THE MIST [2007]

Fear Changes Everything

Billy: What is it, Daddy?

 David: Mist?

Stephanie: On the lake?

David: We've had mist on the lake before.

Stephanie: Coming off the mountain like that?

David: Two fronts meeting, left over from the storm, something like that...

Stephanie: You sure?

David: Honey, I'm not the weatherman.

Something in the mist!

Something in the mist took John Lee!

I could hear him screaming!

~Dan Miller

No, don't go out there.

It's the end of days.

~Mrs. Carmody

 

What the hell were those tentacles even attached to?

~David Drayton

Ollie: We've got to discuss how we're gonna stop that thing getting in here.

Myron: Wait, what do you mean getting in here?

You shut the loading door.

Ollie: Yeah, but the entire front of the store is plate glass.

You can't convince some people there's a fire, even when their hair is burning.

Denial is a powerful thing.

~Ollie Weeks

We are experiencing some kind of disaster.

I don't know whether it's man-made or natural, 

but I do know that it's definitely not supernatural or biblical, 

and, no offense Mrs Carmody, but the only way we're gonna help ourselves is to seek rescue.

We're going out.

~Brent Norton

David: You sure there's no way I can talk you out of this?

Brent: David, there's noting out there.

Nothing in the mist.

David: What if you're wrong?

Brent: Then I guess the joke would be on me after all.

David: Want another reason to get the hell out of here?

I'll give you the best one.

Mrs. Carmody.

She's our very own Jim Jones.

I'd like to leave before people start drinking the Kool-Aid.

Mike: Right. Flakier people get, the better she's gonna look.

Amanda: No, I don't buy that.

It's obvious she's nuts.

Look, a few people maybe, but...

David: No, I count 4.

She's preachin' to them right now.

By noon, she'll have 4 more.

By tomorrow night, when tjose things come back, she'll have a conregation,

and then we can start worryin' about who she's gonna sacrifice to make it all better.

You, Amanda? My little boy?

Dan: He's right.

Amanda: You don't have much faith in humanity, do you?

Dan: None whatsoever.

Amanda: I can't accept that.

People are basically good, decent.

My God, David, we're a civilized society.

David: Sure, as long as the machines are working and you can dial 911.

But you take those things away, you throw people in the dark, you scare the shit out of them.

No more rules, you'll see how primitive they get.

Dan: You scare people badly enough, you can get them to do anything.

They'll turn to whoever promises a solution, or whatever.

Amanda: Ollie, plese, back me up here.

Ollie: I wish I could.

As a species, we're fundamentally insane.

Put more than 2 of us in a room, we pick sides

and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another.

Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

I'd rather die out there trying than in here waiting.

~Amanda Dunfrey

Promise you won't let the monsters get me.

Ever.

No matter what.

~Billy Drayton

They're dead... for what?

~David Drayton

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THE GREEN MILE [1999]

Miracles Do Happen

[Paul Edgecomb]: What do you want, John Coffey? 

[John Coffey]: Just to help. 

[Paul Edgecomb]: What do you want me to do John? 

You want me to let you run out of here, see how far you can get? 

[John Coffey]: Why would you do such a foolish thing? 

[Paul Edgecomb]: On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? 

That it was my job? My job?

[John Coffey]: You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. 

I know you hurtin' and worryin', I can feel it on you, but you oughta quit on it now. 

Because I want it over and done. I do. 

I'm tired, boss. 

Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. 

Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, 

or tell me where we's coming from or going to, or why. 

Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. 

I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. 

There's too much of it. 

It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time. 

Can you understand? 

[Paul Edgecomb]: Yes, John. I think I can. 

People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world. 

[John Coffey]

Do you leave a light on after bedtime? 

Because I get a little scared in the dark sometimes. 
If it's a strange place.

[John Coffey]

The man is mean, careless, and stupid. 
Bad combination in a place like this. 

[Paul Edgecomb]

I just can't see God putting a gift like that in the hands of a man who would kill a child. 

[Paul Edgecomb]

We each owe a death - there are no exceptions - 
but, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long. 

[Old Paul Edgecomb]

I dreamed of you. 

I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. 

We found each other. We found each other in the dark. 

[Melinda Moores]

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