BEOWULF [2007]

Pride is the Curse

 

 

 Hrothgar: I've let it be known that I will give half the gold in my kingdom to any man who can rid us of Grendel.

Unferth: My King, for deliverance, our people sacrifice goats and sheep to Odin and Heimdall.

 With your permission, shall we also pray to the new Roman God, Christ Jesus?

 Perhaps He can lift our affliction.

 Hrothgar: No, Unferth, no.

The gods will do nothing for us that we will not do for ourselves.

 What we need is a hero.

 

Beowulf: I am Beowulf.

And I'm here to kill your monster.

Coast Guard: I thought there were no more heroes foolish enough

to come around here and die for our gold.

Beowulf: If we die, it'll be for glory, not for gold.

 

 There have been many brave men who have come to taste my Lord's mead,

and many who have sowrn to rid his hall of our nightmare.

 But in the morning, there was nothing left of any of them

but blood to be cleaned from the floor, and the benches, and the walls.

 ~Wealthow

 

 I, Beowulf, killed atribe of giants on the Orkneys, crushed the skulls of sea-serpents,

and this troll of yours will trouble you no more.

~Beowulf

 

 

 One needs glamour to become a king.

 A man like you could own the greatest tale ever sung.

Your story would live on when everything now alive is dust.

~Grendel's Mother

 

 

You think you're the first to try to kill me, or the hundredth?

The gods will not allow my death by your feeble blade.

 The gods will not allow me to die by a sword, or be taken by the sea.

 The gods will not let me pass in my sleep, ripe with age.

 ~Beowulf

 

 When I was young,

I used to think being a king was about battling every morning 

and counting the gold and loot in the afternoon

and swiving beautiful women every evening.

But now, nothing is as good as it should have been.

~Beowulf

 

 Unferth: You had an agreement.

You would not be harmed.

But now the golden horn has returned to you.

The agreement is ended.

Beowulf: Who? Who said that?

Unferth: "The sins of the fathers!"

 That's the last thing I heard.

The last thing before my family was burned alive.

The sins of the fathers.

 

 Wealthow: Why don't you take that poor girl and live out your remaining years in peace?

 Let some young hero save us.

 Beowulf: What? And let the nightmare start all over again?

 No. I visited this horror upon my kingdom.

I must be the one to finish her.

Wealthow: Her.

 Was she so beautiful, Beowulf?

A beauty so costly?

 Beowulf: Beautiful, and full of fine promises.

I was weak.

I am sorry.

So, so sorry.

I have always loved you, My Queen.

Wealthow: And I you.

 

 Keep a memory of me, not as a king or a hero,

 but as a man, fallible and flawed.

~Beowulf

 

 

 

 

 

*****

POLAR EXPRESS [2004]

This Holiday Season... Believe


 On Christmas eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed.
I did not rustle the sheets.
I breathed slowly and silently.
I was listening for a sound I was afraid I'd never hear.
The ringing bells of Santa's sleigh.
~Hero Boy

Conductor: Well, you coming?
Hero Boy: Where?
Conductor: Why, to the North Pole, of course.
This is the Polar Express.
Hero Boy: The North Pole?
Conductor: I see.
Is this you? [show the boy the clipboard]
Hero Boy: Yeah.
Conductor: Well, it says here,
no photo with a department-store Santa this year, no letter to Santa.
And you made your sister put out the milk and cookies.
Sounds to me like this is your crucial year.
If I were you, I would think about climbing on board.

Christmas may not be important to some people, but it is very important to the rest of us!
~Conductor

Hero Boy: I want to believe. But...
Smokey: But, you don't wanna be bamboozled.
You don't wanna be led down the primrose path.
You don't wanna be conned or duped, have the wool pulled over your eyes.
Hoodwinked.
You don't wanna be taken for a ride, railroaded.
Seeing is believing, am I right?
Hero Boy: But what about this train?
Smokey: What about it?
Hero Boy: We're all really going to the North Pole, aren't we?
Smokey: Aren't we?
Hero Boy: Are you saying that this is all just a dream?
Smokey: You said it, kid, not me.

 

There's no greater gift than friendship.~Santa

This bell is a wonderful symbol of the spirit of Christmas as am I.
Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.
~Santa

Conductor: That is some special ticket.
Lonely Boy: Sure is.
 Conductor: So, can you count on us to get you home safe and sound?
Lonely Boy: Absolutely.
Me... and my friends.

One thing about trains,
it doesn't matter where they're going, what matters is deciding to get on.
~Conductor

At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell.
But as years passed, it fell silent for all of them.
Even Sarah found, one Christmas, that she could no longer hear its sweet sound.
Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me.
As it does for all who truly believe.
~Hero Boy

*****

CAST AWAY [2000]

At The Edge Of The World, 

His Journey Begins

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

[Chuck Noland, reading from a birthday card]

I'm always going to keep this watch on Memphis time. Kelly time. 

[Chuck Noland]

We might just make it. 

Did that thought ever cross your brain? 

Well, regardless, I would rather take my chance out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island, spending the rest of my life talking... 

TO A GODDAMN VOLLEYBALL! 

[Chuck Noland, to Wilson the volleyball]

We both had done the math. 

Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. 

I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 

'cos I was never gonna get off that island. 

I was gonna die there, totally alone. 

I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. 

The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. 

So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. 

I had to test it, you know? 

Of course. You know me. 

And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , 
I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. 

I had power over 'nothing'. 

And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. 

