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Risky Business

Risky Business is a 1983 film about a Chicago teenager who is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but whose situation quickly gets out of hand when he invites a call girl to his house.
 * Written and directed by Paul Brickman.

Meet the model son who's been good too long. taglines

Joel Goodson

 * [voiceover] The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors'. I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I'm looking around for the people, but nobody seems to be there. And then I hear the shower running, so I go upstairs to see what's what. Then I see her; this... girl, this incredible girl. I mean, what she's doing there I don't know, because she doesn't live there... but it's a dream, so I go with it. "Who's there?" she says. "Joel," I say. "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what I'm doing here; what are you doing here?" "I'm taking a shower," she says. Then I give her: "You want me to go?" "No," she says; "I want you to wash my back." So now, I'm gettin' enthusiastic about this dream. So I go to her, but she's hard to find through all the steam and stuff; I keep losing her. Finally I get to the door... and I... find myself in a room full of kids taking their college boards. I'm over three hours late; I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've... just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined.

 * It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

 * [about Lana] It was great the way her mind worked: No guilt, no doubts, no fear. None of my specialties. Just this shameless pursuit of immediate material gratification. What a capitalist! She told me I could make more money in one night than I'd make all year. Enough to pay for my father's car. She told me she'd be my girlfriend. She told me a lot of things. I believed them all. So, she introduced me to her friends. I introduced her to my friends.

 * [voiceover] My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night. Time of your life, huh kid?

Lana

 * I'm really trying to be friends with you. But I'd appreciate it if you'd stop laying these little judgments on me while you're leaning on your daddy's $40,000 car.

Guido

 * Joel, you look like a smart kid. I'm going to tell you something I'm sure you'll understand. You're having fun now, right? Right, Joel? The time of your life. In a sluggish economy, never ever fuck with another man's livelihood. Now, if you're smart, and I hope you are, you're not gonna make me come back here.

Joel's Mother

 * Just use your best judgment. We trust you.

Dialogue

 * Miles: What happened?
 * Joel: Last night?
 * Miles: That's right - with Kessler.
 * Joel: She was babysitting down the street...
 * Miles: We know that!
 * Joel: So I went over there. It turns out that, uh, she was giving the kid a bath and accidentally hit the shower thing...
 * Miles: That could happen.
 * Joel: ...and all her clothes were drying upstairs. So she plops down right on the kitchen floor and she looks up at me and says 'I think I'm in the mood.'
 * Barry: She said that? What did you say?
 * Joel: I didn't have to say anything.
 * Glenn: Whatcha do?
 * Joel: What do you think I did?
 * Glenn: I think you got the hell out of there, ran home, and wacked off.
 * [Barry makes a wacking off noise with his cheek]
 * Miles: I disagree. Did you have your bike there?
 * Joel: Yeah.
 * Miles: I think you jumped on your bike, peddled home, and wacked off!
 * [The guys laugh]

 * Miles: No guts, Goodson.
 * Joel: Yeah, you know, when it came right down to it, I just wasn't attracted to her.
 * Miles: That should never stop you.
 * Joel: She seemed too big.
 * Miles: It could've worked out!
 * Joel: I figured I would've gotten into trouble somehow.
 * Miles: Sometimes you have to say, "What the fuck!" Make your move!
 * Joel: That's easy for you to say. I mean, you're all set, you're probably going to Harvard. Me, I don't want to make a mistake, jeopardize my future!
 * Miles: Joel, you wanna know something?
 * Joel: What?
 * Miles: Every now and then, say "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future... So your folks are going out of town.
 * Joel: Tomorrow.
 * Miles: You got the place all to yourself.
 * Joel: Yeah.
 * Miles: "What the fuck." If you can't say it, you can't do it.

 * Lana: This is a beautiful place, Ralph. Is it all yours?
 * Joel: It's my folks', actually.
 * Lana: Do you know what it's worth?
 * Joel: A lot, probably.
 * Lana: Oh, yeah! Real estate? It's fabulous!
 * Joel: Look, Lana... uh, my name isn't really Ralph. It's Joel.
 * Lana: Mmmm. I'll be needing 300 bucks...Joel.
 * Joel: You're kidding.
 * Lana: No, I don't believe that I am.
 * Joel: Can I send it to you?
 * Lana: Can you send it to me, Joel?
 * Joel: Well, uh, it's just that I don't have that much here in the house.
 * Lana: How much do you have?
 * Joel: I have 50 dollars.
 * Lana: 50 dollars? What are we going to do about this, Joel?
 * Joel: I don't know.
 * [pauses]
 * Joel: I, uh, have a bond at the bank. I could go cash that.
 * Lana: I'm not good at waiting for people.
 * Joel: I'll be quick.
 * Lana: Give it a try.

 * Joel: So is this Guido guy... he's your "manager"?
 * Lana: That's right.
 * Joel: Or a pimp?
 * Lana: Now that's quick Joel. Have you always been this quick, or is this something new?
 * Miles: I don't believe this! I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido the killer pimp.

