Biston Betularia ([info]pepperedmoth) wrote,
@ 2008-05-03 12:01:00
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Clearly, I have nothing better to do . . .
. . . even though I am MOVING this weekend!

I have stolen [info]mekoveya's meme:

1. Pick n of your favorite movies (she picked 20; I picked 11).
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions


1.) "You're afraid of our fleet. Well, you should be. Personally, I'd give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?"

2.) (From Gattaca) "You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it: I never saved anything for the swim back."

3.) "What are you looking at? Dirty old men need love too!"

4.) (From Silence of the Lambs) "You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you?"

5.) "I need unguent."

6.) "I never gave a ticket to a nun before. I gave a ticket to a guy from the IRS one time. Got audited the next year. I'll tell you what, this time I'll let this one slide, but keep your speed down, yeah?"

7.) (From The Blues Brothers)"I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD."

8.) (From The Village) A: "And what makes you think that he has feelings for me?"
B: "The way he never touches you."

9.) (From Pride and Prejudice) "I'm no longer surprised at you knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder at your knowing any."

10.) (From Persuasion) A: "I won't allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant or to forget those they love or have loved. I believe the reverse. Let me just observe that all histories are against you, all stories, prose, and verse. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness."
B: "But they were all written by men."

11.) "Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure?"




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[info]sevenravens
2008-05-02 07:18 pm UTC (link)
Well, #9 is from Pride and Prejudice.
#8 is at the edge of my brain, but I can't quite get it.

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[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-05 01:09 pm UTC (link)
Yup! I'm banking on you too get #10, too. ;-)

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[info]estheruth
2008-05-02 07:26 pm UTC (link)
4 silence of the lambs,
9 pride and predjudice

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[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-05 01:09 pm UTC (link)
Yep!

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[info]mekoveya
2008-05-02 09:48 pm UTC (link)
8. The Village?

Two seems so very familiar.

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[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-05 01:10 pm UTC (link)
Sure is!

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[info]keeperofmadness
2008-05-02 10:37 pm UTC (link)
Ooo! I know one! Number 2 is from Gattaca!

~ Bryon ~

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[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-05 01:13 pm UTC (link)
Sure is. I love that movie!

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[info]gorillapotter
2008-05-03 01:22 am UTC (link)
I got #9, Pride and Prejudice, and 3 and 8 seem familiar, but I can't quite place them.

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[info]gorillapotter
2008-05-03 03:01 am UTC (link)
having googled 3 and 8, I can say with certainly that I have seen neither. And now I wonder where else I would have heard something similar, to make me think that I had...

11 sounds like Brennan being romantic, but I realize that it's only wishful thinking on my part.

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[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-05 01:11 pm UTC (link)
Mwahaha, as addicted as I am to Bones, 11 is NOT Brennan.

. . . John knows that one, but he's not answering. ;-)

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[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-05 03:10 pm UTC (link)
PS- I think you would really like #3.

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[info]svlad_cjelli
2008-05-03 03:59 pm UTC (link)
I completely recognized six, in fact I know I talked about that movie with you after Lyndsay and I watched it, but I was completely unable to think of the name of it. I couldn't stand it so I looked up the name. That is the only one on your list that even sounds familiar to me.

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(Anonymous)
2008-05-07 03:44 am UTC (link)
7 is from Blues Brothers. Belushi's character is explaining to Carrie Fisher why he left her at the altar while on his knees, in the mud, hands clasped in front of him. A moment later, he takes off his sunglasses for the only time during the movie, kisses her, and leaves.

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[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-08 12:50 am UTC (link)
You are perfectly correct, mystery commenter! I am excessively fond of that movie, having seen it at a tender age, and I was sad no one had guessed it!

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number ten
(Anonymous)
2008-05-20 01:45 pm UTC (link)
Frederick Wentworth to Anne Elliot, in Persuasion.
Haven't seen the film adaptation(s) yet, but I do love the novel. :)

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[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-20 05:56 pm UTC (link)
Goodness, Anonymous is rakeing in the good guesses! Yes, this is correct. I also love the novel. The quote is from the film version with Amanda Root as Anne Elliot, and it is excellent.

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Re: number ten
(Anonymous)
2008-05-20 10:38 pm UTC (link)
Ah? Hurrah, must find that version too, then! Thank you for the tip-off! :)
Have my eye on the one with Sally Hawkins & Rupert Penry-Jones (think it is Andrew Davies on script duty?)... mmm, the prospect of some nice afternoon with two different versions of Persuasion on DVD shall be in my future...

Oh, I am the Quote-Number-Ten A Nony Mouse, cannot take credit for Number Seven!

Fascinating journal, by the way, your books and poetry references are especially lovely. Hope it's OK if I drop in now and then. :)

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Re: number ten
[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-21 05:42 pm UTC (link)
Of course it's OK, though I am quite curious as to who you are!

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Re: number ten
(Anonymous)
2008-05-22 10:24 pm UTC (link)
That's grand—thank you!

I'm just a, well, Constant Reader... there are more of us about than one might fear, though never as many as one could wish—you are another one too, evidently! :)

We certainly don't know each other, at least not in this life... I'm from the far side of the world and am living in Europe just now. Your journal (and you, as seen through your journal) are really immensely interesting!

Noticed in your The books I am reading sidebar you have two authors whom I love to bits: Patrick O'Brian ♥ (has any other author ever channelled a period so perfectly or evoked it so vividly) and Jane Austen. Is not Northanger Abbey gloriously funny? Was obliged to go and hunt for Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho as well as The Romance of the Forest and The Italian, they are quite delectably awful—how I roared!

The latest BBC Northanger Abbey adaptation (2007) is rather good, Isabella is perfect and Henry and Catherine are particularly satisfactory. If you know a version you think worth recommending, I should be very pleased to make note of it.

Hope you have a lovely weekend ahead of you! :)

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Re: number ten
[info]pepperedmoth
2008-05-23 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Ohhhh, I was so tempted to go find The Mysteries of Udolpho as well! Have not yet. I need to update that sidebar; I finished both Northanger Abbey and Master and Commander!

I, unfortunately, have not seen any film adaptations of Northanger Abbey, and therefore cannot recommend any.

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