Classic Movie Quotes, Cut Nicely
I stumbled across a video the other day which i consider to be brilliant. I’m a huge fan of classic movies, and have a tendency to well up when;
“The victorious <blank> wins/saves the <blank> to make sure the <blank> gets <blank>!“
Let’s face it, that describes every Hollywood movie of the last 20 years. I’m not Hollywood bashing here–I still remember great moments like Braveheart screaming for freedom, Andy Dufrain proclaiming “hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things“, and Tat measuring life… in inches.
Speeches like this have a way of grabbing the soul, they suck you in, and make you forget you’re in your living room. They make you forget where you are, who you are, and for one moment they immerse you in themselves. You become the hero, the fallen, and the lost for that moment.
Here are those 3 moments, and a brilliant film speech montage which I thank for reminding me how much these moments can touch you.
William Wallace Addresses the Scots Army
“I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny! You have come to fight as free men. And free man you are! What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?” “Two thousand against ten?” - the veteran shouted. “No! We will run - and live!” “Yes!” Wallace shouted back. “Fight and you may die. Run and you will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!”
Andy Dufrain speaks about Hope, and it’s Power
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.”
Coach Tat talks in inches…
“I don’t know what to say, really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team or we’re gonna crumble, inch by inch, play by play, ’til we’re finished.
We’re in hell right now, gentlemen, believe me. And, we can stay here — get the shit kicked out of us — or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell one inch at a time.
Now, I can’t do it for you. I’m too old. I look around. I see these young faces, and I think — I mean — I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who’s ever loved me. And lately, I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror.
You know, when you get old in life things get taken from you. I mean that’s…part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small — I mean one-half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.
On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch, because we know when we add up all those inches that’s gonna make the fuckin’ difference between winning and losing! Between livin’ and dyin’!
I’ll tell you this: In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willin’ to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what livin’ is! The six inches in front of your face!!
Now I can’t make you do it. You got to look at the guy next to you. Look into his eyes! Now I think you’re gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you. You’re gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows, when it comes down to it, you’re gonna do the same for him!
That’s a team, gentleman!
And, either we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
That’s football guys.
That’s all it is.
Now, what are you gonna do?”
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