 * Joel: Will you do me a favor?
 * Lana: Anything, cookie.
 * Joel: Don't steal anything. If I come back here and anything's missing, I'm going straight to the police. I mean it.
 * Lana: Joel, go to school. Go learn something.

 * Joel: You're right. You are absolutely right to respond this way. I did not have a doctor's appointment. But I will tell you exactly what happened. "Unexcused." You see, Nurse Bolan lf you write "unexcused," I fail two mid-terms. It'll wreck my whole grade point average! If you'd just stop and listen to me, I'll explain everything. The truth is, my parents are away, and I met this girl. A call girl, actually. She came to my house. Look, you're writing again! This is not "unexcused"! If you will just listen to me, then you'll understand, Nurse Bolan. Why? Why won't you listen to me? [Nurse Bolen waves goodbye to Joel]
 * Girl: I had a doctor's appointment.
 * Joel: [pushing the girl out of the way] Excuse me. It wasn't the girl, it was my father's car. I put my father's car into Lake Michigan and I had to get it fixed. [Nurse Bolan waves goodbye again] Just give me a break. [grabs Nurse Bolan by her lapels] Let me put it this way. I have spent the last four years of my life busting my butt in this shithole! I'm sorry. I don't think I can leave until I get just a little compassion from you.

 * Joel: Some of the girls are wearing my mother's clothing.
 * Lana: What's wrong with that?
 * Joel: I just don't want to spend the rest of my life in analysis.

 * Guido: Listen to me.
 * Joel: No, no. You listen to ME!
 * [Guido hangs up]
 * Joel: Shit! [calls back] You listen to me, buster. You, you a-hole.
 * [Guido hangs up. Joel calls back]
 * Guido: A-hole?
 * Joel: I want my stuff back right now.
 * Guido: Now you listen to me, you little fuck. Not only you take my two best girls, you call me names. If I didn't have any self-respect, it wouldn't just be the furniture, it'd be your arms, your legs, your head.

 * Joel's Father: Haven't I been telling you. Every once in awhile you just got to say, "what the heck" and take some chances.
 * Joel: You are so right.

Taglines

 * Meet the model son who's been good too long.

 * There's a time for playing it safe and a time for Risky Business.

Cast

 * Tom Cruise - Joel Goodsen
 * Rebecca De Mornay - Lana
 * Joe Pantoliano - Guido
 * Richard Masur - Bill Rutherford
 * Bronson Pinchot - Barry
 * Curtis Armstrong - Miles
 * Nicholas Pryor - Joel's Father
 * Janet Carroll - Joel's Mother
 * Shera Danese - Vicki
 * Raphael Sbarge - Glenn
 * Bruce A. Young - Jackie
 * Kevin Anderson - Chuck
 * Sarah Partridge - Kessler
 * Megan Mullally - Call Girl

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The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas (or Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 film about the inhabitants of Halloween Town, who kidnap Santa Claus and take over Christmas one year, and the chaos that follows. It was released by Disney through Touchstone Pictures.
 * Directed by Henry Selick. Written by Tim Burton, Michael McDowell and Caroline Thompson..

A ghoulish tale with wicked humour & stunning animation.

Dialogue

 * [Under the orange disk of the moon, in a place called Halloweenland, the creatures of the night are busy. Smirking jack-o-lanterns dance in the graveyard. Werewolves howl. Corpses, vampires and witches join their voices in a ghoulish chorus of glee. Tonight is their favorite night of all: Halloween]
 * [And it has been a splendid one. As they gather down in the center of town to celebrate, everyone agrees on that. They also agree that such a night will not have been possible without the help of their leader, the king of Halloween, Jack Skellington]
 * [Everyone cheers wildly as Jack steps into the town square]
 * Vampire: You were a shriek, Jack.
 * Werewolf: It was terrifying!
 * Witch: You're a witch's fondest dream.
 * [They cheer again as the Mayor claps Jack on his rickety shoulders]
 * Mayor: Thanks, Jack! We owe it all to you! Why, without your leadership--
 * [Jack cuts him off]
 * Jack: Not at all, Mayor. [But the Mayor doesn't notice that anything is wrong. He is too intent on keeping the crowd's attention focused on where it shall be; on himself]
 * Mayor: It's now my pleasure to give out the wonderful prizes. Our first award goes to the vampires, for most blood drained in a single evening. Congratulations, Fanged Ones! Second prize is to the Dark Lagoon Leeches, who also have a real taste for blood...
 * [The crowd cheers again, and Jack takes the opportunity to slip off. It is strange, but all the applause makes him feel horrible. He needs to go someplace that will cheer him up. He heads for the graveyard]
 * [He is so preoccupied that he never notices the frail, melancholy figure of Sally the Rag Doll watching him. Sally is mournful, as well, and with nice reason. She has been created by the town's official Evil Scientist. Try as she may, and she has tried many times, Sally can't seem to escape from him. Although he is confined to a wheelchair, he guards her jealously]

 * Saxophone Player: Nice work, bone daddy.
 * Jack: Yeah, I guess so. Just like last year, the year after that, and the year before that.

