Great film dialogue - Britmovie

deckard · 10-02-2004, 12:47 AM

I was watching one of my favourite films(for the umpteenth time!)today and I got to thinking that dialogue ,for me,seems to improve the more you hear it,I presume because you expect it and know how wonderful it's going to sound,so when it arrives within the film it's so satisfying.The line in question is "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,terror,murder and bloodshed,but they produced Michaelangelo,Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.In Switzerland, they had brotherly love,they had five hundred years of democracy and peace-and what did that produce?The cuckoo clock" !! Sublime,every time I hear it.So what film is this from?Any ideas?Very famous film so I'll leave it up to you to guess! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] :) Why don't we all post up our top ten Britmovie lines?Should be fun!

Steve Crook · 10-02-2004, 10:19 AM

A few of my favourites...

"Are you in love with anyone? ... No, don't tell me."
"I could love a man like you Peter."

"Still got those half starved hounds? How on earth do you manage to feed 'em?"
"Oh we live off the country. Rabbits, deer, a stray hiker or two."

"... and plank it out at Christmas"

"We must go, darling, we have the Bishop for lunch."
"I hope he's tender."

"Why do you want to dance?"
"Why do you want to live?"

"Do you see that crate? Sausages! They will eat sausages. Europeans eat sausages wherever they go."

"... and what's number B987642 doing? Guarding the Chippewa Canal. Who'd want to steal it anyway?"

Steve

Hackett · 10-02-2004, 12:04 PM

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I was watching one of my favourite films(for the umpteenth time!)today and I got to thinking that dialogue ,for me,seems to improve the more you hear it,I presume because you expect it and know how wonderful it's going to sound,so when it arrives within the film it's so satisfying.The line in question is "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,terror,murder and bloodshed,but they produced Michaelangelo,Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.In Switzerland, they had brotherly love,they had five hundred years of democracy and peace-and what did that produce?The cuckoo clock" !! Sublime,every time I hear it.So what film is this from?Any ideas?Very famous film so I'll leave it up to you to guess! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] :) Why don't we all post up our top ten Britmovie lines?Should be fun! [/b]

"THE THIRD MAN" The speech by Harry Lime to Holly after they get off the big wheel. The words written by Orson Wells himself as Quints storey of the shark attack on his shipmates after they deliver the A-Bomb in "JAWS" is credited Robert Shaw.

deckard · 10-02-2004, 02:11 PM

Just a few more of my many favourites....
"Blimey I'm a foreigner!"
"A weak mind isn't strong enough to hurt itself.Stupidity has saved many a man from going mad."
"Poor John!Nobody cares about John!If I was on fire nobody would even p**s on me".."Let's strike a match and see!"
"Infamy,Infamy,they've all got it in for me!"
Keep them coming..this is fun! thanks to all.

Steve Crook · 10-02-2004, 03:48 PM

They are good, although it's often the moving speech that gets to me more than a one liner which, although it will raise a smile, can't really hit as hard.

Compare the above to Anton Walbrook's two great speeches in Colonel Blimp (at the alien's tribunal and to Clive after the broadcast) or Anton again in 49th Parallel as Peter the Hutterite in response to the Nazi tirade.

Steve

deckard · 10-02-2004, 11:33 PM

I agree Steve,AMOLAD and Blimp probably have more immortal dialogue in them than the rest put together but,I do like the one-liners.Some of the little quips in say,a lot of the Ealing movies are positively hilarious,i.e. in the "Blue Lamp" when George Dixon is leaving the nick and there's a little boy stretching up over the counter and he says something like "What you here for lad--bigamy?" had me rolling about.Then on the other hand lines from the aforementioned P&P films had me blubbing into my coffee!Ah well,such is the way of the film nut! :)

Hackett · 11-02-2004, 10:27 AM

My names Samantha, Samantha Steel. Everyone calls me Sam.
My names Edmond Dorf. Everyone calls me Edna.

Give my love to Berlin I was there in 45 with Monty.
I can see why we won.

stofcon · 11-02-2004, 11:18 AM

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I was watching one of my favourite films(for the umpteenth time!)today and I got to thinking that dialogue ,for me,seems to improve the more you hear it,I presume because you expect it and know how wonderful it's going to sound,so when it arrives within the film it's so satisfying.The line in question is "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,terror,murder and bloodshed,but they produced Michaelangelo,Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.In Switzerland, they had brotherly love,they had five hundred years of democracy and peace-and what did that produce?The cuckoo clock" !! Sublime,every time I hear it.So what film is this from?Any ideas?Very famous film so I'll leave it up to you to guess! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] :) Why don't we all post up our top ten Britmovie lines?Should be fun! [/b]

"THE THIRD MAN" The speech by Harry Lime to Holly after they get off the big wheel. The words written by Orson Wells himself as Quints storey of the shark attack on his shipmates after they deliver the A-Bomb in "JAWS" is credited Robert Shaw. [/b]

stofcon · 11-02-2004, 11:21 AM

That was some speech! It's magnetic and attracts me each time I watch it.
How about: "That will be the day, pilgrim", from The Searchers by John Wayne.

