, sure I will.
Nora Charles: Don't say it like that! Say it as if you meant it!
Nick Charles: Well, I do believe the little woman cares.
Nora Charles: I don't care! It's just that I'm used to you, that's all.

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Nora Charles: All right! Go ahead! Go on! See if I care! But I thinks it's a dirty trick to bring me all the way to New York just to make a widow of me.
Nick Charles: You wouldn't be a widow long.
Nora Charles: You bet I wouldn't!
Nick Charles: Not with all your money...

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Nick Charles: Say, how did you people happen to pop in here?
Lieutenant John Guild: We hear this is getting to be sort of a meeting place for the Wynant family, so we figured we'll stick around just in case the old boy himself should show up. Then we see this bird sneak in, we decide to come up. And lucky for you we did!
Nick Charles: Yes, I might not have been shot.

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Nick Charles: Now don't make a move or that dog will tear you to shreds.

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Nora Charles: You asleep?
Nick Charles: Yes!
Nora Charles: Good... I want to talk to you.

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Tommy: Say, I'm getting out of here.
Nick Charles: No, you stay here.
Tommy: If I stay, I know I'm gonna take a poke at him.
Nick Charles: Then I insist that you stay.

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Nick Charles: Hey, would you mind putting that gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm a very timid fellow.

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Nick Charles: Now my friends, if I may propose a little toast. Let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
Nora Charles: You give such charming parties, Mr. Charles.
Nick Charles: Thank you, Mrs. Charles.

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Nick Charles: Now how did you ever remember me?
Dorothy: Oh, you used to fascinate me. A real live detective. You used to tell me the most wonderful stories. Were they true?
Nick Charles: Probably not.

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Nora Charles: How many drinks have you had?
Nick Charles: This will make six Martinis.
Nora Charles: All right. Will you bring me five more Martinis, Leo? Line them right up here.

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Gil: Could I come down and see the body? I've never seen a dead body.
Lieutenant John Guild: Why do you want to?
Gil: Well, I've been studying psychopathic criminology and I have a theory. Perhaps this was the work of a sadist or a paranoiac. If I saw it I might be able to tell.
Lieutenant John Guild: Yeah, that's a good idea. But don't you bother to come down - we'll bring the body right up to you.

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Nora Charles: You darn fool! You didn't have to knock me out. I knew you'd take him, but I wanted to see you do it.
Lieutenant John Guild: There's a girl with hair on her chest.

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Reporter: Well, can't you tell us anything about the case?
Nick Charles: Yes, it's putting me way behind in my drinking.

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Nora Charles: What's that man doing in my drawers?

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Nora Charles: What hit me?
Nick Charles: The last martini.

[tinymontgomery]

28. The Thin Man

The Thin Man movies are great. Watch them every time TMC puts them on.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. some of the best dialogue out there

the rapid exchange between Nick and Nora withstand the test of time :thumbsup:

Welcome to DU :hi:

[ashling]

2. Stephen Crane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiX1G3I9BW4

[mcctatas]

3. refreshingly honest...

;)

[DarkTirade]

4. "I love you." "I know."

Completely ad libbed. Wasn't in the script. In the script was flowery language that was totally out of character, and the actors just couldn't wrap their minds around it because it just wasn't working. So eventually the director (NOT Lucas for this one. No big surprise.) just said, "Fine, make something up."

[JTG of the PRB]

8. THAT is why Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie...

...simply because George Lucas DIDN'T direct it and therefore DIDN'T have direct influence over the way the movie looked on the screen in its final version.

[DarkTirade]

9. Yep.

He comes up with good concepts, but screws himself over in the execution. So once they let someone else handle the actual execution... BAM. Perfection.

[Dr. Strange]

25. Oh DarkTirade and jtg33...

you're breaking my heart!


This script was prepared by GL. Any suckitude is solely the consequence of his being a Sithdouche.

[DarkTirade]

31. Mmm... Natalie Portman...

I'm sorry, were you saying something? :P

[cemaphonic]

21. Plus much of the script was written by Leigh Brackett,

who co-wrote "The Big Sleep" among other things. The entertaining Han and Leia stuff on Hoth was totally her style.

[DarkTirade]

32. "... who's scruffy looking?"

:P

[flvegan]

5. I can't decide which exchange from a Monty Python flick to post here.

Shit. Give me a minute...

[Zavulon]

6. I'll go with the Black Knight vs. King Arthur. (NT)

[mcctatas]

11. Monty Python- A Lesson in Anarcho-Syndicated Commune Living

my favorite scene...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMZ1u__LUc



Arthur: Old woman!

Dennis: Man!

Arthur: Man, sorry... What knight lives in that castle over there?

Dennis: I'm 37!

Arthur: What?

Dennis: I'm 37, I'm not old!

Arthur: Well I can't just call you "Man"...

Dennis: You could say "Dennis"...

Arthur: I didn't know you were called Dennis.

Dennis: Well you didn't bother to find out, did you?

Arthur: I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind you looked...

