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Babe (1995)
- the remarkable talking animals (including the
sheepdog, the duck, the elderly ewe, the trio of singing mice,
and runty, orphaned piglet Babe)
- the rousing, joyous and fun storybook finale in
which sheep-herding, talking pig Babe was victorious (with the
password Baah Ram Ewe) and outperformed all his competitors in
the prestigious National Sheepdog Championships contest
- the simple congratulatory words of kind-hearted,
prideful owner Farmer Arthur Hoggett (James Cromwell):
"That'll do, pig, that'll do"
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
- the opening court scene in this romantic comedy
in which Richard "Dickie" Nugent (Cary Grant)
- a bachelor-playboy - was arrested after a brawl in a LA nightclub
(instigated by two women fighting over his attentions), but then
released by presiding, serious-minded, single Judge Margaret Turner
(Myrna Loy)
- afterwards, Nugent delivered a lecture to high-school
students on art, and then was interviewed for the HS newspaper
by infatuated teenager Susan Turner (a grown-up
Shirley Temple), who happened to be the ward and younger sister
of Judge Turner
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Susan with Boyfriend Jerry White at School Lecture
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The "Bachelor" and the Infatuated "Bobby-Soxer"
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Susan Imagining 'Dickie' Nugent as Her "Knight in
Shining Armor"
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- after interviewing Nugent, Susan imagined him
as her 'knight in shining armor' - literally - as he walked away
from her; and soon after, she confessed to her sister: "I'm in
love with him - don't you realize that?"
- another
similar court case occurred (Nugent slugged Judge Turner's hopeful
boyfriend ADA Tommy Chamberlain (Rudy Vallee) in the nose) and
he was again called before Judge Turner, who to his utter surprise
and against her "better judgment," sentenced him to date
Susan; her objective was to 'cure' or end Susan's romantic interest
(as the Judge stated:
"Just until she gets over you" and her feelings wear
out); to complicate matters, both sisters had boyfriends who were
jealous of Nugent
- the first of many instances of the
repeated exchange - a hip sing-song dialogue;
it was first recited between Nugent and Susan when he arrived
to pick her up for the high school picnic: - "Ready
poot, let's scoot." - "Greet."
- "Greet." - "You remind me of a man." - "What
man?" - "A man with the power." - "What power?" - "The
power of hoo-do." - "Hoo-do?" - "You do." - "Do
what?" - "You remind me of a man." - "What
man?" - "A man with the power." - "What power?"
- the scene at a high school picnic, where Richard
was competing with other juveniles in an obstacle course race,
and Susan helped to enable Dickie to win (with the assistance
of her boyfriend Jerry White (Johnny Sands))
- in the Tick Tock Club
scene after Judge Turner had invited Nugent to dinner and dancing,
the elegantly-dressed couple were constantly interrupted on the
dance floor and at their table by various group
renditions of "Happy Birthday" and "Happy Anniversary",
and by a succession of individuals, including Susan and her boyfriend
Jerry (who had just been drafted), the Judge's aspiring boyfriend
ADA Tommy Chamberlain, and by one of Richard's former girlfriends Agnes Prescott (Veda
Ann Borg)
- the evening soon spun out of control; exasperated,
Judge Turner reprimanded 'Dickie': "I've had enough of this
and I've had enough of you. Everywhere you go, you attract trouble!" and
then stormed off before everybody exited; left alone at the table,
the waiter came by and asked Nugent (who had been doused by an
overturned glass): "Would
there be anything else?" -
and Nugent replied: "For instance?"; Susan was soon
convinced to return to her appropriately-aged boyfriend Jerry
- in the final scene at the airport, the reluctant
Margaret and Richard were set up by court psychiatrist Matt Beemish
(Ray Collins) to board the same TWA airplane - and spend vacation
time together in Chicago; when they realized they would be fellow
passengers at the gate, Margaret turned to him and initiated the
familiar conversation beginning with: "You remind me of a man";
she ended the recitation with the question: "Give up?" - he quickly
replied "Give up. Let's go" and took her arm
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Judge Turner (Myrna Loy)
Richard Nugent (Cary Grant) Before Judge Turner
Judge Turner with Hopeful Boyfriend, ADA Tommy Chamberlain (Rudy Vallee)
