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Thursday, June 21, 2012

THE PRINCESS DIARIES [2001]

She Rocks. She Rules. She Reigns


Helen: Your grandmother called.
Mia: What?
Helen: The live one, who lives in Genovia. Clarisse.
Mia: Oh, wow, this is the first time she's contacted us, what's she want?
Helen: She's in town.
She wants to have tea.
Mia: Tea?
She came all the way from Europe to have tea?
Isn't this the grandmother who made you two get a divorce?
Helen: Well, she didn't approve of me.
But Phillippe and I made the decision to divorce on our own.
Mia: Why should I go see this snobby lady who ignores us?
Helen: Mia, she's your father's mother.
Just go see her tomorrow, please?
She said, your father hoped that you two would meet someday.
Mia: All right, I'll... I'll go.

Queen Clarisse: Let me look at you.
You look so... young.
Mia: Thank you.
And you look so... clean.

Queen Clarisse: Amelia, have you ever heard of Edward Christof Phillippe Gerard Renaldi?
Mia: No.
Queen Clarisse: He was The Crown Prince of Genovia.
Mia: Mmmm...
What about him?
Queen Clarisse: Edward Christof Phillippe Gerard Renaldi... was your father.
Mia: Yeah, sure. My father was The Prince of Genovia.
Uh-huh, you're joking.
Queen Clarisse: Why would I joke about something like that?
Mia: No... no... cause if he's really a prince, then I'm...
Queen Clarisse: Exactly.
You're not just Amelia Thermopolis, you are Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi,
Princess of Genovia.
Mia: Me? A... a princess?
Shut up!
Queen Clarisse, choke by her tea: I beg your pardon? Shut up?
Consulate Maitre'D: Your Majesty, in America it doesn't always mean 'be quiet'.
It could mean 'wow', 'gee whiz'...
Queen Clarisse: I understand, thank you.
[to Mia] Nevertheless, you are the Princess.
And I am Queen Clarisse Renaldi.
Mia: Why on earth would you pick me to be your princess?
Queen Clarisse: Since your father died, you are the natural heir to the throne of Genovia.
That's our law.
I'm royal by marriage. You are royal by blood.
You can rule.
Mia: Rule? Oh, no... Oh, no, no, no, no...
Now you have really got the wrong girl.
I never lead anybody. Not at Brownies, not at Campfire Girls...
Queen Clarisse, my expectation in life is to be invisible and I'm good at it.
Queen Clarisse: Amelia, I had other expectations, also.
In my wildest dreams, I never expected this to happen,
but you are the legal heir, the only heir to the Genovian throne,
and we will accept the challenge of helping you become the princess you are.
 I can give you books.
You'll study languages, history, art, political, science.
I can teach you to walk, talk, sit, stand, eat, dress like a princess.
Given time, I think you'll find the palace at Genovia are really a pleasant place to live.
Mia: Live in Genovia?
Queen Clarisse: It's a wonderful country, really.
Mia: Whoa, whoa... Rewind and freeze.
I'm no princess.
I'm still waiting for normal body parts to arrive.
I refuse to move to, and rule, a country,
and do you want another reason?
I don't want to be a princess.



Queen Clarisse: I speak for the entire Genovian parliament and the royal family.
Helen: And I speak for this family.
Mia: Excuse me, I don't have a family with either one of you,
because you ignored me for 15 years, and you lied to me.
Families don't do stuff like that to one another, okay?

Most kids hope for a car for their 16th birthday, not a country.
~Mia Thermopolis

Lilly, surprise by the limo: Did I miss something?
Are we going to a wedding?
Mia: No, school.
This is the surprise ride.

Queen Clarisse, as Mia turn around slowly: Well, carriage, obviously.
Hairstyle... complexion... 
Stop!
Eyes, lovely.
But hidden beneath bushman eyebrows.
The neck is seemly.
Ears... like her father.
Mia, touch her ear: Really? They are?
Queen Clarisse, grab Mia's fingers: Oh, my! Who has nails like this?
Mia: Everybody?
Queen Clarisse: Tomorrow I would like to see clean fingers.
And you will wear stockings, not tights, not socks, and I never want to see those shoes again.
[at walking lesson]
When walking in a crowd, one is under scrutiny all the time.
So we don't schlump like this.
We drop the shoulders, we think tall.
[Charlotte giggles while Mia make a funny expression]
We tuck under and we transfer the weight from one foot to...
 [at sit lesson]
No. Princesses never cross their legs in public.
Why don't you tuck one ankle behind the other, and place the hands gracefully on the knees.

