Movie Marathon (Part 3)

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.

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.

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

Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them

  1. Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
  2. Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale

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”-

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.”

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!”

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.")

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.”

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

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.

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

Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck

  1. Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
  2. Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound

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

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.

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”-

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)

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

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

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