Nugent Awkwardly Dating Susan - At a Basketball Game
Nugent and Susan Reciting: "You remind me of a man" Exchange
Dickie Winning at Rigged Obstacle Course Race
Final Scene at Airport Boarding Gate
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The Bad News Bears (1976)
- Michael Ritchie's realistic, underdog
baseball sports comedy-movie, an un-PC mid-1970s classic, told
about the failing Little League team of the Bears from LA's San
Fernando Valley, coached by washed-up, drunken, hang-dog, ex-minor
leaguer and professional pool cleaner Morris Buttermaker (Walter
Matthau)
- during the team's first practice, Buttermaker
complained to his obnoxious and chubby catcher Mike Engelberg
(Gary Lee Cavagnaro): "There's
chocolate all over this ball"
- Buttermaker's exasperation at the talentless team
when no one moved to pick up a B-U-N-T, and then catcher Engelberg
made a wild throw to first base and broke his parked convertible's
front windshield; simmering with anger, Buttermaker delivered a
run-down of the basic rules of baseball by his car: "All right,
boys. Let's get back to basics. This is a baseball. The object
of the game is to keep the baseball within the confines of the
playing field"
- the rag-tag misfit team of real juvenile "bad
news"
ball players that was eventually assembled had anti-authoritarian
attitudes, obnoxious behavior, and obscene language: profanity-spewing,
racist-talking, short-tempered shortstop Tanner Boyle (Chris Barnes),
nerdy, stats-obsessed Alfred Ogilvie (Alfred W. Lutter), booger-eating,
bullied and withdrawn outcast Timmy Lupus (Quinn Smith), and Harley-Davidson-riding,
cigarette-smoking trouble-maker Kelly Leak (Jackie Earle Haley)
- Tanner delivered a demeaning insult to his entire
team: "All we got on this team is a bunch of Jews, spics, niggers, pansies,
and a booger-eatin' moron" - followed by teammate Alfred's
clever warning: "Tanner, I think you should be reminded from time to time
that you're one of the few people on this team who's not a Jew,
spic, nigger, pansy, or booger-eating moron. So you better cool
it, or we may be disposed to beat the crap outta you"
- the scene of Buttermaker's first talk with 11 year-old,
tough-talking Amanda Whurlizer (Tatum O'Neal) (the daughter of
one of Buttermaker's ex-girlfriends), he used to coach her fast-ball
pitching a few years earlier; Amanda was initially opposed to speaking
to coach Buttermaker about being on his team: "I'm through
with pitching. My mom says you almost ruined me with that, that
sports stuff...That fast ball you taught me put my arm in a sling"
- Amanda blamed him for his
irresponsible behavior and frequent drunkenness, his role as a
'father figure,' and ultimately his failed relationship with her
mother: "You handled it like s--t...Look, Buttermaker, you're
not my father and I ain't interested in playing baseball for you
any more. So why don't you get back into that sardine can of yours
and go, go vacuum the bottom of the Pacific Ocean? I've got business
to take care of. You're blocking my customers with your car" -
she resumed selling maps to movie-stars' homes
- during a second visit with Amanda, Buttermarker
doggedly recruited the reluctant Amanda who insisted she was through
being a tomboy, and was an aspiring model who was starting ballet
lessons; she was convincing: "I'm almost
12, and I'll, I'll be getting a bra soon. Well, maybe in a year
or so. I can't be playing no dumb baseball"
- remaining dogged, he downplayed his interest in
her: "You're right. You're absolutely right. You're turning
into a regular little lady. It was a dumb idea anyway. I mean,
you wouldn't have helped the team much. I mean, you were great
when you were 9, but girls reach their peak athletically about
that age. Probably haven't picked up a ball in two years anyway";
Amanda spoke up and bragged about how she was actually practicing
her pitching in secret: "Got my curve breaking 2 1/2 feet";
they agreed on a bet of $20 dollars for her to prove it";
he knew he had her hooked when she started throwing pitches at
him
- while riding in his car, she still acted resistant
and bargained for favors and incentives, such as paid ballet and
modeling lessons, and imported French jeans; Buttermaker complained: "Who
do you think you are, Catfish Hunter?", but she didn't know
who he was ("Who's he?"); he was able to convince her
to join the team - the team's only girl - and a curve-ball pitcher
- when she was brought to the team and introduced,
Tanner demeaned Amanda: "Jews, spics, niggers, and now a girl?" -
she shot back: "Grab a bat, punk!"
