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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/21 8:33pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Apocalypse Now" (1979) - Date Edited: 11/20 7:53pm (37 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	Film Features: 30 Killer First Lines: The Film: "Annie Hall" (1977) "The Line: “There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." "Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. "The... the other important joke, for me, is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud's "Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious," and it goes like this - I'm paraphrasing - um, "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." "That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women."
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MrZAP Registered: Jun '07	Date Posted: 10/21 11:22pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Annie Hall"
	That is a great line, but my favorite line from the movie has to be "Sleeping with you was very Kafka-esque." -----signature----- Robin El Hood shall get you! Waughhhhh! Currently reading "Dracula" by Bram Stoker Sean, physics jokes AREN'T funny.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/22 9:03pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Annie Hall"
	The Film: Goodfellas (1990) The Line: “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.”
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CloneUncleOwen Registered: Jul '09	Date Posted: 10/22 9:15pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Goodfellas"
	Absolutely fantastic opening line; it directly follows the shooting/stabbing of a hapless victim locked in a car trunk. I love this screenplay. It has just about as as many dopey, memorable lines as TOMBSTONE. Great, great opening line. -----signature----- Hey, what are you trying to pull here... (CLICK) pull here... (CLICK) pull here...
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/23 7:32pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Goodfellas"
	The Film: A Matter Of Life And Death (1946) The Line: "This is the universe. Big, isn't it?"
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/24 8:13am Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. 'A Matter Of Life And Death' (1946)
	The Film: Stand By Me (1986) The Line: “I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being.”
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solojones Registered: Sep '00	Date Posted: 10/24 12:44pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Stand By Me" (1986)
	This is a lovely set up for this movie. Because it has the tone of coming of age but also mixed with the knowledge that the flipside of growing up is dying. And that kicks off the whole tension of this film. -sj loves kevin spacey -----signature----- 6 x 9 = 42 Proud member of the Colbert Nation My short films: http://www.youtube.com/solojones1138
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CloneUncleOwen Registered: Jul '09	Date Posted: 10/24 12:59pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Stand By Me" (1986)
	Considering the short, tragic life of River Phoenix, especially so. -----signature----- Hey, what are you trying to pull here... (CLICK) pull here... (CLICK) pull here...
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/25 9:30am Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Stand By Me" (1986)
	The Film: The Seventh Seal (1956) The Line: “Who are you?”?“I am Death.”
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Obi Anne Title: FanForce RSA Europe Registered: Nov '98	Date Posted: 10/25 9:43am Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "The Seventh Seal" (1956)
	I've been involved and seen too many parodies of that to be able to take it seriously. -----signature----- "That is the beauty of grand opera; you can do anything...as long as you sing it" Anna Russell
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 10/25 1:54pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "The Seventh Seal" (1956)
	"Who are you?" "I am Death." And people say Bergman is cryptic. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/26 10:22pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "The Seventh Seal" (1956)
	The Film: Trainspotting (1996) The Line: "Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f*ing big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. “Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fk you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fing junk food into your mouth. “Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f*ed up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life. “But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 10/26 10:53pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Trainspotting" (1996)
	Zaz posted: The Film: Trainspotting (1996) The Line: "Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f*ing big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. “Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fk you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fing junk food into your mouth. “Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f*ed up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life. “But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?" It's always good to start off a film on a cheerful note. -----signature----- Namaste.
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solojones Registered: Sep '00	Date Posted: 10/26 11:02pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Trainspotting" (1996)
	As great an intro as this is, it has as much to do with the music and editing/direction as the actual words. The real great line here isn't even the whole monologue, but the final "who needs reasons when you've got heroin?" -sj loves kevin spacey -----signature----- 6 x 9 = 42 Proud member of the Colbert Nation My short films: http://www.youtube.com/solojones1138
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/27 11:38am Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Trainspotting" (1996)
	And it's not a first line, is it? More like a first rant.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/28 7:08pm Subject: 30 Killer First Lines: Now Disc. "Trainspotting" (1996)
	The Film: Sunset Boulevard (1950) The Line: “Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. It's about five o'clock in the morning. "That's the Homicide Squad - complete with detectives and newspapermen. "A murder has been reported from one of those great big houses in the ten thousand block. You'll read about it in the late editions, I'm sure...” A great opening sequence? You bet. A great opening line? Not so much.
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