ON FILM: Name movie quotes, and you’ll be cited
Posted: December 4, 2009 at 4:43 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — It’s December, so that means it’s time for the annual movie quotations contest. My job is to list a bunch of the lines that I found most memorable over the past 11 months. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to identify the movie in which the line is heard. (All we need is the title of the movie the quote is from. The character and the actor will bring you extra street cred.)
All the films cited have screened in Arkansas as of today. That means they had a theatrical run here or played in a film festival. And these are the quotations as I heard or remember them, which means they might not be verbatim.
I understand that a lot of you use Google or other electronic means to look up some of these lines. That’s not cheating, that’s smart, but be aware that I know what you’re up to and I’ve taken precautions - I hope that not all of these lines will be available online.
If you don’t get all of these lines, don’t be discouraged. No one turned in a perfect paper last year. And the prize - which is yet to be determined, but will probably consist of some movie-related swag that crosses my desk in the next couple of days - isn’t all that, anyway.
The deadline for entries is Dec. 11, and I’ll announce the winner and provide answers to the quiz in this space Dec. 18. My mailing address is Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, Ark. 72203-2221. The e-mail address is pmartin@arkansasonline.com.
Good night, and good luck.
1. “I want to be on the cover of a magazine. I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with good hair. But first I want to be in one of those BET videos.”
2. “I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.”
3. “Nature is Satan’s church.”
4. “One of the boys I dated, and they were boys, suggested that we go to Paris and I said I’d always wanted to see Paris. As if I’d never been!”
5. “Don’t you dare lie to me.”
6. “Maybe they got bored with you and moved to France.”
7. “That’s a bingo.”
8. “Let it simmer.”
9. “You even walk like it ... white trash.”
10. “College! Job! Family! And one day, if you’re really lucky, you’ll be standing here yelling at a teenager of your own.” “
11. When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies ....”
12. “I promise never to put you through anything like this ever again. This is the last time you’ll ever see me.”
13. “You’ll always be my first car man. I love you.”
14. “Now more than ever, we need the Jedi.”
15. “You whip out a couple of swords at your ex-girlfriend’s wedding and let me tell you, people listen. People remember.”
16. “I was hiding under your porch because I love you!”
17. “You guys might not know this, but I consider myself a bit of a loner. I tend to think of myself as a one man wolf pack. But when my sister brought Doug home, I knew he was one of my own. And my wolf pack ... it grew by one. So there ... there were two of us in the wolf pack ... I was alone first in the pack, and then Doug joined in later. And six months ago, when Doug introduced me to you guys, I thought, ‘Wait a second, could it be?’ And now I know for sure, I just added two more guys to my wolf pack. Four of us wolves, running around the desert together, in Las Vegas, looking for strippers and cocaine.”
18. “I ain’t any one of them. I’m Donny.”
19. “Well, it is out there, it’s out there now, lurking like a big, hairy rapist at a coach station. You know, if I could, I’d punch you into paralysis !”
20. “Well, if this is it old boy, I hope you don’t mind if I go out speaking the king’s?”
21. “Life is simple now. They just have to do what I say.”
22. “No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.”
23. “Are you mad that you died at the end of Die Hard?”
24. “Did I get any in my mouth?”
25. “I like baseball, movies, good clothes, whiskey, fast cars ... and you. What else you need to know ?”
MovieStyle, Pages 37 on 12/04/2009
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