Favorite movie quotes

[gunhilltrain]

From the Movie Splendor in the Grass, screenplay by William Inge, the last lines of the movie, quoting from Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality."

Deanie: Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower, We will grieve not; rather find Strength in what remains behind.

Natalie Wood got top billing over Warren Beatty back then. That guy is now 87 years old.

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[gunhilltrain]

The quote....."and by the way, I don't like the name! Ab Scam sounds racist!".....the reply......."Why do you care! Your Mexican!".......American Hustle

I think Abscam was a real event. The name was based on a fictitious company set up by the FBI called Abdul Enterprises.

 

[gunhilltrain]

You call that a knife?

I think that was filmed at the Municipal Building in New York. The other guy should have pulled out an Uzi and said, "Never bring a knife to a gunfight."

 

[gunhilltrain]

Hamish: I should have remembered about the rocks...
William: Aye, you should have.

I don't recognize this one.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Bring out the gimp.

Something about a blowtorch and pliers. : S

 

[SimonDoom]

I don't recognize this one.

Braveheart.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I completely understand that. I loved THAT movie, because it was so inventive and fresh for its time, but I find most of his movies to be clever but somewhat juvenile. He's definitely talented, but he's full of himself and it interferes with the success of his movies. I thought the first three quarters of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was an excellent movie, but the final half hour ruined it for me. It was stupid, and it made a mockery of a tragic, awful event. I also don't like him as an actor and don't like that he casts himself in his movies.

Agree. His first two movies (Dogs and Pulp) were groundbreaking. Then he got is blank cheque and what does he make? That turd Dusk 'til Dawn. Yea, the lustre wore off very quickly. Yes, he is talented. Yes, he should not cast himself in his movies.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I completely understand that. I loved THAT movie, because it was so inventive and fresh for its time, but I find most of his movies to be clever but somewhat juvenile. He's definitely talented, but he's full of himself and it interferes with the success of his movies. I thought the first three quarters of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was an excellent movie, but the final half hour ruined it for me. It was stupid, and it made a mHe ockery of a tragic, awful event. I also don't like him as an actor and don't like that he casts himself in his movies.

POSSIBLE SPOILER?

He tends to start out strong and then go to absurd implausibilities. Are stunt men allowed to take flame-throwers home with them? Now I forgot if it was Pitt or DiCaprio who originally was in possession of it.

 

[SimonDoom]

Agree. His first two movies (Dogs and Pulp) were groundbreaking. Then he got is blank cheque and what does he make? That turd Dusk 'til Dawn. Yea, the lustre wore off very quickly. Yes, he is talented. Yes, he should not cast himself in his movies.

He has a gift for dialogue and scenes. He's less good at putting together a complete movie. Inglourious Basterds has some great dialogue and great scenes. The opening scene with the French farmer is chilling. The bar scene is nuts but well crafted. But when the credits roll at the end I don't feel like I've seen a serious, adult movie. There's a jokey, unserious feel that spoils it for me. I felt that way about IB, Django Unchained, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time. I keep wishing Tarantino would use his obvious talent to make a real, serious movie. He doesn't seem interested in doing that.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Kill Bill

Nothing but a blatant excuse for spectacle.

 

[gunhilltrain]

He has a gift for dialogue and scenes. He's less good at putting together a complete movie. Inglourious Basterds has some great dialogue and great scenes. The opening scene with the French farmer is chilling. The bar scene is nuts but well crafted. But when the credits roll at the end I don't feel like I've seen a serious, adult movie. There's a jokey, unserious feel that spoils it for me. I felt that way about IB, Django Unchained, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time. I keep wishing Tarantino would use his obvious talent to make a real, serious movie. He doesn't seem interested in doing that.

ANOTHER SPOILER?

I have wondered what happens at the very end of Inglorious Bastards. Was the entire Nazi regime going to surrender, or was it just Landa? I'd guess that the Germans in 1944 would have just kept fighting with a new leader.

It's worth comparing that to the real-life Valkyrie plot at about the same time. I don't want to digress too far into the historical details.

P.S.: Our Quentin is quite abrasive in interviews.

 

[SimonDoom]

Nothing but a blatant excuse for spectacle.

It's definitely spectacle. Tarantino deems himself as a fan of movies, and of things that some people see as "low brow" in movies. He likes "pulp," as the movie title proves. Kill Bill incorporates just about every cliche you can think of from martial arts films, revenge films, and westerns. I can appreciate it on a certain level, because of the cleverness and good humor with which he approaches the material, but when it's done I think, "OK, now use all that talent on a serious movie." And I don't think he's ever done that.