Russ · 11-02-2004, 12:02 PM

My favourite has to be Bob Hoskins delivering a massive put down to the Mafia boss and his solicitor at the end of The Long Good Friday

Brian Brandt · 11-02-2004, 01:49 PM

Take your hands off me you mutinous filth!

DB7 · 11-02-2004, 02:31 PM

Not the attitude I'd been given to expect from the H E Bates novel I'd read. I thought they'd all be out the back drinking cider, discussing butter. Clearly a myth. Evidently country people and no more receptive to strangers than city dwellers.

DB7 · 11-02-2004, 02:34 PM

I hate being Scottish. We're the lowest of the f*cking low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization.

Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wa*kers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by w*nkers. We can't even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. We are ruled by effete arseholes. It's a shite state of affairs and all the fresh air in the world will not make any f*cking difference.

Russ · 11-02-2004, 05:19 PM

"I love you, I love your wide eyes the way you smile, and your shyness, and the way you laugh at my jokes"

"Fuck you. That's my name, you know why mister?
Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an $80,000 BMW..
Thats my name !"

"No No I don't know. You said it, how do I know? You said I'm funny ....How the fuck am I funny?....What the fuck is so funny about me?
Tell me! tell me what's funny"

"Where ever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Where ever there's a cop beating up a guy I'll be there"

"I should like to add that there isn't one of you that I wouldn't be proud and honoured to serve with again"

"I'm an innocent man .
I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do.
I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do............Until my father is proved innocent, until all the peole involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones brought to justice,
I will fight on in the name of my father and of the truth"

"I want to live again"

"Hang on a minute lads I've got a great idea"

"I'm glad I found out in time what a partnership with a pair of wankers like you would have been like.
A sleeping partner's one thing but you're in a fuckin' coma. No wonder you got an energy crisis your side of the water, Us British we're used to a bit more vitality, imagination, touch of the Dunkirk spirit, know what I mean?................
........"Shut up you long streak of paralysed piss!.
What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world. Culture, Sophistication, Genius...a little bit more than an "Ot Dog" know what I mean........
"The Mafia I've shit em"

"Must be a king, why?, he hasn't got shit all over him"

"You talkin' to me?"

"What do you believe in?"

"Eleven exactly one louder"

"What are you prepared to do?"

deckard · 12-02-2004, 12:11 AM

"He's not the Messiah,he's a very naughty boy!"

10-02-2004, 12:47 AM	#1
deckard has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Cornwall Posts: 480 Country: iTrader: (0)	Great film dialogue I was watching one of my favourite films(for the umpteenth time!)today and I got to thinking that dialogue ,for me,seems to improve the more you hear it,I presume because you expect it and know how wonderful it's going to sound,so when it arrives within the film it's so satisfying.The line in question is "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,terror,murder and bloodshed,but they produced Michaelangelo,Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.In Switzerland, they had brotherly love,they had five hundred years of democracy and peace-and what did that produce?The cuckoo clock" !! Sublime,every time I hear it.So what film is this from?Any ideas?Very famous film so I'll leave it up to you to guess! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] :) Why don't we all post up our top ten Britmovie lines?Should be fun! __________________ "and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"

10-02-2004, 10:19 AM	#2
Steve Crook is still cheeky Moderator Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: London Posts: 9,706 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (1)	A few of my favourites... "Are you in love with anyone? ... No, don't tell me." "I could love a man like you Peter." "Still got those half starved hounds? How on earth do you manage to feed 'em?" "Oh we live off the country. Rabbits, deer, a stray hiker or two." "... and plank it out at Christmas" "We must go, darling, we have the Bishop for lunch." "I hope he's tender." "Why do you want to dance?" "Why do you want to live?" "Do you see that crate? Sausages! They will eat sausages. Europeans eat sausages wherever they go." "... and what's number B987642 doing? Guarding the Chippewa Canal. Who'd want to steal it anyway?" Steve __________________ Steve Crook PaPAS

