This week's favorite comes from a film that I've loved for a really long time. It comes across as a superficial teen rom-com (and let's face it, they'd probably never deny that), but I love the fast-paced dialog that shows that underneath the shallow-ness of the characters, there is a great depth of intelligence, even if, at time, the characters themselves might not be fully aware of the irony of their words!
Cher: Would you say I'm selfish?Dionne: No, not to you face.
Murray: Woman, lend me fi' dollars.Dionne: Murray, I have you repeatedly not to call me "woman".Murray: Excuse me, "Ms. Dionne".Dionne: Thank you.Murray: My street slang in an increasingly valid form of expression. Most of the feminine pronouns do have mocking, but not necessarily misogynistic undertone.
Cher: I want to do something for humanity.Josh: How about sterilization?
Cher: Miss Stoeger, I would just like to say that physical education in this school is a disgrace. I mean, standing in line for forty minutes is hardly aerobically effective. I doubt I've worked off the calories in a stick of Carefree gum.
Heather: It's just like Hamlet said, "To thine own self be true."
Cher: Hamlet didn't say that.
Heather: I think I remember Hamlet accurately.
Cher: Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.
Josh: You look like Pippi Longstocking.
Cher: Well, you look like Forrest Gump. Who's Pippi Longstocking?
Josh: Someone Mel Gibson never played.
This post is dedicated to Brittany Murphy1977 - 2009
