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What is democracy? Which movie quote in your opinion demonstrated Democracy best either by defending, criticizing, making fun of it or attacking it?
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- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsOskar WernerJulie ChristieCyril CusackIn an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.THE CAPTAIN(CYRIL CUSACK)
By the way, what does Montag do on his day off duty?
GUY MONTAG(OSKAR WERNER)
Not much, sir. Just mow the lawn.
THE CAPTAIN(CYRIL CUSACK)
And what if the law forbids that?
GUY MONTAG(OSKAR WERNER)
Just watch it grow, sir. - DirectorDennis HopperStarsPeter FondaDennis HopperJack NicholsonTwo bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.GEORGE HANSON(JACK NICHOLSON)
Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
BILLY(DENNIS HOPPER)
Well, it don't make 'em runnin' scared
GEORGE HANSON(JACK NICHOLSON)
No, it makes 'em dangerous. Buh, neh! Neh! Neh! Neh! Swamp! - DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsDustin HoffmanRobert RedfordJack Warden"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.BOB WOODWARD(ROBERT REDFORD)
The story is dry. All we've got are pieces. We can't seem to figure out what the puzzle is supposed to look like. John Mitchell resigns as the head of CREEP, and says that he wants to spend more time with his family. I mean, it sounds like *beep* we don't exactly believe that...
DEEP THROAT(HAL HOLBROOK)
No, heh, but it's touching. Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
BOB WOODWARD(ROBERT REDFORD)
Hunt's come in from the cold. Supposedly he's got a lawyer with $25,000 in a brown paper bag.
DEEP THROAT(HAL HOLBROOK)
Follow the money.
BOB WOODWARD(ROBERT REDFORD)
What do you mean? Where?
DEEP THROAT(HAL HOLBROOK)
Oh, I can't tell you that.
BOB WOODWARD(ROBERT REDFORD)
But you could tell me that.
DEEP THROAT(HAL HOLBROOK)
No, I have to do this my way. You tell me what you know, and I'll confirm. I'll keep you in the right direction if I can, but that's all. Just... follow the money. - DirectorTom McCarthyStarsMark RuffaloMichael KeatonRachel McAdamsThe true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.MARTY BARON(LIEV SCHREIBER)
We need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. Practice and policy; show me the church manipulated the system so that these guys wouldn't have to face charges, show me they put those same priests back into parishes time and time again. Show me this was systemic, that it came from the top, down.
BEN BRADLEE JR.(JOHN SLATTERY)
Sounds like we're going after Law.
MARTY BARON(LIEV SCHREIBER)
We're going after the system. - DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsRonald ReaganRhonda FlemingBruce BennettDespite their fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War, brothers Vance and Jeb Britton have to set their differences aside in order to survive an Indian attack.CAPT. VANCE BRITTEN(RONALD REAGAN)
A man who is free to choose, will always choose peace. - DirectorWoody AllenStarsMia FarrowDianne WiestMike StarrA nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.MOTHER(JULIE KAVNER)[as she watches anti-aircraft searchlights with husband during a World War II black-out]
It's so beautiful. Boy, what a world... it could be so wonderful, if it wasn't for certain people. - DirectorRon HowardStarsFrank LangellaMichael SheenKevin BaconA dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.RICHARD NIXON(FRANK LANGELLA)
Look, when you're in office you gotta do a lot of things sometimes that are not always in the strictest sense of the law, legal, but you do them because they're in the greater interest of the nation.
DAVID FROST(MICHAEL SHEEN)
Alright wait, wait just so I understand correctly, are you really saying that in certain situations the President can decide whether it's in the best interest of the nation and then do something illegal...
RICHARD NIXON(FRANK LANGELLA)
I'm saying that when the President does it, that means it's *not* illegal! - DirectorAlexander PayneStarsMatthew BroderickReese WitherspoonLoren NelsonA high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.JIM MCALLISTER (MATTHEW BRODERICK)
Paul, what's your favorite fruit?
PAUL METZLER (CHRIS KLEIN)
Pears.
JIM MCALLISTER (MATTHEW BRODERICK)[goes to the chalkboard]
Pears, good. OK, let's say...
PAUL METZLER (CHRIS KLEIN)
Oh, no wait! Apples.
JIM MCALLISTER (MATTHEW BRODERICK)
Apples. Fine.
[he starts drawing circles on the chalkboard]
Let's say all you ever knew were apples. Apples, apples, and more apples. You might think apples were pretty good, even if you got a rotten one every once in a while. But then one day...
[he draws another circle which looks the same as the others]
...there's an orange. And now you can make a decision, do you want an apple or do you want an orange? That's democracy.
