Have You Ever Watched A Movie So Many Times That You Can Recite The Script?
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
October 31, 2007 12:28am CST
There are a few movies I admit to watching over and over and over again, ad nauseum, yet never get tired of...But have you ever become so obsessed by having watched a movie so many times, that you can practically recite the whole script?The movies I tend to watch over and over again are: Chronicles Of Narnia, Lord of The Rings (all three parts), Practical Magic, and these are just a few.
For instance:
From Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Galandrial has just finished pouring water into the mirror, slowly turns around and looks at Frodo who is slowly still walking down the stairs and coming toward her--she then asks...
Galandrial: "Would you look into the mirror?"Frodo: "What will I see?"Galandrial: "The mirror shows many things...(pause)..things that were, things that are...(slightly longer pause)...and some things...that have not come to pass."
Or gee, how about:
Samwise: "Here, Mr. Frodo's not going anywhere without me." (Sam comes out from the bushes he was hiding from listening in to the council meeting)
Elrond: "Indeed it is impossible to separate you two, when he is summoned to a secret council and you are not."
(voice from behind Elrond)
"aye, we're coming too." (Merry's voice--Elrond turns round with a perplexed look on his face as he sees Merry and Pippin come forward and they stand next to Frodo)
Pippin: "You have to tie us all up in a sack to stop us. Anyway, you need people of intelligence on this sort of mission....quest.....thing."
Merry: "Well that rules you out Pippin."
Elrond: "Nine companions..So be it! You shall be the fellowship of the ring."Merry: "Grrrreat! (spoken with a Scottish accent mind you) Where we going?"(Frodo smiles at Pippen, scene fades to black)
Okay..I WAS a drama major in college so maybe I remember lines and stage directions better...LOL---but you get the idea.
So are any of you a bunch of movie nuts and watch a particular movie so many times you know all the lines by heart? Which one or ones...can you give one of your renditions of part of the script of a movie???
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38 responses
@BayleighGray (4334)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Hiya Pye!
LOL No I dont think I have watched a film so much that I could recite just like you did!! I have watched The Wedding Singer so much that I know some of the lines. And I can recite just about all the lines to some tv shows; Roseanne, Still Standing and The Golden Girls.
Ive never really been one to watch movies over and over again on purpose. My hubby will watch them, some of the movies he likes again and again. I end up falling asleep during movies, unless they are really really good and keep me interested. lol
Bay Lay Gray xx
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
I have to confess I haven't watched Lord Of The Rings in awhile..but hey, might do that tonight..LOL
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Yes classical movies are great to watch over and over
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
31 Oct 07
One I really like is Shall we Dance? might not say what they said but I can do the dances lol
Another is DIrty Dancing there to the dances.
what can I say I love to dance
and other one is Secound Hand Lions
a little citty boy has came to stay with his great Uncles a on a farm and a pig walks up t o him and he backs away scared and then says Hi doggy.
and the look on the kids face is presious.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
I love Dirty Dancing...that's a real classic to me..and LOVED Patrick Swayze..LOL
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
31 Oct 07
It drives my husband nuts!!! When my kids were little money was aways tight so I'd tape movies off HBO and they'd play them CONSTANTLY! My youngest can recite Forrest Gump - probably still word for word and he's 21 now! He also was good with Land Before Time. There are so many that I just know a lot of lines from, and I'll say them 2 seconds before they do in the movie. My husband isn't that big on watching a movie more than once anyway, so he just rolls his eyes at me.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
1 Nov 07
I don't watch too much either, I'm mostly on the computer. But it was much cheaper than going to the movies or even renting them when they kids were little. That was one thing that I did splurge on for them...
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Oh how I miss cable..used to have it, but I really don't watch much TV...uh, except to put those movies on over and over again...LOL
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@applsofgld (2506)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Gone with the wind is the only movie I have wateched over and over and over, but I don't have it memorized. This brings back a fond memory of my daughter though when she was little. She had watched the Wizard of Oz so many times, we had the VHS tape and she was about 3 to 4 years old, she had it memorized. She wore this one particular dress she called her Dorothy dress, she had a little basket with an invisible dog named Toto, she would recite the movie and go through all the motions while watching it, it was soooo cute :)
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Aww-that must have been cute to watch your daughter act out Wizard of Oz---must have had the actress in her, no??
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@PurpleTeddyBear (6685)
• Canada
31 Oct 07
Hi pye,
I know that the Lion King is one, so is The Crow, and can't think of any others off the top of my head sorry. Happy Hallowe'en!
Love & Hugzz, PurpleTeddyBear.
@PurpleTeddyBear (6685)
• Canada
1 Nov 07
Awwwwwww poor pye *hands you a tissue* it is a good movie I must say!