Joe: The dances here are very sedate.
Right from the hips.
No bobbing of the head, please.
It's not a doggy on a dashboard.
Straight, straight, straight up.
Let's practice this here.
This dance is between a waltz and a tango, you see?
Mia: It's a wango?

I love your eyebrows.
We'll call them Frida and Kahlo.
If Brooke Shields married Groucho Marx, their child would have your eyebrows.
~Paolo

Lilly: Oi, who destroyed you?
Mia: You think it looks that bad?
Lilly: You look ridiculous, you should sue.
Mia: I know it's a little straighter and shorter.
Lilly: Weirder.
Michael: An attractive weirder.

You used to care more about what was inside your head instead of on it.
Come on, Mia, fess up.
I don't know where you are these days, and now you're an A-crowd wannabe?
You're morphing into one of them.
And who knows, next week you could be waving pompoms in my face.
You sold out!
~Lilly Moscovitz

You should know that no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Joe

Lilly: Just because the student population might be morally bankrupt doesn't mean they're blind.
Mia: Lilly, just stop it, okay?!
Just because your hair sucks, get off mine!
Michael: Ouch, thank you. [shakes Mia's hand]
Lilly: Michael, can you please pretend you have a life for just one moment?
Michael: Hey, relax, breathe...
Lilly, as Michael go: What did you just say to me?
Mia: You heard me.
I am so sick of you ragging on me all the time and always telling me what to do.
I got enough of that from my mother and now my grandmother.
I don't need that from you.
Lilly: I'm not an idiot.
I know something's going on you're not telling me.
Friends tell.

A week ago, Mia was a normal, little kid.
 She has never been normal, she was born royal.
~Queen Clarisse Renaldi

Mia: I don't want to run my own country.
I just want to pass 10th grade.
So, can't I tell everyone that I simply quit?
Joe: No one can quit being who they are, not even a princess.
You can refuse the job, but you are a princess by birth.
Mia: How can I tell if I can even do the job?
Joe: By simply simply trying.

Mia: Does my father always want to be a prince?
Queen Clarisse: Oh, yes.
Except once about 15 years ago.
He seriously considered renouncing his title.
Because he met a lovely artist who showed him wonderful things about how life could be,
how he could be.
Mia: But?
Queen Clarisse: But he had a decision to make.
Nobody could make it for him.
Not I, though many people thought I did, or anybody else.
Phillippe knew that my first born, his brother Pierre, wanted to abdicate,
which he did, eventually, to join the church.
Your father realized that the love he could have for one person, or even 2,
could not make him forget the love he felt for his country and its people.
It was the hardest thing he ever had to do.

Mia: I just kinda hope that if he kisses me, um... my foot pops.
Helen: Pops?
Mia: Yeah.
You know, in old films, whenever a girl gets seriously kissed, 
her foot would just kind of pop.

I didn't mean it.
The green monster of jealousy came out because you were Miss Popular
and I thought I was losing my best friend,
so I got angry, upset and hurt.
I told you, I need an attitude adjustment.
You being a princess is kind of a miracle.
~Lilly Moskovitz

Lilly: I just found out that my cable show only reaches 12 people.
Wanting to rock the world but having zip power like me, that's a nightmare.
But you, wow.
I mean...
Mia: Okay, what is so wow?
Lilly: Wow is having the power to affect change, make people listen.
How many teenagers have that power?
What more of a miracle do you want?
Mia: Well... we'll just have to find a different miracle, not more, just different.



Mia: I'm still going to the Genovian Independence Day Ball and I'm inviting you.
It could be fun.
I'm wearing this great dress I can't breathe in.
Lilly's got a date.
Michael: Josh looks better in a tux.
Mia: But, I really want you to be the one I share it with.
You don't have to wear a tux.
You can wear sweatpants for all I care.
Michael: Don't worry about me.
I just consider myself royally flushed.

Lana, after Mia spread an ice cream onto her cheerleader custom: Mia, you're such a freak.
Mia: Yeah, I am, but someday I might grow out of that.
But you?
You will never stop being a jerk.

Queen Clarisse: The truth is, I think you'd make a very fine princess.
People think princesses are supposed to wear tiaras, marry the prince,
always look pretty and live happily ever after.
But it's so much more than that.
It's a real job.
Mia: You are an extraordinary person, Grandma.



