Favorite Scenes/Quotes?


Scenes:
-Epic shootout Billy imagined for the screenplay
-Opening scene with the Jack of Diamonds killer and two thugs

Quotes:
-The ghandi rant in the car
-"and the irish...have alcoholism"- that and the many other remarks about Marty's drinking problem. the way Rockwell delivered his lines throughout the movie was priceless
-"and that wasn't enough, so he got out a shotgun!"

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I loved so much of this movie, but two lines that stood out most to me.

1. The line from Walken about "the hooker, who studied Vietnamese at Yale..."

2. When Marty is reading from Billy's diary and the first entry says something to the effect of "I woke up at 7 and watched the neighbor's flag until 7 that night. That's 11 hours!" The sincerity and total ignorance of the fact that it's really 12 hours made me laugh and it was also another tidbit of evidence to show that Billy was, indeed, a psychopath.

~Moose

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Haha I noticed that too, it seemed like everyone in the movie can't count.

Here's Four Examples:

1. Intro: "Oh yeah well I got three words for ya. Shoot the f@cking Eyes Out."
2. Billy: "7 to 7. That's 11 hours."
3. Charlie: "I got 5 of my friends killed, you're about to have 2. That's 3x more friends you've got killed."

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LOVE the flag tirade. "NOTE TO SELF: DO NOT BURN THE NEIGHBOR'S FLAG!"

Everything about Billy's final shootout, but particularly:
-"Coz peace is GOOD!"
-"Then the Jack of Diamonds reaches up his sleeve and pulls out a CROSSBOW!"
-"You're there, too, Marty, but you're not shooting; you're just observing." (cut to Marty in the rain taking notes behind a headstone)

And ANYTHING Woody Harrelson says. "Whoa, whoa. Wait. He's drinking and driving?"


"Now, bring me that horizon."

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I loved the bit after the shootout when Billy's holding the flare gun to the dog's head, and starts counting down from 5 when Charlie's gun jams, and as Billy gets to 3 Charlie asks "can you start back at 5?", "No, I can't start back at 5 ....................5"

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I'am sorry, i was wrong

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Actually the three words is "you damn *beep* straight"
And that's four...

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Actually the three words is "you damn *beep* straight"
And that's four...

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He doesn't have a gay head, he has a normal head!

And all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say

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Maybe not word for word, but..


"I think I'm dying?"
"What?"
"I think I'm dyi-"
"WELL DON'T KEEP GOING ON ABOUT IT."

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I noticed those too. It's below my list of two hundred funny scenes, but everytime Marty asks Billy, he repeats them verbatim and I'm left perplexed as to why he does that. Damn this movie takes the cake!


You're so wise. You're like a miniature Buddha, covered in hair.

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My favorite scene is when Hans has read the screenplay and is discussing it with Marty.
Hans: Your women characters - they hardly say a word and then they are killed.
Marty: What can I say, women have it hard.
Hans: Yes they have it hard, but most of the women I know can string a few sentences together.

Ignorance never settles a question
Benjamin Disraeli

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*Opening scene--We've got Michael Pitt and an unexpected badass killing...Great opener.

*Harrelson's scene with Hans' wife--she stood her own and died with class; great tension.


Quotes:
"Can you go back to five?"

"'Cause peace is good!!"

(Many others that I'd have to see the movie again to quote)



I hear the drizzle of the rain. Like a memory it falls.

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"I just love the idea of a Vietnamese dressed as a priest with a snub-nosed .44"

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the quote about "it's not called 7 lesbians..." (anyone know it verbatim?)

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I don't remember the exact quote from Zachariah but it was something like "I miss her, I love her, and I should have helped her kill that hippie." I was the only one in the theater who laughed.
In fact, now that I think about it, it was pretty funny that they decided to portray the zodiac killer as a hippie to begin with.

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"*beep* cops! *beep* 'em!"

Christopher Walken's comic timing and delivery in this movie are impeccable.

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In fact, now that I think about it, it was pretty funny that they decided to portray the zodiac killer as a hippie to begin with

agreed not only another great pop culture reference
but rather telling in revealing the writer had done
his homework on zodiac and in fact went with a deep
er reading of the Z story than most psycho movies !
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