$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')osey Wales: That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another.
Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life.
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Your Favorite Movie Scene
Re: Your Favorite Movie Scene
by UncoveringTruths » Tue 23 Jan 2007, 16:57:20
Memorable Quotes from The Outlaw Josey Wales
It's a cold cold world when a man has to pawn his shoes.
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Re: Your Favorite Movie Scene
by BlisteredWhippet » Tue 23 Jan 2007, 17:48:48
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '')Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”
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')"Imagine," Tyler said, "stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles."
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Re: Your Favorite Movie Scene
by Zardoz » Tue 23 Jan 2007, 17:49:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'I')n times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the meaning of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race disappeared in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.
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So far ahead of its time:
"The 1956 sci-fi thriller Forbidden Planet was the first major motion picture to feature an all-electronic film score -- a soundtrack that predated synthesizers and samplers. It was like nothing the audience had seen -- or heard."
Intelligent and thought-provoking, it's one of the very greatest sci-fi movies ever made. I just saw it again a couple of years ago, and it still holds its own against anything that's been made since.
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As for my favorite, a scene in "Lawrence of Arabia" comes to mind:
Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is being led across the desert by his Arab guide Tafas, on his way to find Prince Feisal. They stop at a well in what amounts to a dry lake bed: Completely flat and utterly desolate.
As they replenish their water bags in the searing heat, Tafas suddenly freezes and stares at the horizon. The next shot is of a black, shimmering apparition looming into view far off on the horizon, distorted by the intense heat waves rising off the ground. Both men stare intently out as the black shape slowly approaches and its image becomes clearer. It is a rider on a camel, coming on at a fast trot.
They continue to stare at the rider, neither moving a muscle. Lawrence whispers "Turk?" and Tafas replies "No. Bedou."
A few more seconds pass, and Tafas' expression turns fearful. Suddenly, in a panic, he bolts for Lawrence's camel, tears open a saddlebag, and yanks out Lawrence's service revolver. He jumps out into the clear, clasps the gun in both hands, and aims it out at the approaching rider.
He barely has it leveled when a bullet hits him squarely in the forehead and lays him out at Lawrence's feet, dead before he hits the ground. Lawrence stands motionless as the next shot shows the rider (Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish) recocking his bolt-action rifle.
Colonel Lawrence, meet Sherif Ali. A beautifully-directed and extremely effective scene. The tension was riveting.
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