Thrillers

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Anton Chigurh: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
Gas Station Proprietor: Sir?
Anton Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor: I don't know. I couldn't say.
[Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and immediately covers it with his hand]
Anton Chigurh: Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Call it?
Anton Chigurh: Yes.
Gas Station Proprietor: For what?
Anton Chigurh: Just call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.
Anton Chigurh: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.
Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't put nothin' up.
Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life, you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Gas Station Proprietor: No.
Anton Chigurh: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton Chigurh: Everything.
Gas Station Proprietor: How's that?
Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Alright. Heads then.
[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]
Anton Chigurh: Well done.
[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change]
Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it?
Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.

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By: Gene Jones | Javier Bardem
Characters: Anton Chigurh | Gas Station Proprietor (Gene Jones)
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Javier Bardem, who plays psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh, is trying to decide whether to murder a gas station owner over basically nothing. The scene begins to set up the mentality of this dangerous and unstable character.

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Llewelyn Moss: If I don't come back, tell mother I love her.
Carla Jean Moss: Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.
Llewelyn Moss: Well then I'll tell her myself.

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By: Josh Brolin | Kelly Macdonald
Characters: Carla Jean Moss | Llewelyn Moss
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Josh Brolin (as Llewelyn Moss) is speaking to his wife Carla Jean (actress Kelly Macdonald) before leaving their trailer to return to the scene of a drug-deal-turned-massacre. Brolin seems to feel guilt about leaving one of the victims to die, after the victim requested water from him, and is attempting to bring the man some water.

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Hitchhike Driver: [Shaking his head] You know, you shouldn't be doin' that... Even a young man like you.
Llewelyn Moss: Doin' what?
Hitchhike Driver: Hitchhikin'... It's dangerous.

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By: Josh Brolin | Mathew Greer
Characters: Hitchhike Driver (Mathew Greer) | Llewelyn Moss
From: No Country for Old Men
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thrillers

Context:
Mathew Greer, who plays a random driver giving Josh Brolin a ride, says this to Brolin's character Llewelyn Moss. Ironically, Brolin had just survived a massacre at a motel committed by Javier Bardem, who plays psychotic killer Anton Chigurh.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Be still, my dog of war. I understand your pain. We've all lost someone we love. But, we do it my way. We do it my way. Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. Then, you shall have your revenge.

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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 brutal gang, attempts to console his finest warrior, Wez (Vernon Wells), whose partner has just been killed during a skirmish with members of a community living on the site of a gasoline refinery the gang is attempting to loot for themselves.

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I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.

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

Context:
The Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) reveals that he has been made aware of a plot by a group of settlers living at a gasoline refinery, to escape the Wasteland with their gasoline in tow. He learned of the plan by torturing a scout the settlers sent out their encampment to find a rig to haul the precious cargo.

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My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos... ruined dreams... this wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max." To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time... when the world was powered by the black fuel... and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now... swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war, and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed... men like Max... the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything... and became a shell of a man... a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.

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By: Harold Baigent
Characters: Narrator (The Road Warrior)
From: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Thrillers

Context:
The Narrator (voiced by Harold Baigent) sets up the storyline at the beginning of The Road Warrior.