Time for another quick quiz. This selection is perhaps a little tougher than my previous film quotations challenges (here and here), in that the lines themselves are not that famous. But they are all, I think, very memorable - and deserve to be quoted more often. Also, in most cases, they give a strong hint as to which film they are from. However, recognising the character who speaks the line is sometimes going to be very difficult. Good luck!
As usual, I'll post the answers in the comments below in a week or so.
Quiz - film quotations that ought to be better known
1) "I'll have an answer, or I'll have blood!"
2) "He had a voice that could make a wolverine purr."
3) "There's a lot of statues in Europe you haven't bought yet."
4) "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave."
5) "In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns."
6) "Imagine your loved ones conquered by Napoleon and forced to live under French rule. Do you want them to eat that rich food and those heavy sauces?"
7) "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently."
8) "All in all, not a bad guy - if looks, brains and personality don't count."
9) "You happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period. So, I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you."
10) "Avoid women directors. They ovulate. Do you have any idea what that does to a three-month shoot?"
11) "I'm sorry. I have no time for piddling suggestions from mumbling job applicants."
12) "I kick ass - for the Lord!"
7 comments:
Many sound familiar, but I can only accurately identify #4 as Roy Batty (this character had all the film's best lines) to Deckard in Scott's Blade Runner.
Quite so, Stuart.
Are you still waiting? I hope the anticipation doesn't drag out too much longer.
3, 5, 7, and 9 are from very major movies. I think the penny may drop if you ponder some more.
(6) Can only be Woody Allen which defines the film while (4) smacks of The Eagle of the 9th (IMHO).
Ah, yes - faciunt solitudinem, pacem appellant, and all that.
Though, in fact, Stuart was right about No. 4. I haven't seen the Eagle of the Ninth film yet, but Centurion, dealing with the same subject, was a very pleasant surprise, an unsuspected gem.
No, Froog - the eaglet has landed!
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Very much appreciate your email if you haven't been able to access my reply.
The amount of my time now devoted to nappy changing is the excuse I'm offering for not performing better on the quiz.
Congratulations, Stuart. Splendid news.
We'll hear from you again in about 18 years, then?
Belatedly (my apologies to my 'regulars'), here are the ANSWERS:
1) "I'll have an answer, or I'll have blood!"
Tom Hedden, the village hard man in Straw Dogs, played by the veteran British character actor Peter Vaughan. (Peckinpah's 1971 original, that is. I have no idea if the line recurs in the recent remake.)
2) "He had a voice that could make a wolverine purr."
This, of course, is part of the fulsome description of Ron Burgundy in the opening narration by Bill Kurtis, in the wonderful Will Ferrell comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004).
3) "There's a lot of statues in Europe you haven't bought yet."
Bernstein the company lawyer (Everett Sloane) teases his spendthrift employer Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941).
4) "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave."
Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), during his final confrontation with Deckard (Harrison Ford), in Blade Runner (1982).
5) "In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns."
Aha - well, it's from The Godfather (1972), of course; but who remembers the character?! It's a guy called Calo (Franco Citti), who I guess must be one of Michael's local bodyguards when he's hiding out in Sicily.
6) "Imagine your loved ones conquered by Napoleon and forced to live under French rule. Do you want them to eat that rich food and those heavy sauces?"
This is the Russian army drill sergeant (Frank Adu), who gets many of the best lines, in Woody Allen's hilarious Tolstoy parody Love and Death (1975).
7) "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently."
HAL the computer (voiced by Douglas Rain), beginning its ineffectual plea for mercy from vengeful astronaut Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
8) "All in all, not a bad guy - if looks, brains and personality don't count."
Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), the wise-cracking consigliere to Albert Finney's Irish mob boss Leo in the Coen brothers' marvellous Prohibition-era black comedy Miller's Crossing (1990). I can't recall for sure, but I imagine this must be said of Bernie Bernbaum, the sleazeball bookie played by John Turturro.
9) "You happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period. So, I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you."
Philosophical hitman Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) being unexpectedly merciful to Tim Roth's smalltime stick-up man at the end of Pulp Fiction (1994).
10) "Avoid women directors. They ovulate. Do you have any idea what that does to a three-month shoot?"
Tyrannical Hollywood producer Buddy Ackerman (my favourite Kevin Spacey performance!) in George Huang's superb black comedy Swimming With Sharks (1994).
11) "I'm sorry. I have no time for piddling suggestions from mumbling job applicants."
Floris the cognitively challenged receptionist (Mary Kay Pearce) - in response to John Cusack's "I said, 'Yes?'", when he's waiting for his interview for the job as a filing clerk with Dr Lester - in Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich (1999).
12) "I kick ass - for the Lord!"
Father McGruder (Stuart Devenie), the vicar who reveals unexpected kung fu skills when he sets out to battle zombies with his bare hands in Peter Jackson's superb horror comedy Braindead (aka Dead-Alive - 1992). The best zombie film ever?
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