On Deadly Ground (1994)

Michael Caine: Michael Jennings

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• Michael Jennings : [seeing all his workers fleeing for their lives]  You're a bunch of GUTLESS PRICKS! ALL OF YOU!

  Michael Jennings : [seeing a worker close to him running away]  You! Come help me!

  Oil worker : FUCK YOU!

  Michael Jennings : You yellow BASTARD!

• McGruder : Who the fuck is he?

  Michael Jennings : You wanna know who he is? Try this: delve down into the deepest bowels of your soul. Try to imagine the ultimate fucking nightmare. And that won't come close to this son of a bitch when he gets pissed.

• Michael Jennings : Go ahead! Shoot me, go on! SHOOT ME, you fucking COWARD! You haven't got the fucking GUTS!

  Forrest Taft : I wouldn't dirty my bullets.

• Forrest Taft : Whoa! My long lost friend Michael!

  Michael Jennings : [referring to Masu]  Who's this? Is this the slope bitch you've been banging?

  Forrest Taft : Nah. Not her.

  Michael Jennings : Is this the one who's got you all concerned about the dirty snow? Jesus, Forrest! You and me, we bought hookers better than this for five bucks in Bangkok!

• McGruder : [McGruder is protesting the presence of the FBI]  I thought you wanted us to KILL this motherfucker, Mr. Jennings? How are we supposed to shoot him with all these cops standing around, huh? I don't think so.

  Liles : McGruder! It is essential that we have the FBI here to cover ourselves legally! And it sure as hell will help with the press. They'll take the fall for anything that happens.

  Michael Jennings : Look, don't worry about the FBI. We all know they couldn't find a hooker in a whorehouse anyway.

  McGruder : But seriously. He'd have to be out of his fucking mind to try to get into this place now.

  Michael Jennings : Then we should COUNT on that, Mr. McGruder! Forrest Taft is the patron saint of the impossible. And if you had only done your job like you're supposed to, it wouldn't have COME TO THIS!

• Walters : ACTION!

  Michael Jennings : [to the cardholder]  Lift the cards up, I *can't* see them down there!

  Michael Jennings : [to the camera, in a charming, but insincere tone]  Every year, hundreds of thousands of porcupine caribou make their way down from the Ogilvy Mountains to the coastal plains of Alaska. The come to feed off the tundra grasses, and to have their children. Children like, these little guys right here.

  [pets the caribou] 

  Michael Jennings : You see, we at Aegis Oil believe in protecting our natural treasures. We believe in keeping them safe, for future generations to enjoy. After all, the Earth, is our home too. Who cares? We do. At Aegis Oil.

  Walters : CUT!

  Michael Jennings : [Standing next to a caribou]  Fuck these animals stink! *Bring me a washcloth!*

• [Hugh accused Jennings of intentionally sabotaging his own rig] 

  Michael Jennings : My oil is flowing all over the ocean, instead of into my refinery where it's worth money to me! I'll have eskimos and environmentalists probing all the orifices of my body for the next two weeks! No why the HELL would I do that to myself on purpose?

  Forrest Taft : I don't know. I kinda asked huim the same thing. But I guess it doesn't really matter now, does it? I sort of blew up all the evidence, didn't I?

  Michael Jennings : [smiles]  I guess you did.

• Stone : I want you to protect this entrance like it was your sister's cherry, Tonto!

  Rook : Yes, sir.

  Stone : Put people over here and over here.

  Michael Jennings : Stone! I'm going to the rig. I'm going to put Pump 3 on line, that'll be enough for me to keep my leases!

  Stone : Right.

  Michael Jennings : Without any help from YOU PRICKS!

  [Jennings leaves] 

  Stone : You're in charge here, Tonto. Do not let that SON OF A BITCH IN HERE!

• Forrest Taft : You know, I've been thinking about this for a long time. What does one *say* to a man with no *conscience*? I mean I'd *like* to tell you about the millions of people that you've made suffer. But I'd be a total IDIOT to think that you'd care. You're a piece of shit, Michael. Scum of the Earth!

  Michael Jennings : I don't know what you did to my rig, Forrest. But whatever it was, I want you to STOP IT! Turn it off. I'm leaving

  Forrest Taft : [Jennings walk away]  I've got a better idea.

  Michael Jennings : You're a macho man with a code of honor. You won't shoot me in the back.

  [Forrest lassos Jennings with a cable and strings him up over a pool of crude] 

• Michael Jennings : [about Forrest]  He'd need a miracle to stop us now.

• Walters : You ready?

  Michael Jennings : Yeah.

  Walters : OK. We START with an out-of focus world. We pull back to one twig, ONE branch, then the whole pristine forest.

  Michael Jennings : Listen to me. You've got any great ideas? Just keep them to your fucking self, okay! And leave this shit to me! Now where do I stand?

  Walters : Right over there.