 * Dr. Finkelstein: Sally! You came back.
 * Sally: I had to.
 * Dr. Finkelstein: For this. [holds Sally's detached arm; she causes it to wave at herself]
 * Sally: [smiles] Yes.
 * Dr. Finkelstein: Shall we then? [later, he's reattaching Sally's right arm] That's twice this month you've slipped Deadly Nightshade into my tea and run off.
 * Sally: 3 times.
 * Dr. Finkelstein: You're mine, you know! I made you with my own hands.
 * Sally: You can make other creations. I'm restless. I can't help it.
 * Dr. Finkelstein: It's a phase, my dear, it'll pass. We need to be patient, that's all.
 * Sally: But I don't want to be patient!

 * Mayor: [pulling up to the gate to Jack's house in his car in front of the instrument players who jerk awake] Morning, gents. [goes through the gate and up the stairs to Jack's front door, humming "This is Halloween" as he goes. He walks right up to Jack's door and rings his screaming spider doorbell, still humming. There is no response. The mayor still hums placidly, then rings the screaming spider doorbell again before stopping his humming] Jack, you home? [there is still no response. His happy face switches to his worried face and he knocks on Jack's door. His worried face switches to his happy face again] Jack, I've got the plans for next Halloween! I need to go over them with you so we can get started. [his face switches from happy to worried again] Jack, please! I'm only an elected official here. I can't make decisions by myself. [puts a bull horn to his mouth and yells up at Jack's tower] Jack, answer me! [over balances, trips, and rolls down the stairs, landing at the gate]
 * Accordion Player: He's not home.
 * Mayor: Where is he?
 * Saxophone Player: He hasn't been home all night.
 * [The Mayor groans and faints]

 * Mayor: We've got to find Jack! There's only 365 days left 'til next Halloween!
 * Werewolf: 364!
 * Mayor: Is there anywhere we've forgotten to check?
 * Clown: I looked in every mausoleum!
 * Witches: We opened the sarcophagi!
 * Mr. Hyde: I tromped through the pumpkin patch.
 * Vampire: I peeked behind the cyclops' eye. I did, but he wasn't there.
 * Mayor: It's time to sound the alarm!

 * [Sally made Dr. Finkelstein a bowl of soup with wormswort and frog's breath. Then she secretly put Deadly Nightshade into the soup]
 * Sally: Lunch! [served him a bowl of soup]
 * Dr. Finkelstein: Ah, what's that? [sniffs] Wormswort! Mmmmm... [prepares to take a bite, but then sniffs suspiciously] and frog's breath?!
 * Sally: [innocently] What's wrong? I thought you liked frog's breath.
 * Dr. Finkelstein: Nothing's more suspicious than frog's breath! Until you taste it, I won't swallow a spoonful.
 * Sally: [shrugs] I'm not hungry. [accidentally knocks the spoon out of Finkelstein's hand on purpose] Oops.
 * Dr. Finkelstein: [as she shoves the spoon aside on the floor and, still bent over, removes a slotted spoon from her sock] You want me to starve! An old man like me who hardly has strength as it is! Me! To whom you owe your very life!
 * Sally: Oh, don't be silly. [dips the sifting spoon in the soup and pretends to taste it] Mmmm! See? Scrumptious.
 * [With a second thought, Dr. Finkelstein gulps down the soup as Sally looks on smiling]

 * Dr. Finkelstein: [sternly to Sally] You've poisoned me for the last time, you wretched girl. [slams the door shut, then hears a loud door bell] Oh, my head. The door is open!
 * Jack: [enters] Hello?
 * Dr. Finkelstein: Jack Skellington! Up here, my boy!
 * Jack: Doctor! I need to borrow some equipment.
 * Dr. Finkelstein: Is that so? What ever for?
 * Jack: I'm conducting a series of experiments.
 * Dr. Finkelstein: How perfectly marvelous! Curiosity killed the cat, you know.
 * Jack: I know.
 * Dr. Finkelstein: Come on into the lab, and we'll get you all fixed up.
 * Sally: Hmm. Experiments?

 * Dr. Finkelstein: [enters Sally's room] You can come out now, if you promised to behave. Sally? Sally? [sees the window open] Ooh, GONE AGAIN! [throws down the lantern]

 * Jack: The job I have for you is top secret, it requires craft, cunning, mischief...
 * Shock: And we thought you didn't like us, Jack. [she, Lock and Barrel giggle at this]
 * Jack: Absolutely no one is to know about it, not a soul! Now... [whispers for a time] ...And one more thing...leave that no-account Oogie Boogie OUT OF THIS!
 * Barrel: Whatever you say, Jack.
 * Shock: Of course, Jack.
 * Lock: Wouldn't dream of it, Jack.
 * [The 3 giggle again, and reveal that they have all crossed their fingers]