Amelia, courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The brave may not live forever,
but the cautious do not live at all.
From now on, you'll be traveling the road
between who you think you are and who you can be.
The key is to allow yourself to make the journey.
~Phillippe Renaldi

I wonder how I'd feel after abdicating my role as Princess of Genovia.
Would I feel relieved? Would I feel sad?
And then I realized how many stupid times a day I use the word "I".
In fact, probably all I ever do is think about myself.
How lame is that when there are 7 billion other people on the planet.
But then I thought, if I cared about the other 7 billion out there, instead of just me,
that's probably a much better use of my time.
If I were Princess of Genovia,
then my thoughts and those of people smarter than me would be much better heard,
and just maybe, those thoughts could be turned into actions.
So, this morning when I woke up, I was Mia Thermopolis.
But now, I choose to be, forevermore, Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi,
Princess of Genovia.





*****


Wednesday, June 20, 2012

VANILLA SKY [2001]

LoveHateDreamsLifeWorkPlayFriendshipSex





My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. 
Even in my dreams I'm an idiot... who knows he's about to wake up to reality. 
If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. 
I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. 
It never works...
[David] 

Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, 
somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search.
[David]

I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer. 
[David]



Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. 
[Sofia] 


What is any life without the pursuit of a dream? 
[Rebecca Dearborn]


It's been a brilliant journey of self-awakening. 
And now you've simply got to ask yourself this: What is happiness to you, David?
[Edmund] 

There are no guarantees, but remember: 
Even in the future, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour. 
[Edmund]



[David]: I like your life. 
[Sofia]: Well, it's mine and you can't have it!

[David]: Look at us. I'm frozen and you're dead, and I love you. 
[Sofia]: It's a problem. 
[David]: I lost you when I got in that car. I'm sorry. 



*****

THE OTHERS [2001]

No Door Is To Be Opened Before The Previous One Is Closed







I'm beginning to feel totally cut off from the world
[Grace]



Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead.  
[Mrs. Mills]

Sooner or later, they will find you. 
[Mrs. Mills] 

Death of a loved one can lead people to do the strangest things. 
[Mrs. Mills]




They're everywhere - they say this house is theirs.
[Anne]


[Grace]: If you're dead, then leave us in peace. Leave us in peace! 
[Mrs. Mills]: And suppose we do leave you, ma'am, do you suppose that They will? 
[Grace]: Who?
[Mrs. Mills]: The intruders.



[Grace]: Where's my daughter? What have you done with my daughter? 
[Anne]: Are you mad? I am your daughter. 



*****

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

AMERICA'S SWEETHEART [2001]

Being America's Sweethearts Isn't Always Easy




Everyone hates me, everyone wants a piece of me. 
My therapist is out of the country, I wasn't nominated for a Golden Globe this year! 
Leave me alone! 
[Gwen]


[Kiki]: You really need to go to this junket. 
[Gwen, shakes her head]: No. 
[Kiki]: Why not? 
[Gwen]: I'm afraid. 
[Kiki]: Of...? 
[Gwen]: That I'll see Eddie and he'll be this destroyed, pathetic mess and I'll feel guilty. 
And I'm tired of feeling guilty, Kiki, I really am. 
[Kiki]: I know. 
[Gwen]: I'm always thinking about other people. 
[Kiki]: I know you are. 
[Gwen]: It's awful when you're the only person who cares about other people's feelings. 
If they see Eddie and he's down and depressed, they're going to pity him and blame me. 
[Kiki]: So, what you're really worried about is you. 
[Gwen]: Of course. 

[Kiki]: You know what this is? This is high school all over again. Nothing has changed. 
You wanted to break up with one of your boyfriends in high school, did you do it? 
No! You made me do it. 
[Gwen]: I did not! 
[Kiki]: Oh, please! Let's just refresh your memory. Robert Mancuta?
[Gwen]: Eww! 
[Kiki]: Kyle Hassler? 
[Gwen]: Oh, God... 
[Kiki]: Toby Franks? Half the lacrosse team? Ring a bell? Huh? 
By the end of the year, I was the most hated girl in school.
[Gwen]: That's not true. 
[Kiki]: My quote in the yearbook was, 'Hey, we have to talk.' I was despised. 



[Gwen]: You love me. 
[Eddie]: Yes, I do. I do love you. 
I love that beautiful, bright, sexy woman up on the screen... 
[Gwen, to the crowd]: See? He loves me. 
[Eddie]: Yeah, the girl I used to make movies with. 
But that's not the real you. 
That's you pretending to be real, which you're really good at. 
So when I'm with you in real life, I think I'm going to be with the real you, but I'm not. 
I'm with the real you that's with me right now, not the real you from the movies, 
and I don't want to be with... 'you'. 


