Speeches, bitches!

[Lesley]

A tad different than my last one....

All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all you motherfucks are next. Love, Jay and Silent Bob.

[Abraham Smashington]

And that's why I love you. *golfclap*

[V]

The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slope's gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright... so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.

[Ingrid]

In response to Lesley's:

"My cousin Walter got this cat stuck in his ass. True story. He bought it at your local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarrassing for my relatives and all, but the next week he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with another trip to the emergency room. So I run into him a week later at the mall and he's buying another cat, and I says to him 'Jesus, Walt! What are you doing? You know you're just gonna get this cat stuck up your ass too, why don't you knock it off?' And he says to me, 'Brodie? How the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?' My cousin was a weird guy."



(that was all from memory. i am nerd, hear me quote.)

[PHEDG]

Mayor John Pappas: I was warned not to come here. I was warned. They warned me, "Don't stand behind that coffin." But why should I heed such a warning, when a heartbeat is silent and a child lies dead? "Don't stand behind" this coffin. That boy was as pure and as innocent as the driven snow. But I must stand here, because I have not given you what you should have. Until we can walk abroad and recreate ourselves; until we can stroll along the streets like boulevards; congregate in parks free from fear, our families mingling, our children laughing, our hearts joined - until that day we have no city. You can label me a failure until that day. The first and perhaps only great mayor was Greek. He was Pericles of Athens, and he lived some 2500 years ago, and he said, "All things good on this Earth flow into the City, because of the City's greatness." Well, we were great once. Can we not be great again? Now, I put that question to James Bone, and there's only silence. Yet could not something pass from this sweet youth to me? Could he not empower me to find in myself the strength to have the knowledge to summon up the courage to accomplish this seemingly insurmountable task of making a city livable? Just livable. There was a palace that was a city. It was a PALACE! It was a PALACE and it CAN BE A PALACE AGAIN! A PALACE, in which there is no king or queen, or dukes or earls or princes, but subjects all: subjects beholden to each other, to make a better place to live. Is that too much to ask?
Audience: No!
Mayor John Pappas: Are we asking too much for this?
Audience: No!
Mayor John Pappas: Is it beyond our reach?
Some Audience Members: No!
Mayor John Pappas: Because if it is, then we are nothing but sheep being herded to the final SLAUGHTERHOUSE! I will not go down, THAT WAY!
[the audience begins shouting approval]
Mayor John Pappas: I choose to FIGHT BACK! I choose to RISE, not fall! I choose to LIVE, not die! And I know, I know that what's within me is also WITHIN YOU.
Audience Member: Amen!
Mayor John Pappas: That's why I ask you now to join me. Join me, RISE UP with me, RISE UP on the wings of this slain angel.
[Audience members begin shouting "Yes" at every pause]
Mayor John Pappas: We'll rebuild on the soul of this little warrior. We will pick up his standard and RAISE it high! Carry it forward until THIS CITY - YOUR CITY - OUR CITY - HIS CITY - IS A PALACE OF GOD! IS A PALACE OF GOD! I am with you, little James. I am you.

[Abraham Smashington]

HACK THE PLANET!

FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!

[B_Metal]

Mayor John Pappas: I was warned not to come here. I was warned. They warned me, "Don't stand behind that coffin." But why should I heed such a warning, when a heartbeat is silent and a child lies dead? "Don't stand behind" this coffin. That boy was as pure and as innocent as the driven snow. But I must stand here, because I have not given you what you should have. Until we can walk abroad and recreate ourselves; until we can stroll along the streets like boulevards; congregate in parks free from fear, our families mingling, our children laughing, our hearts joined - until that day we have no city. You can label me a failure until that day. The first and perhaps only great mayor was Greek. He was Pericles of Athens, and he lived some 2500 years ago, and he said, "All things good on this Earth flow into the City, because of the City's greatness." Well, we were great once. Can we not be great again? Now, I put that question to James Bone, and there's only silence. Yet could not something pass from this sweet youth to me? Could he not empower me to find in myself the strength to have the knowledge to summon up the courage to accomplish this seemingly insurmountable task of making a city livable? Just livable. There was a palace that was a city. It was a PALACE! It was a PALACE and it CAN BE A PALACE AGAIN! A PALACE, in which there is no king or queen, or dukes or earls or princes, but subjects all: subjects beholden to each other, to make a better place to live. Is that too much to ask?
Audience: No!
Mayor John Pappas: Are we asking too much for this?
Audience: No!
Mayor John Pappas: Is it beyond our reach?
Some Audience Members: No!
Mayor John Pappas: Because if it is, then we are nothing but sheep being herded to the final SLAUGHTERHOUSE! I will not go down, THAT WAY!
[the audience begins shouting approval]
Mayor John Pappas: I choose to FIGHT BACK! I choose to RISE, not fall! I choose to LIVE, not die! And I know, I know that what's within me is also WITHIN YOU.
Audience Member: Amen!
Mayor John Pappas: That's why I ask you now to join me. Join me, RISE UP with me, RISE UP on the wings of this slain angel.
[Audience members begin shouting "Yes" at every pause]
Mayor John Pappas: We'll rebuild on the soul of this little warrior. We will pick up his standard and RAISE it high! Carry it forward until THIS CITY - YOUR CITY - OUR CITY - HIS CITY - IS A PALACE OF GOD! IS A PALACE OF GOD! I am with you, little James. I am you.