Luv & Hugzz, PurpleTeddyBear.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
I love The Lion King...I get to be a blubber case and you should see me crying at it... :(
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Hehehe--guess I do have a good memory for reciting lines..now to remember where I put my glasses at times is another thing...LOL
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@chargoans (939)
• United States
31 Oct 07
I am not as guilty of this as my hubby. The movies I have repeatedly watched are Armageddon (get the book, get the book get the book), Independence Day (great speech by the president), and Braveheart (freedom!) My hubby and teenage daughter have watched Forest Gump so many times that I refuse to watch it with them anymore as they do all of the Forest and Jenny lines together while it's on! Grrr! :-)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Okay, I'll get the book...LOL...Oh, I love Independence Day and Braveheart! Love the music from those two movies too!
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@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
31 Oct 07
LOL! I can't honestly say that I have become quite so devoted to any movie, pyewacket, but I do have favorite lines from several. I love the LOTR trilogy also, and have not watched them for awhile. Maybe I'll do that this weekend.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
To be honest I haven't watched LOTR in awhile either...used to watch a bit of them EVERY single night..LOL
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@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Yes, many of them but my favorite is Gone With The Wind and I can say soooo much of the dialogue that it even makes me sick..lol...I think one of my favorites is the scene where Scarlett sees Twelve Oaks after it's been burnt to the ground by the Yankees. To avoid thinking about it at that moment which is one of her personality traits she says:"I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.' "People say I'm a lot like her...lol...
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Funny you should mention Gone With The Wind....my father was a nutcase on the movie and that's why I was named Melanie....LOL...when I was named that my mother called up her grandmother to tell her what name they decided to call me, and her grandmother replied, "Why are you calling her that down south name..." LOL---my father's side of the family WERE originally from VA--maybe that's why too??
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@laurentyu1 (743)
• Romania
31 Oct 07
Well i have watch some movies for many times but not to learn their scripts.Those wore good movies that you cannot get bored from watching more than one time.There are few movies that you like to watch more times but when you find one ....
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
I know...some movies one never gets bored at watching all the time
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@Treikens (32)
• United States
1 Nov 07
The breakfast club!!
Bender: Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a 2ft salami under the other. The bartender says "oh, I guess you dont need a drink?" The Naked lady says--
AND IT CUTS OFF RIGHT THERE! I was sooo mad I knew it was gonna be dirty! but what? now I'll never know! T___T
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@jamesarmstrong (251)
• China
31 Oct 07
i have watched "the graduated" for several times.
i like the movie
@plumwish07 (4057)
• Indonesia
31 Oct 07
Wow,its awesome. i just can remember what the scene next would be. but recite exactly the script? well, you did better than me :D
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Well like I said I was a Drama major in college...guess that helps...LOL
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@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
8 Nov 07
I can't do it to that extreme but I can recite certain parts word for word of a couple of movies and I can do more of it when I'm actually watching the movie. I've got a terrible memory...I mean terrible. I've always had major problems with memorization. BUT I do watch my certain movies over and over and over and never tire of them :)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
8 Nov 07
I used to have a friend that was a real Star Trekkie and could recite every single word of all of the original 78 Star Treks..yeesh!
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
31 Oct 07
I like to watch a few movies. Like in Gaslight, 'So you think I'm mad dear Husband?" or Goldfinger, "No I expect you to die Mr. Bond." or in L.A. Confidential, "and very Hush Hush." Then there is that line from Vertigo, "a very apt pupil," and when the housekeeper and the girlfriend in "Rear Window" said that they would love to meet =--(well I forget her name.) I really should get the whole Hitchcock set in DVd. So I am not into brilliant conversations from movies and I am more into watching the scenery.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Wow--you like a lot of the classics...they're always great to watch
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@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Shrek and Monsters Inc. basically a bunch of kids movies. My kids watch them so much that I can be in the other room and hear one line and tell you exactly where they are in the movie.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Heheh...that's funny---I love the Shrek movies myself. :)
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@passwordrain (123)
• Algeria
31 Oct 07
Yeah , I do , the most of Jet Li movies , I wasn't giving the intention to memorize Jet Li's scripts but it happened...
@peanutjar (5198)
• Canada
31 Oct 07
Hi pyewacket:)Its the movie "Wizard of oz"that i know.But my daughter could tell you hers,man shes watched alot and over and over and knows whats goijg to hapen next and what they are oing to say.She blurts the words out,sometimes she pretends she a puppet and just moves her mouth to the words,hahaha.We are all crazy here in this house!Did you notice that ?Hahaha.
Peanutjar:)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Oct 07
Oh, that's okay...I'm a bit crazy myself...LOL...I must be if I can recite whole scripts of movies...I'm not that bad though..used to have a friend that could recite word for word each of the original 78 episodes of Star Trek series
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