THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS [1991]

May The Silence Be Broken

*****

FATHER OF THE BRIDE [1991]

 Love Is Wonderful. 

Until It Happens To Your Only Daughter.

Well, that's the thing about life, is the surprises, 

the little things that sneak up on you and grab hold of you. 

[George]

*****

MY GIRL [1991]

When Your Dad's An Undertaker, 

Your Mom's In Heaven, 

And Your Grandma's Got A Screw Loose...

It's Good To Have A Friend Who Understands You. 

Even If He Is A Boy.

[Vada]: Why do you think people want to get married? 

[Thomas J. Sennett]: When you get old, you just have to. 

[Vada]: I'm gonna marry Mr. Bixler. 

[Thomas J. Sennett]: You can't marry a teacher, it's against the law. 

[Vada]: It is not. 

[Thomas J. Sennett]: Yes it is, 'cause then he'll give you all A's, and it won't be fair. 

*****

BOYZ N THE HOOD [1991]

Increase The Peace

*****

HOME ALONE [1990]

A Family Comedy Without The Family

This is my house, I have to defend it

[Kevin McCallister]

This is extremely important. 

Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back. 

No toys, nothing but Peter, Kate, Buzz, Megan, Linnie, and Jeff. 

And my aunt and my cousins. 

And in a few years time, my Uncle Frank. 

Okay

[Kevin McCallister]

This is *Christmas*. The season of perpetual hope. 

And I don't care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike. 

If it costs me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son.

[Kate McCallister]

*****

GHOST [1990]

A Love That Will Last Forever

It seems like whenever anything good in my life happens, I'm just afraid I'm going to lose it.
~Sam Wheat

Your work is really beautiful. It really is.
It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks, just what I think.
~Sam Wheat

Molly: Do you love me, Sam?
Sam: What do you think?
Molly: Why don't you ever say it?
Sam: What do you mean? I say it all the time.
Molly: You say 'ditto' and that's not the same.
Sam: People say 'I love you' all the time, and it doesn't mean anything.
Molly: Sometimes you need to hear it.
I need to hear it.

Sam: I don't believe this.
Hey you... my name is Sam Wheat. Can you hear me?
Say my name... Sam Wheat.
Oda Mae: Leave me alone.

Oda Mae: I swear, no more cheating.
I'll do anything, just make that guy go away.
Sam, whispering to her: No way.

My mother had it, and her mother. They both had the gift.
They always said I had it, but I never did, I never had it.
They told me all about it, but now that I've got it, I don't think I want it.
Just go away. Find somebody else.
~Oda Mae Brown

Oda Mae: Why me?
Sam: You're going to help me.
There's a woman who called Molly Jensen and she is in a terrible danger.
The man who killed me broke into our apartment, and he's gonna back.
You've got to warn her.
Oda Mae: What makes you think she's gonna listen to me?

I'm not leaving until you help me.
I don't care how long it takes, because I can talk forever.
~Sam Wheat

I just don't believe in this life after death stuff.
~Molly Jensen

I can't see him, I can only hear him.
~Oda Mae Brown

Molly: What I don't understand is, why did he come back?
Sam: I don't know.
Molly: Why's he still here?
Oda Mae: He's stuck, he's in between worlds.
You know what happen sometimes the spirit gets yanked out so quick, 
the essence still feels it has work to do.
Sam: Would you stop rambling?
Oda Mae: I'm not rambling, I'm answering a question.
[to Molly] He's got an attitude.
Sam: No, I don't have an attitude.
Oda Mae: Yes, you do have an attitude.
[to Molly] We're having a little discussion.
[to Sam] If you didn't have an attitude, you wouldn't have raised your voice to me.
Sam: Goddammit...
Oda Mae: Don't take the Lord's name in vain.
Sam: Would you relax?
Oda Mae: You relax. You're the dead guy.
If you want me to help, you'd better apologize.
[Sam shouting]
Oda Mae: That's it, I'm leaving.
Nobody talks to me like that, you understand me?
Now you'd better apologize.
Sam: I'm sorry. I apologize, okay?
Oda Mae, to her seat, talking to Molly: He's apologize.

Have a nice life, have a nice death, good bye.
~Oda Mae Brown

I've got 4 million dollars stuffed in a goddamn computer.
If I don't get those codes, if that money is not transferred soon, I'm dead.
~Carl Bruner

Subway Ghost: Get off my train!
Sam: No.
Subway Ghost: Get Off!!! Get out of here!!!
Sam: No.
Show me how you do that.
I want learn and I'm not leaving till you teach me.

