THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE [1997]

Evil Has Its Winning Ways

 I need a quote. Give me a quote.
"Mr. Lomax had no comment on today's events.
Speculation, however, was widespread that the young lawyer's unblemished string of victories would come to an end in this courtroom."
It was a nice run, Kev.
Had to close out someday.
Nobody wins them all.
~Larry

Alice: Let me tell you about New York.
"Fallen, fallen, is Babylon.
It has become a dwelling place of demons." Revelation 18.
Wouldn't hurt you to look it over.
Kevin: Couldn't forget it if I tried.
Alice: Oh, really? And what happened to Babylon?
Kevin: "Thou mighty city, in one hour has thy mighty judgement come.
And the light of a single lamp shall shine in thee no more."

Kevin: It's been great. The whole thing's been great.
John: That's our secret. Kill you with kindness.

Jackie: I want to see Leamon, I make an appointment.
Mary Ann, giggles: You're kidding, right?
[Jackie shaking her head] God, how you handle it?
Jackie: Take a look around, honey.
Look, you've got 3 choices.
The Holy Trinity; you can work, you can play, or you can breed.

I'm the hand of Monalisa's skirt.
I'm a surprise, Kevin.
They don't see me coming.
That's what you're missing.
~John Milton

If you never see your husband, have a relationship with his money.
~Diana Barzoon

I know we have all this money and it's supposed to be fun, but it's not!
It's like a test.
The whole thing is like one big test.
~Mary Ann Lomax

Maybe it's true.
Maybe God threw the dice once too often.
Maybe He let us all down.
~John Milton

John: Got to go with your gut.
Kevin: That's your advice?
John: I'll back you either way.
Maybe it's your time to lose.
Think I haven't lost before?

I know why this is happening.
It's the money. Blood money.
We just drank it down, both of us.
We knew it.
Winning those cases, taking the money.
We knew they were guilty, but you just kept on winning every time.
~Mary Ann Lomax

Kevin: What did you do to Mary Ann?
John: Free will. It's like butterfly wings.
Once touched, they never get off the ground.
I only set the stage. You pull your own strings.
Kevin: What did you do to Mary Ann? [point a gun to John]
John: A gun? In here?
Kevin: Goddamn it, what did you do to my wife?
John: Well, on a scale of 1 to 10, 
10 being the most depraved act of sexual theater known to man,
1 being your average Friday night run-through at the Lomaxes,
I'd say, not to be immodest, Mary Ann and I got it on at about 7.
Kevin: FUCK YOU!!!! [shooting John]

Kevin: Who are you?
John: Who am I?
Who are you?
Never lost a case, why? Why do you think?
Because you're so fucking good? Yes! But why?
Kevin: Because you're my father?
John: I'm a little more that that, Kevin.
Awfully hot in that courtroom, wasn't it?
"What's the game plan, Kevin?
It was a nice run, Kev. had to close out someday.
Nobody wins them all."
Kevin: What are you?
John: Oh, I have so many names...
Kevin: Satan!
John: Call me dad.

I want you to be yourself.
Guilt... it's like a bag of fucking bricks.
All you got to do is set it down.
~John Milton

Let me give you a little inside information about God. 

God likes to watch. He's a prankster. 

Think about it. 

He gives man instincts. 

He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, 
I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, 
He sets the rules in opposition. 

It's the goof of all time. 

Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow.

And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? 

He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off! 
He's a tight-ass! 
He's a SADIST! 
He's an absentee landlord! 

Worship that? 
NEVER! 

~John Milton

Kevin: "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven," is that it?
John: Why not?

Kevin: In the Bible you lose.
We're destined to lose, Dad.
John: Consider the Source, son.

Diaboli virtus in lumbis est. Diaboli virtus in lumbis est. 

The virtue of the devil is in his loins. 

~John Milton

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ANASTASIA [1997]

Discover The Adventure Behind The Greatest Mystery Of Our Time

 Saint Petersburg is gloomy.
Saint Petersburg is bleak.
My underwear got frozen standing here all weak.
Since the revolution out lives have been so gray.
Thank goodness for the gossip that gets us through the day.
Have you heard there's a rumour in Saint Petersburg?
Have you hear what they're saying on the street?
Although The Czar did not survive, one daughter may be still alive.
The Princess Anastasia.
It's a rumour, a legend, a mystery.
Something whispered in an alleyway or through a crack.
It's a rumour, that's part of our history.
They say her royal grandmamma will pay a royal sum.
To someone who can bring the princess back.