- the sequence of Buttermaker's enforcement of the
league rule that everyone on the team had to wear a cup and an
athletic supporter:
"Either you wear 'em or you don't play";
Amanda asserted: "You ain't strapping one of these things
on me," followed by the entire team's refusal: "If she don't wear one, I don't
wear one" - they all tossed their boxes
of supporters back at the coach
- the climactic, exciting championship game against
the Bears' arch-rivals, the Yankees - during the game, Amanda was
kicked in the chest during a spiked slide and play at home plate
when she backed up the catcher, leading to a major fight between
her team to defend her against their rivals; she told Buttermaker:
("I know I don't have too much up there, but what I got sure
don't feel too good")
- during the game, demanding and competitive coach
Roy Turner (Vic Morrow) reprimanded his pitcher son Joey Turner
(Brandon Cruz) for almost beaning Bears' catcher Engelberg at bat
with a wild pitch; after coach Turner slapped his son to the ground,
on the next pitch, Joey allowed a ground ball to the pitcher's
mound to become an inside-the-park homerun by holding onto the
ball, to retaliate against and defy his father; as he left the
park, he dropped the ball at his father's feet
- by game's end, it was lost narrowly by the Bears
(by only one run, 7-6) who were awarded a smaller second-place
trophy; one of the Yankee players spoke up: "You guys played a
good game. And we treated you pretty unfair all season. We want
to apologize. We still don't think you're all that good a baseball
team. You got guts, alla ya"
- the defeated team refused to acknowledge the win;
Lupus tossed their small trophy at the condescending winners as
Tanner yelled out: "Hey
Yankees. You can take your apology and your trophy and shove it straight
up your ass!"; the shy Lupus challenged them: "And
another thing, just wait 'til next year," and then the Bears
players celebrated and doused themselves with beer (as if they
had won the game) - as the film concluded
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Bananas
(1971)
- the opening scene of the play-by-play commentary
of a Latin-American president's "live, on-the-spot assassination",
in the Republic of San Marcos, on the outdoor palace steps for
ABC's Wide World of Sports - provided by sportscaster
announcer Howard Cosell (Himself), as he asked the dying leader: "Well,
of course, you're upset, and that's understandable under the
circumstances. l guess now you'll have to announce your retirement"
- the scenes
of clumsy, anxiety-ridden nerd Fielding Mellish
(Woody Allen) serving as a guinea-pig for his company's strange
inventions as
a consumer product tester with a malfunctioning, sedentary exercise-machine
("The Execu-cisor")
- aspiring playboy Fielding's nervous purchase of
a porno magazine (camouflaged by other more intellectual publications
such as Time
Magazine, Commentary, Saturday Review, and Newsweek)
and his embarrassment when a shop dealer made it obvious to other
respectable, disapproving customers that he was purchasing a
pornographic magazine - and
his cringing when his order was screamed out by the clerk: ("Hey
Ralph? How much is a copy of Orgasm?...Orgasm.
This man wants to buy a copy. How much is it?"); Fielding
stuttered:
"Doing a sociological study on perversion. l'm up to advanced
child molesting"
- Fielding's unsuccessful attempt and cowardice
to protect
an old woman during a subway mugging by two thugs (including
a young Sylvester Stallone in his screen debut)
- his breakup with red-headed radical Nancy (Louise
Lasser) and his whining: (Fielding: "How am I immature?" Nancy: "Well...intellectually,
emotionally and sexually." Fielding: "Yeah, but in
what other ways?")
- the scenes of Fielding's involvement as a fake-bearded
revolutionary guerrilla in the tiny Latin American banana republic
of San Marcos as the guest of dictator Gen. Emilio M. Vargas
(Carlos Montalban), and his capture by the guerrillas
- the scene of nebbish Fielding viewing a half-naked
woman clutching her left breast and crying out: "I
got bitten by a snake" - after he had learned about first-aid
treatment for snakebite: ("In
the event of snake-bite, you make an incision and you suck out
the poison - remember, you suck out the poison"); with a
huge grin on his face, he pursued her greedily and lasciviously,
and was followed by the rest of the rebel camp
- the scene of a dinner toast when he tensely began
chewing on his glass
- his to-go ordering of almost one thousand
grilled cheese sandwiches and seven hundred
cups of coffee for his troops at a lunch counter during a South American
revolution before being installed
as El Presidente
- the torture scene when soldiers forced a man
to listen to the score of Naughty Marietta
- the grossly inappropriate speech to upper class
dignitaries given by Fielding, now El Presidente of San Marcos
and wearing a ridiculous fake red beard, at a high society fundraiser: "Uh,
we have more locusts than...uh, locusts of all races and creeds.
These, these locusts, incidentally, are available at popular
prices. And so, by the way, are most of the women of San Marcos..."
- his US trial scene in which he cross-examined
himself and objected to the judge during his trial for treason
in the US: ("l object, Your Honor.
This trial is a travesty. lt's a travesty of a mockery of a sham
of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. l move
for a mistrial. Do you realize there's not a single homosexual
on that jury")
- the closing televised Fielding Mellish Honeymoon
Night broadcast (on Wide World of Sports) that was viewed as
a boxing match by commentator Howard Cosell, in which Nancy admitted:
"Well, Howard, it all went by so fast. I just had no idea
that it would be so quick, really. I was expecting a longer bout...
Well, as you know, l'm extraordinarily ticklish so l had a kind
of a rough time there. l couldn't stop laughing...And you know,
l thought it would really get in my way. But l really trained well
for this and l think it sort of held me, so there really wasn't
any time that l didn't feel in complete control." Then she
added: "The timing was a little off, but l think he'll be
fine. I mean, he's not the worst l've had. Not the best, but not
the worst."
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The Bank
Dick (1940)
- the words of advice given
by Lompoc resident Egbert Souse (W.C. Fields) to his future son-in-law
Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton) - "Surely, don't be a luddie-duddie,
don't be a moon-calf, don't be a jabbernow, you're not those,
are you?"
- the scene when Egbert was hired as a vigilant
bank security dick - he choked a young boy in a cowboy outfit
waving a toy gun - believing that he was a holdup man - as the
bratty boy walked out of the bank, he ridiculed the guard's shiny,
bulbous red nose: "Mommy, doesn't that man have a funny
nose?" His mother chided him for making fun: "You mustn't
make fun of the gentleman, Clifford. You'd like to have a nose
like that full of nickels, wouldn't you?"
