I do believe that both TV and Movie industry produces literature. Of course, it has to be turned into an audio-visual product but behind every TV show (be it drama, Sitcom, Talk shows or even reality TV there are writers) I have watched some movies and remembered them just because of their extremely well done and concise dialogue. Here are a few I can remember randomly. I would update it later but it is worthwhile mentioning a few of my most beloved quotes:
1.) I don’t wanna be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me. (Spoken as opening lines in the movie, The Departed)
2.) But this is what we do, who we are. Live for nothing or die for something. (Spoken by Sylvester Stallone in the Rambo (2008))
3.) The shit piled up so fast in Vietnam you needed wings to stay above it. (Spoken by Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now)
4.) Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. (By Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption)
5.) These walls are funny. First you hate ‘em, then you get used to ‘em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized. (Spoken by Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption)
Ohh and almost everything in the movie Cold Mountain. This in my opinion is one of the most visually stunning movie that has dialogue as vivid and beautiful as the images in it. Here are a few quotes:
6.) Dear Mr. Inman, I began by counting the days, then the months. I don’t count on anything anymore except the hope that you will return, and the silent fear that in the years since we saw each other, this war, this awful war, will have changed us both beyond all reckoning. (Spoken by Nicole Kidman
7.) If you could see my inside, or whatever you want to name it; my spirit, that’s what I fear. I think I’m ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground but I wasn’t ready. But if I had… if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead! How could I write to you after what I’d done? What I’d seen? (Spoken by Jude Law)
8.) If you are fighting, stop fighting. If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me. Come back to me is my request. (Spoken by Nicole Kidman)
9.) Lureen Newsome (a character): Do you think I’m going too fast? Maybe I should put on the brakes?
Jack Twist (Character): Fast or slow I like the direction you’re going. (Brokeback Mountain)
10.) Jack Twist: I wish I knew how to quit you. (Brokeback Mountain)