 * Jack: [shows a nutcracker to Behemoth] This device is called...a nutcracker.
 * Lock, Shock and Barrel: Jack! Jack! We got him! We got him! [they appear with a full sack]
 * Jack: Perfect! Open it up, quickly! [they open the sack and the Easter Bunny leaps out] That's not Sandy Claws.
 * Shock: It isn't?
 * Barrel: Who is it?
 * [The Easter Bunny hops around the room and sniffs curiously at Behemoth]
 * Behemoth: [freaking out] BUNNY!
 * [The Easter Bunny is terrified, and leaps back into the bag he was kidnapped in]
 * Jack: NOT Sandy Claws! Take him back!
 * Lock: We followed your instructions.
 * Barrel: We went through the door.
 * Jack: Which door?! There's more than one! Sandy Claws is behind the door shaped like THIS! [holds up a Christmas tree shaped cookie]
 * [Barrel and Shock look at Lock who looks awkward for a second]
 * Shock: [strangling Lock] I told you!
 * [The trio fight in anger; an annoyed Jack roars, and makes a monstrous face, which instantly stops Lock, Shock and Barrel's fight, freezing them on the spot]
 * Jack: [to the Easter Bunny who still scared and in the bag] I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, sir. [to Lock, Shock and Barrel] Take him home first, and apologize again! Be careful with Sandy Claws when you fetch him. Treat him nicely!
 * Lock: Got it!
 * Shock: We'll get it right...
 * Lock, Shock and Barrel: ...Next time!

 * [in Christmas Town; Santa is reading the list]
 * Santa: Kathleen? Bobby? Susie? Yes, Susie's been nice. Nice, nice, naughty. Nice, nice, nice. There are hardly any naughty children this year. [hears a Jingle Bells doorbell] Now, who could that be? [opens the front door to see Lock, Shock and Barrel]
 * Lock, Shock and Barrel: Trick-or-treat!
 * Santa: Huh?
 * [They then jump to stuff Santa into the bag]

 * Sally: [examining Jack in his newly-finished Santa suit] You don't look like yourself, Jack. Not at all.
 * Jack: Isn't that wonderful? It couldn't be more wonderful!
 * Sally: [holds up the clipboard sketch of him] But you're the Pumpkin King!
 * Jack: Not anymore! [breaks it over his knee] I feel SO much better now!
 * Sally: [pulling a loose thread from his cuff] Jack, I know you think something's missing, but- [accidentally catches his finger]
 * Jack: [lightly] Ow.
 * Sally: Sorry.
 * Jack: You're right. Something is missing. But what? I've got the beard...the coat...the boots...the belt...
 * Shock, Lock, Barrel: [come in] Jack! Jack! This time we found him!
 * Barrel: This time we really did!
 * Jack: This time we really did.
 * Lock: He sure is big, Jack!
 * Barrel: And heavy!
 * Santa: [bursting out the bag] Let me out!
 * [The Halloween citizens gasp in awe]
 * Jack: Sandy Claws, in person. What a pleasure to meet you. [prepares to shake but then looks down when their HANDS touch] Wh-! Why, you have hands! You don't have claws at all!
 * Santa: [dazed] Where am I?
 * Jack: Surprised, aren't you? I knew you would be. You don't need to have another worry about Christmas this year.
 * Santa: What?
 * Jack: Consider this a vacation, Santy. A reward. It's your turn to take it easy.
 * Santa: B-But there must be some mistake!
 * Jack: See that he's comfortable...Just a second, fellas! Of course! That's what I'm missing! [takes Santa's hat]
 * Santa: B-But...
 * Jack: Thanks.
 * Santa: Hang on, you just can't- [has the bag thrown over him again] Hold on! Where are we going now? [the henchmen leave with him]
 * Jack: Ho, ho, ho! No... [monotone] Ho, ho, ho. Ho...
 * Sally: This is worse than I thought. Much worse. [having an idea] I know! [leaves to get fog juice]

 * [After Jack asks to make Santa comfortable]
 * Barrel: Where're we taking him?
 * Shock: Where?
 * Lock: To Oogie Boogie, of course! There isn't anywhere in the whole world more comfortable than that. And Jack said to make him comfortable, didn't he?
 * Barrel and Shock: Yes, he did.
 * Santa: [from inside the bag] Haven't you heard of peace on Earth and goodwill toward men?
 * Lock, Shock and Barrel: NO! [burst out laughing maniacally]

 * [As Lock, Shock and Barrel try to shove Santa Clause into Oogie Boogie's lair]
 * Santa:: Don't do this! Naughty children never get any presents!
 * Shock: I think he might be too big!
 * Lock: No, he's not. If he can go down a chimney, he can fit...down...here!

 * Kid: Santa?
 * Jack: Merry Christmas, and what is your name?!
 * Kid: I...um...
 * Jack: That's alright. I have a present for you anyway. There you go, sonny! [slips out up the chimney, cackling as he goes]
 * Mother: And what did Santa bring you, Honey?
 * [The kid shows his parents his present: a shrunken head. The parents scream in terror]
 * Jack: [flying away] Merry Christmas!

 * [as the military canon are kept on firing, it hits one of the reindeer skeleton, then the back of the sleigh]
 * Jack: They're trying to hit us. [calls to Zero] ZERO! [Zero looks back at Jack, the military canon made a target and fires. It hits the entire sleigh Jack is driving, now falling] MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NI-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-IGHT!!!
 * [Jack crash-lands into the cemetery. Back in Halloween Town, the Mayor and the citizens are shocked and sad for Jack's death. The wolfman howls in tears.]
 * Mayor: [in tears; walks to his car] I knew this Christmas thing was bad idea. [gets in] I felt it in my gut. [starts the car and drives away, through megaphone] Terrible news, folks! The most tragedy of our time! Jack has been blown to smithereens! Terrible, terrible news!