Dennis: (interrupting) What I object to is your automatically treatin' me like an inferior!

Arthur: Well I AM king...

Dennis: Oh, King, eh? Oh, very nice... And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society! If there's ever gonna be any progress in our society...

Woman: Denny, there's some lovely filth down here!
Oh! How d'you do?

Arthur: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?

Woman: King of the who?

Arthur: The Britons.

Woman: Who are the Britons?

Arthur: Well we all are... We are all Britons... And I am your king.

Woman: I didn't know we had a king... I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Dennis: You're foolin' yourself. We're livin' in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes...

Woman: (interrupting) Oh there you go, bringing class into it again...

Dennis: That's what it's all about! If only people would...

Arthur: Please, please, good people, I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?

Woman: No one lives there.

Arthur: Then who is your lord?

Woman: We don't have a lord.

Arthur: What?

Dennis: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to sort of act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

Arthur: Yes.

Dennis: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...

Arthur: Yes I see.

Dennis: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs...

Arthur: Be quiet!

Dennis: But by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major...

Arthur: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!

Woman: Order, eh? Who does he think he is?

Arthur: I am your king!

Woman: Well I didn't vote for you!

Arthur: You don't vote for kings.

Woman: Well how'd you become king then?



Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!

Dennis: (interrupting) Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a
mandate from the masses, not from some farcicial aquatic ceremony!

Arthur: Be quiet!

Dennis: Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!

Arthur: SHUT UP!

Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

Arthur: SHUT UP! WILL YOU SHUT UP!

Dennis: Ah! Now we see the violence inherent in the system!

Arthur: SHUT UP!

Dennis: Oh, come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Arthur: (muttering) Bloody peasant!

Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressin' me? You saw it, didn't you?

[LeftyMom]

27. Castle Anthrax.

It's got dozens of nineteen year olds begging for a spanking and some oral. I'm amazed you didn't think of it sooner.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. Chinatown:

Escobar: Isn't that your number, Gittes?
Gittes: Is it? I don't know, I don't call myself that often.

[orleans]

37. and here's a great exchange

evelyn: she's my sister
gittes: (slap)
evelyn: she's my daughter
gittes: (slap)
evelyn: my sister
gittes: (slap)
evelyn: my daughter
gittes: (slap)
gittes: i said i want the truth
evelyn: she's my sister AND my daughter

[pokerfan]

10. Aliens

Hudson (Bill Paxton): Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein): No. Have you?

[SydneyBristow]

38. /agree

Other great lines from Mr. Paxton:
"Case you havent been keepin' up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked!!"
"Game over man, game over!"

[Aristus]

12. "The Lion In Winter".

Eleanor of Acquitaine (Katherine Hepburn): "Love me, little lamb, or leave me."

Richard the Lionheart (Anthony Hopkins): "Leave you, Madam? With pure joy."

Richard doesn't move.

Eleanor: "Departure is simple, darling. You put the left foot down, and then the right."

Prince John bursts in.

John (Nigel Terry): "Mother!..."

Eleanor: "Hush, dear. Mother's fighting."

[mcctatas]

13. Loved that movie....

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Eleanor: Henry?
Henry II: Hmmm?
Eleanor: I have a confession.
Henry II: Yes?
Eleanor: I don't much like our children!

[CBHagman]

39. Wonderfully quotable movie.

And then there's this:

King Henry II: The day those stout hearts band together is the day that pigs get wings.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: There'll be pork in the treetops come morning.

[skygazer]

14. Casablanca

Ugarte - You despise me, don't you?

Rick - If I gave you any thought I probably would.

Ugarte - But why? Because of what I do? Rick, think of all the poor devils who can't meet Renault's price. I get it for them for half. Is that so... parasitic?

Rick - I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. A recent favorite of mine, from Idiocracy:

For whatever reason, I think of some of the posters at GD-P when I think about this:
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Joe: "For the last time, I'm pretty sure what's killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff."

Secretary of State: "But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes."

Attorney General: "So wait a minute. What you're saying is that you want us to put water on the crops."

Joe: "Yes."

Attorney General: "Water. Like out the toilet?"

Joe: "Well, I mean, it doesn't have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that's the idea."

Secretary of State: "But Brawndo's got what plants crave."

Attorney General: "It's got electrolytes."

Joe: "Okay, look. The plants aren't growing, so I'm pretty sure that the Brawndo's not working. Now, I'm no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow."

Secretary of Energy: "Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet."

Joe: "Okay, look. You wanna solve this problem. So why don't we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave?"

Attorney General: "Brawndo's got what plants crave."

Secretary of Energy: "Yeah, it's got electrolytes."

Joe: "What are electrolytes? Do you even know?"

Secretary of State: "It's what they use to make Brawndo."

Joe: "Yeah, but why do they use them to make Brawndo?"

Secretary of Defense: "'Cause Brawndo's got electrolytes."

[NewJeffCT]

16. Some of the Travolta-Jackson exchanges from Pulp Fiction

were great.