- Egbert's Black Pussy Cat Cafe drinking routine
- Souse's use of a Mickey Finn to hold off effeminate,
inquisitive and persistent bank examiner J. Pinkerton Snoopington
(Franklin Pangborn)
- and his memorable, zany,
slapstick getaway car chase scene as a "hostage" with a terrified robber
- it was a superbly-timed chase - the cars (Souse's car was followed
by the local police, the bank president, and a representative
from the movie company) zoomed and circled around, barely avoiding
crashing into each other or other obstacles in the path - the
getaway car careened through streets, over ditches (over the
heads of ditchdiggers), around curves and up a mountainside,
missing collisions at every turn with the pursuit vehicles.
- when
asked by the thug in the back seat to give him the wheel, Egbert
matter-of-factly pulled it off the steering column and gave it
to him
- when the robber was struck unconscious and apprehended,
Sousè was an unlikely hero once again for thwarting another
heist
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Bedazzled (1967, UK)
- the character of
Stanley Moon (Dudley Moore), a 28 year-old short-order cook at
a London Wimpyburger, who loved from afar his co-worker waitress
Margaret Spencer (Eleanor Bron); in voice-over, he expressed his
infatuation for her: "I only live to hear your voice...Each time
you speak, it's like a thousand violins playing in the halls of
heaven. I-I love you, Miss Spencer. I love everything about you.
The way you walk, your sweet smile, your easy grace and charm...I
wish I could take you away from all this. I'd like us to start
a new life together, a little house of our own, a car, the two
of us against the world, joined forevermore in holy wedlock"
- depressed over being spurned by Miss Spencer's love
for six years, Stanley contemplated hanging himself; he was presented
with a Faustian bargain by Satan/Fallen Angel
(Peter Cook) (aka George Spiggott) after "an unsuccessful suicide
bid"; Stanley complained about his lot in life: "I'm miserable.
I've got a boring job, no money, no prospects. I haven't got
a girlfriend, I can't get to know anyone, and no one wants to get
to know me, and everything is hopeless"; Stanley was tempted by
the self-named "horned one" - with alternate names including the
Prince of Darkness, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, and Lucifer: "Everything
you've ever seen in the advertisements. Fast, white convertibles,
blonde women, their hair trailing in the wind, wafer-thin after-dinner
chocolates. If you had all that, would you be any happier?"
- in
exchange for his soul ("I collect souls. I'd like to add yours to
my collection...And all I want from you is the exclusive global
and universal rights to it"), Stanley was offered seven wishes
and he accepted; however, there were many ingenious
ways that with each of Stanley's seven wishes, signaled by the
phrase: "Julie Andrews!", he
was tricked and double-crossed by Satan; for example, before signing
a contract with the Devil, Stanley's innocent request for "a Frobisher
and Gleason raspberry-flavored ice lolly" was called a trial
wish, but was counted as one of his seven wishes
- in each of his attempts to win over Margaret, Stanley
tried different approaches: as a pretentious "articulate" intellectual
with a Welsh accent, as a "multimillionaire"
industrialist/businessman, as a pop-singing rock star, and as
a student, but all his efforts failed; when
Stanley wished to be "a
fly on the wall", he literally became one; in another instance,
both Stanley and Margaret became nuns who expressed lesbian love
for each other but could not be fulfilled (Margaret: "Whatever
it is that draws us together we must cast out. It is unnatural
and wrong...It is wrong, and I'm so ashamed to break my vow")
- the character of "Lilian" Lust (Raquel
Welch) (known as "the babe with the bust"), the living
Personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins, who requested
that Stanley help her to unbutton her blouse, to reveal her red
bra and bikini underwear: ("I seem to be all thumbs this mornin'.
Oh, I find clothes so constructin'. We must allow our pores to
breathe. Oh, that's better"), and then
held him close to her breasts and asked: "Can you hear my
pores breathe? Listen. Would you like a nibble?"; she was
referring to an offer of breakfast in bed: "Why, you must
be ravenous. Would you like orange juice?....Or a succulent, sun-ripe,
whole pineapple? But you have to be careful of the prickles....Do
you like it in bed?"; she jumped in bed with him (admired
the overhead mirror:
"Don't we make a pretty pair?"), and continued seducing
him as she served him coffee and toast: "Strong, black and
sweet. Two mountainous spoons full. Hot toast or buttered buns?...Oh,
I love a man who knows what he wants. Do you crave marmalade or
honey?...Ohh! I do so love the smell of honey on a man's lips" (she
smeared honey on his lips for a kiss)
- after giving back Stanley's soul to him as "a very
magnanimous gesture," the
curtain closing curse that the revengeful Spiggot delivered to
God: "All
right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world
in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways,
motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic
flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy
and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder
you've so few friends; you're unbelievable!"