Seriously underrated movie. Nice one Fej

[Trejo]

I'm not crazy. It's Christmas Eve! It's the one night when we all act a little nicer, we... we smile a little easier. We... we... share a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year we are the people we always hoped we would be.

It's a.. miracle. It's really a sort of a miracle because it happens every Christmas Eve. And if you waste that miracle, you're gonna burn for it, I know what I'm talking about. You have to do something. You do have to take a chance and get involved. There are people out there that are having trouble making their miracle happen. There are people that don't have enough to eat and who are cold. You can go and say hello to these people - you can take an old blanket out of the closet and say, "Here", you can make them a sandwich and say "Oh by the way here!" l get it now!

And if you give, then it can happen, the miracle can happen to you! Not just the poor and hungry, everybody's gotta have this miracle! It can happen tonight for all of you! If you believe in this pure thing, the miracle will happen and you'll want it again tomorrow! You won't be one of these bastards that say, "Christmas is once a year and it's a fraud." IT'S NOT! It can happen every day, you've just got to want that feeling! And if you like it and you want it, you'll get greedy for it! You'll want it every day and it can happen to you!

I believe in it now! I believe it's gonna happen to me, now! I'm ready for it! And ah, and it's great. It's a good feeling. It's really, better than I've felt in a long time..

Bill just delivers this so perfectly, it's surprisingly touching

[Nathan]

Bill just delivers this so perfectly, it's surprisingly touching

That. Great, great,, great movie.

[Lisa]

Bill just delivers this so perfectly, it's surprisingly touching

So much love for that movie and that speech. Nothing but love love love! The part about "For a couple of hours out of the whole year we are the people we always hoped we would be" just kills me - it's fantastic.

Another classic!

Well, this is where you came in, back at that pool again, the one I always wanted. It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out... ever so gently. Funny, how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

[Nathan]

Are you trying to make me bawl at my desk on a Monday morning? So much love for that movie and that speech. Nothing but love love love! The part about "For a couple of hours out of the whole year we are the people we always hoped we would be" just kills me - it's fantastic.

Yup! The original version of the script was apparently much darker than what was filmed. ALways wanted to read that.

[Lisa]

Yup! The original version of the script was apparently much darker than what was filmed. ALways wanted to read that.

Wow, I didn't know that! See for me, it's the perfect comedy, plus the perfect weeper in all the right places, with just a couple little touches of darkness thrown in (all the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come parts - Claire and the homeless children, Frank begging his brother not to cremate him - plus Frank finding little Herman frozen to death down in the sewer) - I think it had just enough little touches of darkness to make you think, I don't think any more would have worked.

[Nathan]

Wow, I didn't know that! See for me, it's the perfect comedy, plus the perfect weeper in all the right places, with just a couple little touches of darkness thrown in (all the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come parts - Claire and the homeless children, Frank begging his brother not to cremate him - plus Frank finding little Herman frozen to death down in the sewer) - I think it had just enough little touches of darkness to make you think, I don't think any more would have worked.

Agreed, but I'm curious as to how dark it got and if there was any redemption at the end.

Don't agree with this, but its an interesting read.

http://www.scoopy.com/scrooged.htm

[Lisa]

Agreed, but I'm curious as to how dark it got and if there was any redemption at the end.

Don't agree with this, but its an interesting read.

http://www.scoopy.com/scrooged.htm

Aaah, cool, something to read! Thanks!

(Also, I do think he gets redemption - we see it in his change of attitude and his way of thinking, which is the whole point of Scrooged/A Christmas Carol. That's why all versions of that story have a happy ending - he realizes the error of his ways and stops being a bastard.)

Edit: Just read that - interesting stuff! I do admit to being one of the people who thinks the film is perfect the way it is, and yeah, I get that the whole John Houseman/Mary Lou Retton/Buddy Hackett stuff was purely lampooning how tired and over-done network holiday specials are. But regardless of whether or not those stars realized they were being made fun of, it still works for the movie.

Oh, and Scrooged trivia! Michael O'Donoghue played the priest conducting Frank's funeral service in the GoCYTC cremation scene.

[PHEDG]

You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.

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