Conversations from Movies #7 - The Royal Tenenbaums
Commentary: Cigarettes and the French language make departures that much more dramatic.
your poor brother.
(Off Camera) Etheline: What’s he talking about?
Raleigh: She’s balling Eli Cash.
(Off Camera) Etheline:Oh, my goodness.
Margot: What?
Margot: You don’t smoke.
Raleigh: I know that.
Conversations from Movies #6 - The Royal Tenenbaums
Commentary: Sometimes there is very little to say when say when you are faced with the facts.
Private Investigator: Gentlemen… how much do you already know?
Raleigh: Very little, I’m afraid.
Private Investigator: Would you like to examine the report?
Raleigh: Yes.
Raleigh: She smokes.
Conversations from Movies #5 - The Royal Tenenbaums
Commentary: Difficult conversations about relationships over tea and madeleines.
Raleigh: How long do you intend to stay here?
Margot: I don’t know.
Raleigh: Are you ever coming home?
Margot: Maybe not.
Raleigh: You’re joking.
Margot: No.
Raleigh: Well, I want to die.
Margot: Raleigh, please…
Raleigh: Have you met someone else?
Margot: I couldn’t even begin
to think about knowing
how to answer that question.
Conversations from Movies #4 - Men Who Stare At Goats
Commentary: Reasons why men go to war.
Bob: (narrating) You know the little man. He’s the one who says,
“Keep your head down, stay in your little town, your little job”
Bob: You’re a lucky guy, your wife loves you, you have everything you want
Bob: You’re not looking for some great adventure.
But then, one day, when you least expect it
The great adventure finds you
Bob: Ron’s sudden death was the catalyst for everything.
Bob: Deborah told me later that it had been a wake up call for her.
Bob: What people used to call a memento mori.
Bob: Ron’s massive coronary had reminded her that life was just too short to waste any chance at true happiness
Bob: And that his death had help put everything into perspective.
Bob: A week after the funeral, she left me for my editor.
Bob: It seemed like such a tragedy at the time.
Bob: We couldn’t see beyond our little lives to the great events of history unfolding out there in the world.
Bob: I was like a child or a Hobbit safe from the shire
Bob: Or a blond farm boy
in a distant desert planet
unaware that he was already
taking the first steps on the path
that would lead him relentlessly
towards the heart of a conflict
between the forces of
Good and Evil
George Bush: (on the Television) Americans are a resolute people
who have risen to every test of our time
Adversity has revealed the character of our country to the world
Bob: Had I known where that path would lead
had a soft wind from my future
brought me the name of Bill Django
I might never have gone
But as it was
Bob: I did what so many men
have done throughout history
when a woman has broken
their heart…
I went to war.
Conversations from Movies #3 - Office Space
Commentary: Getting dumped and staying home from work has never looked so carefree and lackadaisical.
Peter: Hello
Anne: Peter what’s going on?
Peter: Huh?
Anne: It’s 3:30. Why aren’t you at work?
Peter: Because I didn’t feel like it.
Anne: Peter what’s gotten into you? First you just sit there when Dr. Swanson dies. Then you just walk out of the car and embarass me in front of my friends. And don’t blame this on hypnosis either, that’s total bullshit —-
Peter: *Hangs up*
(Phone rings again, goes to answering machine)
Anne: Listen asshole, no one hangs up on me. We’re through! Oh and one more thing, I’ve been cheating on you.
Conversations from Movies #2 - Office Space
Commentary: Friends tell friends when there is a naked chick on Channel 9 that sorta looks like their psuedo-girlfriend.
Lawrence: (Yells through the wall)
Hey Peter, man! Check out channel 9, check out this chick!
Peter: Damnit Lawrence, can’t you just pretend like we can’t hear each other through the walls?
Lawrence: Oh sorry man, is Anne over there or something?
Peter: No but… if you want to talk to me just come over.
Lawrence: Hey man, check this out dude.
Peter: Aw jeez Lawrence.
Lawrence: Aw I’m sorry man, I thought you wanted to see this. Doesn’t that chick look like Anne?
Peter: Yeah… a little bit.
Lawrence: Hey she hasn’t been over here in awhile. You two still going out?
Peter: Yeah I guess I don’t know. Sometimes I get the feeling that she’s cheating on me.
Lawrence: Yeah I get that feeling too, man.
Peter: What do you mean by that?
Lawrence: I just get that feeling, man, you know looking at her like she’s the type of chick that would just… I’m sorry man.
Peter: Forget it
Conversations from Movies #1 - Office Space
Commentary: Friends tell friends when they think his girlfriend is a megaslut.
Peter: Besides, I’m still trying to work it out with Anne.
Oh that reminds me, I won’t be able to play poker with you guys on Friday.
Michael: Why not?
Peter: Uh, I’m going to see this occupational hypnotherapist with Anne.
Michael: Dude, an occupational hypnotherapist?
Peter: Yeah I know… Anne wants me to go. She thinks it might help.
You know, somtimes I think… I get the feeling that she is cheating on me.
Michael: Yeah I know what you mean.
Samir: Yeah.
Peter: What is that supposed to mean?
