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"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
(Casablanca 1942)
Dr. Hannibal Lecter: First principles, Clarice: simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius, "Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?" What does he do, this man you seek?
Clarice Starling: He kills women.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter: No, that is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does, what needs does he serve by killing?
(Silence of the Lambs 1991)
Apr 3, 2015
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#45
In anticipation of Opening Day
“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.”
- Terence Mann, played by James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams 1989
MttWaldron wrote:
In anticipation of Opening Day
“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.”
- Terence Mann, played by James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams 1989
I loved Field of Dreams! "Is this heaven?" "No, it's Iowa." had to be the best (and most classic) quote.
-I'll be back (Terminator)
-This isn't a car (Batman)
Apr 10, 2015
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#50
"I'm not him," said by the young Josh Waitzkin in the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer after being told that Fischer had said that you had to hate your opponent.
“Isn't there something in living dangerously?'
There's a great deal in it,' the Controller replied. 'Men and women must have their adrenals stimulated from time to time.'
What?' questioned the Savage, uncomprehending.
It's one of the conditions of perfect health. That's why we've made the V.P.S. treatments compulsory.'
V.P.S.?'
Violent Passion Surrogate. Regularly once a month. We flood the whole system with adrenin. It's the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconvenience.'
But I like the inconveniences.'
We don't,' said the Controller. 'We prefer to do things comfortably.'
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.'
In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy. Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer, the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.
I claim them all,' said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. 'You're welcome,' he said.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Apr 18, 2015
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#52
Why was PROZAC IS GOOD flashed on just at the end of SOMA IS GOOD for a moment? Around 4:45? Was this an advertisement for Prozac?
[listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony]
Alex: Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
(A Clockwork Orange 1971)
What do I want? I want the world Chico,and everything in it.
May 11, 2015
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#56
I am a fan of Burt Lancaster. In 1960 Lancaster starred in the movie Elmer Gantry based on the Upton Sinclair novel by the same name from 1926. Lancaster played the title role as a con-man seemingly turned gospel preacher. The story takes place in America when Christianity was speaking out against lots of modern ideas, most notably Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
Gantry was friends with a newspaper writer named Jim Lefferts in spite of Lefferts writing articles in the paper pointing out that Gantry was more businessman than religious example. After an article pointing out how many local church leaders had spoken out against Gantry, Gantry spoke to a large crowd gathered for a boxing match. Gantry stood in the ring in a beautiful blue suit holding a newspaper in his hand. Here is part of what he said:
“This newspaper lies! Yes some of the preachers are against me – Unitarianism, Russelism, and Spritiualism. They hate me. But I tell you who hates me more – Havard-ism, Yale-ism, and Princeston-ism. But you’re all God’s people, and you don’t hate me do you?” (crowd cheers loudly, then Gantry pauses and looks up toward Heaven)
“Can you hear me up there Jesus? I’d like you to save this old friend of mine, Jim Lefferts, who’s been writing all these lies about me. But I better warn you Jesus, you better wear rubber gloves and use a strong disinfectant. But if you can save sinner Jim, I wish you would.”
The TV show Criminal Minds. I cheated,sorry.
“This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . .
Next stop The Twilight Zone.”
― Rod Serling