[while Sam tying to move the bottle cap]
Subway Ghost: It's all in your mind.
Your problem is that you still think you're real.
You think you're wearing those clothes? You think that you're crouching on that floor?
Bullshit!
You ain't got a body no more.
It's all up here now. [point to his forehead]
You wanna move something, you've got to move it with your mind.
You gotta focus!
Sam: How? How do you focus?
Subway Ghost: I don't know how you focus. Just focus! [flick the cap easily]
Sam: How did you do that?
Subway Ghost: You take all your emotions, all your anger, all your love, all your hate,
push it way down here into the pit of your stomach, 
and then let it explode, like a reactor. [kick a can]

Sam: Oda Mae, where did these ghosts come from?
You can hear them too?
Oda Mae: Hear them? Can I hear them?
I hear them in the morning and in the evening, they come into the shower.
Sam, what the hell did you do to me?
Did you tell every spook in the world about me?
I got spooks from New Jersey coming here.
There's stuff going on you wouldn't believe. I don't even believe it.

I'm not doing anything else with you, Sam.
Look, you're holding on to a life that doesn't want you anymore. It doesn't want you.
Give up the ghost.
~Oda Mae Brown

Sam, to Oda Mae: Tell her to send it up to the 3rd floor file, you have a transaction to make.
Oda Mae, to the bank officer: Please make sure this goes to the 3rd floor, I have a transfusion to make.
Bank Officer: A what?

Sam: Endorse it.
Oda Mae: No, if I drop it, then somebody will get it.
Sam: It's not your money.
I never said you would get the money.
This is blood money. I was killed for this money.
Now endorse the cheque.

Now do you believe in ghost?
~Sam Wheat, to terrified Carl Bruner

Sam: I'll miss you. Your mother'd be proud.
Oda Mae: I'll miss you too, Sam. You will be all right.

It's amazing, Molly.
The love inside... you take it with you.
 ~Sam Wheat


*****

DANCES WITH WOLVES [1990]

 

Inside Everyone 

Is A Frontier Waiting To Be Discovered

 They were a people so eager to laugh, so devoted to family, so dedicated to each other. 

The only word that comes to mind is harmony

[John Dunbar]

*****

PRETTY WOMAN [1990]

She Walked Off The Street,

Into His Life And Stole His Heart

Vivian: Don't you wanna to get outta here?
Kit: Get outta where? Where the fuck you wanna go?

Kit: Maybe we should get a pimp, you know. Carlos really digs you.
Vivian: And then he'll run our lives and take our money. No.
Kit: You're right. We say who, we say when, we say how much.

Vivian, pull out condoms from her boot: Pick one. I got red, I got green, I got yellow.
I'm out of purple, but I do have one gold circle coin left.
The condom of champions. The one and only. Nothing is gettin' through this sucker.
What d'you say?
Edward: A buffet of safety.
Vivian: I'm a safety girl.

Vivian: You don't sleep, you don't do drugs, you don't drink, you hardly eat.
What do you do, Edward? Cause I know you're not a lawyer.
Edward, smirking: That's right. I buy companies.
Vivian: What kind of companies?
Edward: I buy companies that are in financial difficulty.
Vivian: If they have problems, you must get 'em for a bargain, huh?
Edward: Well, the company I'm buying this week, I'm getting for the bargain price of about one billion.
Vivian, gulp: A billion dollars?
Edward: Yes.
Vivian: Wow. You must be really smart, huh? I only got through the 11th grade.
How far did you go in school?
Edward: I went all the way.

Phil, on the phone: Edward, I know a lot of nice girls.
Edward: No, you don't.
[watching Vivian singing in the tub]
Besides, I already have one.

Edward: Vivian, I have a business proposition for you.
Vivian: What do you want?
Edward: I'm gonna be in town until Sunday. I'd like you to spend the week with me.
Vivian: Really?
Edward: Yes. I'd like to hire you as an employee.
Would you consider spending the week with me? I will pay you to be at my beck and call.
Vivian: I'd love to be your 'beck and call girl', but you're a rich, good-lookin' guy.
You could get a million girls free.
Edward: I want a professional. I don't need any romantic hassles this week.
Vivian: If you're talkin' 24 hours a day, it's gonna cost you.
Edward: Oh, yes, of course. How much?
Vivian: 6 full nights, days too. 4,000.
Edward: 6 nights at 300 is 1,800.
Vivian: You want days too.
Edward: 2,000.
Vivian: 3,000.
Edward: Done.
Vivian: Holy shit!

Vivian: I would've stayed for 2,000.
Edward: I would've paid 4. I'll see you tonight.
Vivian: Baby, I'm gonna treat you so nice, you're never gonna wanna let me go.
Edward: 3,000 for 6 days. And Vivian, I will let you go.

Vivian: You're late.
Edward: You're stunning.
Vivian: You're forgiven.

