# Identify a movie from a quote **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349 "2007-03-17T16:57:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/1 "2007-03-17T16:57:44Z")
Sorry I don’t have more but I’m amazed at what Dopers can do with minimal information (although I still haven’t found that 90’s song about the girt waiting at the gate). “And they knew they were going to die.” I want to say that it was said by a woman (although I’m very unsure about this), but I’m pretty sure that the story she was telling was about soldiers during a war (what war? ummmmm . . . I can’t remember). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/2 "2007-03-17T17:05:13Z")
If that’s all you have, I doubt if one single movie is going to work. It sounds like it might have been said in any number of war movies, westerns, slasher movies, and so on. Did you actually see such a movie? Was there anything else going on that might supply a clue? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/3 "2007-03-17T17:14:47Z")
I’ll post more as I remember, I’m jus desperate as this has been gnawing at me for a day and it’s ALMOST there. If it helps, it was brought on by watching 300 so I’m pretty sure it deals with honor (or maybe duty) while facing a certain death. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/4 "2007-04-10T03:28:38Z")
Okay, long shot. The Dam Busters. When the designer of the bouncing Bomb hears that several aircraft were shot down he is horrified. Someone says to him (paraphrase) if they had known they would die they would have done it anyway. That’s one example of the meme. I’m sure there are 50 others. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/5 "2007-04-10T03:52:35Z")
Maybe **Enemy at the Gates**? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/6 "2007-04-10T04:35:42Z")
Marlene Dietrich says something like this to Spencer Tracy in [Judgment at Nuremberg](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0055031/) as she is explaining the lyrics of [Lili Marleen](http://www.radix.net/~bbrown/lili.html). I’ll have to dig it out to get the exact quote, but it’s something like, “The soldier knows he is going to lose his girl. . . and his life.” ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/7 "2007-04-10T13:35:29Z")
I’m reminded of one of Brodie’s stories from Mallrats… ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/8 "2007-04-10T14:59:03Z")
I’m thinking _The Others_, where jesus freak mom tells the kids about the children who chose martyrdom over renouncing Christ. It doesn’t match exactly (the movie is set during a war though), but it is a woman telling about people facing death with honor. I can’t check right now because I don’t want my 3yo watching that! ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/9 "2007-04-10T20:51:52Z")
[QUOTE=CandidGamera] I’m reminded of one of Brodie’s stories from Mallrats.. [/QUOTE] Now that you mention it, that sounds familiar to me too. The one where Cousin Walt was on the plane where all the hydraulics went, he figured he’s going to die and…well, penis ensued. Hmm, just dug up the [scene on imdb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113749/quotes) (do a search for “plane”), and maybe it doesn’t fit… > [@Brodie](#): > > But my cousin Walter jerked off in public once. True story. He was on a plane to New Mexico when all of the sudden the hydraulics went. The plane started spinning around, going out of control, so he decides it’s all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. So all the other passengers take a cue from him and they start whipping it out and beating like mad. So all the passengers are beating off, plummeting to their certain doom, when all of the sudden, _Snap_ the hydraulics kick back in. The plane rights itself and it land safely and everyone puts their pieces or, whatever, you know, away and deboard. No one mentions the phenomenon to anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/10 "2007-04-10T21:02:07Z")
[QUOTE=SaintCad] although I still haven’t found that 90’s song about the girt waiting at the gate [/QUOTE] I’m intrigued. Could you link to the relevant thread or recap here? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/11 "2007-04-13T01:54:39Z")
Now that you’re back, can you tell us the answer? Please. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-movie-from-a-quote/396349/12 "2011-09-30T14:34:15Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Now that you’re back, can you tell us the answer? Please. Got it. Captain Koons’ speech from _Pulp Fiction_