26 October 2005
First and Last
Filed under Movies
The drill: These are, of course, either opening or closing lines to movies. Comment here and give your answers.
Google is cheating. Asking for hints is not. I will provide you the director, actor, actress, or year of release if you ask.
1. “I believe in America.â€
2. “Saigon. Shit! I’m still only in Saigon. Every time I think I’m gonna wake up back in the jungle…â€
3. “Rosebud.”
4. “They’ve shut down the main reactor.”
5. “My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood; this is my street; this is my life. I am 42 years old; in less than a year I will be dead. Of course I don’t know that yet, and in a way, I am dead already.â€
6. “There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.â€
7. “Oh, no! It wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.â€
8. “The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.â€
9. “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.â€
10. “Madness. Madness.â€
11. “Well, nobody’s perfect.â€
12. “Mein Fuehrer, I can walk!â€
13. “…Eighteen months ago, the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried forty feet below the lunar surface, near the crater Tycho. Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four million year old black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose still a total mystery.â€
14. “But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man that suddenly got everything he always wanted.”
“What happened?”
“He lived happily ever after.”
15. “This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.â€
16. “I’ll be right here.â€
17. “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And like that, he’s gone.â€
18. “You have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sure. But don’t worry: you will someday.”
19. “They say they’re going to repeal Prohibition. What will you do then?â€
“I think I’ll have a drink.â€
20. “I’m too old for this.â€
Good luck.
:: Adam
26 October 2005 @ 5:00 pm
Let’s get it started!
5. American Beauty
6. A Clockwork Orange
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
17. The Thomas Crown Affair
26 October 2005 @ 5:20 pm
5, 6, and 13 are right. Not so for 17.
26 October 2005 @ 6:10 pm
12. Dr. Strangelove
14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
26 October 2005 @ 9:20 pm
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Citizen Kane
26 October 2005 @ 9:29 pm
17. The Usual Suspects…that commercial drove me crazy in London. Can’t say I’ve ever seen the movie though.
26 October 2005 @ 9:37 pm
You’re close, Sa’am, but I don’t think 14 is right. It would be a VERY closely related movie, but I want the right title of the original.
27 October 2005 @ 11:08 am
Ooo, a game. I love games.
Now then:
1. The Godfather
4. Star Wars (or “A New Hope,†if you prefer, though frankly I really hate that title)
7. Original King Kong. Oh, Fay Wray…
8. The Maltese Falcon
9. Casablanca
11. I can think of a couple. One is Some Like It Hot. I think I’ll go with that one.
14. The original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. R0×0r.
16. E.T.?
18. American Beauty
19. The Untouchables (Man, I haven’t seen that in a while… I sense a trip to the video store in my near future…)
20. An Officer and a Gentleman?
That’s all she wrote!