Name that Flick

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Again, right church, wrong pew.  Would it help if I mention that the potential murder victim in the last quote was Napoleon?

George

[WordWolf]

It might help someone else, someone who knows something about the other movies.  

"Manhattan???"

[GeorgeStGeorge]

No, I think Napoleon predated "Manhattan" by a couple of centuries.

Would it help to know that the main characters are Russian?

George

[Raf]

Sleeper

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Still no.  (Allen and Keaton weren't Russians in Sleeper, and that movie is even further from Napoleon's time than Manhattan.)

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."

 

"You are the greatest lover I've ever had."

"Well, I practice a lot when I'm alone."

 

"Oh don't, Boris, please. Sex without love is an empty experience."

"Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best."

 

"So who is to say what is moral?"

"Morality is subjective."

"Subjectivity is objective."

"Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality."

"Not as an essential extension of ontological existence."

"Can we not talk about sex so much?"

 

"The question is: have I learned anything about life? Only that... only that human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there IS a God, I don't think that He's evil. I think that the worst you can say about Him is that, basically, He's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death. I mean, if you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I mean. The key here, I think, is to... to not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses. Regarding love, heh, you know, what can you say? It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that count. It's the quality. On the other hand, if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it. Well, that's about it for me folks. Goodbye."

 

"If I don't kill him he'll make war all through Europe. But murder... the most foul of all crimes. What would Socrates say? All those Greeks were homosexuals. Boy, they must have had some wild parties. I bet they all took a house together in Crete for the summer. A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates. That means all men are homosexuals. Heh... I'm not a homosexual. Once, some cossacks whistled at me. I happen to have the kind of body that excites both persuasions. You know, some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all, you know... they become lawyers."

 

"Sonja, are you scared of dying?"

"Scared is the wrong word. I'm frightened of it."

"That's an interesting distinction."

 

George