By popular demand, A thread devoted To John Cusack's greatest film.

Marcella: Sir, they're very unhappy.
Martin Blank: I'm very unhappy.
Marcella: It was supposed to look like a heart attack! He was supposed to die in his sleep!
Martin Blank: Well, he moved.

Look, Sergeant..Pepper

I`m fond of Say Anything and the Sure Thing too.

Well that's going to spark a debate, I can just feel it.

This is one of my all time favourite films; brilliant script, superb soundtrack, fabulous performances - what's not to love?

There's too much greatness in the film to talk about it all.

Though I would like to mention how 'Live and Let Die' changes to a musak version as Martin enters the Ultimart - genius.

Grocer is genius ... BIM BAM BOM POPCORN!!!!!!!

I try to use this phrase at least once a day!

Sefi x

Its a great film but im not sure its Cusacks greatest either.

That is fantastic, death by fountain pen is brilliant as well.

I like the way he says "thanks for the pen!"

Oh - and Debbie is one of the best female characters i've seen. She's funny, sexy, interesting and self-assured yet without being a bitch or an ice-queen. And she randomly say "you can't come in" in a Northern English accent - FOR NO REASON!

Sefi x

Im going to go put it on now. Havent seen it for ages.

Wasn't that Jamaican?

That's exactly what I was thinking.

If I'm wrong I've been doing a very bad impression all these years.

You're a fucking psycho...

And then becomes 'Ace of Spades' as heard through the employee's headphones.

Hurt, pissed. Gotta find a new job

if it was it was well rubbish. And shows how much i know! Minnies dad is a multi-millionaire tax exile in Barbados so maybe it was!

Sefi x

Minnie Driver. Where is she now I wonder? She never really topped the bad Karaoke singer role she played in Goldeneye.

A reference to the intro to The Specials' "You're Wondering now" perhaps?

ED: That was a poor and rather obscure reference re "You can't come in" intended as a joke, but the moment's passed and I've soured the atmosphere.

She was in Phantom of the Opera and tried to be a singer. Other than that ... ahem - i gotta say it ... i'm drawing a complete blank!

*pops champagne cork Marsha style* waaaayyyeeee!!!

Sefi x

A bit that's great - as Martin and Debbie starting getting off in the nurse's office, she stops for a moment:

D: No, wait, something's wrong...

M: what, too fast?

D: no...*slaps him hard across the face* Better.

*Martin grins*

Please excuse any paraphrasing there!

The Bowie/baby combo never fails to give me goosebumps.

Oh, man - that's why I love that song so much! Amazing scene.

They're all going to have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they'll all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. And what am I gonna say? "Hi. I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"

It is I, Sydney Feldman.

My, you have changed

"Are you all right?"
"No I'm not all right! I'm hurt... I'm pissed... and I gotta find a new job!"

Whatabout Mrs Blank (aka. Jodie Foster's mom in the original Freaky Friday) "You're a handsome devil. What's your name? "

More Grocer - "Hey, if you're lookin' for a father figure I'll give you a spankin'!"

And Joan "Sgt Pepper" Cusack being brilliant as always!

Sefi x

Been overseas?

Oh and world's cutest baby - seriously.

"Ro-bbie!"

I always say that name Martin Blank style now.


I like the scene where he pours the whisky bottle over his dad's grave, just after he's been to see his heart breakingly mentalist old mum. It's so sad.

Awwwwww

I'm getting all gooey!

Oh and Blind you're so right it hurts. I'd never even thought about why she did the Jamaican accent.

Cool!

Debi's house...

Kind of crept up on you, didn't it?

No, you drove us here.

10 yeeeeears, 10 years!

I flipped out, joined the army, went into business for myself, I'm a professional killer!

*pause*

Do you get dental with that?

YES!

I love Jeremy Piven in this film. The dynamic of their friendship is beautifully done.

OK, well, I'll see you at the "I've peaked and I'm kidding myself" party.

