"Anybody can fly a plane, now here: I'll check you out. Put your little hands on the wheel there. Now put your feet on the rudder. There. Who says this ol' boy can't fly this ol' plane? Now I'm gonna make us some Old Fashioneds the old-fashioned way - the way dear old Dad used to!"
"What if something happens?"
"What could happen to an Old Fashioned?"
"If you can, give us your position. Who is flying the plane?"
"What do you mean 'who's flying the plane'? Nobody's flying the plane!"
"We're the ones with the Imperial, and we're running last?"
"Then what happens next? I'll tell you what happens: Then they all decide that I'm supposed to get a smaller share! That I'm somebody extra special stupid, or something! That they don't even care if it's a democracy! And in a democracy, it don't matter how stupid you are, you still get an equal share!"
"1: I wish I knew what they're going to do to us. But no matter what happens to us...
what happens to you, I hope will be worse!"
2: "I don't think you have to worry too much about that. My wife is divorcing me, my mother-in-law is suing me for damages, my daughter is applying to the courts to have her name changed, my pension has been revoked. And the only reason that you 10 idiots will very LIKELY get off LIGHTLY, is because the judge will have me up there to throw the book at!"
3: "Oh, that's tough. Oh ho ho ho."
2: "I'd like to think that sometime, maybe 10 or 20 years from now, there'd be something I could laugh at... Anything."
"Look! We've figured it seventeen different ways, and every time we figured it, it was no good, because no matter how we figured it, somebody don't like the way we figured it! So now, there's only one way to figure it. And that is, every man, including the old bag, for himself!"
"So good luck, and may the best man win!"
"Right! Except you,lady. May you just drop dead!"
"All right, all right, we all agree on that. Now look, let's be sensible about this thing. There's money in this for all of us. Right? There's enough for you, there's enough for you, and for me, and for you, and there's enough for... "
2. "Now for the last time. Are we calling Sylvester or not?"
3. "No! We are not! And I'll tell you why not. Because your son Sylvester is an irresponsible, unreliable, big loudmouth no good bum! Who if he isn't a crook? It's because he doesn't have the brains or ambition even to become a crook!"
4. "I say! Good show!"
1."Mama, who's with you? Where are you talking to me... Where are you?"
2."I'm with this truck driver at Peterson's Garage in a place called Plaster City. And will you just shut up a minute so I can tell you what happened?"
1."Now listen, Mommy, you listen to me close. You stay right there, because I'm coming, Mom. I'm coming to get you right now, Mom."
2."Will you SHUT UP AND LISTEN?"
1."Mama, it's all right. Everything's gonna be all right, Mama. Your baby's coming to get ya. You just sit there. Sit there, relax, take it easy."
2."Sylvester..."
1."I'm coming to get you, Mom!"
2."... shut up and let me talk..."
1. "Everything is gonna be all right!"
3. "Well?"
2."So he's coming here. And I'm not to worry about a thing, because 'everything is going to be all right!'
Exactly like your father: a big, stupid, muscle-headed moron!"
"Ginger, I want you to prepare yourself for a little shock. When I tell you what happened..."
"So, tell me, tell me. I've got this biscuit dough..."
"The Smiler Grogan case is solved!"
"The WHAT? Now, what the hell is the Smiler Grogan case?"
"The tuna factory robbery! The case I've been talking about for the last fifteen years!"
"Look, why don't we just start digging for it?"
"Well, suppose someone comes along? What do we tell them?"
"Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition."
"Aah!"
"We don't tell them anything. We tell them to hit the road or we beat their brains in!"
"Will you take us to Santa Rosita state park?"
"What's the matter, what happened to you? What was ya, in some kind of initiation?"
"We had an accident. We fell into yellow, all right? Hurry up!"
"Now, where have I always told ya that the Smiler hid the dough? Where? Right there!"
"It's only a possibility now, it's only a possibility that this man was telling the truth. And if it was the truth, then it is a fact that this place is almost 200 miles away. Now I suggest that we quietly get into our cars and drive down there at a safe, sound speed, keeping each other in sight of each other. And then when we get down there, we dig up the money - providing there is some money there. And if we do find it, we share it amongst us in a simple manner."
"The man said there was a certain amount of money buried down in this park."
"That's right. It was under a big W. Say what is a big W?"
"If we find out, we'll send you a wire."
