THE PRINCE OF EGYPT [1998]

Two Brothers United by Friendship Divided by Destiny

Seti: Responsible, huh!
Do you know the meaning of that word, Rameses?
Rameses: I understand, Father.

Seti: And do you understand the task for which your birth has destined you?
The ancient traditions.

When I pass into the next world, then you will be the morning and evening star.
Rameses: One damaged temple does not destroy centuries of tradition.
Seti: But one weak link can break the chain of a mighty dynasty!

Miriam: I know to whom I speak, Aaron.
[to Moses] I know who you are, and you are not a prince of Egypt.
Aaron: Miriam...
Moses: What did you say?
Aaron: Your Highness, pay her no heed.
C-come, Miriam. May I discuss something with you?
Miriam: No, Aaron, no!
Please Moses, you must believe.
Aaron: That's enough.
Miriam: You were born of my mother, Yocheved.
Aaron: Stop it!
Miriam: You are our brother!
Moses: Now you go too far. You shall be punished!
Aaron, kneel before Moses: No! Please, Your Highness.
She's ill. She's very ill.
We beg your forgiveness.
[to Miriam] Please, Miriam, let us go.
Miriam: No, Aaron.
[to Moses] Our mother set you adrift in a basket to save your life!
Moses: Save my life? From who?
Miriam: Ask the man that you call "Father".
Moses: How dare you?!
Miriam: God saved you to be our deliverer.
Moses: Enough of this.
Miriam: And you are, Moses, you are the deliverer.
Moses: I said enough! You will regret this night!

Seti: The Hebrews grew too numerous.
They might have risen against us.
Moses: Father, tell me you didn't do this.
Seti: Moses, sometimes, for the greater good, sacrifices must be made.
Moses: Sacrifices?
Seti, hug Moses: Oh, my son, they were only slaves.

Moses: This is where you found me?
The Queen: Moses, please try to understand.
Moses: So, everything I thought, everything I am, is a lie?
The Queen: No! You are our son, and we love you.
Moses: Why did you choose me?
The Queen: We didn't, Moses. The gods did.

Rameses: I am Egypt, the morning and the evening star.
If I say day is night, it will be written, and you will be what I say you are.
I say you are innocent.
Moses: What you say does not matter.
You don't understand.
I can't stay here any longer.
Rameses: Moses.
Moses: No!
All I've ever known to be true is a lie.
I'm not who you think I am.
Rameses: What are you talking about?
Moses: Go ask the man I once called "Father".

God: And so, unto Pharaoh, I shall send... you.
Moses: Me?
Who am I to lead these people?
They'll never believe me, they won't even listen me.
God: I shall teach you what to say.
Moses: But I was their enemy.
I was the Prince of Egypt, the son of the man who slaughtered their children.
You've chosen the wrong messenger.
How can I even speak to these people?
God: WHO MADE MAN'S MOUTH?
WHO MADE THE DEAF, THE MUTE, THE SEEING OR THE BLIND?
DID NOT I?
NOW GO!
Oh Moses, I shall be with you when you go to the king of Egypt.
But Pharaoh will not listen.
So I will stretch out My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders.

Take the staff in your hand, Moses.
With it, you shall do My wonders.
I shall be with you, Moses
~God

Moses: Rameses, in my heart, you are my brother, but things cannot be as they were.
Rameses: I see no reason why not.
Moses: You know I am a Hebrew, and the God of the Hebrews came to me.
Rameses: What?
Moses: He commands that you let His people go.

Rameses: Moses, I cannot change what you see.
I have to maintain the ancient traditions.
I bear the weight of my father's crown.
Moses: Do you still not understand what Seti was?
Rameses: He was... a great leader.
Moses: His hands bore the blood of thousands of children.
Rameses: Hmph, slaves.
Moses: My people.
And I can no longer hide in the desert while they suffer... at your hands.
Rameses: So, you have returned only to free them.
[Moses put down the ring that Rameses gave him]
Moses: I'm sorry.

I do not know this God, neither will I let your people go.
I will not be the weak link!
~Rameses

Aaron: So, Moses, how does it feel when you get struck to the ground?
Moses: I didn't mean to cause you more pain.
I'm just trying to do as God told me.
Aaron: God? When did God start caring about any of us?
In fact, Moses, when did you start caring about slaves?
Was it when you found out that you were one of us?
Tzipporah: Don't listen to him.
Moses: No, he's right.
I did not see because I did not wish to see.

Rameses Son: Isn't that the man who did all this?
Rameses: Yes. But one must wonder... why.
Moses: Because no kingdom should made on the backs of slaves.

You Hebrews have been nothing but trouble.
My father had the right idea about how to deal with your people.
And I think it's time I finished the job.
And there shall be a great cry in all of Egypt such as never has been or ever will be again!
~Rameses

God has come to me again, saying,
"Take a lamb, and with its blood mark the lintel and posts of every door.
For tonight I shall pass through the land of Egypt and smite all the firstborn.
But when I see the blood upon your door, I will pass over you,
and the plague shall not enter."
~Moses


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THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK [1997]

Something Has Survived

It's fine if you wanna put your name on something 

but STOP putting it on other people's headstones. 

