rubywoo

hey, how's it going?
I need your help.
I'm setting up a website - which will be a dictionary, but the definitions of the words or phrases will be movie quotes, or the definitive movie moment that you feel best expresses that particular word or phrase..


dread: sergeant howie on seeing the wicker man - oh god! oh jesus christ!
(the wicker man - 1973)


see?

any contributions to get it started would be very gratefully recieved.

thanks

JamesM

quandary: Kathleen Byron learning that Marius Goring hasn't picked up David Niven in A Matter of Life and Death

irony: the studio bosses handing the reigns of their most prestigious 3-D film vehicle, House of Wax, to one eyed director Andre de Toth

vaggmk1938

Illusion: The creation of a new personna for a dead serviceman in order to confuse the Germans into thinking that Sicily, and not Normandy, was the intended Allied landing site--"The Man Who Never Was"

Impersonation: Making use of a doppleganger to convice the Germans that the Allied invasion was coming from the South--"I was Monty's Double".

Passport: Document issued to nationals in order to allow them to cross man-made "lines in the sand," not reflecting the natural flow of commerce and integration--"Passport to Pimlico".

Running (sport): Occupation devised by British penal officials to subdue troublesome youths in the turbulent 1960s--"Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"

Oyster: An aphrodisiac, taking almost immediate affect when eaten raw--"Tom Jones"

rustywhite

If your dictionary were to carry historical encyclpedia type entries these might be appropriate

George W. Bush: "I'm itching to kill someone, it might as well be you" (Tom Laughlin in Billy Jack)

William Jefferson Clinton: "No time for the old in/out luv. I've only come to read the meter." (Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange)

rubywoo

thanks loads for contributing guys. if you feel like you want to add any more feel free!