 * Police Officer: Attention. Attention, citizens. Terrible news. There is still no sign of Santa Claus. Although the imposter has been shut down. It looks like Christmas will have to be cancelled this year. I repeat: The imposter has been shot down, but there is still no sign of the real Santa Claus... [fades off in the distance]

 * Sally: [to Oogie while lashed to the roulette wheel with Santa] You wait 'til Jack hears about this! By the time he's through with you, you'll be lucky if you-
 * Mayor: [on the speakers while driving his car] The King of Halloween has been blown to smithereens! Skeleton Jack is now a pile of dust!
 * [Sally gasps]
 * Jack: [bursting out of a tombstone in the Halloween Town Cemetery] Come on, Zero. Christmas isn't over yet! [runs through Halloween Town countryside]
 * Oogie: [to Sally while leering at her] What's that you were saying about luck, ragdoll?
 * [Jack arrives at Oogie's lair and sees Sally and Santa tied up]
 * Santa: [from a distance] You monster! You fiend!
 * [Jack hears her cries for help and sneaks into Oogie's lair]
 * Oogie: [from a distance] 7! Well, guess what? Looks like it's Oogie's turn to boogie now! [Sally screams; with short jerks of the table lever] 1, 2, 3, 4... [with fast jerks of the lever] 5, 6, 7! [laughs maniacally]
 * Santa: This can't be happening!
 * Oogie: Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust. [mockingly] Oh. I'm feeling weak...with hunger! One more roll of the dice...ought to do it. [laughs and throws the dice into a skull; the dice come out and read Snake Eyes] What, Snake Eyes?!?! Grugh! [bangs his fist on the table and the dice read 11] 11! [laughing Menacingy] Looks like I won...the Jackpot, by cheating! [waves farewell to Sally and Santa] Bye-Bye, Dollface and Sandman! [laughs, then notices Sally and Santa haven't fallen in] What the...? [turns over the trap, revealing Jack instead] Aah!
 * Jack: Hello, Oogie!
 * Oogie: J-J-J-Jack! But they said you were dead. You must be... [steps on a button that unleashes his King of Spades cards that swing their swords] DOUBLE DEAD!!

 * Oogie: [jumps onto the spinning shredder] So long, Jack! [laughs] AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!
 * Jack: [pulls a string that opens Oogie Boogie's arm, releasing his bugs] How dare you treat my friends so SHAMEFULLY!! [tears Oogie's burlap sack clean apart]
 * Oogie: NO! NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!! MY BUGS, MY BUGS...!!! [his repetitive shrieks of "My Bugs!" get distorted as the bugs spill into the pot and are incinerated, except for the last one, which is trying to escape, and is planning to return with his revenge, but Santa squashes it with his foot]
 * Jack: Forgive me, Mr. Claus. I'm afraid I've made a terrible mess of your holiday.
 * Santa: Bumpy sleigh ride, Jack?! The next time you can get the urge to take over someone else's holiday, I'd rather listen to her! [indicating Sally] She's the only one who seems to make any sense in this insane asylum! [grumbling to himself] Skeletons, boogeymen...
 * Jack: I hope there's still time!
 * Santa: ...To fix Christmas? Of course there is! I'm Santa Claus! [flies off through the tube]

Cast

 * Chris Sarandon — Jack Skellington
 * Danny Elfman - Jack (singing), Barrel

 * Catherine O'Hara — Sally, Shock

 * Glenn Shadix — Mayor

 * William Hickey - Dr. Finkelstein

 * Paul Reubens — Lock

 * Ken Page — Oogie Boogie

 * Ed Ivory — Santa Claus/Sandy Claws
 * Vincent Prince (originally)

 * Randy Crenshaw — Mr. Hyde, Behemoth, Vampire

title: The Nightmare Before Christmas


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Dracula (1931 English-language film)

Dracula is a 1931 American film about the ancient Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula, his voyage to England and his hunting by legendary monster hunter Abraham Van Helsing.
 * Directed by Tod Browning. Written by Garrett Fort, based on the novel by Bram Stoker and the play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston.

The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known! Taglines

Count Dracula

 * Doctor Seward. My humble apology. I dislike mirrors. Van Helsing will explain. For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
 * And after you deliver the message, you will remember nothing, I now say...Obey.
 * I bid you welcome.
 * Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.

Renfield

 * No, no, Master! I wasn't going to say anything! I told them nothing! I'm loyal to you, Master!
 * I'm loyal to you Master, I 'm your slave, I didn't betray you! Oh no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live, please! Punish me, torture me, but let me live! I can't die with all those lives on my conscience! All that blood on my hands!
 * You know too much to live, Van Helsing!
 * Master, we're here. You can't hear what I'm saying but we're here. We're safe.
 * I'm warning you, Doctor Seward! If you don't send me away, you must answer for what will happen to Miss Mina.
 * Keep your filthy hands to yourself!
 * Master, the sun is gone!
 * You will keep your promise when we get to London, won't you, Master? You will see that I get lives? Not human lives, but small ones. With blood in them. I'll be loyal to you, Master. I'll be loyal.
 * I didn't lead them here, Master! I didn't know, I swear!

