Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Whose Quote Is It Anyway?

Seems there's a new blog out there--Meming with Rickey. And it's fitting that the all-time steals leader has opted to steal some of my time with this: I must look up 15 of my favorite movies on IMDB, take a quote from each and post them for you, my readership, to identify. Do so in the comments, then I'll cross each one off as you get them. This game always drives me nuts, as I've seen tons of films (not Andrew Sarris tons, but still...) but somehow I never can remember quotes well. So let's hope you're better at this than I am. (I don't think I've rounded up the usual suspects, either.)

And as my readership (the S.S. Readership?) knows, I've given up tagging people, so if this game floats your readership, feel free to do it in your corner of the internets. Who am I to judge?

1) "You shouldn't keep souvenirs of a killing. You shouldn't have been that sentimental."

Clue--second quote
(different character who is the one addressed in the first quote):
"Here I was born, and there I died. It was only a moment for you; you took no notice."
V------
Solved in Comment #21 by jqb
Vertigo
Less Coyly Solved in Comment #22 by Drew

2) "What goes good with lots of beer? More beer!"
The Band Wagon
Solved in Comment #20 by Amy

3) Character 1: An hour ago, Rudy Linnekar had this town in his pocket."
Character 2: "Now you could strain him through a sieve."
(bonus points if you identify the actor playing Character 2)
Touch of Evil
Solved in Comment #1 by Tom Hilton (Tom also gets the bonus points--it is Joseph Cotten)

4) "Three men and one woman are trapped in a building! Send help at once! If you can't send help, send two more women!"
Duck Soup
Solved in Comment #5 by Hogan

5) Character 1: A friend of mine will be stopping by tomorrow to drop something off for me. He's a cop.
Character 2: A cop? That's a funny kind of a friend.
Character 1: Well, he's a funny kind of a cop.


Clue--second quote (said by an actor much more famous for another role for the same director):
"You're a no-good, nosy little tramp... you'd sell out your mother for a piece of fudge... you have a great big dollar sign where most people have a heart."
T-- K------
Sneakily Solved in Comment #21 by jqb
The Killing
Letters filled in by Mike in Comment #24

6) "Not Oklahoma City itself!"

Clue--dialog from near the film's end:
Character 1: Well, I mean, if you didn't feel that way you do, things wouldn't be the way they are, would they? I mean, things could be the same if things were different.
Character 2: But things are the way you made them.
Character 1: Oh, no. No, things are the way you think I made them. I didn't make them that way at all. Things are just the same as they always were, only, you're the same as you were, too, so I guess things will never be the same again.


T-- A---- T----
Solved for those who know in Comment #21 by jqb
The Awful Truth
Letters filled in by Melville in Comment #25

7) Character 1: Was she supposed to be a virgin?
Character 2: Yeah.
Character 1: I had a virgin once. I had to fly to Guatemala for her. She was blind in one eye and had a stuffed alligator that said "Welcome to Miami Beach."

The Stunt Man
Solved in comment #15 by Hogan

8) "When you've been married to a man for forty years you know all that don't amount to a hill of beans. I've been married to Walt that long and I swear in all that time I just lie there thinkin' about my canning."
The Night of the Hunter
Solved in Comment #8 by Rickey Henderson (b/c I know he didn't mean to type Huntress)

9) Character 1: Do you know what this means - "I'll get you on the Ameche"?
Character 2: No.
Character 1: 'Course you don't. An Ameche is the telephone, on account of he invented it.
Character 2: Oh, no, he didn't.
Character 1: Like, you know, in the movies.
Character 2: Well, I see what you mean. Very interesting. Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

Ball of Fire
Solved in Comment #2 by Tom Hilton


10) Character 1: I want adventure. I want romance.
Character 2: There is no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
Character 1: Trouble and desire.
Character 2: That's right. And the funny thing is, when you desire something you immediately get into trouble. And when you're in trouble you don't desire anything at all.


Clue--Amy gave you one in comment #20.

S----- M--
Solved in Comment #21 by jqb, if you trust him

11)"On one side... Here, I'll show you. On one side, I put a picture of my wife...and on the other side, my little baby. When I open it, it says, 'Papa' and not 'Ochi Tchornya.'"
The Shop Around the Corner
Solved in comment #13 by Melville

12) "To smoke, and have coffee - and if you do it together, it's fantastic."
Wings of Desire
Solved in Comment #18 by Marty


13) "That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous."
Palm Beach Story
Solved in Comment #2 by Tom Hilton

14) "I've been thinking what to do wit' my future. I could be a mud doctor. Checkin' out the eart'. Underneat'."
Days of Heaven
Solved in comment #14 by Mike

15) "Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men."
All about Eve
Solved in comment #12 by Melville

plus one extra credit: "In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention."
Laura
Solved in Comment #3 by Tom Hilton

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