Via fredlet and from thence to dreama, its source. 12 movie quotes, from Friday?
I could only think of two movies and then, I realized, but of course, that there would be a third one. Always go for that three-way action?
The first movie I quote most often? Repo Man.
Then there’s the all-time classic, Duck Soup.
Plus, one that I use rather frequently, Shakespeare’s Henry V. And Hamlet. Plus Richard III.
But to list the quotes? From Repo Man? Heck, just the sound track alone is pretty amazing. But almost the whole script is useful, plus the visual humor has a literary touch. If you like early 1980 punk/cult/weirdo material. Songs like “Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole” (Burning Sensations) and the “Repo Man Theme Song” (Iggy Pop) plus “TV Party” (Black Flag). And “Coup D’Etat” (Circle jerks). Consider it an ode to a wasted generation, us, the children of the 80s.
“It’s the Repo Code,” (delivered by Harry Dean Stanton).
“Wow, that’s intense!” (Emilio Estevez).
“Repo Man is always intense” (Harry Dean Stanton).
“Repo Man’s got all night (Stanton).
“Did you do a lot of acid in the 60s?” (Estevez)
“It’s a lattice of coincidences, like plate. Or shrimp. Or plate of shrimp” (Miller?)
“I don’t want to be no Repo Man.” (handing him cash) “You already are.”
“Let’s go do some crimes!”
“Yeah, let’s go order sushi and not pay.” (Dick Rude – I think).
Plus bits and pieces that seep in the cosmic consciousness, never to be shaken loose, part the material that fills in the racks and empty spaces of the mind. My mind, anyway.
I could fill two pages with quotes from the movie. From the opening, introductory shots of a map, right on through to the final closing scene, it’s classic material, born of time when “indy” wasn’t cool. Done on a tight budget, and part of the humor is the beer called “beer,” and the can of food labeled “food.” As the producer explained, they had trouble selling any product placement.
Duck Soup, starring the Marx Brothers. All-time greatest film, all-time greatest war film. There are, actually, scenes from that movie which have been borrowed and used over and over. Plus it’s a movie about war.
“Help is on the way.”
The panties (way I heard it)
Understand that this will be a graphic tale, with sexual themes, and if you have a delicate constitution, maybe you’d best not read it.
I was sitting at the bar, waiting on some friends to show up. One guy who works there was telling the bartender a story. I listened, then I asked him to repeat the tale because I missed something along the way. This is the gist of the story.
“See, my roommate? He used to play in a band, a punk band. Biggest show they did was like, it was a huge crowd, 600 people. Or even more. And he told this story on stage, swears it’s true, I mean if he told everyone in the audience the story, it has to be true, right?
“He’d picked up this girl at show, and she was underage. 17 is what she told him, but she worked at a Mickey D’s, so you know she was probably 15. Really good looking, according to my friend, but he also knew she was underage, so he knew he couldn’t do anything. He was, they’d just gotten off tour, you know, couch surfing tour? And they’d played a gig, and he was staying at his mom’s house.
“The next day, like she was still there, she’d slept with him, but they didn’t, like have sex or anything because he knew it was wrong – she was really good looking – they’d made out – but no sex. She had to change to go to work, and he told her to use his mom’s bathroom because it was a lot cleaner than his.
“So after she leaves, he goes in his mom’s bathroom, and the girl’s panties are there on the floor. Little red panties. She changed for work, right? And they were still moist. He told me, ‘I put them on my head like Mexican wrestling mask, down there in the basement – I was in heaven – danced around – thinking about that girl.’ Because, see, he described her, you know, she was, I guess really good-looking.
“So his mom comes home from work that night, and she asks if he’d seen her little red panties.”
True story.
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