we've got to have a movies/tv forum...

...for stuff like this. here's some memorable scenes from some movies.

ever see "grand canyon" from 1991?


Simon: I've gotta ask you for a favor. Let me go my way here. This truck's my responsibility, and now that the car's hooked up to it it's my responsibility too.
Gangbanger: Do you think I'm stupid? Just answer that question first.
Simon: Look, I don't know nothing about you, you don't know nothing about me. I don't know if you're stupid, or some kind of genius. All I know is that I need to get out of here, and you got the gun. So I'm asking you for the second time, let me go my way here.
Gangbanger: I'm gonna grant you that favor, and I'm gonna expect you to remember it if we ever meet again. But tell me this, are you asking me as a sign of respect, or are you asking because I've got the gun?
Simon: Man, the world ain't supposed to work like this. I mean, maybe you don't know that yet. I'm supposed to be able to do my job without having to ask you if I can. That dude is supposed to be able to wait with his car without you ripping him off. Everything is supposed to be different than it is.
Gangbanger: So what's your answer?
Simon: You ain't got the gun, we ain't having this conversation.

 

Jules: What ain't no country I ever heard of, do they speak english in what?

Brad: What?

Jules: English motherf***er, do you speak it?


Pulp Fiction

Some great lines from this movie!!

I'm all for a movie forum.

 

Always Be Closing, Always Be A Closer

i know this is a long one, but it's well worth it. in this scene from glengarry glen ross, blake (played by alec baldwin) is confronting the employees of a tough chicago real estate office, shelley levene (jack lemmon), ed moss (ed harris) and george aaronow (alan arkin) while their unsympathetic supervisor john williamson (kevin spacey) looks on. not in this scene is al pachino. this is one of the best casts and tightest scripts ever.

Blake: Let me have your attention for a moment! So you're talking about what? You're talking about...(puts out his cigarette)...bitching about that sale you shot, some son of a bitch that doesn't want to buy, somebody that doesn't want what you're selling, some broad you're trying to screw and so forth. Let's talk about something important. Are they all here?

Williamson: All but one.

Blake: Well, I'm going anyway. Let's talk about something important! (to Levene) Put that coffee down!! Coffee's for closers only. (Levene scoffs) Do you think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you. I'm here from downtown. I'm here from Mitch and Murray. And I'm here on a mission of mercy. Your name's Levene?

Levene: Yeah.

Blake: You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?

Moss: I don't have to listen to this shit.

Blake: You certainly don't pal. 'Cause the good news is -- you're fired. The bad news is you've got, all you got, just one week to regain your jobs, starting tonight. Starting with tonights sit. Oh, have I got your attention now? Good. 'Cause we're adding a little something to this months sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone want to see second prize? Second prize's a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. You get the picture? You're laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them! You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit, you ARE shit, hit the bricks pal and beat it 'cause you are going out!!!

Levene: The leads are weak.

Blake: 'The leads are weak.' Fucking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years.

Moss: What's your name?

Blake: FUCK YOU, that's my name!! You know why, Mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove a eighty thousand dollar BMW. That's my name!! (to Levene) And your name is "you're wanting." And you can't play in a man's game. You can't close them. (at a near whisper) And you go home and tell your wife your troubles. (to everyone again) Because only one thing counts in this life! Get them to sign on the line which is dotted! You hear me, you fucking faggots?

(Blake flips over a blackboard which has two sets of anagrams on it: ABC, and AIDA.)

Blake: A-B-C. A-always, B-be, C-closing. Always be closing! Always be closing!! A-I-D-A. Attention, interest, decision, action. Attention -- do I have your attention? Interest -- are you interested? I know you are because it's fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks! Decision -- have you made your decision for Christ?!! And action. A-I-D-A; get out there!! You got the prospects comin' in; you think they came in to get out of the rain? Guy doesn't walk on the lot unless he wants to buy. Sitting out there waiting to give you their money! Are you gonna take it? Are you man enough to take it? (to Moss) What's the problem pal? You. Moss.

Moss: You're such a hero, you're so rich. Why you coming down here and waste your time on a bunch of
bums?

(Blake sits and takes off his gold watch)

Blake: You see this watch? You see this watch?

Moss: Yeah.

Blake: That watch cost more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see, pal, that's who I am. And you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you -- go home and play with your kids!! (to everyone) You wanna work here? Close!! (to Aaronow) You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you **********? You can't take this -- how can you take the abuse you get on a sit?! You don't like it -- leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you got, make myself fifteen thousand dollars! Tonight! In two hours! Can you? Can you? Go and do likewise! A-I-D-A!! Get mad! You sons of bitches! Get mad!! You know what it takes to sell real estate?

(He pulls something out of briefcase)

It takes brass balls to sell real estate.

(That's what he's now holding, two brass balls on string, over the appropriate "area"--he puts them away after a pause)

Blake: Go and do likewise, gents. The money's out there, you pick it up, it's yours. You don't--I have no sympathy for you. You wanna go out on those sits tonight and close, close, it's yours. If not you're going to be shining my shoes. Bunch of losers sitting around in a bar. (in a mocking weak voice) "Oh yeah, I used to be a salesman, it's a tough racket." (he takes out large stack of red index cards tied together with string from his briefcase) These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you, they're gold. Because to give them to you is just throwing them away. (he hands the stack to Williamson) They're for closers.

I'd wish you good luck but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it. (to Moss as he puts on his watch again) And to answer your question, pal: why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to, they asked me for a favor. I said, the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fucking ass because a loser is a loser.

(He stares at Moss for a sec, and then picking up his briefcase, goes into inner office with Williamson)

 

YES YES YES YES!!!

From Taxi Driver...

Iris: God, you are so square.
Travis: Hey, I'm not square, you're the one square. Your full of shit, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those fuckin' creeps and low-lifes and degenerates out on the streets and you sell your little pussies for nothing, man? For some low-life pimp who stands in the hall? And I'm square? You're the one square, man. I don't go screwing fuck with bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that hip? What world are you from?

 

Scene: From the movie Predator, they are flying into the jungle on a "Supposedly" rescue mission. Jessie Ventura (Blain) is offering chewing tobacco to his fellow soldiers, they all say no and then:

Some guy in the chopper: Get that sh*t away from me.

Blain: Y'all are a bunch of slack jawed fagots around here, this stuff will make you a sexual tryranesous......just like me.


Another scene: They are attacking an enemy.

Fellow soldier: You're hit, your bleeding.

Blain: I ain't got time to bleed.

Fellow solider: oh yea, (fires a generade in the gun post above them), you got time to duck?

 

Rudolph: What the fuck are you?
Herbie:: I'm a dentist.
Rudolph: What the fuck is a dentist?
Herbie: I fix teeth and..
Rudolph: Shut the fuck up, here comes that fucking monster.

 

grid, i think you meant:

Rudolph. "You don't mind my red nose?"
Herbie: "Not if you don't mind me being a dentist."
Rudolph: "It's a deal!"

 

Actually, I meant:

Clarisse: Rudolph, I think your nose is grand, much better than that silly false one.
Rudolph: Really? Then check this out!

Rudolph removes the plastic cap from his deer unit, revealing a 100-watt red lightbulb.

Rudolph: Toke on that baby.
Clarisse: Rudolph!

 

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Do it then...start a movie/tv forum, slap it with music and put them in their own subforum, call it pop culture or something. Add food to it/cooking. I'm sure a fourth want/need will come together, at any rate I think the two pair up well enough not to be in "everything else".