PAUL METZLER (CHRIS KLEIN)
I also like bananas. - DirectorJames McTeigueStarsHugo WeavingNatalie PortmanRupert GravesIn a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.VALERIE(NATASHA WIGHTMAN)
I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like "collateral" and "rendition" became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how "different" became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much. - DirectorJames McTeigueStarsHugo WeavingNatalie PortmanRupert GravesIn a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.FINCH(STEPHEN REA)
Who was he?
EVEY HAMMOND(NATALIE PORTMAN)
He was Edmond Dantés... and he was my father. And my mother... my brother... my friend. He was you... and me. He was all of us. - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDaniel Day-LewisSally FieldDavid StrathairnAs the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.ABRAHAM LINCOLN(DANIEL DAY-LEWIS)
I must make my decision, Bob must make his, you yours. And bear what we must. Hold and carry what we must. What I carry within me, you must allow me to do it. Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary, you alone may lighten the burden. Or render it intolerable. As you choose. - DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsBen KingsleyJohn GielgudRohini HattangadiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.GANDHI (BEN KINGSLEY)
I want to change their minds. Not kill them for weaknesses we all possess. - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoJean PetersAnthony QuinnThe story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.HERNANDEZ (HENRY SILVA)
I don't speak for myself now, but if anything happens to you, what would become of the people? What would they have left?
EMILIANO ZAPATA (MARLON BRANDO)
Themselves.
HERNANDEZ (HENRY SILVA)
And all the fighting and the deaths... what has really changed?
EMILIANO ZAPATA (MARLON BRANDO)
They have really changed. That's how things really change - slowly - through people. They don't really need me anymore.
HERNANDEZ (HENRY SILVA)
They have to be led.
EMILIANO ZAPATA (MARLON BRANDO)
Yes, but by each other. A strong man makes a weal people. Strong people don't need a strong man. - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.MAJOR STRASSER(CONRAD VEIDT)
What is your nationality?
RICK (HUMPHREY BOGART)
I'm a drunkard.
CAPTAIN RENAULT(CLAUDE RAINS)
That makes Rick a citizen of the world.
[all laugh] - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.ILSA (INGRID BERGMAN)
A franc for your thoughts.
RICK (HUMPHREY BOGART)
In America they'd bring only a penny, and, huh, I guess that's about all they're worth.
ILSA (INGRID BERGMAN)
Well, I'm willing to be overcharged. Tell me. - DirectorHal AshbyStarsPeter SellersShirley MacLaineMelvyn DouglasAfter the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.RON STEIGLER(RICHARD MCKENZIE)
Mr. Gardner, uh, my editors and I have been wondering if you would consider writing a book for us, something about your um, political philosophy, what do you say?
CHANCE THE GARDENER(PETER SELLERS)
I can't write.
RON STEIGLER(RICHARD MCKENZIE)
Heh, heh, of course not, who can nowadays? Listen, I have trouble writing a postcard to my children. Look uhh, we can give you a six figure advance, I'll provide you with the very best ghost-writer, proof-readers...
CHANCE THE GARDENER(PETER SELLERS)
I can't read.
RON STEIGLER(RICHARD MCKENZIE)
Of course you can't! No one has the time! We, we glance at things, we watch television...
CHANCE THE GARDENER(PETER SELLERS)
I like to watch TV.
RON STEIGLER(RICHARD MCKENZIE)
Oh, oh, oh sure you do. No one reads! - DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanRobert De NiroAnne HecheShortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal.STANLEY MOTSS(DUSTIN HOFFMAN)
It's all, you know, thinking ahead thinking ahead.
CONRAD 'CONNIE' BREAN(ROBERT DE NIRO)
It's like being a plumber.
STANLEY MOTSS(DUSTIN HOFFMAN)
Yea, it's like a plumber: do your job right and nobody should notice. But when you mess it up, everything gets full of sh*t. - 19641h 35mPG8.4 (519K)97MetascoreDirectorStanley KubrickStarsPeter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling HaydenAn unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.PRESIDENT MERKIN MUFFLEY(PETER SELLERS)
I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler.
GENERAL "BUCK" TURGIDSON(GEORGE C. SCOTT)
Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books. - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.[Alex has the tramp pinned down]
TRAMP (PAUL FARRELL)
Well, go on, do me in you bastard cowards! I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this!
ALEX (MALCOLM MCDOWELL)
Oh? And what's so stinking about it?
TRAMP (PAUL FARRELL)
It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.
[He starts singing another song, and Alex and his droogs proceed to beat him] - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.FATHER BARRY(KARL MALDEN)
You want to know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making love of a buck - -the cushy job - -more important than the love of man! - DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsSteve McQueenDustin HoffmanVictor JoryA French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.HENRI 'PAPILLON' CHARRIERE(STEVE MCQUEEN)
We're something, aren't we? The only animals that shove things up their ass for survival. - DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsPaul NewmanGeorge KennedyStrother MartinA laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.CAPTAIN OF ROAD PRISON 36 (STROTHER MARTIN)
What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you, men.