I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. 

Somehow. I had to keep breathing. 

Even though there was no reason to hope. 

And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. 

So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. 

And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. 

And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. 

I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. 

I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. 

But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. 

And I know what I have to do now. 

I gotta keep breathing. 

Because tomorrow the sun will rise. 

Who knows what the tide could bring?

[Chuck Noland]

*****

CONTACT [1997]

If It's Just Us, 

It Seems Like An Awful Waste Of Space

[Young Ellie]: Dad, do you think there's people on other planets?

[Ted Arroway]: I don't know, Sparks. 

But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space.

[David Drumlin]: I know you must think this is all very unfair. 

Maybe that's an understatement. What you don't know is I agree. 

I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, 
where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, 
not taken advantage of. 

Unfortunately, we don't live in that world. 

[Ellie Arroway]: Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it.

[Executive]: We must confess that your proposal seems less like science and more like science fiction. 

[Ellie Arroway]: Science fiction. Well you're right, it's crazy. 
In fact, it's even worse than that, nuts. 

*angrily slams down her briefcase and marches up to the desk*

You wanna hear something really nutty? 

I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an "airplane," 
you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? 

And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon, or atomic energy, 
 or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? 

Look, all I'm asking, is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. 

You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture. 

To take a chance on something that just might end up being the most profoundly impactful moment for humanity, for the history... of history.

[Palmer Joss]: What are you studying up there? 

[Ellie Arroway]: Oh, the usual. Nebulae, quasars, pulsars, stuff like that. 

What are you writing?

[Palmer Joss]: The usual. Nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there.

[Palmer Joss, Ellie challenges Palmer to prove the existence of God]: Did you love your father?

[Ellie Arroway]: What?

[Palmer Joss]: Your dad. Did you love him? 

[Ellie Arroway]: Yes, very much. 

[Palmer Joss]: Prove it.

[Palmer Joss]: By doing this, you're willing to give your life, you're willing to die for it. Why?

[Ellie Arroway]: For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something, 
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we? 

If this is a chance to find out even just a little part of that answer... 
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. 

Don't you? 

So what's more likely? 

That an all-powerful, mysterious God created the Universe, 
and decided not to give any proof of his existence? 

Or, that He simply doesn't exist at all, and that we created Him, 
so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and alone?

[Ellie Arroway]

Mathematics is the only true universal language.

[Ellie Arroway]

Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? 

We shop at home, we surf the web... 
at the same time, we feel emptier, lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history... 

[Palmer Joss]

I'm not against technology, doctor. 

I'm against the men who deify it at the expense of human truth. 

[Palmer Joss]

As a person of faith I'm bound by a different covenant than Doctor Arroway. 

But our goal is one and the same: the pursuit of Truth. 

I for one believe her. 

[Palmer Joss]

*****

FORREST GUMP [1994]

Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates...

You Never Know What You're Gonna Get

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. 

[Forrest Gump] 

Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. 

From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running! 

[Forrest Gump]

Mama says they was magic shoes. They could take me anywhere. 

[Forrest Gump]

You know it's funny what a young man recollects? 

'Cause I don't remember bein' born. 

I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. 

But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world. 

[Forrest Gump]

[Dorothy Harris]: Are you coming along?

[Young Forrest Gump]: Mama said not to be taking rides from strangers. 

[Dorothy Harris]: This is the bus to school.

[Young Forrest Gump]: I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump. 

[Dorothy Harris]: I'm Dorothy Harris. 

[Young Forrest Gump]: Well, now we ain't strangers anymore.

[Jenny Curran]: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?

[Forrest Gump]: Who I'm gonna be? 

[Jenny Curran]: Yeah.

[Forrest Gump]: Aren't-aren't I going to be me?

[Jenny Curran]: His name's Forrest.

[Forrest Gump]: Like me. 

[Jenny Curran]: I named him after his daddy.

[Forrest Gump]: He got a daddy named Forrest, too?

[Jenny Curran]: You're his daddy, Forrest.

Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here. 

[Young Jenny Curran]

[Lieutenant Daniel Taylor]: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?

[Forrest Gump]: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for Him, sir.

Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. 

You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. 

Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. 

Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. 

There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. 

That- that's about it

[Bubba]

*****

DEATH BECOMES HER [1992]

In One Small Bottle... 
The Fountain Of Youth

The Secret Of Eternal Life

The Power Of An Ancient Potion

Sometimes It Works... 
Sometimes It Doesn't

[Lisle von Rhuman]: Go on... Drink it... It is the completion of your life's work. 

You gave other people youth and wasted your own! 

Drink. And you will be able to work again forever! 

Drink... drink, Dr. Menville. 

You owe yourself another chance! 

Drink! It's the right choice! The 'only' choice! 

Drink! SEMPRE VIVE! LIVE FOREVER!

[Ernest Menville]: Then what? 

[Lisle von Rhuman]: What?

[Ernest Menville]: Then what happens? 

[Lisle von Rhuman]: What? 

[Ernest Menville]: I don't want to live forever. 

I mean, it sounds good, but what am I gonna do? 

What if I get bored?

[Lisle von Rhuman]: What?

[Ernest Menville]: And what if I get lonely? 

Who am I gonna hang around with, Madeleine and Helen? 

[Lisle von Rhuman]: But you'll never grow old!

[Ernest Menville]: Yes, but everybody else will! 

I'll have to watch everyone around me die. 

I don't think this is right. 

This is not a dream. This is a nightmare! 

*****