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Beerfest (2006)
- in Broken Lizard's beer-themed comedy about alcohol
abuse and competitive binge drinking (a la "Fight Club"),
the opening scene of a video projected at the
funeral of German-born patriarch Johann von Wolfhaus (Donald Sutherland),
who in his own pre-taped eulogy admitted that he had "croaked";
he went on:
"Now I will never know what happens on
The Young and the Restless" - toasted with a beer stein,
showed off his leiderhosen-wearing German doll Popo, and encouraged
his grand-sons Todd and Jan to carry on the family traditions by spreading
his ashes in Munich, Germany during the Oktoberfest Festival
- male prostitute Barry Badrinath's
(Jay Chandrasekhar) run-down of fees for different sexual acts:
"It's $10 for a BJ, $12 for an HJ, $15 for a ZJ...";
when asked what a ZJ was, he responded: "If you have to ask,
big man, ya can't afford it"
- the nightclub
scene of a completely-soused Barry ("Asshole") in the men's room,
believing that he had been completely transformed into an alternate
persona -- a hot Saturday
Night Fever dancer
("Lookin' good...You handsome motherf--ker!"); he strutted
over to a woman on the dance floor, and thinking he was cool and
suave, delivered the question: "Ho, ho, ho - we gotta get you
out of those wet clothes, and into a dry martini" - she responded
with disgust:
"What? Get away from me!"
- the following scene of Barry's pick-up of a sexy
female in a red dress for "a little slap and tickle" but
she was really Cherry (Mo'Nique), Great Gam Gam's (Cloris Leachman)
overweight assistant - and their night of sex wasn't anything like
he thought it was, in flashback
- the sight of the drinking team riding a 5-man bicycle
("What a great morning!")
- the introduction of the Swedish Beerfest drinking
team, who displayed their assets by flashing their breasts
- in the finale during the closing credits, the surprise
appearance of Willie Nelson (as Himself) wandering in an Amsterdam
alleyway; he explained to the drinking team how he was competing
in a super-secret international pot smoking competition and that
his partners Cheech & Chong had deserted
him: "I was invited over here for this big, secret international,
pot-smoking competition. And my teammates, Cheech and Chong, chickened
out on me. They wouldn't fly in my biodiesel airplane, and the
smoke-out's in 30 minutes and I don't wanna get disqualified. Now,
you guys don't wanna be my teammates, do ya?"; and then he told them
a joke: "Did you hear the one about the guy who told his son:
'Hey, if you don't quit masturbating, you're gonna go blind.' He
said: 'Dad, I'm over here.'"
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Beetlejuice (1988)
- after a fatal car accident that killed the newly-wed
Maitlands: Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara
(Geena Davis), the scene of their other-worldly (or netherworld)
waiting room full of other recently-dead and distressed
clients, especially the explorer with a shrunken head and ping
pong ball eyes
- the hosted dinner party (song and dance) scene
of the recently-deceased Maitlands and their haunted 'parlor
trick' in which they attempted to spook and dislodge the yuppie
Deetz family, now living in their Connecticut home, by having
obnoxious wife Delia Deetz (Catherine O'Hara) belt out the calypso
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" - in Harry Belafonte's
voice
- the character of goth, black-clad teenaged Deetz
daughter, Lydia (Winona Ryder), a photographer, from Charles
Deetz' (Jeffrey Jones) first marriage - and the object of Beetlejuice's
affection, and the only living person who could see the ghostly
Maitlands (whom she met when they were first wearing sheets)
- she asked: "Are you gross under there? Are you Night
of the Living Dead under there? Like all bloody veins and
pus?"
- the sight of Michael Keaton as the demonic, crude,
yellow-haired, morbid, and over-the-top title character Betelgeuse
(the "afterlife's leading bioexorcist") as a free-lance
veteran scare-master, who advertised his services on television
- "You Get a Free demon possession with Every Exorcism!"
- the decaying view of Adam and Barbara - who after
what they thought was a seance (conducted by the Deetz' interior
designer Otho (Glenn Shadix)), were now transformed into exorcised,
greenish decaying ghosts
- the summoning of Beetlejuice by Lydia (by calling
out his name three times) to help save the Maitlands in exchange
for promising to marry him; with outstretched arms, he exhorted
as lightning flashed: ("It's Showtime!") to get rid
of Maxie Dean (Robert Goulet), Deetz's boss, and his wife, and
also Otho; Beetlejuice grew inflated arms and propelled them
through the ceiling (as if in a carnival's strong-man 'ring the
bell' game)
- the final scene in the waiting room with Betelgeuse's
now-shrunken head (after a witch doctor sprinkled powder on him)
and his hilarious, upbeat, but deadpanned statement about his
messed-up hair: ("Whoa, hey! What are you doing? Hey, stop
it! Hey, you're messing up my hair! C'mon! Whoa! Whoa! Stop it!
Whoa! Hey, this might be a good look for me")
- Lydia's pre-ending credits performance, suspended
in mid-air, of "Jump in the Line (Shake Señora)",
with singing by Harry Belafonte, after the Deetz's and the Maitlands
found they could live in cooperative harmony in the house
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Being
There (1979)
- the enigmatic character of illiterate, TV-watching
gardener Chance the Gardener or Chauncey Gardiner (Peter Sellers) and
his fool-turned-prophet transformation
- black maid-cook Louise's (Ruth Attaway) cynical
commentary on retarded Chance/Chauncey Gardiner's (Peter Sellers)
rise to power
- Dennis Watson's (Mitch Kreindel) hitting on Chauncey
at a formal party with Chauncey's naive reply: "Is there a
TV upstairs? I like to watch" and Dennis' delighted response: "You
like to, uh, watch?... You wait right here. I'll go get Warren!"