Edward: The truth is, it really is totally irrelevant whether I like this man or not.
I will not let myself become emotionally involved in business.
Vivian: I know. 
Kit's always saying to me, 'Don't get emotional when you turn tricks.'
That's why no kissing. It's too personal.
It's like what you're saying; you stay numb, you don't get involved.
When I'm with a guy, I'm like a robot, I just do it. I mean... except with you.
Edward: Of course, not with me.
Edward: You and I are such similar creatures, Vivian. We both screw people for money.

Edward: Wake up, time to shop.
[handed her a credit card] If you have any trouble using this card, have them call the hotel.
Vivian, sigh at the card: More shopping.
Edward: I'm surprised you didn't buy more than one dress yesterday.
Vivian: Wasn't as much fun as I thought it was gonna be.
Edward: Why not?
Vivian: They were mean to me.
Edward: Mean to you?

Vivian: People are looking at me.
Edward: They're not looking at you, they're looking at me.
Vivian: The stores are not nice to people. I don't like it.
Edward: Stores are never nice to people, they're nice to credit cards.

Edward: I'm very sorry. I'm not happy with Stuckey at all for saying or doing that.
But he is my attorney. I've known him for 10 years.
He thought you were some kind of industrial spy. The guys' paranoid.
Vivian: Are you my pimp now? You think you can pass me around to your friends?
I'm not some little toy.
Edward: I know you're not my toy, Vivian.
I hate to point out the obvious, but you are, in fact, a hooker!
And you are my employee!
Vivian: You don't own me. I decide, okay? I say who, I say when, I say who...
Edward: I refuse to spend the next 3 days fighting with you.
I said I was sorry. I meant it! That's the end of it!
Vivian: I'm sorry I ever met you. I'm sorry I ever got into your stupid car!

I've never had anyone make me feel as cheap as you did today.
~Vivian Ward

I'm sorry.
I wasn't prepared to answer questions about us.
It was stupid and cruel.
I didn't meant it.
I don't want you to go.
~Edward Lewis

Vivian: First guy I ever loved was a total nothing. Second was worse.
My mom called me a bum magnet.
If there was a bum within a 50-mile radius, I was completely attracted to him.
That's how I ended up here. I followed bum number 3.
So here I was, no money, no friends, no bum.
Edward: And you chose this as your profession?
Vivian: I worked at a couple fast food places, parked cars at wrestling. And I couldn't make the rent.
I was too ashamed to go home.
That's when I met Kit. She was a hooker and made it sound so great.
So one day I did it. I cried the whole time.
But then I got some regulars and, you know...
It's not like anybody plans this, it's not your childhood dream.
Edward: You could be so much more.
Vivian: People put you down enough, you start to believe it.
Edward: I think you are a very bright, very special woman.
Vivian: The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

Edward: The fact that this will be our last night together, and you'll finally be rid of me.
Vivian: You've been pretty tough to take.
Edward: My business is almost over, so I'll be going back to New York.
I'd really like to see you again.
Vivian: You would?
Edward: Yes, I would, so I've arranged for you to have an apartment, to have a car,
a wide variety of stores guaranteed to suck up to you anytime you want to go shopping.
Everything's done.
Vivian: What else?
You gonna leave me some money by the bed when you pass through town?
Edward: Vivian, it really wouldn't be like that.
Vivian: How would it be?
Edward: For one thing, it would get you off the streets.
Vivian: That's just geography.

Edward: Vivian, what is it you want? What do you see happening between us?
Vivian: I don't know.
When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often.
And I would pretend I was a princess trapped in a tower by a wicked queen.
And then suddenly this knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword.
And I would wave.
And he would climb up the tower and rescue me.
But never in all the time that I had this dream did the knight say to me,
"Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo."

Edward: This is all I'm capable of right now. It's a very big step for me.
Vivian: I know. It's a really good offer for a girl like me.
Edward: I've never treated you like a prostitute.
Vivian: You just did.

Phil: Come on, Edward! I gave you 10 years! I devoted my whole life to you!
Edward: That's bullshit. This is such bullshit!
It's the kill you love, not me!
I made you a very rich man, doing exactly what you loved!

Edward: Why are you leaving now?
Vivian: Edward, there'll always be some guy, even some friends of yours,
thinkin' he can treat me like Suckey, thinking that it's allowed.
What are you gonna do? You gonna beat up everybody?
Edward: That's not why you're leaving.
Vivian: You made me a really nice offer.
And a few months ago, no problem. 
But now everything is different, and you've changed that. And you can't change back.
I want more.
Edward: I know about wanting more. I invented the concept. The question is how much more?
Vivian: I want the fairy tale.
Edward: Impossible relationships. My special gift is impossible relationships.