Thinking about Jeremy Piven has also reminded me of my possibly the best piece of Simpson's dialogue ever:

Homer: Uh ... so, I just wanna know how come you made your Homer Simpson character so ...
Producer 1: Stupid? [laughs] Well, I can assure you, it happened organically.
Homer: It better have!
Producer 1: The thirteen of us began with a singular vision 'Titanic' meets 'Frasier'
Producer 2: But then we found out that ABC had a similar project in development with Annie Potts and Jeremy Piven.
Homer: Who's Jeremy Piven?
Producer 3: We don't know.
Producer 4: But it scared the hell out of us, so we slapped together a cop show instead.
Homer: 'Police Cops'.
Producer 5: Uh, no, actually, it was called "Badge Patrol".
Producer 1: But the network idiots didn't want a show about high-tech badges that shoot laser beams!
Producer 2: So we asked ourselves, "Who's behind the badge?"
Producer 3: Police ...
Producer 4: Cops ...
Producer 5: 'Police Cops'
Homer: Yeah, but why does the Homer Simpson character have to be so stupid?
Producer 1: Oh, he's not stupid. He's a street-smart fish-out-of-water in a world he never made!
Homer: I'm begging you! I'm a human being! Let me have my dignity back!

[the Producers nod at Homer; he gets up and walks off, face-first into a cactus]

Alan Arkin is also superb, love his face when he's told:
"I know where you live...."

Ah, see, that wasn't designed to make me feel good. I get feelings of anxiety and..

Oh, relax, I wouldn't think of...

...But you did think of it Martin. You thought it and then you said it.

Debi Radio

Bobby Beamer

It's good to be me.

Find out if anyone else is in town. So far I've made two spooks and a ghoul

Don't you love the way Marcella calls him 'Sir' all the time?

Reminds me of 'Peanuts'.

Mr. Newberry: What have you been doing with your life?
Marty: Uh... professional killer.
Mr. Newberry: Oh! Good for you, it's a... growth industry.

Did this the other day, but it's a favourite:

What a piece of work is man, how noble in...Ah, fuck it.

I just love the delivery of dialogue, something that John Cusack excels at. He even makes Con Air watchable.

Hi, I'm Martin Blank, you remember me? I'm not married, I don't have any kids, and I'd blow your head off if someone paid me enough.

Possibly one of my favourites of all time. So glad we started a thread

Ahhh... the Nurse's Office. I don't feel well.......... and neither do you.

I'll just put these in some rubbing alcohol.

EMANCAPEA!! (Or something like that, when she's getting the airplane, classic.)

It was only a matter of time.



I always used to watch that bit over and over. It's one of the best 'moment of clarity'scenes ever.

"I have to go."
"Yeah we all have to go sometime, but we get to chose when."
"No one choses when"

"Boudro was never a target."

"How's your life?"
"In progress."

Couldnt find the bastard DVD in the video shop so I didnt get to watch it after all. I tried asking for it in Japanese but drew a blank.

NEWBERRY
What the fuck is the matter with
you?!

MARTIN
Well, I was hired to kill you. It's
what I do, and come to think of it,
I told you that, but... Okay. I'm
not going to do it. Get in the car.

He does. They drive on.

MARTIN
It's either because I'm in love with
your daughter, or because I have a
new-found respect for life. Or both.
But I don't know.

INT. GROCER'S VAN - SAME

Grocer and company watch in amazement.

GROCER'S P.O.V.

of Martin's car disappearing into Newberry's long and wooded
driveway.

GROCER
That punk is either in love with
that guy's daughter or he has new
found respect for life... Let's go.

"You know, when you start getting invited to your ten year high school reunion, time is catching up."
"Are you talking about a sense of my own mortality or a fear of death?"
"Well, I never really thought about it quite like that."
"Did you go to yours?"
"Yes, I did. It was just as if everyone had swelled."

"A thousand innocent people get killed every day! But a millionaire's pet gets detonated, and you're marked for life."

"You're a psychopath"
"No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason - I kill for money. It's a job. That didn't come out right"

It's not me.

Marcella: Don't hang up! Wait! Did ya' read yesterday's offer?
Marty: Hold on a minute.
Marcella: It's in French. It's a Greenpeace boat. It'd be so easy.
Marty: No way! I have scruples.

"Sir, it's out of my hands. The gods want you to go back home and they want you to delete someone while you're there".

When I'm a-walkin' I strut my stuff, and I'm so strung out.
I'm high as a kite and I just miiight stop to check you out...