"It's only a possibility now, it's only a possibility that this man was telling the truth. And if it was the truth, then it is a fact that this place is almost 200 miles away. Now I suggest that we quietly get into our cars and drive down there at a safe, sound speed, keeping each other in sight of each other. And then when we get down there, we dig up the money - providing there is some money there. And if we do find it, we share it amongst us in a simple manner."
I seem to recall seeing a movie years ago about a bunch of different people looking for a treasure and finding it under some palm trees which may have formed a W shape. But I can't think of the title. Was it "Cannonball Run"?
No. I don't even remember the first quote, though it reminded me of the boys' meeting "SOW-CRATES." The other lines could certainly apply to them as well, so I gave it a shot.
"When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, 'Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams... '... Years later, I realized I misunderstood her... 'Germs', she said, not 'dreams', 'You'll catch their *germs*'..."
"Isn't that the idea? To build a better mouse trap?"
"Abe. Gee I appreciate you stopping by. How long you got between trains?"
"You like this? living in the middle of nowhere? Cuppa coffee, 2, 3 in the morning, you could die first."
"Or you could go into the kitchen and make some."
"Who needs coffee, 2 in the morning? You sit down, read the paper, chew the fat with the waitress. Here, you look around, there's nothin' but scenery."
"I always thought we're the scenery. How do you like your coffee?"
"In the city."
"When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, 'Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams... '... Years later, I realized I misunderstood her... 'Germs', she said, not 'dreams', 'You'll catch their *germs*'..."
"Isn't that the idea? To build a better mouse trap?"
"Does that look like a car to you? THAT, is a gold mine I'm handing you on a silver platter."
"Forget it; you got no chance."
"Now how can you say that? You haven't even heard my ideas yet."
"Ideas? Einstein's in the idea business; he makes up numbers so high only dogs can hear them. But what does it cost him? a piece of paper, a couple of pencils."
"They *love* the cars, the people! Drives me crazy, that the motor company's dead... They'll never be made!"
"We made 'em."
"Fifty cars..."
"Aw, what's the difference - fifty or fifty million. That's only machinery!... It's the *idea* that counts, Abe... The dream..."
"The car of tomorrow... today."
"Abe. Gee I appreciate you stopping by. How long you got between trains?"
"You like this? living in the middle of nowhere? Cuppa coffee, 2, 3 in the morning, you could die first."
"Or you could go into the kitchen and make some."
"Who needs coffee, 2 in the morning? You sit down, read the paper, chew the fat with the waitress. Here, you look around, there's nothin' but scenery."
"I always thought we're the scenery. How do you like your coffee?"
"In the city."
"When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, 'Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams... '... Years later, I realized I misunderstood her... 'Germs', she said, not 'dreams', 'You'll catch their *germs*'..."
"Isn't that the idea? To build a better mouse trap?"
"Does that look like a car to you? THAT, is a gold mine I'm handing you on a silver platter."
"Forget it; you got no chance."
"Now how can you say that? You haven't even heard my ideas yet."
"Ideas? Einstein's in the idea business; he makes up numbers so high only dogs can hear them. But what does it cost him? a piece of paper, a couple of pencils."
"They *love* the cars, the people! Drives me crazy, that the motor company's dead... They'll never be made!"
"We made 'em."
"Fifty cars..."
"Aw, what's the difference - fifty or fifty million. That's only machinery!... It's the *idea* that counts, Abe... The dream..."
"The car of tomorrow... today."
"Abe. Gee I appreciate you stopping by. How long you got between trains?"
"You like this? living in the middle of nowhere? Cuppa coffee, 2, 3 in the morning, you could die first."
"Or you could go into the kitchen and make some."
"Who needs coffee, 2 in the morning? You sit down, read the paper, chew the fat with the waitress. Here, you look around, there's nothin' but scenery."
"I always thought we're the scenery. How do you like your coffee?"
"In the city."
"When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, 'Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams... '... Years later, I realized I misunderstood her... 'Germs', she said, not 'dreams', 'You'll catch their *germs*'..."
"Isn't that the idea? To build a better mouse trap?"
"Not if you're a mouse!"
Okay. So what movie was about a guy who made 50 cars?
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Crimson Tide?
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I'm guessing that WW won't mind my adding a clue: the movie starred Danny Kaye. George
WordWolf
Once again, you posted a quote from a movie, where you could have posted 1/2 the script without me getting it, except for the one quote you posted. This was from early on in "Red Dawn."