Prof. Abraham Van Helsing

 * I may be able to bring you proof, that the superstition of yesterday can become the scientific reality of today.
 * The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
 * Mr. Harker. I have devoted my lifetime to the study of many strange things, little-known facts which the world is perhaps better off for not knowing.
 * We know why the wolves talk, do we not, Mr Renfield? And we know how we can make them stop.
 * Seward, I want you to have Renfield closely watched by day and night. Especially by night.
 * A moment ago, I stumbled on a most amazing phenomenon...something so incredible, I mistrust my own judgement.
 * A vampire's power last from sunset to sunrise. During the hours of the day it must rest in the earth in which it was buried.

Mina Harker

 * And just as I was commencing to get drowsy, I heard dogs howling. And when the dream came, it seemed the whole room was filled with mist. It was so thick, I could just see the lamp by the bed, a tiny spark in the fog. And then I saw two red eyes staring at me, and a white livid face came down out of the mist. It came closer and closer. I felt its breath on my face, and then its lips, ohhh, [whimpering]...And then, in the morning, I felt so weak. It seemed as if all the life had been drained out of me.

Others

 * [First lines]
 * Young Girl Passenger: [reading from a Transylvanian tourist brochure] "Among the rugged peaks that crown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age."

 * Lucy Weston: Lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter as though the dead were there... Quaff a cup to the dead already, hooray for the next to die!

Dialogue

 * Count Dracula: I am Dracula.
 * Renfield: Oh. It's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage, and... well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place.
 * Count Dracula: I bid you welcome.
 * [Dracula goes up the stairs. Renfield starts to follow him. Suddenly, Dracula hears wolves howling.]
 * Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
 * [Dracula goes up the steps, and waits for Renfield, who without difficulty, cuts open a huge spider's web using his walking stick.]
 * Count Dracula: The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
 * Renfield: Why, er... yes.
 * Note: bolded portion ranked #83 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

 * Renfield: He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them.
 * Abraham Van Helsing: Doing them?
 * Renfield: By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And then he parted it, and I could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red, like his, only smaller. Then he held up his hand, and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying: "Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red-blood! All these will I give you! If you will obey me!"
 * Abraham Van Helsing: What did he want you to do?
 * Renfield: That which has already been done! [giggles sinisterly]

 * Mina Seward: [doing an impression of Dracula] "It reminds me of the broken battlements of my own castle in Transylvania." [chuckles] Oh, Lucy, you're so romantic!
 * Lucy Weston: Laugh all you like. I think he's fascinating.
 * Mina Seward: Oh, I suppose he's all right. But give me someone a little more normal.
 * Lucy Weston: Like John?
 * Mina Seward: Yes, dear, like John.
 * Lucy Weston: [dreamily] Castle... Dracula...Transylvania!
 * Mina Seward: Well, Countess! I'll leave you to your Count and his ruined abbey!
 * [Both giggle]
 * Mina Seward: Good night, Lucy.
 * Lucy Weston: Good night, dear.

 * Count Dracula: Van Helsing.
 * [Van Helsing turns to face Dracula]
 * Count Dracula: Now that you have learned what you have learned, it would be well for you to return to your own country.
 * Abraham Van Helsing: I prefer to remain and protect those whom you would destroy.
 * Count Dracula: You are too late. My blood now flows through her veins. She will live through the centuries to come, as I have lived.
 * Abraham Van Helsing: Should you escape us, Dracula. We know how to save Miss Mina's soul if not her life.
 * Count Dracula: If she dies by day. But I shall see that she dies by night.
 * Abraham Van Helsing: And I will find Carfax Abbey torn down, stone by stone, excavated a mile around. I will find your earth-box and drive that stake through your heart.
 * Count Dracula: Come here.
 * [Dracula raises his hand to hypnotize Van Helsing.]
 * Count Dracula: Come here.
 * [Van Helsing takes three hypnotized steps towards Dracula but soon steps back, resisting Dracula's power over him.]
 * Count Dracula: Your will is strong, Van Helsing.
 * [Van Helsing reaches out for his crucifix as Dracula looms toward him.]
 * Count Dracula: More wolfbane?
 * Abraham Van Helsing: More effective than wolfbane, Count.
 * Count Dracula: Indeed?
 * [Dracula lunges towards Van Helsing. Van Helsing holds up the crucifix. Dracula snarls and turns away. Van Helsing, in triumph, puts away the crucifix.]

 * Maid: He's crazy!
 * Martin: They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have my doubts about you.
 * Maid: Yes.

 * Count Dracula: To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!
 * Mina: Why, Count Dracula!
 * Count Dracula: There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

 * Abraham Van Helsing: You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.
 * Renfield: God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.

