Action

Untitled

Are you dead when your brain stops working, or your heart stops beating?

view related:
By: Tom Selleck
Characters: Dr. Norman Milford
From: Terminal Island
Genres: Action | Adventure | Exploitation

Context:
Tom Selleck (as Dr. Norman Milford), has a rare intimate conversation with fellow "inmate" Barbara Leigh (as Bunny Campbell), discussing life on the island prison known as Terminal Island. The 1973 exploitation film was directed by Stephanie Rothman, one of the few female moviemakers who specialized in low-budget drive-in exploitation fare during the 1960s and '70s.

Untitled

Sévérine: How much do you know about fear?

James Bond: All there is.

Sévérine: Not like this!

view related:
By: Bérénice Marlohe | Daniel Craig
Characters: James Bond | Sévérine
From: Skyfall
Genres: Action | Adventure | Spy and Espionage

Context:
Bérénice Marlohe, as the seductive Sévérine, describes Javier Bardem's character Silva, a man she is attempting to convince James Bond to kill in order to set her free from Silva's bondage.

Untitled

Vincent Vega: In Paris, you can buy a beer in McDonald's. And you know what they call a "Quarter Pounder with Cheese" in Paris?

Jules Winnfield: What, they don't call it a "Quarter Pounder with Cheese?"

Vincent Vega: They got the metric system there, they wouldn't know what the fuck a "Quarter Pounder" is.

Jules Winnfield: What do they call it?

Vincent Vega: They call it a "Royale with Cheese..."

Jules Winnfield: "Royale with Cheese..."

Vincent Vega: That's right!

Jules Winnfield: What do they call a "Big MAC."

Vincent Vega: A "Big MAC's" a "Big MAC" only they call it "Le Big MAC."

Jules Winnfield: "Le Big MAC!" [laughs]. What do they call a "Whopper."

Vincent Vega: I don't know I didn't go into Burger King. You know what they put on French fries in Holland instead of ketchup?

Jules Winnfield: What?

Vincent Vega: Mayonnaise.

Jules Winnfield: God damn [Cringes]!

Vincent Vega: I seen'em do it, man, they fuckin' drown'em in that shit!

view related:
By: John Travolta | Samuel L. Jackson
Characters: Jules Winnfield | Vincent Vega
From: Pulp Fiction
Genres: Action | Crime | Cult Cinema | Exploitation

Context:
The opening scene from Quentin Tarantino's cult classic Pulp Fiction. The conversation takes place between co-stars Samuel L. Jackson (as Jules Winnfield) and John Travolta (as Vincent Vega), just after the opening credits as the two men are driving to their current assignment.

Untitled

George [Miller] saw Chris [Hemsworth] initially as a courtesy and then fell in love with the idea. He's going to play totally against type, the lead baddie. Unfortunately, we've got to find all of our other characters that aren't around anymore: a new Immortan, a new Bullet Farmer, and a few others.

view related:
By: P. J. Voeten
From: Mad Max: Furiosa
Genres: Action | Science Fiction | Thrillers

Context:
Mad Max: Fury Road producer and first assistant director, P. J. Voeten on filmmaker George Miller's decision to cast Chris Hemsworth - famous for playing the Marvel character Thor - as the main bad guy in Furiosa.

Untitled

They've got you wrong. You're not a coward. STUPID, maybe. But not a coward.

view related:
By: Bruce Spence
Characters: The Gyro Captain
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
Steve Spears character The Gyro Captain, attempts to convince Max Rockatansky to drive a trailer filled with gasoline, through the hideout of a dangerous gang attempting to kill them and steal the gasoline for themselves.

Untitled

Eugene Kittridge: You and I know about this, that's where it stops. You understand? It never happened.
Frank Barnes: What about him?
Eugene Kittridge: I want him manning a radar tower in Alaska by the end of the day; just mail him his clothes.

view related:
By: Dale Dye | Henry Czerny
Characters: Eugene Kittridge | Frank Barnes
From: Mission: Impossible
Genres: Action | Adventure | Spy and Espionage

Context:
Henry Czerny (as Eugene Kittridge) speaks to his associate Frank Barnes (played by actor Dale Dye) just after finding out that a top secret list of undercover agents has been stolen from CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Kittridge wants to avoid the embarrassment that would come from others learning of the theft out of one of the most secure buildings in the world.

Untitled

Your days of fighting for the so-called greater good are over. This is our chance to control the truth, the concepts of right and wrong, for everyone, for centuries to come. You're fighting to save an ideal that doesn't exist... never did. You need to pick a side.

view related:
By: Henry Czerny
Characters: Eugene Kittridge
From: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sequels | Spy and Espionage

Context:
Ominous words from Henry Czerny (as Eugene Kittridge), presumably to Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt, in the trailer for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One.

Untitled

Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here? You talk to me.

view related:
By: Mel Gibson
Characters: Max Rockatansky
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
Mel Gibson's Max overhears a group of settlers at a gasoline refinery discuss finding a trailer to haul their precious fuel through the Wasteland and sees the opportunity to make a deal to nab some fuel for his vehicle.

Untitled

NO! It's MY snake, I trained it, I'M going to eat it! I got a recipe for snake. Delicious. Fricassee of reptile. You are what you eat.

view related:
By: Bruce Spence
Characters: The Gyro Captain
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
The Gyro Captain, played by Bruce Spence, fights with Max's dog over a dead snake for his food. His snake died while defending his copter from a bandit, who also died.

Untitled

There has been too much violence. Too much pain. None here are without sin. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Give me your pump, the oil, the gasoline, and the whole compound, and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the Wasteland. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.

I await your answer. You have a full day to decide.

view related:
By: Kjell Nilsson
Characters: The Humungus
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
The Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), leader of a dangerous gang, offers a deal to members of a community of settlers living at a gasoline refinery. He makes the offer in order to gain control of the facility without additional violence, after a skirmish takes the lives of members of both groups.