Joker (2019): “How About Another Joke, Murray?” [Transcript]
26/07/2021
Joker Kills Murray On Live TV Show
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GoodFellas (1990): “I’m f*ckin’ kidding with you, you f*ckin’ shoot the guy?”
26/04/2021
The the scene in Goodfellas, where Joe Pesci shoots the waiter, Spider, is like an explosion, a human explosion. We can see how anger works, and how devastatingly dangerous it can be.
Se7en (1995): “What’s in the Box?”
29/09/2019
David Fincher’s first serial-killer flick carries a scorpion’s sting at its tail-end — a nihilistic denouement that sees the two heroes shockingly outwitted by the killer. On his instruction, the pair of detectives have escorted their prisoner to the middle of nowhere. One of them guards him, while the other goes to check on a cardboard box that’s just been mysteriously delivered…
Classic Scene: “We have come to visit you in peace…” [The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951]
14/03/2019
It may not be the spiritual forerunner to Independence Day and Mars Attacks! — the space-travellers here actually do come in peace — but this 1951 classic’s jittery mood, epic sweep and stylised looks inspired those and plenty of other alien-arrival flicks.
Life of Brian (1979): “Who threw that stone?”
29/07/2018
Once banned in several American states, Ireland and Norway – and subsequently marketed in Sweden with the tagline, “The film so funny it was banned in Norway” – Life Of Brian is Monty Python at their wittiest, ballsiest best. Taking aim at the fake piety of many religious folk, its genius is perhaps best exemplified by this lapidation set-piece, which riffs on the Gospel of John, Chapter 8.
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) – “A Census Taker Once Tried To Test Me…”
05/03/2018
As part of a police effort to suss out the workings of serial killer Buffalo Bills mind, rookie FBI Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) is assigned the task of interrogating Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter (Hopkins). Having extracted the information that she suffered verbal abuse from fellow prisoner Miggs (Stuart Levine) on the way in (“I can smell your cunt,” he hisses charmingly), the good Doctor turns the conversation towards fragrances of a less personal nature…
WALL STREET (1987) – “Greed Is Good…”
04/10/2016
“Well, ladies and gentlemen, we’re not here to indulge in fantasy, but in political and economic reality… I am not a destroyer of companies. I