10-02-2004, 02:11 PM	#4
deckard has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Cornwall Posts: 480 Country: iTrader: (0)	Just a few more of my many favourites.... "Blimey I'm a foreigner!" "A weak mind isn't strong enough to hurt itself.Stupidity has saved many a man from going mad." "Poor John!Nobody cares about John!If I was on fire nobody would even p**s on me".."Let's strike a match and see!" "Infamy,Infamy,they've all got it in for me!" Keep them coming..this is fun! thanks to all. __________________ "and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"

10-02-2004, 03:48 PM	#5
Steve Crook is still cheeky Moderator Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: London Posts: 9,706 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (1)	They are good, although it's often the moving speech that gets to me more than a one liner which, although it will raise a smile, can't really hit as hard. Compare the above to Anton Walbrook's two great speeches in Colonel Blimp (at the alien's tribunal and to Clive after the broadcast) or Anton again in 49th Parallel as Peter the Hutterite in response to the Nazi tirade. Steve __________________ Steve Crook PaPAS

10-02-2004, 11:33 PM	#6
deckard has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Cornwall Posts: 480 Country: iTrader: (0)	I agree Steve,AMOLAD and Blimp probably have more immortal dialogue in them than the rest put together but,I do like the one-liners.Some of the little quips in say,a lot of the Ealing movies are positively hilarious,i.e. in the "Blue Lamp" when George Dixon is leaving the nick and there's a little boy stretching up over the counter and he says something like "What you here for lad--bigamy?" had me rolling about.Then on the other hand lines from the aforementioned P&P films had me blubbing into my coffee!Ah well,such is the way of the film nut! :) __________________ "and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"

11-02-2004, 10:27 AM	#7
Hackett has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: England Posts: 765 Country: iTrader: (0)	My names Samantha, Samantha Steel. Everyone calls me Sam. My names Edmond Dorf. Everyone calls me Edna. Give my love to Berlin I was there in 45 with Monty. I can see why we won.

11-02-2004, 11:21 AM	#9
stofcon has no status. Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 3 iTrader: (0)	That was some speech! It's magnetic and attracts me each time I watch it. How about: "That will be the day, pilgrim", from The Searchers by John Wayne.

11-02-2004, 12:02 PM	#10
Russ has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 143 iTrader: (0)	My favourite has to be Bob Hoskins delivering a massive put down to the Mafia boss and his solicitor at the end of The Long Good Friday

11-02-2004, 01:49 PM	#11
Brian Brandt has no status. Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Lansdale, PA Posts: 82 Country: iTrader: (0)	Take your hands off me you mutinous filth!

11-02-2004, 02:31 PM	#12
DB7 is just a prescription talkin' Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Shrops Posts: 6,093 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (10)	Not the attitude I'd been given to expect from the H E Bates novel I'd read. I thought they'd all be out the back drinking cider, discussing butter. Clearly a myth. Evidently country people and no more receptive to strangers than city dwellers.

11-02-2004, 02:34 PM	#13
DB7 is just a prescription talkin' Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Shrops Posts: 6,093 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (10)	I hate being Scottish. We're the lowest of the fcking low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wakers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wnkers. We can't even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. We are ruled by effete arseholes. It's a shite state of affairs and all the fresh air in the world will not make any fcking difference.

11-02-2004, 05:19 PM	#14
Russ has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 143 iTrader: (0)	"I love you, I love your wide eyes the way you smile, and your shyness, and the way you laugh at my jokes" "Fuck you. That's my name, you know why mister? Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an $80,000 BMW.. Thats my name !" "No No I don't know. You said it, how do I know? You said I'm funny ....How the fuck am I funny?....What the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me! tell me what's funny" "Where ever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Where ever there's a cop beating up a guy I'll be there" "I should like to add that there isn't one of you that I wouldn't be proud and honoured to serve with again" "I'm an innocent man . I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do............Until my father is proved innocent, until all the peole involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones brought to justice, I will fight on in the name of my father and of the truth" "I want to live again" "Hang on a minute lads I've got a great idea" "I'm glad I found out in time what a partnership with a pair of wankers like you would have been like. A sleeping partner's one thing but you're in a fuckin' coma. No wonder you got an energy crisis your side of the water, Us British we're used to a bit more vitality, imagination, touch of the Dunkirk spirit, know what I mean?................ ........"Shut up you long streak of paralysed piss!. What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world. Culture, Sophistication, Genius...a little bit more than an "Ot Dog" know what I mean........ "The Mafia I've shit em" "Must be a king, why?, he hasn't got shit all over him" "You talkin' to me?" "What do you believe in?" "Eleven exactly one louder" "What are you prepared to do?"

12-02-2004, 12:11 AM	#15
deckard has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Cornwall Posts: 480 Country: iTrader: (0)	"He's not the Messiah,he's a very naughty boy!" __________________ "and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"

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