- Chauncey's simpleton lecture to President Bobby
(Jack Warden) about how the garden grew: ("In a garden, growth
has its season . . . as long as the roots are not severed, all
will be well")
- and the protracted "seduction scene" in
which dying financier's wife Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), love-starved
and seductive, desperately tried to arouse an unresponsive Chauncey
- he only responded, with a shocking but understandable line, that
he "like(s)
to watch" -
and "it's
very good, Eve" and
then sat on the end of the bed (oblivious to her) as she masturbated
herself on the floor on top of a bear-skin rug
- and the cryptic, mystical final shot of Chauncey
strolling on water as his Presidential candidacy was discussed
off-screen
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Best in Show (2000)
- the quirky and mockumentary interviews with different
sets of neurotic and quirky dog owners, trainers, and pet psychologists,
including salesman Gerry Fleck (Eugene Levy), cursed with two left
feet (literally), and his wife Cookie (Catherine O'Hara) with their
Norwich terrier "Winky" -
and his astonishment when his wife admitted she had "hundreds"
of boyfriends
- the description of the relationship between young
and very buxom trophy wife Sherri Ann Cabot (Jennifer Coolidge)
and her very elderly 80 year-old husband Leslie (Patrick Cranshaw):
("We have an amazing relationship and it's very physical.
I mean, he still pushes all my buttons. And uhm, you know, people
say: 'Oh, but he's so much older than you.' And you know what?
I'm the one having to push him away. We both have so much in common.
We both love soup and uh, we love the outdoors, uh, we love snow
peas, and uh, talking and not talking. Uh, we could not talk or
talk forever and still find things to not talk about")
- wealthy, materialistic, and neurotic dog owners
- yuppie catalogue lovers Meg Swan (Parker Posey) and Hamilton
Swan (Michael Hitchcock), with matching sets of braces, who met
at Starbucks: ("Not at the same Starbucks but we saw each
other at different Starbucks across the street from each other")
who were worried with their therapist that their Weimaraner "Beatrice" had
been traumatized and was depressed after watching them have experimental
Kama Sutra style sex: ("We got a book, Kama Sutra. I lit some
candles and, uh, played some music and got myself in a position
that wasn't, uh, very easy for me emotionally. Uhm, it's called
the congress of the cow, uh, where, uh, the woman is bent over,
the hands are on the floor, and the man is behind")
- and at the show itself, the frenzied and panicked
search of the Swans for their Weimaraner Beatrice's favorite "Busy
Bee" toy
- in the crate, back in their hotel room (Meg to hotel manager:
"Of course I've looked under the bed, of course I've looked under
the bed. That's where you look when you lose things...Thanks for
your help, you stupid hotel manager!", and her additional tirade
against a Latina cleaning house-keeping maid: "I know a man who
has a van and he will take you back to exactly where you came from!"),
etc. and Meg's frustrating search for a replacement toy in a pet
store: ("No, that's a bear in a, in a bee costume...This?...This
is a fish. This is a fish! You know what? Just shut up...I didn't
ask for your opinion. I asked for a toy that you don't have!")
- the characters of Christy Cummings (Jane Lynch)
and Sherri Ann Cabot who created a magazine titled "American
Bitch" designed specifically for lesbian pure-bred dog owners
- the scene of Harlan Pepper (Christopher Guest)
traveling to the road show with his bloodhound, in which he told
a story about how he drove his mother mad by his unique talent
of naming nuts: ("I used to be able to name every nut that
there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used
to say, 'Harlan Pepper, if you don't stop namin' nuts,' and the
joke was, of course, that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that's
what put it in my head at that - at that point. So I'd go to sleep
- she'd hear me in the other room and she would just start yellin'.
I'd say: 'Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.' That was
the one that would send her into goin' crazy. She'd say: 'Would
you stop namin' nuts!' And Hubert used to be able to make the sound,
and he wasn't talkin', but he used to go "rrrawr rrawr" and
it sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it's
also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural,
all natural white pistachio nut")
- the national dog show itself, the 125th annual Mayflower
Kennel Club's competition for the "Best in Show", emceed
by the comical TV commentator Buck Laughlin (Fred Willard) and
his long-suffering co-host Trevor Beckwith (Jim Piddock): ("When
you look at how beautiful these dogs are, and to think that in
some countries these dogs are eaten,"
and "If you're gonna put them on a football team, which would
be your wide receiver, which would be your tight end? Who can go
the farthest, the fastest?", and "Look at Scott! He is
prancing along with the dog! Man, I tell you something, if you live
in my neighborhood and you're dressed like that, you'd better be
a hotel doorman", and "I don't think I ever
could get used to being probed and prodded. I told my proctologist
once: 'Hey, why don't you take me out to dinner and a movie sometime?'")