Edward: Stay. Stay the night with me.
Not because I'm paying you, but because you want to.
Vivian: I can't.

I think you have a lot of special gifts.
~Vivian Ward

Vivian: We think you got a lot of potential, Kit De Luca.
Kit: You do? You think I got potential?
Vivian: Oh, yeah. Don't let anybody tell you different, okay?

It must be difficult to let go something so beautiful.
~Barney Thompson

*****

TOTAL RECALL [1990]

 

They Stole His Mind,

Now He Wants It Back

*****

DAYS OF THUNDER [1990]

 

You Can't Outrun The Thunder

Drivers can't stand to be reminded of what can happen to 'em in a racecar.

They, they don't go to hospitals, they don't go to funerals.

You get a driver to a funeral before he's actually dead, you,ve made history, darlin

[Harry Hogge]

Claire, I'm more afraid of bein' nothin than I am of being hurt

[Cole Trickle]

*****

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS [1990]

Innocence is What He Knows

Beauty is What She Sees

Old Kim: A long time ago, an inventor lived in that mansion.

He made many things, I suppose.

He also created a man.

He gave him insides; a heart, a brain, everything.

Well, almost everything.

The inventor was very old.

He died before he got to finish the man he invented.

So the man was left by himself, incomplete and all alone.

Granddaughter: He didn't have a name?

Old Kim: Of course he had a name.

His name was Edward.

Hello, Avon calling.

~Peg Boggs

Peg, shocked when meet Edward for the first time: Oh my... What happened to you?

Edward: I'm not finished.

Peg: Where are your parents?

Your mother? Your father?

Edward: He didn't wake up.

What happened to your face?

[she tries to touch Edward's face, bu he backed away]

I won't hurt you.

At the very least, let me give you a good astringent.

This will help to prevent infection.

~Peg, applied astringent on his  face

Edward, I think you should just come home with me.

~Peg Boggs

It's not heaven he's from, it's straight from the stinking flames of hell.

The power of Satan is in him, I can feel it.

~Esmeralda

He has been sent first to tempt you!

But it's not too late.

You must push him from you, expel him!

Trample down the perversion of nature.

~Esmeralda

Don't be ridiculous!

You're not handicapped, you're... what do they call the... exceptional.

~Joyce

You don't know about the wonderfyl world of teenage girls.

They're all crazy.

I don't know what it is.

They reach a certain age, they develope these gland things, their bodies swell up, puff!

They go crazy.

~Bill Boggs

Kim: Why did you have to bring him here?

Peg: I couldn't have left him all alone. You'd have done the same.

Kim: Wy does he have to stay here?

Peg: O my goodness, Kim, I'm surprised at you.

He can't help the way he is.

Have a little sympathy.

Kim: I do have sympathy.

Peg: Then say a little greeting.

Come downstairs, shake the man's hand...

Kim: Shake his hand?

Peg: Well, not literally.

Goodness, you scared him half to death!

Kim: I scared him to death?

You can't buy the necessities of life by cookies.

~Bill Boggs

TV Host: Quite a story, yes? Any questions for Edward?

Audience #1: What's been the best part of your new life here in town?

Edward: The friends I've made.

TV Host: Any other questions?
Audience #2: Have you ever thought of having corrective surgery or prosthetics?
I know a doctor that might be able to help you.
Edward: I'd like to meet him.
TV Host: We'll get that name after the show.
Thank you, that's very nice.
Anyone else?
Audience #3: But then you'd be like everyone else.
Edward: Yes, I know.
TV Host: I think he like that.
Audience#4: But then no one would think you were special.
You wouldn't be on TV or anything.
Peg: No matter what, Edward will always be special.

Dear, stealing's not the way to get it.
Stealing's not the way to get anything.
~Peg Boggs

Officer: Will he be OK, doc?
Psychiatrist: The years spent in isolation not equipped him with the tools necessary to judge right from wrong.
He's had no context. 
He's been completely without guidance.
Furthermore his work, the garden sculptures, hairstyles and so forth,

indicate that he's a highly imaginative of... character.

It seems clear that his awareness of what we call reality is redically underdeveloped.

Officer: But, will he be alright out there?

Psychiatrist: Oh yeah, he'll be fine.

Edward: I knew it was Jim's house.

Kim: You did?

Edward: Yes.

Kim: Well then, why'd you do that?

Edward: Because you asked me to.

Maybe there's a way you can replace the drapes and the towels,

but our confidence in you is not gonna be so easy to replace.

~Bill Boggs

You can't touch anything without screwing it.

Why do you hang around here anyway?

~Jim

Kim: Hold me...

Edward: I can't.

*****