HAPPY FEET [2006]

 Everybody Dance Now


There is a wisdom, brothers and sisters, that stands above all others.

Never, ever, no matter what, drop your egg.

~Lovelace

Memphis: What you doing there, boy?

Mumble: I'm happy, Pa.
Memphis: What you doing with your feet?
Mumble: They're happy, too.
Memphis: I wouldn't do that around folks, son.
Mumble: Why not?
Memphis: It just ain't penguin, okay?

Memphis: So, when you see your mama...
Mumble: I stand perfectly still.
Memphis: You got it.
Mumble: But how will I know which one's my mama?
Memphis: Oh, you'll know.
She's got a wiggle in her walk, and a giggle in her talk.
And when she sings, it darn near breaks your heart.

Miss Viola: Today we begin with the most important lesson you will ever learn at Penguin Elementary.
Does anyone know what that is?
Anyone? Anyone? Someone? Seymour?
Seymour: Fishing?
Miss Viola: No. 
Mumble?
Mumble: Don't eat yellow snow? 
Miss Viola: No, that's not it, no. 
Gloria: It's our Heartsong, Miss.
Miss Viola: Thank you, Gloria. Excellent, yes. 
Without our Heartsong, we can't be truly penguin, can we?
 Class: No...
Miss Viola: But, my dears, it's not something that I can actually teach you. 
Does anybody know why?
Anyone? Anyone? 
Gloria: You can't teach it to us, ma'am, because we have to find our Heartsongs all by ourselves.
It's the voice you hear inside who you truly are.
Miss Viola: Yes, thank you, Gloria. 

 A penguin without a Heartsong is hardly a penguin at all.
~Miss Viola

 Mumble: I can leave school. I can go to work. The 3 of us.
 Memphis: Whoa, little fella, you ain't going nowhere till you got yourself an education.
 You get them singing muscles big and strong, you got that?
Mumble: I'll try, Pa.
Memphis: You bet you will.
The word 'triumph' starts with 'try', and it ends with...?
 Mumble: 'Umph'.
Memphis: That's right. A great big 'umph'. 

 You bring this stranger before me.
He doubts my powers.
He compares me to a skua. 
The voices are shrieking in my head.
They say, "Lovelace, who is this fool? Tel him, tell him to go forth and multiply!"
~Lovelace

 Gloria: I don't need an egg to be happy. Mumble: You say that now, but what about later when all your freinds have eggs?
 Gloria: Then I'll have you.

 Hello, hello from Emperor Land. Good afternoon.
Why are you taking our fish? 
I'm sure you don't mean to, but you're causing an awful lot of grief.
~Mumble, to human

 Noah: So, you dare come back?
 Seymour: He says he's found aliens and they're taking our fish.
 He says that they're coming and we all have to do this.
[start dancing]
Noah: There be no such thing as aliens!
Gloria: Mumble, turn around.
[Mumble turn around, everyone gasping at the device stuck on his back]
Is that from them?
Mumble: Yeah.
But don't be afraid. I think it's a way to find me, that's all.
 Noah: You lead them here?
You turned them on your own kind?
 Gloria: Wait a second, you just said there's no such thing as aliens.
 Noah: Well, there's not.
But if there were, only a traitorous fool would bring them here.
  Mumble: But they have to come.
They're the ones taking our fish.
They can do something about it. 
Noah: None but the Great Guin has the power to give and take away.
 Mumble: The Great Guin didn't put things out of whack, the aliens did.
Noah: A fool returns this day to mock our suffering.
We are starving and he wants us to hippity-hop.
So, do we hold fast to our ways, or do we bend to the fetid fantasies of a dancing fool?



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X-MEN: THE LAST STAND [2006]

Take a Stand

Logan: Maybe it's time for us to move on.

Scott: Not everybody heals as fast as you, Logan.

No, Professor, they can't cure us.

You wanna know why?

Because there's nothing to cure.

Nothing's wrong with you. Or any of us, for that matter.

~Storm

Prof. X: Jean Grey is the only class 5 mutant I've ever encountered, her potential limitless.

Her mutation is seated in the unconscious part of her mind and therein lay the danger.

When she was a girl, I created a series of psychic barriers

to isolate her powers from her conscious mind.

And the result is Jean developed a dual personality.

Logan: What?

Prof. X: The conscious Jean, whose powers were always in her control, and the dominant side.

A personality that, in our sessions, came to call itself The Phoenix.

A purely instinctual creature, all desire and joy and rage.

Logan: She knew all this?

Prof. X: It's unclear how much she knew.

Far more critical is whether the woman in front of us is the Jean Grey we know

or The Phoenix furiously struggling to be free.

Logan: She looks peaceful to me.

Prof. X: Because I'm keeping her that way.

I'm trying to restore the psychic blocks and cage the beast again.

Logan: What have you done to her?

Prof. X: You have to understand...

Logan: You're talking about a person's mind.

Prof. X: She has to be controlled.

Logan: Controlled?

Sometimes, when you cage the beast, the beast gets angry.

Prof. X: You have no idea of what she is capable of.

Logan: No, Professor, I had no idea what you were capable of.

Don't let it control you.
~Professor X, to Jean-Grey

We live in an age of darkness.

A world full of fear, hate and intolerance.

But in every age, there are those who fight against it.

Charles Xavier was born to a world divided.

A world he tried to heal.

A mission he never saw accomplished.

It seems the destiny of great man to see their goals unfulfilled.

Charles was more than a leader, more than a teacher.

He was a friend.

When we were afraid, he gave us strength.

And when we were alone, he gave us a family.