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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
- the character of comic, resourceful,
street-smart renegade Detroit cop Axel Foley (on a working vacation in
Southern California) by Eddie Murphy in this "fish-out-of-water"
comedy
- his loudmouth, streetwise character delivered fast-talking
laughs in almost every scene
- the hotel registration scene of Axel at the front
desk of the overbooked luxury Beverly Palm Hotel, where he was
posing as a Rolling Stone magazine
reporter there to interview Michael Jackson; he was offered a suite
by the flustered blonde desk clerk at the single-room rate ($235/night)
after playing the race card: "Don't you think I realize what's
going on here, miss? Who do you think I am, huh? Don't you think
I know that if I was some hotshot from out of town that pulled
inside here and you guys made a reservation mistake, I'd be the
first one to get a room and I'd be upstairs relaxing right now.
But I'm not some hotshot from out of town, I'm a small reporter
from 'Rolling Stone' magazine that's in town to do an
exclusive interview with Michael Jackson that's gonna be picked
up by every major magazine in the country. I was gonna call the
article 'Michael Jackson Is Sitting On Top of the World,'
but now I think I might as well just call it 'Michael Jackson
Can Sit On Top of the World Just As Long As He Doesn't Sit in the
Beverly Palm Hotel 'Cause There's No Niggers Allowed in There!'"
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Big (1988)
- the scenes of a 13 year-old
boy Josh Baskin (David Moscow) in the "big" body of a
thirty-year-old man (Tom Hanks) after his wish to be "big" at
a carnival machine came true
- the joyous foot-tapping Heart and Soul and Chopsticks tap
dances of teenaged Josh Baskin with toy executive boss "Mac" MacMillan
(Robert Loggia) on a giant, floor-sized and mounted electronic piano
keyboard in the main showroom of an F.A.O. Schwartz toy store
- Josh's reaction to the hors d'oeuvres (miniature
corn cobs) at a fancy office cocktail party
- Josh's confused sexual relationship with sexy
yuppie toy executive Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins), a top-level
co-worker, who
had asked to spend the night for a 'sleep-over' in bunk beds; and
the sharing of his bunk bed with her - Susan: "I want to spend
the night with you." Josh: "Do you mean sleep over?"
Susan: "Well... yeah!" Josh (with a guileless reply): "Well,
okay... but I get to be on top!"
- also the tender, simple and innocent scene in which
he gently touched her breast through her bra before kissing her
- and in the conclusion, the final shot
of Josh, after waving goodbye to Susan, transformed into a
13 year-old boy again (with clothes that now didn't fit him) -
he ran toward his home, calling out: "Mom?...I missed you
all so much"
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Big Business (1929)
- the famous silent short (two-reeler) in which door-to-door
Christmas tree salesmen Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy)
got into an escalating vindictive fight with a disgruntled homeowner
(James Finlayson), and ended up destroying his home and yard while
he destroyed their car (and tree), as a policeman and other neighbors
calmly watched
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
(1958, It.) (aka I Soliti Ignoti)
- a wacky, satirical crime caper about an amateurish,
inept and incompetent group of Italians who planned the perfect
crime that ultimately went very wrong - the robbery of a pawnshop,
masterminded by womanizing boxer Peppe (Vittorio Gassman) and
accompanied by unemployed cameraless photographer and baby-minding
Tiberio (Marcello Mastroianni), young rookie thief Mario (Renato
Salvatori), hot-tempered Sicilian Ferribote (Tiberio Murgia),
ex-jockey Capannelle (Carlo Pisacane) - and the gang's mentor
Dante Cruciani (Italian stage star Toto) who offered ridiculous
lessons on safecracking
- the climactic scene of the break-in ended
up being a complete failure
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
- the opening scene narrated by the Stranger (Sam
Elliott) that introduced bearded hippie, disheveled, pot-smoking,
slacker, unemployed slob Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski (Jeff Bridges),
wandering in the aisles of a Los Angeles Ralph's grocery
store late at night, and smelling a carton of Half & Half before
writing a check for $.69 cents
- Lebowski's return home to his Venice Beach (California)
bungalow, where he was assaulted
by two debt-collecting thugs (Mark Pellegrino) and Woo (Philip
Moon), who alleged that The Dude owed them money: ("Don't
f--k with us! Your wife owes money to Jackie Treehorn. That means
you owe money to Jackie Treehorn")
- they roughed him up and then Woo peed on the Dude's favorite
carpet: (The Dude complained: "No, no, don't do that! Not on
the rug, man"),
but then after realizing that the Dude was the wrong individual,
the goons took off: ("He looks like a f--kin' loser...F--king
time wasted. Thanks a lot, asshole")
- the Dude's commiseration with his bowling buddies,
uptight nutcase Vietnam war veteran Walter Sobchak (John Goodman)
and ex-surfer Donny (Steve Buscemi), about his ruined, valued rug
that was peeded upon by the Chinaman Woo ("Yeah, man, it
really tied the room together")
- the scene in which The Dude, wearing shorts and
a T-shirt, complained and demanded compensation from wheel-chair
bound philanthropist, Pasadena, CA millionaire Jeffrey 'The Big'
Lebowski (David Huddleston), his namesake, for the mistaken attack
by two hoods (due to a mix-up of addresses for "Lebowski"),
that were really targeting Mr. Lebowski's indebted, promiscuous
trophy wife Bunny (Tara Reid), a porn actress
- the Dude's introduction of himself to "The
Big" Lebowski: ("You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So
that's what you call me. You know, uh, that or, uh, His Dudeness,
or uh, Duder, or uh, you know, El Duderino if you're not into the
whole brevity thing")
- Mr. Lebowski's employment advice to the laid-back
Dude - who then briefly answered: "Oh, F--k it!" and
left: ("My wife is not the issue here! I hope that someday
my wife will learn to live on her allowance, which is ample, but
if she does not, that is her problem, not mine, just as the rug
is your problem, just as every bum's lot in life is his own responsibility,
regardless of who he chooses to blame. I didn't blame anyone for
the loss of my legs. Some Chinaman took them from me in Korea.
