I don't know about anyone else, but everytime I watch this film I get a kick out of just hearing the dialog spoken (And the delivery by every actor is spot on.). Even the most vulgar insults flow like poetry, lol.
Great film!
I totally agree. The dialogue in this film is great to follow closely. Maybe it's pulled from some sayings of the period, but it's great how the characters come up with compact, poetic and shocking statements through the movie. Alan Sharp, I guess it is, did the scriptwriting. He's mostly TV, according to his profile.
One of my favorites is in the end after McGregor wins the duel and the duke lets him know he will wager on him again in the future; "may your magesty live so long."
"One might have hoped that a field so regularly plowed might have yielded one good crop. In truth I have seen healthier graveyards than that woman's womb"
My favorite line in the entire movie, and John Hurt isn't even speaking about anything important to the plot. Exceptional writing all around.
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Montrose: "Great men such as yourself draw rumors as *beep* draws flies." Argylle: "You're the *beep* Montrose! And the flies upon it!" This line always cracks me up. The look on John Hurt's face is priceless.
shareloved the cox character's smarmy consolement to rob's wife (after being raped):
"they say it's not a sin if you don't enjoy it"
this movie is a classic. long after braveheart is in the dustbin, this one will be remembered.
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So true, the dialogue is fantastic. Credit to Alan Sharp the writer. I'm sure the fact that he is Scottish himself would have helped immensely. I believe he was a older man when he wrote the script. There's a lot of wit and plain cunning in every word, each was thought out to the last. I'm Scottish myself, you need to be to really appreciate the writing, trust me.
shareI'm Scottish myself, you need to be to really appreciate the writing, trust me.
I hope that's not literally true. I'm American, and this is one of my favorite movies, in large measure on the strength of the writing.
But hey, I love good Scotch whisky -- especially Islay single malts. Does that count?
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Duke of Argyll: So, Mr. Cunningham, what are these principle sins that distress your mother? Dice? Drink? Or are you a buggerer of boys?
Archibald Cunningham: It is years, Your Grace, since I buggered a boy... And in my own defense, I must add, I thought him a girl at the moment of entry.
Awesome dialog no doubt
Argyll: What say you, Guthrie, that Archie could not tell arse from quim?
Guthrie: I've heard that many Englishmen have that same difficulty.
[That's another one the subtitles mess up, by the way; they put a senseless question mark after "Guthrie" as though Argyll's line were two separate sentences.]
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Lazy + smart = efficient.
I should clarify.
It would help being Scottish to fully appreciate the dialogue as some of the words used and subject matter aren't widely know.
Thats assuming most people aren't knowledgeable on the Jacobite rellion or words like 'dirk'.
Hmph. My father used to tell me that to "assume" makes....well, I don't know you personally, but I'm no ass.
The Jacobite rebellion was in support of the restoration of the house of Stuart after William of Orange helped Parliament to overthrow James the Something during the so-called Glorious Revolution. Jacobite and James share the same etymology.
A dirk is another word for a dagger.
And no, I did not just look all this up online. And yes, I'm a stooopid American. Go figure.
This film was great, though many hadn't even heard of it.
Another great film for great use of the english language, to me at least, was "Master and Commander, the Far Side of the World".
Another great film for great use of the english language, to me at least, was "Master and Commander, the Far Side of the World".
Amen to that. No doubt that's part of the reason they're two of my three overall favorite films. (The third is The Name Of The Rose, which does pretty well in that respect too. It doesn't compare to the complexity and depth of the original novel, but in its own right it's an excellent movie.)
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Just because I love reading the great dialogue of this fantastic film;
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The dialog in this movie is so funny and amusing.
I work on a drilling rig and a few of us know this movie well so we recite the lines to one another when we are doing a *beep* job to keep the spirits up.
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The subtitles are actually wrong there (as they are in a number of other places); the line is or I'm no judge of a pint of pish.
The subtitles on the DVD contain way too many silly errors. My two favorites: they render Archie's manage a lisp as manage a lift, and when Killearn says He is! He is! the subtitles get it wrong twice in two different ways: Yes! He has!
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Lazy + smart = efficient.
not generated from the subtitle track which was garbage...
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/r/rob-roy-script-transcript -neeson.html
i cud not agree with u more.
truly is a great film indeed. fab acting as well.
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Guthrie; "I hear you backstabbed Tam Sibbald."
Rob; "were you and he kin?"
Guthrie; "near enough - I shagged his sister."
Killearn; "likely so did Tam."
The sleeper must awaken.
The sleeper must awaken...Dune 1984--Great film!
"..Combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead!"