Everything's going according to plan.
All we need is a girl.
Just think, Vlad, no more forging papers, no more stolen goods.
We'll have 3 tickets out of here,
one for you, one for me, and one for Anastasia.
~Dmitri

I am grateful, grateful to get away.
"Go left," she says.
Well, I know what's to the left.
I'll be 'Anya the orphan' forever.
But if I go right, maybe I could find... whoever gave me this necklace must have loved me.
~Anya

Heart don't fail me now, courage don't desert me,
don't turn back now that we're here.
People always say, life is full of choices, no one ever mentions fear,
or how the world can seem so vast, on the journey to the past.
Somewhere down this road I know someone's waiting,
years of dreams just can't be wrong.
Arms will open wide, I'll be safe and wanted, finally home where I belong.
Well starting now I'm learning fast, 
on this journey to the past.
Home, love, family, there was once a time I must have had them, too.
One hope then another, who knows where this road may go?
Back to who I was, on to find my future, things my heart still needs to know.
Yes, let this be a sign, let this road be mine, let it lead me to my past,
and bring home at last.
~Anya

Dmitri: Do you ever think about the posibillity?
Anya: That I could be royalty? [Dmitri & Vladimir shook their head]
Well, I don't know, 
it's kind of hard to think of yourself as a duchess when you're sleeping on a damp floor.
But sure, every lonely girl would hope she's a princess.

Take it easy there, sir, really, you should watch your blood pressure.
My nephew, Izzie, just keeled over one day, mid-mango.
Stress, it's a killer, sir.
And he's a fruit bat. 
No meat, no blood even.
~Bartok

Just wishing I could do the job for you, sir.
I'd give her a ahhh,
and a haiyyaaaa,
and then whoo-ahhhh,
and I'd kick her, sir.
~Bartok

Look at me, Dmitri.
I am not exactly grand duchess material here.
~Anya

There is nothing left for you back there, my dear.
Everything is in Paris.
~Vladimir

I should never let them dance.
~Vladimir

Three days ago I didn't have any past at all
and now I'm trying to remember an entire lifetime.
~Anya

Sophie: Finally, you'll most likely find this an impertinent question, but indulge me.
How did you escape during the siege of the palace?
Anya: There was a boy... a boy who worked in the palace.
He opened a wall. [giggles]
I'm sorry, that's crazy... walls opening...

Vlad: WEEEE DID IT!!!
We're going to see The Imperial Highness tonight.
We're going to get the 10 million roubles.
We're going to be...
Dmitri: Vlad... Vlad... She is the princess.
Vlad, ignoring him: Anya was extraordinary! I almost believed her!

Dmitri: We don't have anything to be nervous about.
She's the princess.
Vlad: I know, I know, but...
Dmitri: No, no, you don't know.
I was the boy in the palace, the one who opened the wall.
She's the real thing, Vlad.
Vlad: That means our Anya has found her family.
We have found the heir to the Russian throne.
And you...
Dmitri: Will walk out of her life forever.
Vlad: But...
Dmitri: Princesses don't marry kitchen boys.

Tell that impertinent young man that I have seen enough Grand Duchess Anastasias
to last me a lifetime.
~Dowager Empress Marie

Dowager Empress Marie: I know what you're after.
I've seen it before.
Man who trained young women in the royal ways.
Dmitri: But Your Highness, will you just listen?
Dowager Empress Marie: Haven't you been listening? I've had enough!
I don't care how mush you have fashioned this girl to look like her,
sound like her or act like her.
In the end, it is never her!
Dmitri: This time it is her.

Sir, I'm begging you.
Please, please, forget the girl and get a life.
~Bartok

Dowager Empress Marie: Young man, where did you get that music box?
You were the boy, weren't you?
The servant boy who got us out.
You saved her life, and mine, then you restored her to me.
Yet, you want no reward?
Dmitri: Not anymore.
Dowager Empress Marie: Why the change of mind?
Dmitri: It was more a change of heart.