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No. Nothing that recent or that short.
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"Anybody can fly a plane, now here: I'll check you out. Put your little hands on the wheel there. Now put your feet on the rudder. There. Who says this ol' boy can't fly this ol' plane? Now I'm gonna make us some Old Fashioneds the old-fashioned way - the way dear old Dad used to!"
"What if something happens?"
"What could happen to an Old Fashioned?"
"If you can, give us your position. Who is flying the plane?"
"What do you mean 'who's flying the plane'? Nobody's flying the plane!"
"We're the ones with the Imperial, and we're running last?"
"Then what happens next? I'll tell you what happens: Then they all decide that I'm supposed to get a smaller share! That I'm somebody extra special stupid, or something! That they don't even care if it's a democracy! And in a democracy, it don't matter how stupid you are, you still get an equal share!"
"1: I wish I knew what they're going to do to us. But no matter what happens to us...
what happens to you, I hope will be worse!"
2: "I don't think you have to worry too much about that. My wife is divorcing me, my mother-in-law is suing me for damages, my daughter is applying to the courts to have her name changed, my pension has been revoked. And the only reason that you 10 idiots will very LIKELY get off LIGHTLY, is because the judge will have me up there to throw the book at!"
3: "Oh, that's tough. Oh ho ho ho."
2: "I'd like to think that sometime, maybe 10 or 20 years from now, there'd be something I could laugh at... Anything."
"Look! We've figured it seventeen different ways, and every time we figured it, it was no good, because no matter how we figured it, somebody don't like the way we figured it! So now, there's only one way to figure it. And that is, every man, including the old bag, for himself!"
"So good luck, and may the best man win!"
"Right! Except you,lady. May you just drop dead!"
"All right, all right, we all agree on that. Now look, let's be sensible about this thing. There's money in this for all of us. Right? There's enough for you, there's enough for you, and for me, and for you, and there's enough for... "
2. "Now for the last time. Are we calling Sylvester or not?"
3. "No! We are not! And I'll tell you why not. Because your son Sylvester is an irresponsible, unreliable, big loudmouth no good bum! Who if he isn't a crook? It's because he doesn't have the brains or ambition even to become a crook!"
4. "I say! Good show!"
1."Mama, who's with you? Where are you talking to me... Where are you?"
2."I'm with this truck driver at Peterson's Garage in a place called Plaster City. And will you just shut up a minute so I can tell you what happened?"
1."Now listen, Mommy, you listen to me close. You stay right there, because I'm coming, Mom. I'm coming to get you right now, Mom."
2."Will you SHUT UP AND LISTEN?"
1."Mama, it's all right. Everything's gonna be all right, Mama. Your baby's coming to get ya. You just sit there. Sit there, relax, take it easy."
2."Sylvester..."
1."I'm coming to get you, Mom!"
2."... shut up and let me talk..."
1. "Everything is gonna be all right!"
3. "Well?"
2."So he's coming here. And I'm not to worry about a thing, because 'everything is going to be all right!'
Exactly like your father: a big, stupid, muscle-headed moron!"
"Ginger, I want you to prepare yourself for a little shock. When I tell you what happened..."
"So, tell me, tell me. I've got this biscuit dough..."
"The Smiler Grogan case is solved!"
"The WHAT? Now, what the hell is the Smiler Grogan case?"
"The tuna factory robbery! The case I've been talking about for the last fifteen years!"
"Look, why don't we just start digging for it?"
"Well, suppose someone comes along? What do we tell them?"
"Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition."
"Aah!"
"We don't tell them anything. We tell them to hit the road or we beat their brains in!"
"Will you take us to Santa Rosita state park?"
"What's the matter, what happened to you? What was ya, in some kind of initiation?"
"We had an accident. We fell into yellow, all right? Hurry up!"
"Now, where have I always told ya that the Smiler hid the dough? Where? Right there!"
"It's only a possibility now, it's only a possibility that this man was telling the truth. And if it was the truth, then it is a fact that this place is almost 200 miles away. Now I suggest that we quietly get into our cars and drive down there at a safe, sound speed, keeping each other in sight of each other. And then when we get down there, we dig up the money - providing there is some money there. And if we do find it, we share it amongst us in a simple manner."
"The man said there was a certain amount of money buried down in this park."
"That's right. It was under a big W. Say what is a big W?"
