GHOST RIDER [2007]

His Curse Will Become His Power

The thing about legends is... sometimes, they're true.

[Caretaker]

It's said that the West was built on legends. 

And that legends are a way of understanding things greater than ourselves. 

Forces that shape our lives, events that defy explanation. 

Individuals whose lives soar to the heavens or fall to the earth. 

This is how legends are born.

[Caretaker]

My daddy once said, "If you don't make a choice, the choice makes you."

[Johnny Blaze]

You cannot live in fear. 

[Johnny Blaze]

Your Penance stare won't work on me. I've no soul to burn. 

[Blackheart]

[Mephistotheles]: What if I could make him better? 

Give him back his health? 

Would you be willing to make a deal? 

[Young Johnny Blaze]: Name your price.

[Mephistotheles]: Oh. I'll take... [looks around] ...your soul.

[Young Johnny Blaze, chuckles]: Okay.

[Mephistotheles]: By sunrise tomorrow, your father will be healthy as a horse. 

And you will have your whole life ahead of you. 

It's your choice, Johnny. [brings out Pactum Pactorum] 

All you have to do is sign.

[Caretaker]: You all right? 

[Johnny Blaze]: Yeah, I'm good. I feel like my skull is on fire, but I'm good.

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THE GAME PLAN [2007]

He Had The Perfect Game Plan. 

There's Just One Little Problem... 

Never say no.

~Joe Kingman

Joe: Come on, get a life, Sanders.

Sanders, points at the party: Oh, you call this 'life'?

That ain't life, Joe.

Joe: You just can't come walking into stranger's homes like this.

There are a lot of weirdos out there in the world.

Didn't your mom ever teach you that?

Peyton: Yeah.

Joe: Well, where is she?

Peyton: On an airplane.

Joe: On an airplane? Who are you here with?

Peyton: My father.

Joe: You better go get him, because I'm sure he's looking for you.

Peyton: He's not looking for me.

Joe: How do you know?

 Peyton: Because he's looking at me.

Joe: What?

Peyton: Hi, we've never met before.

You were married to my mom, Sara. Sara Kelly?

My name is Peyton.

I'm your daughter.

Joe: What did you put in those cookies?

Peyton: Milk, flour, eggs and cinnamon...

Joe: Cinnamon! I'm allergic to cinnamon.

Peyton: Oh, I'm sorry.

Joe: All you got to say is, "I'm sorry"?

I sound like this, "I'm sorry"?

Cinnamon!

Peyton: I'm allergic to nuts.

Joe: The X's mean 'stay out of these areas of the house'.

The O's mean 'open access'.

For example, you want to go to the kitchen, straight buttonhook.

But now you go to the kitchen, big X.

Off limits. No access. Can't go there.

Because you made a mess in the kitchen.

Do you understand?

No trick plays, no flea-flickers. Got it?

Peyton: Got it. No flea-flickers.

Joe: This is your game plan.

Learn it, live it, love it.

Peyton: My mom says that Fanny's makes kid fat and gives them gas.

Stella: Well, your daddy's agent says Fanny's makes him fat... with cash.

I'm the janitor, Joe's the mop, and Peyton's the mess.

~Stella Peck

Peyton: Hi everybody, I'm Peyton, the one who'll be going to bed early from now on.

My dad didn't have much of a heads-up on this whole father thing

and he is still getting the hang of things.

But it's like everything else in his life, he never says 'no'.

I mean, he's teaching me that you can do anything if you've got motivation and determination.

And the place where that starts is right here, in the heart.

You're the world's greatest father.

[hug him]

Joe, whispering: That was really good.

Peyton: It's going to cost you.

Monique: I just knew you were one of those parents.

Joe: One of what parents?

Monique: The kind who thinks that his life is more important than anybody else's.

Joe: Look, lady, I don't know what kind of parent I am.

All I know is I have an entire team.

Scratch that, an entire city depending on me.

Monique: Yeah, you also have a daughter depending on you.

Not to only take care of her, but to care about her, okay?

Joe: Listen, I care about Peyton.

Monique: Then prove it!

Ballerinas can leap as high as you can, but when they go down, they go down in plie.

And they hold and hold.

And then they go en pointe for hours and hours.

So, if ballet were easy, they'd call it football.

~Monique Vasquez

Your daughter has all the makings to be a professional dancer.

She has passion, talent, discipline.

I guess she inherited more than just your charm.

~Monique Vasquez

Joe: All the talking, and the arguing, and the complaining.

