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I'm gonna try my best to keep on keepin' on about In Bruges, because I loved it so, and now I've watched it three times and it only gets funnier with each viewing, and everybody's so good in it I want to keep it's name batting about as best I can so maybe it gets some awards traction towards the end of the year. Screenplay! I'd love a Best Actor nod for Colin Farrell - my boy is seriously overdue. Or - speaking of fucking overdue - how about a Best Supporting turn for Ralph Fiennes. There's a man that's consistently excellent whether he's playing The Dark Lord or a crusading widower or a seriously foul-mouthed gangster... seriously foul-mouthed. Hilariously so. Ralph tears through this dialogue like its red meat, dribbling down his chin - the way he bares his teeth and bugs his eyes, it's both totally hilarious and seriously frightening all at once. He doesn't even show up until half-way into the flick - hence a couple of the quotes below being shots of other people reacting to his profanity whether via letter or telephone. He bridges the centuries with his vitriol. You halfway expect a fuck-laced telegram to show up at their door. Love it. Here are five randomly chosen bits of my favorite of his rants from the film:
"An Uzi? I'm not from South Central Los Angeles.
I didn't come here to shoot twenty black ten year olds
in a drive-by. I want a normal gun for a normal person."
"You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!"
"It's a fairytale town, isn't it?
How's a fairytale town not somebody's fucking thing?"
"Number One, why aren't you in when I fucking told you to be in? Number Two, why doesn't this hotel have phones with fucking voicemail and not have to leave messages with the fucking receptionist? Number Three, you better fucking be in tomorrow night when I fucking call again or there'll be fucking hell to pay. I'm fucking telling you - Harry."
"You're an inanimate fucking object!".
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Yours is a noble quest, and I plan to join you.
Yeah, it's my favorite movie of 2008 thus far as well.
Colin Farrell to the dwarf and the prostitute: "What?....you two are weird..."
Thank you. Those are some of the quotes that I would have "posted" too, had you just let me get away with this:
Ray: They're filming midgets!
Ken: Coming up?
Ray: What's up there?
Ken: The view.
Ray: The view of what? The view of down here? I can see that down here.
Ken: Ray, you are about the worst tourist in the whole world.
Ray: Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.
Ray: Why didn't you wave hello to me today when I waved hello to you today?
Jimmy: I was on a very strong horse tranquilizer today; Wasn't waving hello to anybody. Except... maybe to a horse.
Harry: Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done? You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!
Ken: I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids.
Harry: Insult my fucking kids? That's going overboard, mate!
Ken: I retracted it, didn't I?
Harry (to wife): I'm sorry for calling you an inanimate fuckin object. I was upset.
Harry: An Uzi? I'm not from South Central Los Angeles. I didn't come here to shoot twenty black ten year olds in a drive-by. I want a normal gun for a normal person.
Eirik: I can't see! I can't see!
Ray: Of course you can't see! I just a shot a blank in your fucking eye!
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