"If we find out, we'll send you a wire."
"It's only a possibility now, it's only a possibility that this man was telling the truth. And if it was the truth, then it is a fact that this place is almost 200 miles away. Now I suggest that we quietly get into our cars and drive down there at a safe, sound speed, keeping each other in sight of each other. And then when we get down there, we dig up the money - providing there is some money there. And if we do find it, we share it amongst us in a simple manner."
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You've got half the script here, and I just don't know.
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Re-read the very last quote more slowly, George.
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I seem to recall seeing a movie years ago about a bunch of different people looking for a treasure and finding it under some palm trees which may have formed a W shape. But I can't think of the title. Was it "Cannonball Run"?
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It is not.
You've answered a question about this movie in a thread before.
You're going to make me angry, angry, angry, angry if you can't do it now.
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Then perhaps
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
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That's it.
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"A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others."
"I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do."
"What's that?"
"Talk me out of it!"
George
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I'm sure I should recognize it, but no name is springing to mind.
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Really? You haven't seen it enough? If you only had a clue.
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It was hard to find lines that wouldn't qualify for "Flicks Remembered..."
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I thought you were alluding to a different movie,
so I ran the quotes past the Mrs since she's a fan of it.
(I think I'll use that one soon.)
Sometime after that, it started to jell.
"Wizard of Oz"? And if so, should Raf get it or me?
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If Raf wanted it, he would have given the answer. WW is up.
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"'The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing'".
"That's us, dude."
"They do get better."
"You both seem to be suffering from a mild form of hysteria.'
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"Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"?
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Yes, and that was very fast.
Did you just watch it or something?
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No. I don't even remember the first quote, though it reminded me of the boys' meeting "SOW-CRATES." The other lines could certainly apply to them as well, so I gave it a shot.
New one soon.
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"When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, 'Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams... '... Years later, I realized I misunderstood her... 'Germs', she said, not 'dreams', 'You'll catch their *germs*'..."
"Isn't that the idea? To build a better mouse trap?"
"Not if you're a mouse!"
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"The car of tomorrow... today."
"Abe. Gee I appreciate you stopping by. How long you got between trains?"
"You like this? living in the middle of nowhere? Cuppa coffee, 2, 3 in the morning, you could die first."
"Or you could go into the kitchen and make some."
"Who needs coffee, 2 in the morning? You sit down, read the paper, chew the fat with the waitress. Here, you look around, there's nothin' but scenery."
"I always thought we're the scenery. How do you like your coffee?"
"In the city."
"When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, 'Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams... '... Years later, I realized I misunderstood her... 'Germs', she said, not 'dreams', 'You'll catch their *germs*'..."
"Isn't that the idea? To build a better mouse trap?"
"Not if you're a mouse!"
George
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"Cars? You brought me here for cars?"
"Does that look like a car to you? THAT, is a gold mine I'm handing you on a silver platter."
"Forget it; you got no chance."
"Now how can you say that? You haven't even heard my ideas yet."
"Ideas? Einstein's in the idea business; he makes up numbers so high only dogs can hear them. But what does it cost him? a piece of paper, a couple of pencils."
"They *love* the cars, the people! Drives me crazy, that the motor company's dead... They'll never be made!"
"We made 'em."
"Fifty cars..."
"Aw, what's the difference - fifty or fifty million. That's only machinery!... It's the *idea* that counts, Abe... The dream..."
"The car of tomorrow... today."
"Abe. Gee I appreciate you stopping by. How long you got between trains?"
"You like this? living in the middle of nowhere? Cuppa coffee, 2, 3 in the morning, you could die first."
"Or you could go into the kitchen and make some."
"Who needs coffee, 2 in the morning? You sit down, read the paper, chew the fat with the waitress. Here, you look around, there's nothin' but scenery."
"I always thought we're the scenery. How do you like your coffee?"
"In the city."
"When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, 'Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams... '... Years later, I realized I misunderstood her... 'Germs', she said, not 'dreams', 'You'll catch their *germs*'..."
"Isn't that the idea? To build a better mouse trap?"
"Not if you're a mouse!"
George
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Okay. So what movie was about a guy who made 50 cars?
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"Diary of a Very Tired Car Mechanic"????
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I know that, where you live, titles are often changed. Somehow, though, I don't think that this is the correct movie. ;)
Starring Jeff Bridges and Martin Landau
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