Quotes meme

[wellinghall]

Just tell me which films these quotes are from ...

1. The good Americans usually die young on the battlefield, don't they? Well, the Davids of this world merely occupy space, which is why he was the perfect victim for the perfect murder. Course he, uh, he was a Harvard undergraduate. That might make it justifiable homicide.

2. Well, the training's over. For obvious reasons, you've had to work without knowing your target, or even your weapon. You've to put up with a good deal from other people who think you've been having a soft time. But, tonight, you're going to have a chance to hit the enemy harder, and more destructively, than any small force has ever done before!

3. That meeting, you should have seen it, Radl. There was Hitler, first ranting, then cajoling, then perfectly rational... then raging and stamping like a - like the ringmaster of some freak circus! Goebbels, hopping from one foot to another like a - like a schoolboy. Bormann... hmph... a vulture, perched in the corner, watching, listening, never speaking. And Mussolini - Mussolini! - an automaton, Radl! And I looked round that room, and I wondered: am I the only one who can see it? And if so, what must I look like to them?

4. A: "Second rate punk," eh?
B: Sorry. All I could think of on the spur of the moment.
A: Thanks, that makes it even worse.

5. Preacher? Preacher? We love you Preacher... I love you!... Good-bye!

6. You see. That's what you're doing for us. Can you hear them running for shelter? Can you understand what that means to all the occupied countries? To enslaved people, having it drummed into their ears that the Germans are masters of the Earth. Seeing these masters running for shelter. Seeing them crouching under tables. And hearing that steady hum night after night. That noise which is oil for the burning fire in our hearts.

7. A: Scurvy dwarves! Thieving dwarves! Kill them!
B: Kill the dwarves! Chop them up! Take their heads!
C: Kill the men! Kill the elves! Save the gold for ourselves!

8. Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

9. It isn't really that gentlemen prefer blondes. It's just that we look dumber.

10. A: What can I do for you, Mr. Dowd?
B: What did you have in mind?

Comments

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

4 was on telly the other night :-).

(Where Eagles Dare)

I'll have a think about the others...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I assume that (7) isn't translated Orc dialogue from LotR?

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

8. sounds like Groucho Marx?

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

7 = The Hobbit!

[tree_and_leaf]

Is 1 'The Talented Mr Ripley'?

[tree_and_leaf]

Or 3 Night of the Generals?

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

#8 is Groucho Marx. Duck Soup, I think.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I think that this post shows me to be a cultural ignoramus, though I can see the reasoning behind the identification of 1, even though I can't remember the line.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I think that this post shows me to be a cultural

I hardly think so. In fact I would say that you would be one of the last people I would associate the word ignoramus with.

I looked at all of those and went "those were in films?" I'm sure they were, but just not in any films I remember seeing.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Maybe I'm just feeling low today - though I have always found that the more I know, the more aware I am of what I don't know.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

And there is no reason to suppose that ten films I know are ones that you would know well.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

True - I'm really not thinking straight at the moment.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Let's see if I can get my mark-up right this time...

I have always found that the more I know, the more aware I am of what I don't know.

I think that's the sign of a wise and knowledgeable mind.

Having looked up all the quotes, I can confirm that the only one I've seen is #2, but that was when I was single-digits of years old. *cough* years ago.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I remember being taken aback when, on first becoming a postgraduate student, I was automatically expected to be an expert on the subject I'd barely started researching; it seemed that admitting that one didn't know was bad form, and one was expected to flannel one's way through a conversation.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

That means your modesty is appropriately Socratic.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I had to look up what Socratic might mean in this case, which I suppose again supports my point...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I didn't have the faintest idea what it meant either. In fact,I haven't even looked it up, which makes you one up on me.

[segh.livejournal.com]

I have to say I think that if Socrates were really as Plato describes him he would have been a right pain in the butt.

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

Thanks to sigisgrim, I've got #2. [S*** W*** - 2 I think?]

And I did get Groucho Marx, though not the film. I'm sure I've seen several of the others, but I can't place them.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

8 is Groucho - though I can't remember the film. 10 must be Harvey (one of my ten favourite films). I'd have suspected that 3 was Valkyrie except that that hasn't been released yet...

Curious...

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

If I didn't get 10 I'd be in trouble !! Mr Dowd is James Stewart in Harvey.

I have a sneaking suspicion that 2 is the movie of the Doolittle group and the bombing of Japan, but I cannot remember what it was called.

[overconvergent.livejournal.com]

3 is The Eagle Has Landed.

[segh.livejournal.com]

Is 1 Rope?

[chris-maslen.livejournal.com]

Okay, obviously I watch too many movies.

2) Dambusters
3) The Eagle Has Landed
4) Where Eagles Dare
5) Pale rider

7) The Hobbit (Rankin-Bass)
8) Duck Soup

10) Harvey

[sally_maria]

Well, Dambusters at number 2 was obvious, but I couldn't get any of the others. :-(

[segh.livejournal.com]

And, on reflection, I wonder if 9 was Jessica Rabbit?

[segh.livejournal.com]

On further reflection, I wonder if 6 is out of one of those Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies that always end with an anti-Nazi speech?