But I went out and achieved anyway. I cannot solve your problems,
sir, only you can....Yes, that's your answer. That's your answer
to everything. Tattoo it on your forehead. Your revolution is over,
Mr. Lebowski! Condolences! The bums lost! My advice to you is to
do what your parents did! Get a job, sir! The bums will always
lose! Do you hear me, Lebowski?! The bums will always lose!")
- on his way out of the Lebowski estate, the Dude's
meeting up with the millionaire's sexy young wife Bunny, a free-spirited
nymphomaniac, and one of the porn stars of sleaze king mobster
Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara); while painting her toenails, she
offered the Dude: ("I'll
suck your cock for $1,000 dollars")
- the scene of living erotic art exhibited by Mr.
Lebowski's estranged daughter Maude Lebowski (Julianne Moore),
an eccentric, super-stoic, avante-garde feminist artist, who delivered
a "vagina monologue": ("Does the female form make
you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski?...My art has been commended as
being strongly vaginal, which bothers some men. The word itself
makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina....Yes, they don't like hearing
it and find it difficult to say, whereas without batting an eye,
a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson")
- the Dude's fantasy, Busby-Berkeley inspired musical
dream sequence of bowling called 'Gutterballs' after being slipped
a mickey in his White Russian cocktail by Jackie Treehorn - filled
with images including the Viking Queen, Saddam Hussein, and bowling
- the bowling alley scene in which competitive, flamboyant,
lavender-jump-suited Latino bowler Jesus Quintana (John Turturro)
(with a long painted pinky fingernail on one of his ring-laden
fingers, who seductively licked his bowling ball) rolled a strike,
then did a strange victory dance to the Spanish-tinged tune of Hotel
California;
then he threatened the Dude: "Let
me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy s--t
with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away
from you, and stick it up your ass and pull the f--kin' trigger
'til it goes click....Nobody
f--ks with the Jesus..."
- Walter had nothing but bad things
to say about Jesus: "He's a sex offender with a record. He did
six months in Chino for exposin' himself to an eight year old...When
he moved to Hollywood he had to go door to door to tell everyone
he was a pederast"; of course, Donny asked: "What's a pederast,
Walter?"
and was rebuked as usual: "Shut the f--k up, Donny"
- the other scary scene at the bowling alley in
which the Dude's bowling buddy Walter told rival bowler Smokey
(Jimmie Dale Gilmore) that he had committed a minor infraction
of bowling league rules by fouling over the line - accompanied
by gun-wielding threats: "You're entering a world of pain" and "Mark
it zero"
- the scene of the scattering of Donny's cremated
ashes (in a Folger's coffee can), who had suffered a fatal heart
attack, with Walter's rambling eulogy: ("Donny was a good
bowler and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved
the outdoors and bowling. And as a surfer, he explored the beaches
of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and up to
Pismo. He died, he died, as so many men of his generation, before
his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many
bright, flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Lan Doc, and Hill 364.
These young men gave their lives. So did Donny. Donny who loved
bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabatsos, in accordance with
what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit
your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which
you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince"); however, the
breeze blew the ashes back - and all over the Dude's face
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Billy Madison (1995)
- the sequence of Billy Madison's (Adam Sandler) academic
decathlon speech, when the category of "REFLECTIONS OF SOCIETY
IN LITERATURE" was chosen for a question; he compared the
Industrial Revolution to a children's story: The
Puppy Who Lost His Way ("...the puppy was like industry.
In that, they were both lost in the woods.
And nobody, especially the little boy - society - knew
where to find them. Except that the puppy was a dog. But the industry,
my friends, that was a revolution"); the Principal delivered
a blistering criticism of Billy's speech: "Mr. Madison, what
you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have
ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were
you even close to anything that could be considered a rational
thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened
to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul";
Billy sheepishly replied to the insult: "Okay, a simple wrong would've
done just fine"
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