Dowager Empress Marie: He's not there.
Anya: Oh, I know he's not here...
Who's not there, Grandmamma?
Dowager Empress Marie: A remarkable young man who found a music box.
Anya: Well, he's probably too busy spending his reward money as fast as he can.
Dowager Empress Marie: Look at them dance.
You were born into this world of glittering jewels and fine titles.
But I wonder if this is what you really want.
Anya: Of course, of course it is.
I found what I was looking for.
I found out who I am.
I found you.
Dowager Empress Marie: Yes, you did find me.
And you'll always have me.
But is it enough? [hug her]
My darling, he didn't take the money.
Anya: He didn't?
Dowager Empress Marie: Knowing that you are alive, 
seeing the woman you have become, bring me joy I never thought I could feel again.
Whatever you choose, we will always have each other.

Rasputin!!!
Destroyed by your despicable family.
But what goes around, comes around.
~Rasputin

Sophie: They've eloped. Isn't it romantic?
It's a perfect ending.
Dowager Empress Marie: No, it's a perfect beginning.


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STARSHIP TROOPERS [1997]

When You Battle 6 Trillion Enemies That Will Eat You Alive, 
There Are Only Two Rules... 

EVERYONE FIGHTS

NO ONE QUITS

[Johnny Rico]: Mr. Rasczak, I want to join the Federal Service and become a citizen. 

But my Dad thinks I should go to college and remain a civilian as he has. 

What should I do? 

[Jean Rasczak]: Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. 

Use that freedom. 

[Dizzy]: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything.

[Jean Rasczak]: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that. 

*to Carmen* 

You.

[Carmen]: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed. 

[Jean Rasczak]: Correct. Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. 

The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst. 

This is for all you new people: I only have one rule. 

Everyone fights. No one quits. 

You don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself. 

You get me? 

[Jean Rasczak]

You once asked me for advice. You want some now? Never pass up a good thing. 

[Jean Rasczak]

Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. 

I know now. 

A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. 

But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.

[Johnny Rico]

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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]

*****

TWISTER [1996]

Don't Breathe. Don't Look Back

[Bill]: Jo. Things go wrong. You can't explain it, you can't predict it. 

Killing yourself won't bring your dad back. 

I'm sorry that he died, but that was a long time ago. 

You gotta move on. 

Stop living in the past, and look what you got right in front of you.

[Jo]: What are you talking about? 

[Bill]: Me, Jo. 

Why can't we spend a normal day together? 

[Bill]

You've never seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you! 

[Jo]

When you used to tell me that you chase tornadoes, 
deep down I thought it was just a metaphor. 

[Melissa]

*****

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE [1996]

Expect The Impossible

You're worried about me. Why?

[Ethan Hunt]

Krieger, from this point on... absolute silence!

[Ethan Hunt]

RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT! 

[Ethan Hunt]

[Eugene Kittridge]: I understand you're very upset.

[Ethan Hunt]: Kittridge, you've never seen me very upset.

[Eugene Kittridge]: All right, Hunt. Enough is enough. 

You have bribed, cajoled, and killed, and you have done it using loyalties on the inside. 

You want to shake hands with the devil, that's fine with me. 

I just want to make sure that you do it in hell! 

[Ethan Hunt]: So, how does it feel to be a solid citizen again?

[Luther Stickell]: Man, I don't know. I'm gonna miss bein' disreputable. 

[Ethan Hunt]: Well, Luther, if it makes you feel any better, I'll always think of you that way. 

Hey, I'm the flavor of the month.

[Luther Stickell]

[Eugene Kittridge]: What, can we do Barnes... put a guy at the airport? 

How many identities do you think Hunt has? 

How many times has he slipped past customs and in how many countries? 

These guys are trained to be ghosts... we taught them to do it for Christ's sake. 

[Frank Barnes]: Well what do you suggest?

[Eugene Kittridge]: Let's not waste time chasing after him, just make him come to us. 

Everybody has pressure points, Barnes. 

You find something that's personally important to him and you... squeeze. 

[Ethan Hunt]: You know, Claire was wrong about one thing, Jim.

[Eugene Kittridge]: Oh really? What's that? 

