Madness… madness.
Bridge on the River Kwai
Watching the credits roll right now on Fox Movie Channel (DirecTV 258) on one of the most intense flicks I have ever seen, even on the 4th viewing, The Edge. with Sir Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Harold Perrineau, Elle Macpherson, and Bart the Bear; Dir. Lee Tamahori, 1997, 117 minutes.
“They died saving my life.”
It’s on again at midnite, if you can break away from the marathon rerun of Breaking Bad on AMC. (I’m dvding that one, ads and all, again.
“Of course, and you’re Dorothy Harris, and I’m Forrest Gump.”
Oh, god, one of the best King last lines:
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
♫ Last verse, same as the first! ♫
Jaws:
Brody: What day is this?
Hooper: It’s Wednesday… eh, it’s Tuesday, I think.
Brody: Think the tide’s with us?
Hooper: Keep kicking.
Brody: I used to hate the water…
Hooper: I can’t imagine why.
“I’m still here, you bastards!”
I didn’t see the whole movie, just the last 30 seconds… a woman is holding a gun on the guy who’s been stalking her the entire movie. She picks up the phone.
“Hello, police? Could you send a car to my house? I’ve just shot an intruder.”
Hangs up the phone. Looks at the guy.
Fade to black.
That’s “Sleeping With The Enemy” with Julia Roberts.
No! She shoots him after she hangs up! It’s her abusive husband who’s tracked her down.
Sleeping With the Enemy with Julia Roberts.
“Be careful out there among them English.”
“And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot … no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into senslesness; imagine a figure, half-angel, half-devel, all human … slouching hopefully towards Tadfield … forever.”
I totally agree with this one! Just a great movie.
A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
“Hey, Harmonica - when they do you in, pray it’s somebody who knows where to shoot… Go away… go away… go away, I don’t want you to see me die.”
“I think we’ll be OK here, Leon.”
Just for reference.
A last paragraph instead of a last line, but one that has haunted me since I first read it:
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
From The Road
No Country for Old Men
So this is my favorite movie, sue me.
“It glowed in the depths of space like a searing beacon—beautiful and defiant, yet somehow forlorn and lost—a glorious diadem marking the trackless graves of the men and women of TFNS Defender who had died to save an Earth not even their own. It grew and expanded as they watched, and then, as suddenly as it had appeared, it was gone, snuffed by the breath of eternity, and Richard Aston felt his wife sob against his shoulder, weeping for her dead at last.” - The Apocalypse Troll
I’ve already posted my favorite from a movie (someone graciously let me have it rather than quote it himself), but I can’t recall if this, my favorite last lines from a book, has been mentioned:
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters. "
Thank you.
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
Don’t remember if it’s the last line, but it should be! (never mind, found last line from Skara_Brae)