Best Dialogue in any Film

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rockycairns
what do you think is the best script and dialogue in any movie for me it comes to a shortlist between

Raging Bull - "I want you to give me everything youve got. i want you to ****in lay me out

Goodfellas - Why am I funny please tell me what the **** is so funny about me

The Last Boy Scout - Nobody likes you. Everybody hates you. You're gonna lose. Smile, you ****

Reservoir Dogs - the dogs barkin at me, I mean its..obvious..its..barkin..at me

Pulp Fiction - Now givin a foot massage and sticking your tounge in the holiest of holies aint the same ****in ball park it aint even the same ****in sport

Casino - You shit kicking, rat stinking horse manure smelling mutha ****a you, you **** me up over their again ill stick you in a hole in the desert

dirkdirden
in my mind there is not question that pulp fiction is da winerest.

rockycairns
cant argue with that

The Core
"Night of the Hunter" is defintely up there. I dunno if it's moreso Robert Mitchum's delivery, or just the dialogue itself. However, for dialogue, I'd take into consideration pretty much anything Tarantino. It's just so casual and sharp.

EPIIIBITES
Movies with fave dialogue are: Res Dogs, Big Lebowski, Glengarry Glen Ross (although a play), Being John Malkovich, Pulp Fiction, Napolean Dynamite, Goodfellas, Ragin Bull, Zoolander.

Think Res Dogs might be one of the best ever.

rockycairns
yeah i love Tarantino dialogue its got that razor wit but subtle humor underlining evert line...genuis
Shane Black is also a very good writer as is Martin Scorsese, Nicolas Pileggi and Paul Schrader

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Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
Movies with fave dialogue are: Res Dogs, Big Lebowski, Glengarry Glen Ross (although a play), Being John Malkovich, Pulp Fiction, Napolean Dynamite, Goodfellas, Ragin Bull, Zoolander.

Think Res Dogs might be one of the best ever. Napoleon Dynamite hardly has a dialogue.

allofyousuckkk
pirates of the caribbean

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Solo
"Napoleon Dynamite" is "Rushmore" without subtlety and brilliant performances.

tabby999
I really like all the dialogue in High Fidelity record store.

roughrider
My friend thought V For Vendetta should get nominated for a new Oscar - Best Dialogue. It definitely gave all the actors rich lines for their performances.

vintageSW77
the Jawas in Star Wars
no contest


UTINI!

Ya Krunk'd Floo
Originally posted by Solo
"Napoleon Dynamite" is "Rushmore" without subtlety and brilliant performances.

Word. Rushmore is one of my favorite movies. The dialogue is perfect...

Max: I like your nurse's uniform, guy.
Guy: These are OR scrubs...
Max: O R they?

Doesn't get much better than that. In fact, all of Wes Anderson's movies have great dialogue. Same goes for all the movies by the Coen brothers, before they became shit. Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, The Big Lebowski, Oh, Brother! Where Art Thou? - all great.

T.M
My fave has to be Reservoir Dogs.. Although I do like the dialogue in Shawshank Redemption alot too.

The Hawk
The best script ever is True Romance.

The Sicilian Scene is one of the greatest scenes of all time... and the scene with Clarence and Drexl is great also.

Jax_Jax
braveheart.

the matrix, (crazy impossible lines to memorize from laurence fishburn)

good morning vietnam, that scene wher robin williams just doesnt stop talking, i mean come on, thats talent.

rockycairns
some of other mentions are

The Shawshank Redemption - very powerful and Red says some brilliant lines that really hit deep

Good Morning Vietnam - Robin Williams, need i say more

Good Will Hunting
The Big Lebowski
Fargo

Andrew McLeod
Ghost World.

This movie has never made me laugh more in a quirky, odd, irreverent way. Reminds me of the show Dead Like Me (fav show ever).

shereeful
mad would you kill the one you've love to save your self from death?? evil face

Gladies_NBS
i also like

-kal ho naa ho:this love for you is ver strong... but the heart itself is very weak.

-don-the chase begings again: don ko pakadna mushkil nahi, namumkin hai. and log don ko nahin chod sakti...woh duniya chod dete hai!

and all kinds of films from srk

Dreampanther
Armageddon had some of my favourite lines...


Ronald Quincy: I know the presidents' chief advisor, we were at MIT together. And, at this point in time, you really don't want to take advice from a man who got a C minus in astrophysics. The presidents' advisors are wrong. I am right.

Rockhound: You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?

Rockhound is riding the bomb a la Dr. Strangelove]
Colonel William Sharp: Get off... the nuclear... warhead.


And The Rock had one of my favourite pieces of dialogue ever...


General Hummel: You've been asked by an old friend.
Major Tom Baxter: Put him on the phone right now.
General Hummel: You're being ordered by a superior officer.
Major Tom Baxter: This is Major Baxter...!
General Hummel: Now you're being given your last chance by a man with a gun. Put the phone down.


Destiny of her Own...