*Ethan slowly puts on his camera glasses, Kittridge sees Phelps on his watch*

[Eugene Kittridge]: Good morning, Mr. Phelps.

[Ethan Hunt]: I'm not the only one who's seen you alive.

*****

JERRY MAGUIRE [1996]

The Journey is Everything

I'm the guy you don't usually see.
I'm the one behind the scenes.
I'm the sports agent.
~Jerry Maguire

No one said winning is cheap.
~Jerry Maguire

I will not rest until I have you holding a coke, wearing your own shoe,
playing a sega game featuring while singing your own song in a new commercial starring you,
broadcast during the superbowl in a game you are winning.
I will not sleep until that happens.
I'll give you 15 minutes to call me back.
~Jerry Maguire

The key to this business is personal relationship.
~Dickie Fox

The answer is... fewer clients, less money.
Caring for them, caring for ourselves, and the games too.
~Jerry Maguire

Rod: But I like you. Yes, I like you, Jerry.

My wife likes you. You're good to my wife.

I will stay with you.

Jerry: That's great. I'm very happy.

Rod: Are you listening?

Jerry: Yes...

Rod: That's what I'm gonna do for you.

God bless you, Jerry.

But this is what you're gonna do for me.

You listening, Jerry?

Jerry: Yeah, wh-what can I do for you, Rod?

Just tell me, what can I do for you?

Rod: It's a very personal, very important thing.

It's a family motto. 

Are you ready?

Jerry: I'm ready.

Rod: Wanna make sure you're ready. Here it is...

Show me the money. Money!

Jerry, doesn't that make you feel good just to say that?

Say it with me one time, Jerry.

Jerry: Show you the money.

Rod: Oh no no... you can do better than that, Jerry.

Say it with meaning, brother.

I got Bob Sugar on the other line.

I better hear you say it.

Jerry: Show you the money.

Rod: Not show you... Show me the money.

Jerry: Show me the money.

Rod: Yeah, louder!

Jerry: Show me the money!

Rod: That's it! But you got to yell that shit!

Jerry, yelling: SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Rod: I need to feel you, Jerry.

Jerry, getting louder: SHOW ME THE MONEY! SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Rod: You love this black man?

Jerry: I LOVE THIS BLACK MAN! SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Rod: I love black people.

Jerry: I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE!

Rod: Who's your motherfucker, Jerry?

Jerry: YOU'RE MY MOTHERFUCKER!

 Rod: What you gonna do, Jerry?

Jerry: SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Rod: Congratulations, you're still my agent!

Avery: Function function function. Forward motion is everything.

Cush saves all.

You go to Texas. You keep one superstar, and they'll all follow.

There's no real loyalty. None!

And the first person who told me that, Jerry Maguire, was you.

Jerry: I think I was trying to sleep with you at the time.

Avery: Well, it worked.

And I will not let you fail! You are Jerry ma-fucking-guire.

Jerry: That's right.

Avery: King of the house calls. Master of the living room.

Jerry: Okay, okay, this is working... this is working.

Avery: You are not a loser.

Jerry: Who said anything about loser?

Avery: Mistake... I meant something else.

Jerry: We're gonna go downstairs and walk through this lobby.

I want every media guy, every player's rep, everybody, to see you for what you are.

The best kept secret in the NFL.

The most commanding wide receiver in the game.

You are fast, fierce, wildly charismatic.

You are the man. You are the man.

Are you ready?

Rod: Let's do it!

Rod: You're lovin' me now, aren't you?

Jerry: I'm not about love. I'm about showing you the money.

Rod: I was just testing you, Jerry.

But to hear you say that makes me love you, baby.

Avery: What was our deal when we first got together?

Brutal truth, remember?

Jerry: I think you added the 'brutal'.

Avery: Jerry, there is a sensitivity thing that some people have.

I don't have it.

I don't cry at movies, I don't gush over babies, 

I don't start celebrating Christmas 5 months early!

And I don't tell a man who just screwed up both our lives, 'oh, poor baby'.

That's me, for better or worse. But I do love you.

Jerry: Avery...

Avery: No! [turn around from Jerry]

Jerry: It's over.

Avery: Didn't hear it!

