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jlhOkay, so this is a meme I feel I must do. Stolen from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
applyingmyself:
1. Pick one dozen movies that are ones that you have special feelings about.
2. Pick a few lines of dialogue that mean something to you.
3. As people guess the film, strike out that entry.
4. If possible, after the film is guessed, explain why that movie made the list.
Most of these are last or almost the last lines of the movies in question; therefore, I left out the musicals since they usually end with a song.
1: She: Where's the cat?
He: I don't know.
2: She: I think it's gonna rain.
He: It is raining.
3: He: I absolutely adore you.
She: Shut up and deal.
4: He: You knew you were going to get them, didn't you?
She: I didn't know. I hoped, but I didn't know.
5: He: Make a wish.
She: It already came true.
6: She: Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
7: She: I thought you were stepping aside and letting me go. I thought you were on the level for once.
He: Well, what do you think I am, a chump?
8: He: I'd reached the point where I needed official surroundings.
She: Then it was worth it.
9: He: I think that now, no matter what kind of a case some bastard could make against your getting married, there would be only one thing worse, and that would be if, knowing what you two are and knowing what you two have and knowing what you two feel, you didn't get married.
10: She: Oh, David, can you ever forgive me?
He: I... I... I...
She: You can! And you still love me.
He: Susan, that... that...
She: You do. Oh, David.
He: Oh, dear. Oh, my.
11: She: I'll be yar now, I promise to be yar.
He: Be whatever you like, you're my redhead.
12: He: Liar.
She: Thief.
applyingmyself:1. Pick one dozen movies that are ones that you have special feelings about.
2. Pick a few lines of dialogue that mean something to you.
3. As people guess the film, strike out that entry.
4. If possible, after the film is guessed, explain why that movie made the list.
Most of these are last or almost the last lines of the movies in question; therefore, I left out the musicals since they usually end with a song.
1: She: Where's the cat?
He: I don't know.
2: She: I think it's gonna rain.
He: It is raining.
3: He: I absolutely adore you.
She: Shut up and deal.
4: He: You knew you were going to get them, didn't you?
She: I didn't know. I hoped, but I didn't know.
5: He: Make a wish.
She: It already came true.
6: She: Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
7: She: I thought you were stepping aside and letting me go. I thought you were on the level for once.
He: Well, what do you think I am, a chump?
8: He: I'd reached the point where I needed official surroundings.
She: Then it was worth it.
9: He: I think that now, no matter what kind of a case some bastard could make against your getting married, there would be only one thing worse, and that would be if, knowing what you two are and knowing what you two have and knowing what you two feel, you didn't get married.
10: She: Oh, David, can you ever forgive me?
He: I... I... I...
She: You can! And you still love me.
He: Susan, that... that...
She: You do. Oh, David.
He: Oh, dear. Oh, my.
11: She: I'll be yar now, I promise to be yar.
He: Be whatever you like, you're my redhead.
12: He: Liar.
She: Thief.
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:48 am (UTC)I didn't see it when it came out, but over the years it has become my favorite of his films. I remember someone saying that it was Pretty in Pink with the genders reversed, but I think it's just a better rethinking of Pretty in Pink, with a much more satisfying ending.
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:05 am (UTC)Blaine, OTOH, is a lame-ass, wimpy cipher. That's why you want her to end up with Duckie. But I think Hughes hadn't anticipated the Andie-Duckie connection and that's why he did Some Kind of Wonderful--sort of like how Shaw didn't realize how tight the connection is between Eliza Doolittle and Prof. Higgins until he'd seen the play in production.
My James Spader love begins and ends with sex, lies I'm afraid. Are you enjoying Boston Legal?
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:24 am (UTC)Apparently they got him for the Sixteen Candles sequelly thing they're doing for cable. But yeah, he is a big hunk of yum. He's also in Longtime Companion, actually. Then I think he wandered off to Iowa to be a carpenter or something.
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:29 am (UTC)!!!!
Yes, yes, articulate as always, but! !!!!