He may be gone, but his teachings live on through us, his students.

Wherever we may go, we must carry on his vision.

And that's a vision of a world united.

~Storm

Callisto: She couldn't be here with us.
Her power is completely unstable.
Magneto: Only in the wrong hands.
Pyro: And you trust her? She's one of them.
Magneto: So were you once.
Pyro: I'm stuck with you all the way.
Would have killed the professor if you'd given me the chance.
Magneto: Charles Xavier did for the mutants than you'll ever know.
My single greatest regret is that he had to die for our dream to live.

Logan: If Magneto gets that cure, we can't stop him.
Beast: Can you estimate how many he has?
Logan: An army. And Jean.
His powers have limits, hers do not.
Bobby: There's only 6 of us, Logan.
Logan: Yeah, we're outnumbered. I'm not gonna lie to you.
But we lost Scott.
We lost the professor.
If we don't fight now, everything they stood for will die with them.
I'm not gonna let that happen.
Are you?
[Bobby shakes his head]
Then we stand together.
X-Men.
All of us.

Mr. Worthington: I only wanted to help you people.
Kid Omega: Do we look like need your help?

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X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE [2009]

Stryker: You boys tired of running? Tired of denying your true nature?

Victor: What do you care?

Stryker: Oh, I care.

I care because I know how special you are. How valuable.

Look, you can stay here locked up like freaks of nature, or you can join me.

I'm putting together a special team with special privileges.

Now tell me, how would you like to really serve your country?

Stryker, to Logan: My God, haven't aged a day.

Logan: Clean living.

Stryker: You remember Agent Zero?

Logan: Still shooting first, asking question later?

[Zero shoots Logan's cigar as flash speed]

Zero: You still chewing on cheap cigars?

Stryker: Boys, please... [to Logan] I have a job for you.

Logan: I already have a job.

Zero: Lumberjack? 18 grand a year?

Logan: 18,5. 

Plus, I haven't had to kill anyone in a while.

Zero: Starting to miss it?

Logan: Right about now I am.

Logan: Stryker came by today.

Don't worry, I said no.

Kayla: Why is he bothering you after all these years?

Logan: Because I'm the best there is at what I do,

but what I do best isn't very nice.

Kayla: You're not an animal, Logan.

What you have is a gift.

Logan: A gift... You can return a gift.

Kayla: Why is the moon so lonely?

Logan: Why?

Kayla: Because she used to have a lover.

Logan: Oh, you tell this to the kids?

Kayla: No.

His name was Kuekuatsheu and they lived in The Spirit World together.

Logan: Oh, this is a true story? All right...

Kayla: And every night they would wander the skies together.

But one of the other spirit was jealous.

Trickster wanted the moon for himself, so he told Kuekuatsheu that the moon has asked for flowers.

He told him to come to our world and pick her some wild roses.

But Kuekuatsheu didn't know that once you leave The Spirit World, you can never go back.

And every night he looks up in the sky and sees the moon and howls her name.

But, he can never touch her again.

Logan: Wow... koo-koo-ka-choo got screwed.

Kayla: Kuekuatsheu. [Logan laughing] It means The Wolverine.

Victor: When are you gonna figure it out? We're not like them.

Logan: I am nothing like you.

Victor: Sure you are. You just don't know it yet.

Stryker: You can't beat him, Logan, you know you can't!

Logan: I'm gonna find him and kill him!

Stryker: I can give you the tools to defeat him.

And we can still save the others.

Logan: You mean save yourself, right?

Stryker: I promise you 2 things.

You will suffer more pain than any other man can endure, but you'll have your revenge.

Logan: I come with you, I'm coming for blood.

No law, no code of conduct.

You point me in the right direction, you get the hell out of my way.

Stryker: You remember what we were looking for in Africa?

Logan: I remember.

Stryker: Well, I found it.

It helped us create a metal compound so strong that you will be able to withstand virtually anything.

It's called Adamantium

I can't put Victor down myself, Logan.

To kill him, you're gonna have to embrace the other side.

Become the animal.

~Stryker

Stryker: I almost forgot. [showing him his old dogtags]

Logan: I want new ones.

Stryker: What do you want them to say?

Logan: Wolverine.

Logan: What the island?

Fred Duke: It's where Stryker takes them after Victor's caught them.

Logan: Wait, hang on a minute. Takes who?

Fred Duke: Mutants.

Rumor is that Stryker's doing experiments on them there.

I mean, you never wondered what happened to them?

John Wraith: I tried not to.

They killed her so I'd let them put Adamantium in me.

They killed her for a goddamn experiment!

~Logan

John Wraith: What's Stryker up to, Fred? What's the endgame?

Fred Dukes: He's taking their powers, trying to combine them somehow.

Stryker: Don't be angry with her. She's a real credit to our species.

Did you know that her sister has diamond-hard skin?

Kayla's mutation is tactohypnosis.

She can influence people as long as she touches them.

Quite a useful tools in a seduction.

It was never real, my friend.

Logan: It was real for me.

I told you, if you came down this road, you wouldn't like what you found.

~Stryker

That story you told me about a man who gets flowers for the moon,

I had it backwards.

I thought you were the moon and I was your wolverine.

But you're the trickster, aren't you?

I'm just the fool who got played.

The worst part of it, I should've known.

But I ignored my instincts.

I ignored what I really am.

~Logan

Logan: This doesn't change anything between us, Victor. We're done!

Victor: We can never be done, Jimmy, we're brothers.

And brothers look out for each other.

I should make you pull the trigger.

But that would make us no better than you.

~Kayla, to Stryker

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