Question of the Week
Well, it’s Oscar week once again. If you have any opinions about which of the nominees are going to win, which ones you’d like to win, or who should have been nominated that wasn’t, feel free to post them here. But that’s not the Question of the Week.
This year, the ad campaign for the Oscars centers around great movie lines. I may not agree with all of their choices, but I love the idea.
What are your favorite lines from the movies? What movies are they from? Which lines made you smile in the theatre, and which lines made you gasp? Which lines do you find yourself quoting when just the right situation arises, and which lines do you quote for no reason at all? Which of your favorite lines are from your favorite movies, and which of your favorite lines are from movies that were otherwise ordinary? Which lines are so famous that they are even larger than the movies themselves, and which lines bring us back to their original movies again and again?
My personal favorite may be this one, from Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in The Silence of the Lambs:
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
How about you?
What’s your favorite line from a movie?
February 20th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Okay – A. You KNOW I’ll have predicts and opinions later this week… :-) B. You should check out/post this quiz of quotes from Oscar winning films: http://moviecitynews.com/awards/2007/oscar_quotes.html (I thought it was a little too easy of course, but others might not, she bragged… :-)) and C. I have a LOT of favorite quotes from movies, but the movie I quote/reference almost every day fo my life is REDS. These are just a SMALL sampling of my faves:
Louise Bryant: I’d like to see you with your pants off, Mr. Reed.
John Reed: Louise, I love you.
Louise Bryant: No, you love yourself! Me, you FUCK!
Speaker: What do you think this war is about Jack?
John Reed: Profits.
Max Eastman: I’ll walk you home.
Emma Goldman: Why? I won’t hurt anyone.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
You know, I’ve never seen that movie. I don’t know how that happened.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
We must rectify this toute suite!!! It’s obviously my favorite DVD so you can either come over and watch it with me or trade me a Shakespeare DVD for it so we’ll both feel pressed to watch quickly and return… :=)
February 20th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Sounds good!
I checked out that movie quiz and I didn’t know half of them, even the quotes from movies I’ve seen. Not my game, I guess.