Post: #26

Won't transcribe it, but this entire scene is solid.

Post: #27

Two caveats to this monologue.

(1) It doesn't come from a movie.

(2) It comes from The Blacklist, whose chief attraction is, in essence, James Spader having the time of his life chewing the scenery in each and every episode.

For all the shit on commercial TV there is, occasionally, a diamond. This one comes, as said, from a recent episode -- Cape May, for anyone who cares. The metaphor and Spader's performance caved my head in.

"Have you ever seen the aftermath of a suicide bombing?

‭I have. June 29, 2003. I was meeting two associates at the Marouche restaurant in Tel Aviv. As my car was pulling up, a 20-year-old Palestinian named Ghazi Safar entered the restaurant and detonated a vest wired with C4. The shock wave knocked me flat, blew out my eardrums. I couldn't hear. The smoke... It was like being underwater. I went inside. A nightmare. Blood. Parts of people.

You could tell where Safar was standing when the vest blew. It was like a perfect circle of death. There was almost nothing left of the people closest to him. 17 dead, 46 injured. Blown to pieces. The closer they were to the bomber, the more horrific the effect.

That's every suicide.

Every single one - an act of terror ‭perpetrated against everyone who's ever known you. Everyone who's ever loved you. The people closest to you, the ones who cherish you are the ones who suffer the most pain, the most damage. Why would you do that? Why would you do that to people who love you?"

God save us from people who mean well. -storm

Post: #28

^ His character is one of the very few on television that I actually like.

Post: #29

Possibly my favorite quote and ending scene from any movie:





Quote starts @ 2:47

Quote:So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'

The final quote is from Abraham Lincoln's 1861 Inaugural Address.

Post: #30

Blade Runner

Post: #31

Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood

"Deserve's got nothing to do with it"

Post: #32

"Well what do you expect? All we got on this team is a bunch of Jews, Spics, Niggers, pansies, and a booger-eating moron."

Believe it or not, this is from "The Bad News Bears" a children's movie from 1976. I recently re-watched it because some Web sites noted that the movie is now 40 years old.

What a different culture it was back then. When the kids weren't using ethnic slurs, they were smoking, riding mini motorcycles, riding in trucks without seatbelts, and watching their coach drink like a fish. This goes beyond politically incorrect. It's politically off-the-map and it's hilarious.

There's a sequel they put out the next year. In it, the same kid that says the above quote repeats it, but throws in "Wops" because there's now an Italian kid on the team. As an Italian-American, this made me very happy. I hate to feel left out!