And you know what? You're just like her!

You think you're right about everything, just like her!

Peyton, scrunching her nose: What else?

Joe: You scrunch your nose when you get angry, just like her!

Peyton: Keep it coming.

Joe: You're always working on me with those big brown eyes... well, I actually like that, it's really cute.

But it doesn't matter, because it's just like her!

Peyton: Is that all you got?

Joe: And then you get inside people's minds, and you drive them crazy, just like her!

Peyton: Well, at least I got a mind, because if I didn't, I'd be just like you!

Joe: Well, I'm lucky, because as far as I'm concerned, you are nothing like me!

I would do anything to keep that beautiful smile on your face.

~Joe Kingman

 

Peyton: I'm supposed to be studying at a special ballet program this month

but instead, I snuck away to come meet you.

Joe: You ran away?

YOU RAN AWAY?

Is your mom even in Africa?

Peyton: About that...

Joe: What have you done?

Monique: Okay, I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation and everybody...

Joe: The press is going to eat me alive.

Karen: Are you saying you want Peyton to live here with you?

Joe: Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.

Karen: You haven't even been in her life.

Joe: That's not my fault.

I didn't even know she existed.

And we've come such a long way in a short time.

Karen: What, youu mean since  a month ago when you left her in a bar?

Joe: I'm not the same man that I was.

Karen: Or an hour ago when she almost died on your watch?

This is not about you.

This is about Peyton, what's best for her.

And she needs to be in a stable home with someone who's known her her whole life.

Joe: Peyton needs her father. She needs me. 

Karen: That's not your decision to make.

Sara appointed me her guardian. 

Joe: I missed 8 years of Peyton's life.

And I'm not going to miss any more.

I will fight for this.

Karen: Oh, that would be a great thing to put her through, don't you think?

Do you have any idea how to take care of a child?

Joe: I've been doing it for a month now!

Karen: And look where we're standing, Joe.

Joe: Tell me what I'm supposed to do.

Sanders: The only thing you can do is make sure that she knows you love her

and that nothing's gonna change that.

And then when she's ready, she'll find you again.

Joe: I owe you a big thank you.

Sanders: Oh yeah? For what?

Joe: Just for catching everything I've thrown at you all these years.

Sanders: That's what friends are for.

She's not a distraction. She's my daughter.

I'd want her here with me even if it meant I'd never play another football game again.

There's nothing that I love more than my daughter.

Nothing.

~Joe Kingman

I called an audible.

See, I thought you'd be better off without me.

But judging by the butt-whupping you got out there, I guess I was wrong.

~Peyton Kingman

 

Peyton: Daddy, you won the championship.

Joe: Oh, Peyton, I've won much more than that.

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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

 

 

 

 

 

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BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA [2007]

Discover a Place That Will Never Leave You

And a Friendship That Will Change You Forever

 

Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

by Leslie Burke

I'm moving gently forward over the wild and beautiful,

unexplored world below me.

I'm floating in silence,

and breaking it up with the sound of my breath.

Above me, there's nothing but shimmery light,

the place where I've come from,

and will go back to when I am done here.

I'm diving.

I'm a scuba diver.

I'm going deeper past the wrinkled rocks and dark seaweed

toward a deep blueness where a school of silver fish wait.

As I swim through the water, bubbles burst from me,

wobbling like little jellyfish as they rise.

I check my air.

I don't have as much time as I need to see everything,

but that is what makes it so special.

Mrs. Myers: Now tonight at 7:00 on channel 4

there is special about an undersea explorer, Dr. Bob Ballard.

I want everyone to watch and write one page about what you've learned.

Leslie: What if you can't watch this program?

Mrs. Myers: If you inform your parents it's an assignment, I'm sure they won't object.

Leslie: But, what if you don't have a TV?

[everybody in class laughed]

My Dad says the TV kills your brain cells.

Scott: Your dad doesn't know anything.

We watch TV, like, every day.

Leslie: I rest my case.

 Jess: What about sharks?

You ever see any sharks while you're scuba-ing or whatever?

Leslie: I've never gone scuba diving in my whole life.

Jess: You lied in your essay?

Leslie: No, I made it up.

It's different from lying.

Those drawings you make, have you ever seen those things yourself?

Leslie: We need a place, just for us.

Where there's no Janice Averys or Scott Hoagers.

Jess: Yeah, but when we go back to school, there they are waiting.

Leslie: Yeah, but, someplace better than just not being at school.

