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The Quotes That Make The Movie W/O - Time To VoteSep 13 '04 Write an essay on this topic.
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When I was in third form (first year of high school, I was 13), I wanted to learn to play the trombone. Can’t for the life of me remember why, but I’ll always remember my tutor telling me I was “built backwards”. You have to really try to hit those high notes, and just relax and let the low ones come, or something like that. For me, the high notes came really easily and I had to work for the low ones. I quit about six months afterwards, because my new tutor was an absolute wanker and I couldn’t stand being in a room with him for an hour a week. Not only that, but I couldn’t read music, so I was never going to get very far anyway. Trust me, there’s a point to all this. Continuing to prove my original tutor’s theory that I am, indeed, “built backwards”, I am hereby announcing the end of my ”The Quotes That Make The Movie W/O”. Recently, other members of Epinions such as Birdfeather and Slarter have used their 100th review as an opportunity to start a W/O. Me, I’m ending one. The W/O has been running for the best part of three months. The basic idea was to review a film and highlight a particular quote from it. The quote should be centrally important to the film, or something like that. It should complete the film; the film simply would not be the same without it. Many people have asked for a list of participants to be posted, and that’s essentially what this is (although it is something else as well). I’ve had it planned for a while that this would be my 100th Epinion, so sorry about the wait. I submitted the first entry, with “Wait a minute Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has the hots for me”? from the 1985 classic Back To The Future. My reasoning behind this was that now Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) had realized his dilemma, he could attempt to overcome it. Then came what I consider to be the weakest quote from the whole W/O. Yes, I can say that because it’s another one of mine. It doesn’t exactly complete the movie, but both lines are well delivered and they help explain one of the plot mechanisms used in the film. From Shrek 2: “Pray for mercy from Puss… In Boots”, and a few minutes later Donkey (Eddie Murphy) came out with ”If we need an expert on lickin’ ourselves, we give you a call”. I make no apologies for Donkey’s bad grammar. Updateghost was the first user to join in the fun, with this gem from Fight Club: That Tyler Durden sounds like a wise man… but for some reason I never expected Brad Pitt to show up in this W/O. If I was giving out awards here, Updateghost would pick up “first entrant”. Speaking of metaphorical awards, honours must surely go to SusiDee34 as she participated not once, but a mammoth five times, a record only equalled by the host of this W/O. Not only did she revive old classics like Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn!” (Gone With The Wind)and “Do I feel lucky punk? Well do ya?” (Dirty Harry, but a few I’d never heard of before. “There. Is. No. Crying. In. Baseball”, from A League Of Their Own and ”I love the smell of Napalm in the morning” from Apocolypse Now. Susi also submitted the longest quote in the W/O with this pearler: ”I've got a gun out there in my purse. Up until now I've been forgiving and forgetting because of the way I was brought up, but I'll tell you one thing. If you say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine and I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot. And don't think I can't do it.” That’s from a film called 9 To 5. If Susi brought us the longest quote, then CaptainD surely brought us the shortest: ”Don’t panic!” from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. However, the good Cap’n was so busy working on that review, he forgot all about the W/O when reviewing the latest Will Smith movie I, Robot. He wrote it up and included a few quotes from the movie, citing “You are a clever imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot take a blank canvas and turn it into a masterpiece?” “Can you?” as his favourite from the movie. I queried him as to why he didn’t enter in the W/O, so he did! About this time, I decided it was time I submitted another entry or three myself, thus Star Wars, American Pie and The Empire Strikes Back were all written within about a week of each other. The quotes? ”May the Force be with you”, “There was this one time, at band camp, when I stuck a flute up my pussy” and two from Empire: ”I am your Father” and “That boy is our last hope” “No. There is another”. Simply_Crispy left a smartass comment with a quote on that one, but I’m not going to spoil it here. I’m not the only one to use more than one quote though. Jankp scattered quotes such as “I’m the father of her child!” all throughout her review for Passed Away. Meanwhile, The King Of Rock went all bluesy on us with this number: “We’re on a mission from God”. Mcmaster took his quote from an Old Western movie called Outlaw Josey Wales ”Dyin’ ain’t much of a living boy!”. That advice could’ve been given to the guy from Skbreese's movie of choice Network ”I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”. See the review for the full story. The infamous ”You can’t handle the truth!” surfaced when Pavel21 reviewed A Few Good Men. Speaking of infamous, Robin Williams features as a cross dresser in Mrs. Doubtfire, the review for which Flamepillar revealed a few personal details in, albiet very close to deadline. ”You’re my goddamn kids too!”. Artbyjude, however, missed the deadline completely, but snuck this review of The Butterfly Effect in just before I was ready to do this write up, with the movie’s explanatory quote: ” It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world”. That’s it. There’s the list of participants people have been asking for, but as I said earlier, there’s more than one purpose to this piece. I want to know what the Epinions community thinks is the best quote from cinema history. Your options are… all of the above. Use the comment thread to vote for your favourite quote that has emerged in this W/O. “But I’ve got an even better quote than all those,” I hear you cry. “Can I vote for it?” The answer here is no. Those are your finalists. If you had a better quote, why didn’t you use the last three months to enter the W/O? If you participated in the W/O you cannot vote for your own quote. Sorry, but I’ve got to make some rules here. I’ll tally up the votes in about a week or so and announce THE BEST QUOTE, according to the people of Epinions.  |
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