[Dr. Ian Malcolm] 

Mommy's very angry.

[Dr. Ian Malcolm]

It is absolutely imperative that we work with the Costa Rican Department of Biological Preserves to establish a set of rules for the preservation and isolation of that island. 

These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. 

And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way. 

[John Hammond]

This is a game trail, Mr. Ludlow. Carnivors hunt on game trails. 

Do you want to set up base camp or a buffet?

[Roland Tembo]

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INDEPENDENCE DAY [1996]

The Day We'll Fight Back!

[Julius Levinson]: Hey don't you tell him to shut up! 

You'd all be dead now if it weren't for my David! 

None of you did anything to prevent this! 

[General Gray]: There was nothing we could do!

[Julius Levinson]: Oh don't give me that! You knew about this for a long time! 

What with that spaceship you found in New Mexico! 

What was it called... Roswell, New Mexico! 

And that other place... uh... Area 51, Area 51! 

You knew then! And you did nothing!

[President Thomas Whitmore]: Mr. Levinson, you're mistaken. 

There is no Area 51. There is no spaceship

[Albert Nimzicki]: Uh... Mr. President. That's not entirely accurate. 

[David Levinson]: What, which part?

[President Thomas Whitmore, at the secret government lab]: I don't understand, where does all this come from? 

How do you get funding for something like this?

[Julius Levinson]: You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you? 

All you need is love, John Lennon, smart man, shot in the back very sad.

[Julius Levinson]

And I always thought THESE were gonna kill me.

[David Levinson, pointing at cigar]

[David Levinson, after seeing Julius discard a styrofoam cup]: Hey, you have any idea how long it takes for those cups to decompose?

[Julius Levinson]: If you don't move soon, I'm gonna start to decompose.

THAT'S RIGHT! Thats what you get! Look at you, ship all banged up! 

WHO'S THE MAN? HUH? WHO'S THE MAN? 

Wait until I get another plane! 

I am going to line all your friends RIGHT BESIDE YOU! 

[Captain Steven Hiller] 

Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy! 

[Captain Jimmy Wilder]

I picked a hell of a day to quit drinkin'. 

[Russel Casse] 

If we don't act now, 

we may not have much of an America left to defend.

[Albert Nimzicki]

Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. 

And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. 

"Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. 

We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. 

We will be united in our common interests. 

Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... 

Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. 

We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. 

And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" 

We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

[President Thomas Whitmore]

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JURASSIC PARK [1993]

Life Finds a Way

Maybe dinosaurs have more in common with present-day birds than with reptiles.
Look at the pubic bone, turned backward, like a bird's.
Look at the vertebrae, full of air sacs and hollows, like a bird's.
And even the word 'raptor' means 'bird of prey'.
~Dr. Alan Grant

Imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period.
You'd get your first look at this 6-foot turkey as you enter a clearing.
He moves like a bird, lightly bobbing his head.
You keep still because maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex
and he'll lose you if you don't move.
But no, not Velociraptor.
You stare at him and he just stares right back.
And that's when the attack comes.
Not from the front, but from the side.
From the other two raptors you didn't even know were there.
Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter.
He uses co-ordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today.
[pull out the claw of raptor]
And he slashes at you with this,
a 6-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe.
He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, no.
He slashes at you [he lightly 'slashes' across the kid's body with the raptor claw] here or here...
Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines.
The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you.
So, try to show a little respect.
~Dr. Alan Grant, to the Volunteer Boy

Ellie: What's so wrong with the kids?
Alan: They're noisy, they're messy, they're expensive, they smell...
Ellie: They don't smell.
Alan: Some smell. Babies smell.

I own an island off the coast of Costa Rica.
I've leased it from the government
and during the last 5 years I've been setting up a biological preserve.
Really spectacular. Spared no expense.
Make the one I've fot down in Kenya look like a petting zoo.
And there's no doubt our attractions will drive kids out of their minds.
And not just kids. Everyone.
~John Hammond

Donald: This is not a weekend excursion.
This is a serious investigation of the stability of the island.
Your investors, whom I represent, are deeply concerned.
48 hours from now, if they're not convinced, I'm not convinced.
I'll shut you down, John.
John: In 48 hours, I'll be accepting your apologies.

Alan: We could tear up the rule book on cold-bloodedness.
It doesn't apply.
They're wrong.
This is a warm-blooded creature.
Ellie: This thing doesn't live in a swamp.
Alan: Thins thing's got a 25, 27-foot neck?
John: The Brachiosaurus? 30.
Alan: 30 feet.