 * Count Dracula: This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.
 * Renfield: Aren't you drinking?
 * Count Dracula: I never drink...wine.

 * Abraham Van Helsing: Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead.
 * Scholar: Nosferatu.
 * Abraham Van Helsing: Yes, Nosferatu.

 * Martin: Ain't you ashamed now? Ain't you? Spiders now, is it? Flies ain't good enough!
 * Renfield: Flies? Flies?! Poor puny things! Who wants to eat flies?!
 * Martin: You do, ya loony!
 * Renfield: Not when I can get nice fat spiders!
 * Martin: All right, have it your own way.

 * Renfield: Oh, Dr. Seward! Send me away from this place! Send me far away!
 * Abraham Van Helsing: Why are you so anxious to get away?
 * Renfield: My cries at night, they might disturb miss Mina.
 * Abraham Van Helsing: Yes?
 * Renfield: They might give her bad dreams, Professor Van Helsing. Bad dreams!
 * [A wolf starts howling. Meanwhile, at Carfax Abbey, Count Dracula leaves his coffin.]
 * [Back at Dr. Seward's office]
 * Abraham Van Helsing: That sounded like a wolf.
 * Dr. Jack Seward: Yes, it did. But I hardly think there are wolves so near London.
 * Martin: He thinks they're wolves. Me, I've heard them howl at night before. He thinks they're talking to him! He howls and howls back at them. He's crazy!
 * Abraham Van Helsing: I might have known. I might have known.

 * Abraham Van Helsing: What have you to do with Dracula?
 * Renfield: Dracula? I've never even heard the name before.

 * Renfield: I hope I've brought enough labels for your luggage.
 * Count Dracula: I'm taking with me only three, uh... boxes...
 * Renfield: Oh, very well...

 * Maid: Oh, Mr. Harker! Oh, Mr. Harker, it's horrible! Oh, it's horrible! Dr. Seward! Miss Mina... Out there, dead!
 * Dr. Jack Seward: Out where?
 * Maid: Out there!

 * Renfield: Isn't this a strange conversation, for men who aren't crazy?
 * Dr. Jack Seward: Renfield! You're compelling me to put you in a straitjacket!
 * Abraham Van Helsing: You forget, doctor, that madmen have great strength. Dracula has great strength. Eh, Renfield?
 * Renfield: Words, words, words!

Taglines

 * The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!
 * The vampire thriller

Cast

 * Bela Lugosi — Count Dracula
 * Helen Chandler — Mina Seward
 * David Manners — John Harker
 * Dwight Frye — Renfield
 * Edward Van Sloan — Van Helsing
 * Herbert Bunston — Dr. Seward
 * Frances Dade — Lucy Weston
 * Charles K. Gerrard — Martin
 * Carla Laemmle — Coach Passenger (uncredited, speaks the opening lines)

title: Dracula (1931 English-language film)


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The Hustler (film)

The Hustler is a 1961 film about an up-and-coming pool player who plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
 * Directed by Robert Rossen. Written by Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen, based on the novel by Walter Tevis.

A motion picture that probes the stranger... the pick-up... why a man hustles for a buck or a place in the sun! taglines

Eddie Felson

 * He is great! Geez, that old fat man. Look at the way he moves, like a dancer... And those fingers, them marshmellow fingers. And that stroke, it's like he's, uh, like he's playin' a violin or somethin.'
 * [After discovering that Charlie kept some money from him] With that fifteen hundred, I could have beat him. That's all I needed, Charlie... You'd love to keep me hustlin' for ya, huh, wouldn't ya? I mean, a couple more years with me scufflin' around in them little towns and those back alleys, you might make yourself enough to get a little pool room back in Oakland, six tables and a handbook on the side... Lay down and die by yourself.
 * Now why did I do it, Sarah, why did I do it? I could've beat that guy, I could've beat him cold. He never would have known. But I just had to show him. Just had to show those creeps and those punks what the game is like when it's great, when it's really great. You know, like anything can be great, anything can be great. I don't care — brick-laying can be great if a guy knows. If he knows what he's doin' and why and if he can make it come off.

Bert Gordon

 * [to Eddie] George Findley is a very rich man. His grandfather left him twenty-five percent of his tobacco company... He's a gentleman. Gentlemen gamble. He gets his kicks playin' a hustler. He's got an old Southern mansion with a pool table in the basement, drinks eight-year-old bourbon, smokes a cork-tipped cigarette... I never saw him play. They say he's one of the best... I've got confidence in Findley... That means I've got confidence that he's a loser, all the way a loser. You happen to be about only one-half loser, the other half winner.

Dialogue

 * Charlie: It's quiet.
 * Eddie: Yeah, like a church. Church of the Good Hustler.
 * Charlie: It looks more like a morgue to me. Those tables are the slabs they lay the stiffs on.
 * Eddie: I'll be alive when I get out, Charlie.

 * Eddie: Well, you don't leave much when you miss, do ya, Fat Man?
 * Minnesota Fats: That's what the game's all about.