 

[MillieDynamite]

He is the most racist antiracist I've ever had the displeasure of watching their work. While they are entertaining, over the top, movies, the constant mysganstic and racist rants just burn my ass.

He has a gift for dialogue and scenes. He's less good at putting together a complete movie. Inglourious Basterds has some great dialogue and great scenes. The opening scene with the French farmer is chilling. The bar scene is nuts but well crafted. But when the credits roll at the end I don't feel like I've seen a serious, adult movie. There's a jokey, unserious feel that spoils it for me. I felt that way about IB, Django Unchained, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time. I keep wishing Tarantino would use his obvious talent to make a real, serious movie. He doesn't seem interested in doing that.

He has a gift for dialogue and scenes. He's less good at putting together a complete movie. Inglourious Basterds has some great dialogue and great scenes. The opening scene with the French farmer is chilling. The bar scene is nuts but well crafted. But when the credits roll at the end I don't feel like I've seen a serious, adult movie. There's a jokey, unserious feel that spoils it for me. I felt that way about IB, Django Unchained, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time. I keep wishing Tarantino would use his obvious talent to make a real, serious movie. He doesn't seem interested in doing that.

 

[MillieDynamite]

And she's been dead for about 46 years.

Natalie Wood got top billing over Warren Beatty back then. That guy is now 87 years old.

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[SimonDoom]

He is the most racist antiracist I've ever had the displeasure of watching their work. While they are entertaining, over the top, movies, the constant mysganstic and racist rants just burn my ass.

What's racist about his films? I don't see a racist message in his movies. I'm curious what you are referring to.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Everyone in the movies is racist. The N word happens more often than the word, the! You can't fight racism by showing it in such painstaking detail. Heateful Eight, Django, ooze racism in every frame of the film.

What's racist about his films? I don't see a racist message in his movies. I'm curious what you are referring to.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Even Spike Lee thinks he's a racist. Director Spike Lee tweeted about Django: “American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.”

 

[SimonDoom]

Everyone in the movies is racist. The N word happens more often than the word, the! You can't fight racism by showing it in such painstaking detail. Heateful Eight, Django, ooze racism in every frame of the film.

This is probably a bigger topic than can be handled in this forum, but I don't understand. Tarantino overuses the N word, no doubt about it. I think part of that is historical accuracy, and part of it is he likes to shock people. There's definitely an adolescent quality to his movies, and his use of the N word reflects that. But how is that racist? Obviously his intent is not racist, and the message of his movies is not racist. The hero of Django is a black ex-slave, who gets his revenge. The racists are all bad people in the movie. So how is the movie racist?

I don't understand the statement that "You can't fight racism by showing it in such painstaking detail." It seems to me that the way you fight evil is exactly to depict it in painstaking detail and show it for what it is. You don't sweep it under the rug and pretend it's not there.

 

[SimonDoom]

Even Spike Lee thinks he's a racist. Director Spike Lee tweeted about Django: “American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.”

I agree with Spike Lee's point that the movie did not deal with the subject matter in a realistic and respectful way. I thought it was stupid. But it doesn't endorse a racist message. It's not anti-black or pro-slavery.

 

[lovecraft68]

Everyone in the movies is racist. The N word happens more often than the word, the! You can't fight racism by showing it in such painstaking detail. Heateful Eight, Django, ooze racism in every frame of the film.

Tarantino is proof of hypocrisy. People say they stand against racism, but flock to his movies because they're 'so cool'
They claim to support metoo/believe survivors, but when he came out and flat out said he knew Weinstein was raping women and decided his career meant more and enabled him to keep doing it they....still flock to his movies. He's also had several abuse allegations of his own, but....you get it.

People will now counter with "separate the man from the art"

All that translates into is "My ethics are at personal convenience and my entertainment more important than causes I pay lip service to."

The man is hot garbage.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Inglorious Basterds/Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood:

They're both metafiction operating on a level I love. They're about the power of stories and how they can change reality.

What happens at the end of Inglorious Basterds? The theater bursts into flames as Shoshana Dreyfus says "this is the face of Jewish vengeance." The movie's about how film, as a medium for storytelling, is the ultimate revenge of the Jewish people on the Nazis. For as long as Hollywood produces movies that people watch, Nazis will be the ultimate bad guy, scum that exists to be shot and stabbed and burned and detonated. That symbol will always, in film and in storytelling, stand for futility, for failure, for monstrous evil and stupidity.

