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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BICENTENNIAL MAN [1999]

One Robot's 200 Year Journey to Become an Ordinary Man

 As the great Andrew Martin once said 'One is glad to be of service'.

[Galatea] 

 I think personality is much more important than intelligence, don't you? 

[Galatea]

[Rupert Burns]: What do they say? 

[Andrew Martin]: That you can lose yourself. Everything. All boundaries. All time. 

That two bodies can become so mixed up, that you don't know who's who or what's what. 

And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you're gonna die... you kind of do. 

Leaving you alone in your separate body, but the one you love is still there. 

That's a miracle. 

You can go to heaven and come back alive. 

You can go back anytime you want with the one you love. 

[Rupert Burns]: And you want to experience that?

[Andrew Martin]: Oh, yes, please.

[Rupert Burns]: So do I. 

[President Marjorie Bota]: Andrew Martin

[Andrew Martin]: I've always tried to make sense of things. 

There must be some reason I am as I am. 

As you can see, Madame Chairman, I am no longer immortal.

[President Marjorie Bota]: You have arranged to die?

[Andrew Martin]: In a sense I have. 

I am growing old, my body is deteriorating, and like all of you, will eventually cease to function. 

As a robot, I could have lived forever. 

But I tell you all today, I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity a machine.

[President Marjorie Bota]: Why do you want this? 

[Andrew Martin]: To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. 

Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. 

 This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity. 

[President Marjorie Bota]: Mister Martin, what you are asking for is extremely complex and controversial. 

It will not be an easy decision. 

I must ask for your patience while I take the necessary time to make a determination of this extremely delicate matter. 

[Andrew Marin]: And I await your decision, Madame Chairman, thank you for your patience.

What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation! 

Real morality lies in following one's own heart. 

[Portia]

Do you know what it feels like to be in love with someone that is about to marry someone else? 

[Andrew Martin]

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PATCH ADAMS [1998]

Laughter Is Contagious

I wanted to become a doctor so I could serve others. 

And because of that, I've lost everything. 

But I've also gained everything. 

[Hunter Patch Adams]

All of life is a coming home. 

Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword swallowers, all of us. 

All the restless hearts of the world, all trying to find a way home. 

It's hard to describe what I felt like then. 

Picture yourself walking for days in the driving snow; 
you don't even know you're walking in circles. 

The heaviness of your legs in the drifts, your shouts disappearing into the wind. 

How small you can feel, and how far away home can be. 

Home. 

The dictionary defines it as both a place of origin and a goal or destination. 

And the storm? 

The storm was all in my mind. 

Or as the poet Dante put it: 
In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a dark wood, 
for I had lost the right path. 

Eventually I would find the right path, but in the most unlikely place.

[Hunter Patch Adams]

*standing on the edge of a cliff contemplating suicide. He talks to God...* 

So what now, huh? What do you want from me? 

*looks down over cliff, a rock tumbles off* 

Yeah, I could do it. We both know you wouldn't stop me. 

So answer me please. Tell me what you're doing. 

Okay, let's look at the logic. 

You create man. Man suffers enormous amounts of pain. Man dies. 

Maybe you should have had just a few more brainstorming sessions prior to creation. 

You rested on the seventh day. 

Maybe you should've spent that day on compassion. 

*looks down over the cliff again* 

You know what? You're not worth it. 

*walks away from the cliff*

[Hunter Patch Adams] 

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease. 

[Hunter Patch Adams]

Now you have the ability to keep me from graduating. 

You can keep me from getting the title and the white coat. 

But you can't control my spirit, gentlemen. 

You can't keep me from learning, you can't keep me from studying. 

So you have a choice: you can have me as a professional colleague, passionate, 
or you can have me as an outspoken outsider, still adament. 

Either way I'll probably still be viewed as a thorn. 

But I promise you one thing: I am a thorn that will not go away 

[Hunter Patch Adams]

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; 
I envied them so much. 

No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, 
they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched. 

[Corinne Fisher]

You're focusing on the problem. 

If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. 

Never focus on the problem! 

[Arthur Mendelson]

See what no one else sees. 

See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. 

See the whole world a new each day! 

[Arthur Mendelson]

Our job is to rigorously and ruthlessly train the humanity out of you and make you into something better. 

We're gonna make doctors out of you. 

[Dean Walcott]

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GOOD WILL HUNTING [1997]

Some People Can Never Believe In Themselves, 

Until Someone Believes In Them

Nail them while they're vulnerable, that's my motto.