"And when she dies, she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and Country for no biblical hell could ever be worse than a state of perpetual inconsequence."

"I confess that as a young girl I loved a man who would not marry me for want of a dowry. I confess I had a mother who taught me a different way of life, one I resisted at first but learned to embrace. I confess I became a courtesan, traded yearning for power, welcomed many rather than be owned by one. I confess I embraced a whore's freedom over a wife's obedience. I confess I find more ecstacy in passion than in prayer. Such passion is prayer. I confess I pray still to feel the touch of my lover's lips. His hands upon me, his arms enfolding me... Such surrender has been mine. I confess I pray still to be filled and enflamed. To melt into the dream of us, beyond this troubled place, to where we are not even ourselves. To know that always, this is mine. If this had not been mine-if I had lived any other way-a child to her husband's will, my soul hardened from lack of touch and lack of love... I confess such endless days and nights would be a punishment far greater than you could ever mete out. You, all of you, you who hunger so for what I give yet cannot bear to see that kind of power in a woman. You call God's greatest gift-ourselves, our yearning, our need to love-you call it filth and sin and heresy... I repent there was no other way open to me. I do not repent my life."

WrathfulDwarf
Fritz Lang "M" possess some very powerful dialogue (One of my top 10 favorite films of all time)

JFK is done nicely...also Natural Born Killers back when Oliver was making great movies.

Let's see...Kurosawa's film are nearly poetic when there is a dialogue between characters. Rashomon is among the best.

=Tired Hiker=
Any line in The Big Lebowski is a great line.

Dreampanther
Lucky Number Slevin -

Dumbrowski: You should really play ball kid.
Slevin: Really? You think I'm tall enough?

Good Morning Vietnam -

Adrian Cronauer: You are in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history.

The Breakfast Club -

Allison Reynolds: I'll do anything sexual. I don't need a million dollars to do it either.
Claire Standish: You're lying.
Allison Reynolds: I already have. I've done just about everything there is except a few things that are illegal. I'm a nymphomaniac.
Claire Standish: Lie.
Brian Johnson: Are your parents aware of this?
Allison Reynolds: The only person I told was my shrink.
Andrew Clark: And what did he do when you told him?
Allison Reynolds: He nailed me.
Claire Standish: Very nice.
Allison Reynolds: I don't think that from a legal standpoint what he did can be construed as rape, since I paid him.
Claire Standish: He's an adult.
Allison Reynolds: Yeah, he's married too.
Claire Standish: Do you have any idea how completely gross that is?
Allison Reynolds: Well, the first few times...
Claire Standish: The first few times? You mean you did it more than once?
Allison Reynolds: Sure.
Claire Standish: Are you crazy?
Brian Johnson: Obviously she's crazy if she's screwing a shrink.
Allison Reynolds: Have you ever done it?
Claire Standish: I don't even have a psychiatrist.
Allison Reynolds: Have you ever done it with a normal person?
Claire Standish: Didn't we already cover this?
John Bender: You never answered the question.
Claire Standish: Look, I'm not going to discuss my private life with total strangers.
Allison Reynolds: It's kind of a double edged sword isn't it?
Claire Standish: A what?
Allison Reynolds: Well, if you say you haven't, you're a prude. If you say you have you're a ****. It's a trap. You want to but you can't, and when you do you wish you didn't, right?
Claire Standish: Wrong.
Allison Reynolds: Or are you a tease?
Andrew Clark: She's a tease.
Claire Standish: I'm sure. Why don't you just forget it.
Andrew Clark: Oh, you're a tease and you know it. All girls are teases.
John Bender: She's only a tease if what she does gets you hot.
Claire Standish: I don't do anything.
Allison Reynolds: That's why you're a tease.
Claire Standish: OK, let me ask you a few questions.
Allison Reynolds: I already told you everything.
Claire Standish: No. Doesn't it bother you to sleep around without being in love. I mean, don't you want any respect?
Allison Reynolds: I don't screw to get respect. That's the difference between you and me.
Claire Standish: It's not the only difference I hope.
John Bender: Face it, you're a tease.
Claire Standish: I'm NOT a tease.
John Bender: Sure you are. Sex is your weapon. You said it yourself. You use it to get respect.
Claire Standish: No, I never said that she twisted my words around.
John Bender: What do you use it for then?
Claire Standish: I don't use it period.
John Bender: Oh, are you medically frigid or is it psychological?
Claire Standish: I didn't mean it that way. You guys are putting words into my mouth.
John Bender: Well, if you'd just answer the question.
Brian Johnson: Why don't you just answer the question?
Andrew Clark: Be honest.
John Bender: No big deal.
Brian Johnson: Yeah answer it.
Andrew Clark: Answer the question, Claire.
John Bender: Talk to us. Every one: C'mon, answer the question. Come on. Answer it.
John Bender: C'mon, it's easy. It's only one question.
Claire Standish: NO I NEVER DID IT.
Allison Reynolds: I never did it either. I'm not a nymphomaniac. I'm a compulsive liar.

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