Posted on 11/18/2004 8:19:10 AM PST by Mad Dawgg
THE MOST MEMORABLE PHRASES FROM FILM CELEBRATED IN EIGHTH ANNUAL AFI/CBS TELEVISION EVENT
"Here's Looking at You, Kid," "Show Me the Money!" "I'll be Back" and Hundreds More Vie for the Title of "Movie Quote of The Century"
LOS ANGELES, November 17, 2004-The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced that AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Movie Quotes will be the theme for AFI's eighth annual celebration of 100 years of American movies.
AFI'S 100 Years . . . 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases will count down America's 100 greatest lines of dialogue spoken in the movies, as chosen by experts of the motion picture community, in a three-hour television event on the CBS Television Network in June 2005.
Last year's special, AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Songs, was the most popular AFI special in the series to date, winning the night handily and coming in third for the week with an 8.3 household rating and a 14 share, representing a 66% ratings advantage over its nearest competitor. Due to its popularity, CBS rebroadcast the special on August 13, 2004.
Each year, the AFI program has garnered considerable attention from movie lovers around the world. Previous programs within this series have included AFI 100 Years...100 Movies (1998), . . . 100 Stars (1999), . . . 100 Laughs (2000), . . . 100 Thrills (2001), . . . 100 Passions (2002), . . . 100 Heroes & Villains (2003) and . . . 100 Songs (2004).
"Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary," stated AFI's Director and CEO Jean Picker Firstenberg. "When you consider that any phrase from American film is eligible, you realize this is our most subjective topic to date. We expect nothing less than a war of words as we re-ignite interest in classic American movies."
For the eighth consecutive year, the primetime special will be executive produced and directed by Gary Smith; executive produced for AFI by former AFI Board chair Frederick S. Pierce; and produced by Dann Netter and Bob Gazzale. SFM Entertainment LLC is the distributor of the program. Past sponsors of the series have included General Motors, Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Best Buy, Anheuser-Busch, Colgate-Palmolive and all major motion picture companies.
About the Jury Process
Today, AFI distributed a ballot with 400 nominated movie quotes to a jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers), critics and historians.
This year, the jury will be asked to choose up to 100 movie quotes from a comprehensive list, including entries such as "Here's lookin' at you, kid" (CASABLANCA), "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" (GONE WITH THE WIND), "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" (SHE DONE HIM WRONG), "May the Force be with you" (STAR WARS), "Houston, we have a problem" (APOLLO 13), "Snap out of it!" (MOONSTRUCK), "You can't handle the truth!" (A FEW GOOD MEN), "I'll be back" (THE TERMINATOR) and "Show me the money!" (JERRY MAGUIRE).
Due to the extensive number of memorable movie lines in American film, jurors may also write in votes for up to five quotes that may not already appear on the ballot.
The jurors have been asked to consider the following criteria in making their selections:
MOVIE QUOTE
A statement, phrase or brief exchange of dialogue spoken in an American film.* (Lyrics from songs are not eligible.)
CULTURAL IMPACT
Movie Quotes that viewers use in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, they become part of the national lexicon.
LEGACY
Movie Quotes that viewers use to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.
*AFI defines an American film as an English language motion picture with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States. Additionally, only Movie Quotes from feature-length American films released before January 1, 2004, will be considered. AFI defines a feature-length film as a motion picture of narrative format that is typically over 60 minutes in length.
Interesting Facts about the Ballot
Chronologically, the ballot spans from 1927-with the first full-length sound film, THE JAZZ SINGER: "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!"-to 2002 and "My precious" from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS.
CASABLANCA has seven quotes in AFI's ballot, making it the most represented film.
THE WIZARD OF OZ is the second most represented film with six quotes.
Humphrey Bogart has 10 quotes on the ballot, the most represented male actor. Al Pacino and the Marx Brothers follow with six quotes each and Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, James Stewart and Jack Nicholson are all represented with five quotes each. Funnymen Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Mike Myers each have four quotes represented.
Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland and Vivien Leigh each have four memorable movie quotes on the ballot.
Billy Wilder is the top represented writer with 13 quotes, some co-written with I.A.L. Diamond, Charles Brackett and Raymond Chandler. Frances Ford Coppola has nine quotes represented, with seven coming from THE GODFATHER Trilogy. Mario Puzo, Coppola's collaborator on THE GODFATHER trilogy, has a total of eight quotes. Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch each have seven quotes (all from CASABLANCA), followed by Woody Allen with six and Cameron Crowe, William Goldman and Stanley Kubrick with five quotes each.
1939 is the most represented year with 19 movie quotes. 1942 has 17 quotes and 1980 has 12.
One of my faves
Professor Snape: That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger. Are you incapable of restraining yourself, or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?
Ron: He has a point, you know.
“I ain’t got time to bleed”
and
“If it bleeds, we can kill it” -- Predator
“Hasta la vista, baby!” -- Terminator
“Do you mean to tell me my children have been running around SALZburg in nothing but some old drapes?!?!”
“And having a mahhhhvelous time!” -- The Sound of Music
“Life’s full of tough choices, iddn’t it?” -- The Little Mermaid
“We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.” -- Casablanca
(Let’s face it, this entire movie is a notable quotation!)
SLEEPS with the fishes
I'm with on EWS, but The Shining is one of the no kidding scariest movies ever made.
The isolation, and near perfect editing and cinematography, rank it up there with The Exorcist and Alien. One of Jack Nicholson's best roles, and the only King novel to translate effectively to the screen.
Tony Montana: I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice.
ABC. Always Be Closing.
We want the good leads.
You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.
We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
"...People don't mature anymore. They stay jackasses all their lives..."
Movie Title is "She's Having a Baby"
"Can I move"
Introductions before Nicholson, Hunt and Kinnear leave on their trip:
Nicholson: "Carol, the waitress... Simon, the fag."
I always tell the truth, even when I lie.
Tony Montana: I never f##ked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one. Do you understand? That piece of shit up there, I never liked him, I never trusted him. For all I know he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed. But that's history. I'm here, he's not. Do you wanna go on with me, you say it. You don't, then you make a move.
Good link! Thanks a lot.
Favorite John Wayne line, from 'Tall in the Saddle'
An 1880's version of a feminzai wants to hire him as her ranch foreman.
old bitty: "I want you to ride for me".
Duke:"'Lady, I walk for someone else before I'll ride for you".
(ride is cowboy talk for work, for those of you in Vermont.)
Another scene:
Cowboy: 'That guy is an ornery old cuss.'
Duke: 'I like ornery old cusses, hope I live long enough to be one.'
Finally saw this movie last year.
Josey interrupts the snake oil salesman's pitch by spitting tobacco on his white suit jacket then asks, "How is it with stains?"
Also from 'The Untouchables'-
on the stairway, with the bookkeeper...
" You got him? "
" Yeah, I got him."
" Take him."
Ahhhh. Ooops.
Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! For all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!
Is it just me or did we go through many pages of quotes and Braveheart never got a mention?
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