[Eddie]: That's a nice necklace. 
[Kiki]: It's not really mine.
[Eddie]: I know. 
[Kiki]: It's Gwen's. 
[Eddie]: I know. 
[Kiki]: She gave it to me. 
[Eddie]: And I gave it to her.
[Kiki]: I know.

[Eddie]: Kiki! Kiki! Hold on, hold on. I want to talk. Look... 
[Kiki]: Let go of me! 
[Eddie]: Just... I want to talk! 
[Kiki]: I don't want to talk to you! 
[Eddie]: Why not? 
[Kiki]: Because you're an idiot! 
[Eddie]: Well? 
[Kiki]: You know what? For that matter, I'm an idiot, too! 
In that respect, we're actually quite perfect for each other.
[Eddie]: This is a very complicated situation... 
[Kiki]: Well, let me uncomplicate it for you, huh? 
Forget about what happened between us, Eddie. It's not going to work, all right? 
I mean, last night... last night was great. 
But then she calls you this morning and you just cannot wait to get out the door to get to her! 
What is that? 
It's just not going to work, 'cause you will probably always be thinking about her, 
and I will probably always be wondering if you were thinking about her. 
I just... I just need you to know one thing. 
[Eddie]: What? 
[Kiki]: That woman that you saw by the pool the other night... 
[Eddie]: Yeah... 
[Kiki]: No, that woman that you just have to spend the rest of your life with...
That was me. 


[Eddie]: I am grateful for you. In all the world, thing I am most grateful for is you. 
[Kiki]: If that's a line from one of your movies... 
[Eddie]: No, that one's mine. 




[Kiki, after got kiss from Eddie]: What was that? 
[Eddie]: Another stupid thing. 


[Eddie]: I blew it. I lost her. 
[Lee]: Guy goes to his rabbi. 
He says, 'I think my wife's trying to poison me.' 
Rabbi says, 'Let me talk to her.' 
Comes back a little later and says, 
'Listen, I spoke to your wife for three hours. Take the poison.' 
You get it? 
You and Gwen are over. 
[Eddie]: I don't care about Gwen! I'm talking about Kiki. 



*****

SAVE THE LAST DANCE [2001]

The Only Person You Need To Be Is Yourself





You know what? 
Derek and I like each other and if you have a problem with that, then screw you.  
[Sara]

We spend more time defending our relationship than actually having one. 
[Sara]


You can do it. Sara, you were born to do it. 
[Derek]



Ain't nobody watchin' you but me. 
[Derek]



[Derek]: 'Stepps' ain't no square dance.
[Sara]: That's ok, I'll dance in circles, probably around you. 


[Kenny]: Don't blame me, I didn't want any of this! 
[Chenille]: What? 'Cause I did? I climbed on top of myself and got myself pregnant? 



*****

ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE [2001]

Go Somewhere Really Different This Year....



When you hit bottom, the only place left to go is up. 
[Thaddeus Thatch]





*****

Thursday, June 7, 2012

A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [2001]

David Is 11 Years Old. 
He Weighs 60 Pounds. 
He Is 4 Feet, 6 Inches Tall. 
He Has Brown Hair. 
His Love Is Real. 
But He Is Not.



 I can never go to sleep... but I can lay quietly and not make a peep. 
[David]

Mommy... I'm sorry I broke myself. 
[David]




I can't accept this! There is no substitute for you own child! 
[Monica]


The greatest single human gift - the ability to chase down our dreams. 
[Professor Hobby]




[Monica]: What day it is? 
[David]: It is... Today 

[Narrator]: David had never had a birthday party because David had never been born, 
so they baked a cake and lit some candles. 
[Monica]: Now make a wish.
[David]: It came true already.

I do love you, you know. I have always loved you. 
[Monica to David]



[David]: Mommy? Will you die?
[Monica]: Well, one day, David, yes, I will. 
[David]: I'll be alone.
[Monica]: Don't worry yourself so. 
[David]: How long will you live? 
[Monica]: For ages. For 50 years. 
[David]: I love you, Mommy. I hope you never die. Never. 

[David]: What's for dinner tonight?
[Monica]: You know you don't eat. 
[David]: Yes. But I like sitting at the table. 



*****