Once Upon a Time is about reclaiming the story of Sharon Tate from her murderers and her grotesque pedophile husband. No one thinks about Tate anymore, other than her passive roles as Polanski's wife and the Manson gang's victim. And when we do think of her as an actress, we think of her as she appears in Valley of the Dolls, saying "I have no talent. All I have is a body." Once Upon a Time rages against that; Sharon Tate, Tarantino tells us, was a person with worth. The center of the movie is a sequence of cuts between Pitt's Booth uncovering the squalid, pointless grifting of the Manson Gang; DiCaprio's Dalton struggling with all his might to produce something good enough and real enough to appear on a crappy TV show; and Robbie's Tate watching herself on screen in The Wrecking Crew. And we get to watch her realize that her work in making the movie was important -- she listens to the audience laugh when they're supposed to, gasp when she does the stunt she practiced for weeks. She's a living, breathing presence independent of her shitty husband and her shitty murderers, and the title card "Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood" only appears once that brutal night of violence is over, telling us that this is what might have been, what should have been, in a fairy tale.

There's also a brilliant piece of technical filmmaking where DiCaprio is digitally inserted into a scene from The Great Escape in place of Steve McQueen. It looks great and it's a fun little way to tell the audience about what the character used to be. But it's also a way to show the audience "look what I can do" so they'll notice when he doesn't do it later. During the scenes from The Wrecking Crew shown in the theater, Tarantino chooses to show the original footage. He doesn't insert Margot Robbie; he makes us watch Tate herself, though it's clearly not the same person.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Everyone in the movies is racist. The N word happens more often than the word, the! You can't fight racism by showing it in such painstaking detail. Heateful Eight, Django, ooze racism in every frame of the film.

Racism seems from a steadfast refusal to look below the surface. Your critique based so heavily on the use of the n-word is an equally steadfast refusal to look below the surface. It's nothing but a knee jerk.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Everyone in the movies is racist. The N word happens more often than the word, the! You can't fight racism by showing it in such painstaking detail. Heateful Eight, Django, ooze racism in every frame of the film.

Tarantino figured out that shock value sells. Except, I think he may believe his own bullshit, and then he realized that people will pay to see whatever he puts out. In person, he strikes me as being obnoxious for the hell of it.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Inglorious Basterds/Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood:

They're both metafiction operating on a level I love. They're about the power of stories and how they can change reality.

What happens at the end of Inglorious Basterds? The theater bursts into flames as Shoshana Dreyfus says "this is the face of Jewish vengeance." The movie's about how film, as a medium for storytelling, is the ultimate revenge of the Jewish people on the Nazis. For as long as Hollywood produces movies that people watch, Nazis will be the ultimate bad guy, scum that exists to be shot and stabbed and burned and detonated. That symbol will always, in film and in storytelling, stand for futility, for failure, for monstrous evil and stupidity.

Once Upon a Time is about reclaiming the story of Sharon Tate from her murderers and her grotesque pedophile husband. No one thinks about Tate anymore, other than her passive roles as Polanski's wife and the Manson gang's victim. And when we do think of her as an actress, we think of her as she appears in Valley of the Dolls, saying "I have no talent. All I have is a body." Once Upon a Time rages against that; Sharon Tate, Tarantino tells us, was a person with worth. The center of the movie is a sequence of cuts between Pitt's Booth uncovering the squalid, pointless grifting of the Manson Gang; DiCaprio's Dalton struggling with all his might to produce something good enough and real enough to appear on a crappy TV show; and Robbie's Tate watching herself on screen in The Wrecking Crew. And we get to watch her realize that her work in making the movie was important -- she listens to the audience laugh when they're supposed to, gasp when she does the stunt she practiced for weeks. She's a living, breathing presence independent of her shitty husband and her shitty murderers, and the title card "Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood" only appears once that brutal night of violence is over, telling us that this is what might have been, what should have been, in a fairy tale.

There's also a brilliant piece of technical filmmaking where DiCaprio is digitally inserted into a scene from The Great Escape in place of Steve McQueen. It looks great and it's a fun little way to tell the audience about what the character used to be. But it's also a way to show the audience "look what I can do" so they'll notice when he doesn't do it later. During the scenes from The Wrecking Crew shown in the theater, Tarantino chooses to show the original footage. He doesn't insert Margot Robbie; he makes us watch Tate herself, though it's clearly not the same person.

But does the war end or not? That seems to be important. The Valkyrie plotters didn't dislike Hitler because he was evil, but because he was losing the war. Still, it takes some guts to walk into his headquarters and leave a bomb at this feet. It just wasn't big enough.

Anyway, the Nazis have plenty of competition for evil. Why doesn't he take on Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Pinochet, Franco, etc? The first two each probably killed more than the Nazis did. Stalin was victorious, so he got to set the terms he wanted. Mao won the Chinese civil war, so he set the terms he wanted.

 

[gunhilltrain]

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