[BurtWorm]

17. 555

[kwassa]

18. Bogart and Bacall in "To Have or Have Not"

some of the funniest and sexiest dialogue ever.

Bacall plays Slim, Bogart plays Steve

Slim kisses Steve

Steve: What did you do that for?
Slim: I've been wondering if I'd like it.
Steve: What's the decision?
Slim: I don't know yet.

They kiss again

Slim: It's even better when you help.


Slim: You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow.
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Beautiful woman faints, Steve grabs her before she hits the floor. Slim responds:

Slim: What are you trying to do, guess her weight?
Steve: She's heftier that you think.

Steve lays down fainted woman he has been carrying

Steve: Better loosen her clothes.
Slim: You've been doing all right.

Slim stops him from loosening clothes

Slim: Maybe you'd better look after her husband.
Steve: He's not going to run out on me.
Slim: Neither is she.

[guitar man]

19. Are you the police?

No ma'am, we're musicians

:)

[guitar man]

20. Illinois Nazis

I hate Illinois Nazis

[mcctatas]

26. The Blues Brothers...

love that movie!

[guitar man]

29. best...movie...ever

:hi:

[cemaphonic]

22. The Coens have dozens

One of the best from Miller's Crossing:

Dane: ...Where is Leo?
Man: If I tell you, how do I know you won't kill me?
Dane: Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying, then I wouldn't get to kill you then. Where's Leo?

The first scene in The Big Lebowski with Donny, Walter and the Dude is pretty great too. Aside from being funny, they manage to pack a ton of exposition into a conversation that actually flows like a real one, with lots of tangents, non-sequiters and repetitions. Usually these sorts of scenes have one character asking the most obvious questions, and the other delivering speeches.

I like Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead too. The questions game is a good conversation.

[MAGICBULLET]

23. Look at the birds up in the trees!

We're not birds, we're a jugband!

[BOSSHOG]

24. A FEW GOOD MEN

- Did you order the code red? Did you order the code red?
- Damn right I did!

[YankeyMCC]

30. The magnificent seven

Talking to the undertaker they discover the problem with bringing the dead man up to boot hill for burial is that the dead man was not white skinned.

Chris: When did all this happen?
Undertaker: When the town got civilized.

A lot there in that response by the Undertaker. What so many think of as 'civilization' isn't always so good a thing.

[cloudbase]

34. Dr. Strangelove

A movie full of great exchanges, but my favorite was Gen. Turgidson and Miss Scott.

Just start your countdown, baby, and ol' Buck'll be back before you can say "blastoff."

[CBHagman]

35. John Sayles writes some good ones.

From Lone Star:

Cody (the bartender): Now I'm just as liberal as the next guy --

Sam (the sheriff): If the next guy's a redneck.

And this little exchange between Army buddies, one of whom is dating a fellow officer who is African-American:

Mikey: You met her family? They gonna be cool about you being a white guy?

Cliff: Priscilla says they think any woman over 30 who isn't married must be a lesbian. She figures they'll be so relieved I'm a man --

Mikey: Always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.

[petronius]

36. The exchanges that come to mind are from Lawrence of Arabia:

Auda abu Tayi: It is Auda of the Howitat who speaks.
Sherif Ali: It is Ali of the Harith who answers.
Auda abu Tayi: Harith! Ali, does your father still steal?
Sherif Ali: No. Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards?
Auda abu Tayi: No, there is no resemblance. Alas, you resemble your father.
Sherif Ali: Auda flatters me.
Auda abu Tayi: You're easily flattered. I knew your father well.
Sherif Ali: Did you know your own?


and:

T.E. Lawrence: So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.

(followed much later by: )

Sherif Ali: Does it surprise you, Mr Bentley? Surely, you know the Arabs are a barbarous people. Barbarous and cruel. Who but they! Who but they!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. From Fargo:

"Where is pancakes house?"

"What?"

"We stop at pancakes house."

"You nuts? We had pancakes for breakfast. I need a place where we can get a shot and a beer, get laid maybe. Not more f___g pancakes. . . Oh, come on man . . . Okay, here's an idea. We'll stop outside of Brainerd. I know a place there where we can get laid."

"I'm f___g hungry now, you know!"

"Yeah, yeah. Geez. I'm just saying. We can stop, get pancakes, then get laid, alright?"

[NewJeffCT]

41. Just about every scene from "12 Angry Men", but this one might be my favorite

One of my all-time favorites...

Henry Fonda Character: Slip through our fingers? Are you his executioner?

Lee J Cobb character: I'm one of 'em!

Henry Fonda Character: Perhaps you'd like to pull the switch?

Lee J Cobb character: For this kid? You bet I would!

Henry Fonda Character: I feel sorry for you... what it must feel like to want to pull the switch. Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger! You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!

-Cobb lunges wildly at Fonda, who holds his ground. Several jurors hold Cobb back-

Lee J Cobb character: I'll kill him! I'LL KILL HIM!
Henry Fonda Character: You don't *really* mean you'll kill me, do you?