What if there was a magical kingdom only we knew about?

Jess: I don't know. What if?

Leslie: Well, what if the only way we could enter it, 

is by swinging on this enchanted rope?

Jess: Where's your dad work?

Leslie: At home. Same as my mom.

They're writers.

Jess: Writers?

What do they write about?

Leslie: Fiction.

Jess: That explains you.

Leslie: What do you mean?

Jess: You like to make things up.

And that's what your parents do for a living.

Leslie: You know a lot about hardware?

Jess: No, why?

Leslie: Well, your dad works at a hardware store.

All I'm saying is that you are who you are, not your parents.

We rule Terabithia and nothing crushes us!

~Leslie Burke

This is not one of your cartoons.

This is just a pest that eats up our food, money we earn and time we don't have.

Get your head out of the clouds and do as I say.

~Jack Aarons

Leslie: Are we slaying the giant troll after school today?

Jess: You've got your head in the clouds, Leslie.

There is no giant troll, all right?

Leslie: You better not let the Terabithians hear you.

They thought you were their king.

May Belle: You're supposed to beat her up.

You're my brother!

Jess: Do you know what would happen if I were to pick a fight with her?

May Belle: You'll get your butt kicked.

Jess: No, I'd get kicked out of school for fighting a girl.

What's that gonna prove?

The best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Teddy Roosevelt said that, not me.

~Bill Burke

Leslie: She asked me for advice.
Jess: Janice Avery asked you for advice?
Leslie: Yeah.
Jess: And?
Leslie: I told her just to pretend that she had no idea what anyone was talking about.
and in a few weeks' time, everybody would just forget about it.

Leslie: I'm really glad I came.
That whole Jesus thing, it's really interesting, isn't it?
May Belle: It's not interesting, it's scary!
It's nailing holes through your hands.
It's cause we're all vile sinners.
God made Jesus die.
Leslie: You really think that's true?
Jess: It's in the Bible, Leslie.
Leslie: You have to believe it, and you hate it.
I don't have to believe it, and I think it's beautiful.
May Belle: You gotta believe the Bible, Leslie.
Leslie: Why?
May Belle: Cause if you don't believe in the Bible, God will damn you to hell when you die.
Leslie: May Belle, where'd you hear that?
May Belle: That's right, huh, Jess?
God damns you to hell if you don't believe in the Bible.
Jess: I think so.
Leslie: Well, I don't think so.
 I seriously do not think God goes around damning people to hell.
He's too busy running all this.

Ms. Edmunds: It's a nice day out.
It's been raining so much, I began to think it was like that Japanese myth
 where the sun goes into the cave and vows never to come out.
 Jess: You know about everything.
Ms. Edmunds: Not by a long a lot.
 But I do try to keep an open mind, and you'd be surprised what finds its way in there.
 Jess: That's what Leslie Burke says.
She told me to keep my mind wide open.
  Ms. Edmund: Leslie Burke is right.
 Mind like yours wide open, you could create a whole new world.

 She loved you, you know.
You know, Leslie, she never had much luck making friends at her old school.
We were hoping that when we moved out here she would...
She said if it wasn't for you... 
You're the best friend she's ever had. 
I wanna thank you for that.
 ~Bill Burke

 Next time, we should invite Leslie to go.
She'd like that.
~Jess, to Ms. Edmunds

 The things that girl came up with, I don't get students like her too often.
 So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.
~Mrs. Myers

 Jess: It's all gone.
Is it like the Bible says? Is she going to hell?
 Jack: I don't know everything about God,
but I do know He's not gonna send that little girl to hell. 
Jess: Then I'm going to hell because it's all my fault. 
Jack: Don't you think that even for a minute. 
Jess: But it is. 
I didn't invite her to go to the museum with me. 
I didn't wanna invite her. 
I wasn't there to go with her. 
It's my fault.
Jack: No, no, no, it's not your fault.
None of that makes it so. 
It's a terrible thing, it doesn't make any sense, but it's not your fault, Jess.
She brought you something special when she came here, didn't she? 
That's what you hold on to. 
That's how you keep her alive. 

 Jess: Look, they must've heard the rumor,
that the beautiful girl arriving today is the new future ruler of Terabithia.
  May Belle: Who heard?
Jess: The Terabithians.
  They've been waiting.
 May Belle: Where? I don't see them.
Jess: It's an ancient forest, May Belle, full of magical creatures and friendly giants,
anything you can imagine. 
But you gotta look really hard and keep your mind wide open. 



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