# Movie Marathon (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988 "2023-06-23T10:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
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**Movie Villains You Love to Hate** 1. The Sheriff of Nottingham – _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_ 2. Magua - _The Last of the Mohicans_ 3. Frank Nitti - _The Untouchables_ 4. Scorpio - _Dirty Harry_ 5. Hans Gruber - _Die Hard_ 6. Roat - _Wait Until Dark_ 7. Ming the Merciless - _Flash Gordon_ 8. Darth Vader - _Star Wars: Rogue One_ Actually scary IMHO once and only once, in the finale of that movie. ---
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**Movie Villains You Love to Hate** 1. The Sheriff of Nottingham – _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_ 2. Magua - _The Last of the Mohicans_ 3. Frank Nitti - _The Untouchables_ 4. Scorpio - _Dirty Harry_ 5. Hans Gruber - _Die Hard_ 6. Roat - _Wait Until Dark_ 7. Ming the Merciless - _Flash Gordon_ 8. Darth Vader - _Star Wars: Rogue One_ 9. Elliot Marston - _Quigley Down Under_ Alan Rickman again. Deliciously evil. ---
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**Movie Villains You Love to Hate** 1. The Sheriff of Nottingham – _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_ 2. Magua - _The Last of the Mohicans_ 3. Frank Nitti - _The Untouchables_ 4. Scorpio - _Dirty Harry_ 5. Hans Gruber - _Die Hard_ 6. Roat - _Wait Until Dark_ 7. Ming the Merciless - _Flash Gordon_ 8. Darth Vader - _Star Wars: Rogue One_ 9. Elliot Marston - _Quigley Down Under_ 10. “John Doe” - _Se7en_ Kevin Spacey is wonderfully creepy in the role; his beatific expression in the last scene is chilling. Next up: **Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ ---
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**Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ 2. Geoffrey Chaucer - _A Knight’s Tale_ ---
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**Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ 2. Geoffrey Chaucer - _A Knight’s Tale_ 3. Edgar Allen Poe – _El Dorado_ That poem that Mississippi (James Caan) recites is called **Eldorado** and was written by Poe _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ 2. Geoffrey Chaucer - _A Knight’s Tale_ 3. Edgar Allen Poe – _El Dorado_ 4. Marianne Williamson - _Coach Carter_ Samuel L. Jackson, as Coach Carter, keeps asking his his high school basketball players, “What is your deepest fear?” They fumble around, never finding the correct answer, until one does, quoting Marianne Williamson: _“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”_ ---
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**Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ 2. Geoffrey Chaucer - _A Knight’s Tale_ 3. Edgar Allen Poe – _El Dorado_ 4. Marianne Williamson - _Coach Carter_ 5. Walt Whitman - _Dead Poet’s Society_ “Oh Captain! My Captain!” ---
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**Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ 2. Geoffrey Chaucer - _A Knight’s Tale_ 3. Edgar Allen Poe – _El Dorado_ 4. Marianne Williamson - _Coach Carter_ 5. Walt Whitman - _Dead Poet’s Society_ 6. William Blake - _Blade Runner_ Roy Batty misquotes Blake: “_Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc._” (the actual quote is " _Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc._") ---
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**Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ 2. Geoffrey Chaucer - _A Knight’s Tale_ 3. Edgar Allen Poe – _El Dorado_ 4. Marianne Williamson - _Coach Carter_ 5. Walt Whitman - _Dead Poet’s Society_ 6. William Blake - _Blade Runner_ 7. Percy Bysshe Shelley - _The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_ His classic poem “Oxymandias” is recited by the armless and legless Harrison in the segment “Meal Ticket.” ---
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**Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ 2. Geoffrey Chaucer - _A Knight’s Tale_ 3. Edgar Allen Poe – _El Dorado_ 4. Marianne Williamson - _Coach Carter_ 5. Walt Whitman - _Dead Poet’s Society_ 6. William Blake - _Blade Runner_ 7. Percy Bysshe Shelley - _The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_ 8. William Shakespeare - _Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country_ ---