[Sean]

I just have a little question here. 

You could be a janitor anywhere. 

Why did work at the most prestigious technical college in the whole fuckin' world? 

And why did you sneak around at night and finish other people's formulas that only one or two people in the world could do and then lie about it? 

'Cause I don't see a lot of honor in that, Will.

[Sean]

[Sean]: Do you have a soul mate?

[Will]: Define that.

[Sean]: Someone you can relate to, someone who opens things up for you.

[Will]: Sure, I got plenty.

[Sean]: Well, name them.

[Will]: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Frost, O'Conner...

[Sean]: Well that's great. They're all dead.

[Will]: Not to me, they're not.

[Sean]: You can't have a lot of dialogue with them.

[Will]: Not without a heater and some serious smelling salts.

[Sean]: So what do you really want to do?

[Will]: I wanna be a shepherd.

[Sean]: Really.

[Will]: I wanna move up to Nashua, get a nice little spread, 
get some sheep and tend to them.

[Sean]: Maybe you should go do that.

[Will]: I didn't ask for this.

[Sean]: No, you were born with it. So don't cop out behind 'I didn't ask for this'.

[Sean]: Maybe 'you're' perfect right now. Maybe you don't wanna ruin that. 

I think that's a super philosophy, Will; that way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody...

[Will]: You ever think about gettin' remarried?

[Sean]: My wife's dead.

[Will]: Hence the word: remarried.

[Sean]: She's dead.

[Will]: Yeah; well, I think that's a super philosophy, Sean. 

I mean, that way you could actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.

[Sean]: Time's up.

[Sean]: Thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting. 

Stayed up half the night thinking about it. 

Something occurred to me... fell into a deep peaceful sleep, and haven't thought about you since. 

Do you know what occurred to me?

[Will]: No.

[Sean]: You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about.

[Will]: Why thank you.

[Sean]: It's all right. You've never been out of Boston.

[Will]: Nope.

[Sean]: So if I asked you about art, 
you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. 

Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. 
Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, 
sexual orientations, the whole works, right? 

But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. 

You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. 

If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. 

You may have even been laid a few times. 

But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. 

You're a tough kid. 

And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, 
 "once more unto the breach dear friends." 

But you've never been near one. 

You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, 
watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. 

I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. 

But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. 

Known someone that could level you with her eyes, 
feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. 

Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. 

And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, 
be there forever, through anything, through cancer. 

And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, 
holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, 
that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. 

You don't know about real loss, 
'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. 

And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. 

And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... 
I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. 

But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. 

No one could possibly understand the depths of you. 

But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, 
and you ripped my fucking life apart. 
You're an orphan right?

*Will nods*

You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, 
how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? 

Does that encapsulate you? 

Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, 
I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. 

Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. 

But you don't want to do that, do you sport? 

You're terrified of what you might say. 
Your move, chief.

That's why I'm not talkin' right now about some girl I saw at a bar twenty years ago 
and how I always regretted not going over and talking to her. 

I don't regret the 18 years I was married to Nancy. 

I don't regret the six years I had to give up counseling when she got sick. 

And I don't regret the last years when she got really sick. 

And I sure as hell don't regret missin' the damn game. 

That's regret.

[Sean]

[Skylar]: What is your obsession with this money? 

My father died when I was 13 and I inherited this money. 

You don't think that every day I wake up and wish I could give it back? 

That I would give it back in a second if I could have one more day with him? 

But I can't, and that's my life and I deal with it. 

So don't put your shit on me when you're the one that's afraid.

[Will]: I'm afraid? What am I afraid of? What the fuck am I afraid of?

[Skylar]: You're afraid of me! You're afraid that I won't love you back! 

Fuck it, I wanna give it a shot! At least I'm honest with you.

Sometimes I wish I had never met you. 

Because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.

[Lambeau]

 

You know, I was on this plane once. 

And I'm sittin' there and the captain comes on and he does his whole, 'We'll be cruising at 35,000 feet,' then he puts the mike down but he forgets to turn it off. 

Then he turns to the copilot and goes, 'You know, all I could go for right now is a fuckin' blow job and a cup of coffee.' 

So the stewardess fuckin' goes bombin' up from the back of the plane to tell him the mic's still on, and this guy behind me goes, 'Hey hon, don't forget the coffee!'

[Will]

Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. 
We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. 

But you know what the best part of my day is? 

For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, 
'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. 

No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. 

I don't know much, but I know that.

[Chuckie]

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