"I've never really seen the point of soup" - by the old man in Perfect Strangers, a 3-part drama. Might be a little wrong, I saw it a while ago ;)
Will: Of course that's your contention. you're a first year grad student, you just got finished reading some marxian historian - pete garrison probably. you're gonna be convinced of thought till next month when you get to james lemmon. That'll last till next year you're gonna be in here regurgitating gordon wood. talking about…you know.. the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital forming effects of military mobilization
Looser at bar: actually I won't because wood drastically
Will: wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinction predicated upon wealth especially inherited wealth? You got that from Vickers. Working Essex county page 98 right? Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us or do you...is that your thing you come into a bar you read some obscure passage and you pretend..you pawn it off as your own...as your own ideas? Just to impress some girls, embarrass my friend? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. one- don't do that, and two- you dropped a 150 grand on a fuckin education you could got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.
- From Good Will Hunting.
Also from Good Will Hunting:
Will catches sight of the guy from the bar in a cafe and walks over, talking through the glass
Will: Do you like apples?!
Same loser from bar:Uh. yeah. Why?
Will: Well I got her number, how do you like them apples? (places number on glass)
Meh I may as well quote the whole movie in a minute, this is the last one I promise:
Will: Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks 'cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president
I like the quote from the fellowship of the ring where in the Mines of Moria Gandalf says something like, "If you cannot create life, don't be so eager to deal out death", I know that's totally wrong, but I can't find it. Maybe someone else can :)
And to revision :)... *runs off*
(Edited by Protagonist at 12:27 am on May 26, 2003)
