multiply archive: April 2008

I had to do this. I keep A LOT of quotes in my head.

* Pick 15 of your favorite movies. (okay so i threw this rule away.)
* Go to imdb and find a quote for each movie.
* Post them here for everyone to guess.
* Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it FIRST and the movie.
* No googling/using IMDB search functions

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1.
Dead Poets Society
(kath)

1 : You take a big risk by encouraging them to be artists <2>. When they realize they're not Rembrandts, Shakespeares or Mozarts, they'll hate you for it.
2 : We're not talking artists <1>, we're talking free thinkers.
1 : Free thinkers at seventeen?
2 : Funny, I never pegged you as a cynic.
1 : Not a cynic, a realist. Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll show you a happy man.
2 : But only in their dreams can man be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.
1 : Tennyson?
2 : No, <2>.

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2.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(sarah)

Meet me in Montauk.

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3.
Big Fish
(miel)

That was my father's final joke, I guess. The man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way, he becomes immortal.

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4.
Girl, Interrupted
(nina)

1: Take one fuckin' step and I'll jam this in my aorta. [aiming a pen at her neck]
2 : <1>, your aorta is in your chest.
1: [snaps the pen closed] Good to know.

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5.
Love, Actually
(miel)

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

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6.
American Beauty
(sijing)

It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I realized there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.

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7.
Toy Story
(miel)

DON'T YOU GET IT?!? [points to a doll's hat on his head] YOU SEE THE HAT?!?
I AM -- MRS. -- NESBITT!!! [maniacal laughter]

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8.
Finding Neverland
(sam)

1 : This is absurd. It's just a dog.
2 : Just a dog? Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he's just a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That's like saying, "He can't climb that mountain, he's just a man", or "That's not a diamond, it's just a rock." Just.

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9.

It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean, you're looking at the guy who believed the commercials, you know, about "Be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger. Now it's "Grimesy, black, one sugar" or "Grimesy, got a powdered anywhere?"

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10.
The Breakfast Club
(nina)

1: Go away! [2 hesitantly leaves her be.] You have problems.
2: Oh, I have problems?
1: You do everything everyone ever tells you to do! That is a problem!
2: Okay, fine. But I didn't dump my bag on the couch and invite everyone into my problems. [He begins to approach her again.] Did I? Now, tell me. What's wrong? Is it bad? Really bad? Parents?
[A moment passes silently.]
1: (softly) Yeah.
2: What do they do to you?
1: (hesitantly) They ignore me.

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11.
Closer
(liana)

It's a lie. It's a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and... all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it's beautiful 'cause that's what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone... But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so... the exhibition is reassuring which makes it a lie, and everyone loves a big fat lie.

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12.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(miel)

The greatest single human gift - the ability to chase down our dreams.

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13.
Pay It Forward
(nina)

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

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14.
The Kid
(nina)

So, I'm forty, I'm not married, I don't fly jets, and I don't have a dog? I grow up to be a loser!

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15.
Moulin Rouge!
(miel)

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

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16.
Little Miss Sunshine
(miel)

You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest.

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17.
Fight Club
(sijing)

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

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18.

Right, you daughter! I have your asshole here!

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19.
Mona Lisa Smile
(kath)

I thought that I was headed to a place that would turn out tomorrow's leaders, not their wives.

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20.
Everything Is Illuminated
(nina)

[Refering to the dog] This is Sammy Davis Jr. Jr... She is Grandfather's Seeing Eye bitch. Father purchased her for him not because he believes Grandfather is blind, but because a Seeing Eye bitch is also a good thing for people who pine for the opposite of loneliness. In truth, Father did not purchase her at all, but merely retrieved her from the home for forgetful dogs. Because of this, she is not a real Seeing Eye bitch, and is also mentally deranged.

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21.

1: Now that we've met again, we can change our memory of that December 16th. It no longer has that sad ending of us never seeing each other again! Right?
2 : Right.
1: I guess a memory is never finished.
2 : So long as you're alive...

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22.
The Matrix

(jr & joey)

There is no spoon.

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23.
The Hours
(sam)

Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

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24.

1 : I pray you're well. I pray I'm in your thoughts. You are all that keeps me from sliding into some dark place.
2 : But how did I keep you? We barely knew each other. A few moments --
3 : A thousand moments! They're like a bag of tiny diamonds glittering in a black heart. Don't matter if they're real or things I made up. The shape of your neck. The way you felt under my hands when I pulled you to me.

FINAL DAY of the intense serving experience.

sunday was my day of the whole weekend. tehila was my moment of the whole weekend - THANK YOU REG for getting this on camera.

a lack of sleep, the drastic changes in temperature, and general physical exhaustion robbed me of my voice and by sunday morning, i could barely be understood talking. the last part of tehila came, and we were told to put down cameras. i had distracted myself by taking photos, so i wouldn't have to stand there and remember that i couldn't sing.

the moment music started playing again - "the enemy has been defeated, death couldn't hold You down" - i broke. it was like the whole experience throughout the weekend built up to that one moment where i tried to sing. i begged and cried for a voice, even a bit of it, so i could sing. sing to Him. tell Him how much all this - what He's given me, what He's laid at my feet - means to me.

at that moment i knew i had been changed. from that girl who sulked to herself in a side of a pew at the first pre-shepherding session of LSS summer 2007, to now, arms raised high and crying. i knew then that this was really home. "memorize it, adi," kathy whispered into my ear. "remember it. never forget it. and you will carry this in your heart."

"and where ever you go, you will find home."

perhaps God took my voice then so i could really sing to Him. so i could sing from my heart.