 * Charlie: The pool game is over.
 * Eddie: The pool game is over when Fats says it's over... I came after him and I'm gonna get him. I'm goin' with him all the way. The pool game is not over until Minnesota Fats says it's over. Is it over, Fats? [to Gordon] I'm gonna beat him, Mister. I beat him all night and I'm gonna beat him all day. I'm, I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. Now even if you beat me, I'm still the best.
 * Gordon: [to Fats] Stay with this kid. He's a loser.

 * Gordon: I don't think there's a pool player alive who shoots better pool than I saw you shoot the other night at Ames. You got talent.
 * Eddie: So I got talent? So what beat me?
 * Gordon: Character.
 * Eddie: Sure, sure.
 * Gordon: You're damn right I'm sure. Everybody's got talent. I got talent. You think you can play big-money straight pool or poker for forty straight hours on nothing but talent? You think they call Minnesota Fats the best in the country just 'cause he got talent? Nah, Minnesota Fats's got more character in one finger than you got in your whole skinny body.
 * Eddie: I got drunk.
 * Gordon: He drank as much whiskey as you do.
 * Eddie: Maybe he knows how to drink.
 * Gordon: You bet he knows how. You think that's a talent too, huh, knowin' how to drink whiskey? You think Minnesota Fats was born knowin' how to drink?
 * Eddie: Okay, okay, what do I do now? Lie down on the floor and, uh, bow from the ankles? What do I do, go home?
 * Gordon: That's your problem.
 * Eddie: So I stay. I stay until I hustle up enough to play Fats again. And maybe by that time, I'll develop myself some character.
 * Gordon: Maybe by that time you'll die of old age.

 * Gordon: Eddie, you're a born loser.
 * Eddie: What's that supposed to mean?
 * Gordon: First time in ten years I ever saw Minnesota Fats hooked, really hooked. But you let him off.
 * Eddie: I told you, I got drunk.
 * Gordon: Sure you got drunk, the best excuse in the world for losin.' No trouble losin' when you got a good excuse. And winning — that can be heavy on your back too, like a monkey. Drop that load too when you got an excuse. All you gotta do is learn to feel sorry for yourself. That's one of the best indoor sports, feelin' sorry for yourself. A sport enjoyed by all — especially the born loser.

 * Sarah: I love you.
 * Eddie: Do you need the words?
 * Sarah: Yes, I need them very much. If you ever say them, I'll never let you take them back.

 * Eddie: We really stuck the knife in her, didn't we, Bert?
 * Gordon: Ah!
 * Eddie: Boy, we really gave it to her good.
 * Gordon: If it didn't happen in Louisville, it'd happen someplace else. If it didn't happen now, it'd happen six months from now. That's the kind of a dame she was.
 * Eddie: Then we twisted it, didn't we, Bert? Of course, maybe that doesn't stick in your throat, 'cause you spit it out just the way you spit out everything else. But it sticks in mine. I loved her, Bert. I traded her in on a pool game. But that wouldn't mean anything to you because who did you ever care about. "Just win, win!" you said. "Win, that's the important thing." You don't know what winning is, Bert. You're a loser, 'cause you're dead inside and ya can't live unless you make everything dead around ya! Too high, Bert — the price is too high. If I take it, she never lived, she never died. And we both know that's not true, Bert, don't we, huh? She lived, she died. Boy, you better, you tell your boys they better kill me, Bert. They better go all the way with me. But if they just bust me up, I'll put all those pieces back together again.  Then so help me, so help me God, Bert, I'm gonna come back here and I'm gonna kill you.

Taglines

 * A motion picture that probes the stranger... the pick-up... why a man hustles for a buck or a place in the sun!
 * They called him "Fast Eddie"... He was a winner... He was a loser... He was a hustler.
 * Only the angel who falls knows the depths of hell.
 * It delves without compromise into the hungers that lie deep within us all.
 * Trapped by the underworld . . . they risked love and fortune in a desperate gamble!

Cast

 * Paul Newman - "Fast" Eddie Felson
 * Jackie Gleason - Minnesota Fats
 * Piper Laurie - Sarah Packard
 * George C. Scott - Bert Gordon
 * Myron McCormick - Charlie Burns
 * Murray Hamilton - Findley
 * Michael Constantine - Big John
 * Jake LaMotta - Bartender
 * Vincent Gardenia - Bartender

title: The Hustler (film)


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Judith Miller (journalist)

Judith Miller (born January 2, 1948) is an American journalist and commentator who covered Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion, which was later discovered to have been based on inaccurate information from the intelligence community.

Miller was involved in the Plame Affair, where Valerie Plame was outed as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy by Richard Armitage after Plame’s husband published a New York Times op-ed casting doubts on claims that Saddam Hussein sought to purchase uranium from Africa. Miller spent 85 days in jail for refusing to reveal that her source in the Plame Affair was Scooter Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Later, she contributed to the conservative Fox News Channel and Newsmax, and was a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute.

Quotes

 * Mr. Hussein's dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions, along with what defectors described in interviews as Iraq's push to improve and expand Baghdad's chemical and biological arsenals, have brought Iraq and the United States to the brink of war.
 * "U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts, New York Times, September 8, 2002

title: Judith Miller (journalist)