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**Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ 2. Geoffrey Chaucer - _A Knight’s Tale_ 3. Edgar Allen Poe – _El Dorado_ 4. Marianne Williamson - _Coach Carter_ 5. Walt Whitman - _Dead Poet’s Society_ 6. William Blake - _Blade Runner_ 7. Percy Bysshe Shelley - _The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_ 8. William Shakespeare - _Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country_ 9. Herman Melville - _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_ Khan’s obsession with Kirk echoes Ahab’s obsession with the whale, and he quotes or paraphrases lines from _Moby Dick_ several times during the film. ---
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**Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them** 1. Ernest Hemingway - _Se7en_ 2. Geoffrey Chaucer - _A Knight’s Tale_ 3. Edgar Allen Poe – _El Dorado_ 4. Marianne Williamson - _Coach Carter_ 5. Walt Whitman - _Dead Poet’s Society_ 6. William Blake - _Blade Runner_ 7. Percy Bysshe Shelley - _The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_ 8. William Shakespeare - _Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country_ 9. Herman Melville - _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_ 10. Emily Dickinson - _Sophie’s Choice_ Lines from her poem “Ample Make this Bed” are quoted to great effect in at least 3 scenes **Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck** 1. Audrey Hepburn, _Roman Holiday_ ---
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**Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck** 1. Audrey Hepburn, _Roman Holiday_ 2. Ingrid Bergman, _Spellbound_ ---
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**Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck** 1. Audrey Hepburn, _Roman Holiday_ 2. Ingrid Bergman, _Spellbound_ 3. Sir Laurence Olivier, _The Boys From Brazil_ ---
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**Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck** 1. Audrey Hepburn, _Roman Holiday_ 2. Ingrid Bergman, _Spellbound_ 3. Sir Laurence Olivier, _The Boys From Brazil_ 4. Mary Badham, _To Kill A Mockingbird_ She played Scout. ---
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**Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck** 1. Audrey Hepburn, _Roman Holiday_ 2. Ingrid Bergman, _Spellbound_ 3. Sir Laurence Olivier, _The Boys From Brazil_ 4. Mary Badham, _To Kill A Mockingbird_ 5. Dean Jagger, _Twelve O’Clock High_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck** 1. Audrey Hepburn, _Roman Holiday_ 2. Ingrid Bergman, _Spellbound_ 3. Sir Laurence Olivier, _The Boys From Brazil_ 4. Mary Badham, _To Kill A Mockingbird_ 5. Dean Jagger, _Twelve O’Clock High_ 6. Robert De Niro - _Cape Fear_ (1991) ---
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**Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck** 1. Audrey Hepburn, _Roman Holiday_ 2. Ingrid Bergman, _Spellbound_ 3. Sir Laurence Olivier, _The Boys From Brazil_ 4. Mary Badham, _To Kill A Mockingbird_ 5. Dean Jagger, _Twelve O’Clock High_ 6. Robert De Niro - _Cape Fear_ (1991) 7. David Niven - _The Guns of Navarone_ ---
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**Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck** 1. Audrey Hepburn, _Roman Holiday_ 2. Ingrid Bergman, _Spellbound_ 3. Sir Laurence Olivier, _The Boys From Brazil_ 4. Mary Badham, _To Kill A Mockingbird_ 5. Dean Jagger, _Twelve O’Clock High_ 6. Robert De Niro - _Cape Fear_ (1991) 7. David Niven - _The Guns of Navarone_ 8. Leila Kenzle - _Other People’s Money_ ---
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**Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck** 1. Audrey Hepburn, _Roman Holiday_ 2. Ingrid Bergman, _Spellbound_ 3. Sir Laurence Olivier, _The Boys From Brazil_ 4. Mary Badham, _To Kill A Mockingbird_ 5. Dean Jagger, _Twelve O’Clock High_ 6. Robert De Niro - _Cape Fear_ (1991) 7. David Niven - _The Guns of Navarone_ 8. Leila Kenzle - _Other People’s Money_ 9. Patrick Troughton - _The Omen_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=35)