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 04:48 am (UTC)2. sex lies & videotape
4. Some Kind of Wonderful
I know I know more of these, but these are the ones that jump out first.
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 04:51 am (UTC)Remembered #3, too, but will shut up and let others play now. :D
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:08 am (UTC)Also, I couldn't get any of Mar's and it turned out that I hadn't seen any of the movies she quoted, so there you go.
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:28 am (UTC)I suspect you will stump many of us with all the old things that are in here. My memory is such garbage - anything I tried to do for this would have to be John Hughes films that are burned into my brain and then things I've seen in the last year. And, like, Grease & JFK and things that have been run on HBO so many times I could recite them without effort. Beaches. You know the kind of thing.
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:51 am (UTC)Pulp Fiction is on and I was going to use that, but my favorite quote from that movie uses the "N" word and that's hard to get around, unfortunately.
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:54 am (UTC)12. Ocean's 11.
:-D
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Date: 2005-01-10 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 06:10 am (UTC)5 is from Sixteen Candles.
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:09 pm (UTC)fun!
Date: 2005-01-10 06:17 am (UTC)I have a sekrit lurve of #8, and I think #6 and #9 are irremediably dorky. #2 is among my favorite movie endings ever. I cannot figure out #5. I gather you have a particular fondness for, er, our lady of the calla lilies. I once stood behind her in line to buy concert tickets; yep, she stood in line. A class act.
Re: fun!
Date: 2005-01-10 03:47 pm (UTC)I do not, actually, have a great love for her; it's coincidence. In the matter of #11, my great love is actually for Liz rather than Tracy but the Liz-Mike lines are at the beginning rather than the end. My actual favorite line of the film is, "Because Liz wouldn't like it." In the matter of #9, irremediably dorky as it may be, you have met me and should be able to guess why I have a great love for it that stems from childhood. So it's really only the other film where my love centers around her. I like her best very young.
#6 love is also from childhood. Huge overidentification with Tina, I'm afraid. #8 I love so very dearly but I'm not sure anyone will get it.
I'm surprised that you cannot work #5 but you apparently worked out #4?
Re: fun!
Date: 2005-01-10 04:52 pm (UTC)Well, you're right: Movie quiz is excellent cure for boredom. Thanks!
Re: fun!
Date: 2005-01-10 05:20 pm (UTC)I wouldn't think you would be down with the John Hughes. People I know who saw those films post-adolescence don't like them much. But I'm an Xer, therefore I love John Hughes.
You know, I would highly recommend Ocean's 11 to you, as they actually captured a sort of older style of moviemaking without making it feel like a period piece. And the dialog is excellent.
Re: fun!
Date: 2005-01-11 02:14 am (UTC)Especially 6. Used to air on a local Chicago station practically every Sunday afternoon when I was a kid, alternately with "Dark Victory" and "All About Eve." And of course all the screwball comedies.
I didn't go to see Ocean's 11 because I loathed the original--loathed that whole Sinatra gang of smarmy, vulgar, smug, creepy oily guys. Couldn't imagine why anyone would bother to remake the thing. But I might rent it.
Now here's one for you, from a dreadful movie that I used to think was the deepest thing since oil wells:
He: The trouble with me, [name], is I... I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.
She: That, that means you've got brains!
He: Hmmm. Yes. Brains without purpose. Noise without sound, shape without substance.
And from the same flick:
The Old Coot: The woman don't live or ever did live that's worth five thousand dollars!
He (to the Old Coot): You're a forgetful old fool. Any woman's worth everything that any man has to give: anguish, ecstasy, faith, jealousy, love, hatred, life or death. Don't you see that's the whole excuse for our existence? It's what makes the whole thing possible and tolerable.
Yeesh.
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Date: 2005-01-10 06:39 am (UTC)7: His Girl Friday. *sigh*
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:54 pm (UTC)12 is easy too, Ocean's 11.
I don't know the rest. *sobs*
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Date: 2005-01-10 04:56 pm (UTC)And 5. Damn. I suck.