Movie Quote Quiz

[Swatopluk]

Another oldie to be revived.

As a reminder: A movie quote is given and the next in line has to find out from which movie it is.

Okay, here is a moderately easy one:

"I once shook his hand."

[beagle]

Looks like your idea of easy is our idea of hard...
Any chance of a hint?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Yeah, me too.  I googled, I IMDB'd I amazoned .... nada, nothing.

And (he says not-so-humbly) I've been googling since 1998 or so ... <grin>

[Swatopluk]

OK, a few hints:
A truly epic film (and about 4hrs long)
Film begins with a road accident
The quote comes from the second scene (and is connected to the ending)
[I quote from memory so the wording may be very slightly different]

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Wild guess, but is it "Grand Prix"?

[goat starer]

This has to be Lawrence of Arabia!!!!   

[Swatopluk]

Indeed, fair goat starer. Your turn!
I at last found the true wording: I had the honour to shake his hands in Damaskus (I had the German synchro in my head and that retranslates as just "I shook his hand once", sorry for the mislead).

[goat starer]

One September 3, 1973 a blue fly capable of flapping 70 beats a minute landed on St. Vincent Street in Montmartre

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Amelie, I think.

[goat starer]

correct. you may proceed sibling Lambicus

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Okay.  Here goes:

"What do they call a mole in Scotland?"

"A mole."

"Aye."

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I like movies as much as the next person, but the obscure titles so far keep me from playing even on the periphery.  *sigh*

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

This movie was pretty big.  Not recent, but a big feature film.

[goat starer]

obscure titles?

this one is The Great Escape. Lawrence of Arabia is one of the biggest films EVER and Amelie was a leftfield french cinema that broke the mainstream.

Still one mans obscure is another mans everyday!

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Goat Starer got it!


I tend to know certain movies from the 60s fairly well (or at least better than most children of the 70s) because I picked them up from my Dad - he had a part-time job as an usher in high school, and he'd tell me about the movies he saw over and over (and over and over and over... but I think my aunt had it a bit worse in that regard: she was also an usher in a movie theatre, but hers was a 1-screen cinema that played the Sound of Music the entire time she worked there).

[goat starer]

here you go....

Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Reg: It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

That one's easy... It's the "Life of Brian"

Her's a nice one:

You know nothing. Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse.

[goat starer]

that one is also easy if you are dullard sci fi buff like me. it is Event Horizon I believe.

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Yup...

Your turn...

[goat starer]

"This place has become impossible. Nothing to eat, freezing cold and now a madman on the prowl outside with eels"

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

"Withnail & I"? (it's been a long time since I've seen that movie the last time)

Even when Judas hanged himself there was thunder.

[Swatopluk]

The good, the bad and the ugly.
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"Why can't you just download prawn like other teenage boys?"

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

"Cursed" (or Wes Craven's Cursed)

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The entire British empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I'm going to war without one, mate, you're mistaken.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", I do believe.





Here's one:

"We've always been English and we'll always be English... and it's precisely because we are English that we're sticking up for our right to be Burgundians!"

[beagle]

At last, one I know. Passport to Pimlico. Good job I got here before Swatopluk.

Right,

"No, I only set the stage. You pull your own strings."

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

The "Devil's Advocate" I believe...

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Make a wish, and see yourself on stage, inside out. A tangle of garlands in your hair. Of course you are pleasantly surprised.

[Swatopluk]

Velvet Goldmine
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"Monsters? We are British!"

[goat starer]

It's a Peter Cushing line but I cannot for the life of me remember the film   

[Swatopluk]

Right about Cushing.
The film involves a train and a monk (not Rasputin)