Welcome to Jurassic Park.
~John Hammond

Just one drop of your blood contains billions of strands of DNA,
the building blocks of life.
A DNA strands like me is a blueprint for building a living thing.
And sometimes animals that went extinct millions of years ago like dinosaurs,
left their blueprints behind for us to find.
We just had to know where to look.
100 millions years ago, there were mosquitoes just like today.
And just like today, they fed on the blood of animals, even dinosaurs.
Sometimes, after biting a dinosaur, mosquitoes would land on the branch of a tree
and get stuck in the sap.
After a long time, the tree sap would get hard and become fossilised just like a dinosaur bone,
preserving the mosquito inside.
This fossilised tree sap, which we call amber,
waited for millions of years with the mosquito inside,
until Jurassic Park scientists came along.
Using sophisticated techniques, they extract the preserved blood from the mosquito,
and bingo! Dino DNA!
A full DNA strand contains 3 billion genetic codes.
If we looked at screens like these once a second for 8 hours a day,
it's take 2 years to look at the entire DNA strand.
It's that long.
Since it's so old, it's full of holes.
Now that's where our geneticists take over.
Thinking machine super-computers and gene sequencers break down the strand in minutes.
And virtual-reality displays show our geneticists the gaps in the DNA sequence.
We used the complete DNA of a frog to fill in the holes and complete the code.
Whew!
And now, we can make a baby dinosaur.
~Mr. DNA

Henry: Actually they can't breed in a wild.
Population control is one of our security precautions.
There's no unauthorized breeding in Jurassic Park.
Ian: How do you know they can't breed?
Henry: Because all the animals in Jurassic Park are female.
We've engineered them that way.

Ian: But, again, how do you know they're all female?
Does somebody go out in the park and pull up the dinosaur's skirts?
Henry: We control their chromosomes.
It's really not that difficult.
All vertebrate embryos are inherently female.
They just require an extra hormone given at the right developmental stage to make them male.
We simply deny them that.
Ellie: Deny them that?
Ian: John, the kind of control you're attempting is not possible.
If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us
it's that life will not be contained.
Life breaks free.
Expands to new places and it crashes through barriers, painfully,
maybe even dangerously, but there it is...
John: There it is...
Henry: You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will breed.
Henry: No, I'm simply saying that life finds a way.

Alan: What's their growth rate?
Robert: They're lethal at 8 months, and I do mean lethal.
I've hunted most things that can hunt you,
but how these things move...
Alan: Fast for a biped?
Robert: Cheetah speed.
50, 60 miles per hour if they ever got out in the open.
And they're astonishing jumpers.
John: Yes.
That's why we're taking extreme precautions.
Alan: Do they show intelligence?
Robert: They show extreme intelligence.
Even problem-solving intelligence.
Especially the big one.
We bred 8 originally, but when she came in, she took over the pride
and killed all but 2 of the others.
That one, when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out.
That's why we're feeding them like this.
She had them all attacking the fences when the feeders came.
Ellie: The fences are electrified, right?
Robert: That's right, but they never attack the same place twice.
They were testing the fences for weaknesses systematically.
They remember.

What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
~Dr. Ian Malcolm

The world has just changed so radically and we're all running to catch up.
I don't want to jump to any conclusions,
but dinosaurs and man...
two species seperated by 65 million years of evolution,
have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together.
How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?
~Dr. Alan Grant

One of the earliest carnivores, we know Dilophosaurus is actually poisonous,

spitting its venom as its prey, causing blindness and paralysis.

Allowing the carnivore to eat as its leisure.

This makes Dilophosaurus a beautiful but deadly addition to Jurassic Park.

~Tour Voice

Ian: God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs.

God creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs.

Ellie: Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth.

Alan: Now, Lex, listen.

Lex, I'm right here.

I'm gonna look after you but I have to help your brother.

Stay right here and wait for me.

Lex, trembling: He left us... he left us...

Alan: But that's not what I'm going to do.

Tim: What do you call a blind dinosaur?

"Do-you-think-he-saurus"

[Alan and Lex giggles]

Tim: What do you call a blind dinosaur's dog?

Alan: You got me.

Tim: A "Do-you-think-he-saurus-rex"

They'll be fine.

Who better to get the children through Jurassic Park than a dinosaur expert?

~John Hammond

[Lex got startled with a dinosaur]

Lex: Go away! Go away!

Alan: It's okay. It's a Brachoisaurus.

Tim: It's a 'Veggie-saurus', Lex, 'Veggie-saurus'.

[found egg-shell on their way]

Alan: It's the dinosaur's egg. The dinosaurs are breeding.

Tim: But, my grandpa said all the dinosaurs were girls.

Alan: Amphibian DNA.

Lex: What's that?

Alan: On the tour, the film said they used frog DNA to fill in the gene-sequence gaps.

They mutated the dinosaur genetic code and blended it with that of frogs.

Some West African frogs have been known to spontaneous change sex from male to female

in a single sex environment.

Malcolm was right.

Look... [see the tiny footsteps of dinosaurs] Life found a way.

[see a group of dinosaurs running]

Alan: Tim, can you tell me what they are?

Tim: They're a... Gal, eh... Gala, eh... Gallimimus.

Lex: Are those meat-eating? "Meat-asauruses"?

Alan: Look at the wheeling. Unifrom direction changes.

Just like a flock of birds evading a predator.

John: All major theme parks have delays.

When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.

Ian: But John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat tourists.

After careful consideration, I've decided not to endorse your park.
~Dr. Alan Grant


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