Jerry: There's something missing here, don't you think?

Avery: You have never been alone.

Jerry: Listen to me...

Avery: And you can't be alone.

Jerry: It's over.

Anybody else would've left you by now.

But I'm sticking with you. I said I would.

If I got to ride your ass like zorro, you're gonna show me the money.

~Rod Tidwell

Jerry: Somebody was always to blame.

You go for it like you do a job, work at it.

Dorothy: But maybe, love shouldn't be such hard work.

Men are different people when they're hanging onto the bottom rung.

~Laurel Boyd

I love him, I do, I love him.

And I don't care what you think.

I love him for the... for the man he wants to be.

And I loved him for the man that he almost is.

I love him, Laurel.

I love him, I love him.

~Dorothy Boyd

Jerry: You wanna leave me?

Marcee: A lot of agents say a lot of shits! So what do you stand for?

Jerry: You wanna leave me?

Marcee: What do you stand for?

Dorothy, interrupted: How about a little piece of integrity...

in this world that's so full of greed and lack of honorability that I don't know what to tell my son,

except here, "Have a look at a guy who isn't yelling 'Show me the money'?"

You know he's broke?

He is broke and working for you free! 

Broke!

Broke, broke, broke!

I'm sorry, I'm just not as good at the insults as she is.

Marcee: No, that was pretty good.

Rod: No shit!

You bet on me like I bet on you.

~Rod Tidwell

Rod: Do you love her?

Jerry: How do I know?

Rod: What do you mean? You know when you know.

Jerry: I don't want her to go.

I've been hanging out at her place a lot.

Rod: Oh wait wait, that right there, that's bullshit!

You gotta be fair to her.

A single mother, man, that's a sacred thing.

You gotta have 'the talk'.

She loves you.

If you don't love her, you've got to tell her.

Look, if this weekend should turn into next month,

and next month should turn into whatever,

don't make a joke of your life.

Go back and read what you wrote.

You're better than the rest of them.

You're better than Bob Sugars.

Don't forget that.

~Dorothy Boyd

You fuck this up, I'll kill you.

~Laurel, to Jerry, after wedding ceremony

Rod: I'm just trying to talk to you, how's your marriage?

You know, the husband and the wife thing?

How is that?

Jerry: Not everyone has what you have.

Rod: Then why did you get married? 

I'm just asking as a friend.

Jerry: You want an answer?

Loyalty. She was loyal.

I mean, you know, everything grew from there.

I'll tell you why you don't have your 10 million dollars yet.

Right now, you are a paycheck player.

You play with your head, not your heart.

In your personal life, heart.

But when you get on the field, it's all about what you didn't get, who's to blame, 

who under-threw the pass, who's got the contract you don't, who's not giving you your love...

You know what, that is not what inspires people.

Just shut up!

Play the game! Play it from your heart!

And you know what, I will show you the kwan.

And that's the truth, man, that's the truth.

Can you handle it?

It's just a question between friends.

~Jerry Maguire

I've got this great guy,

and he loves my kid,

and he sure does like me a lot,

and I can't live like that.

It's not how I'm built.

~Dorothy Boyd

[points to heart] If this is empty,

[points to head] this doesn't matter.

~Dicky Fox

Jerry, in the crowd of arguing: Hello... hello... I'm looking for my wife.

[Dorothy stands from the floor, got puzzled and trying to leave the room]

Wait wait... okay, if this is where it has to happen, then this is where it has to happen.

I'm not letting you get rid of me, how about that?

[everyone looking at him]

This used to be my speciality.

I was good in the living room.

They send me in there, and I'd do it alone.

And now I just... I don't know. [sighs]

But tonight, our little project, our company, had a very big night.

A very, very big night.

But it wasn't complete.

It wasn't nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete

because I couldn't share it with you.

I couldn't hear your voice, or laugh about it with you.

I miss my wife.

We live in a cynical world, a cynical... world.

And we work in a business of tough competitors.

I love you.

You... complete me.

I'm not just...

Dorothy: Shut up... just shut up.

You had me at hello.

You had me at hello.

I don't have all the answers.

In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succedded.

But I love my wife, I love my life, and I wish you my kind of success.

~Dicky Fox

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