FILM NUT INC: Brilliant Dialogue (Film Moments Con.)

**Possible Spoilers**

25. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Internet geek
Whole movie is quotable but Kip's line here is the one I remember the most. (That and the 1% milk line.)

26.Red Eye (2005)
From Charming to Psycho.
And you think a guys just trying to chat you up when he pulls this trick.

27. A League of Their Own (1992)
There's no crying in baseball!

28. Notting Hill (1999)
The Last Brownie
The stress of being a star (plus a nice look at the other characters)

MAX
  I'm not saying it's a bad thing, in
  fact, I think it's something we should
  take pride in.  I'm going to give the
  last brownie as a prize to the saddest
  act here.

 A little pause.  Then William turns to Bernie.

    WILLIAM
  Bernie.

    BERNIE
  Well, obviously it's me, isn't it --
  I work in the City in a job I don't
  understand and everyone keeps getting
  promoted above me.  I haven't had a
  girlfriends since... puberty and,
  well, the long and short of it is,
  nobody fancies me, and if these cheeks
  get any chubbier, they never will.

    HONEY
  Nonsense.  I fancy you.  Or I did
  before you got so far.

    MAX
  You see -- and unless I'm much mistaken,
  your job still pays you rather a lot of
  money, while Honey here, she earns
  nothing flogging her guts out at
  London's seediest record store.

    HONEY
  Yes.  And I don't have hair -- I've got
  feathers, and I've got funny goggly
  eyes, and I'm attracted to cruel men and
  ... no one'll ever marry me because my
  boosies have actually started
  shrinking.

    MAX
  You see -- incredibly sad.

    BELLA
  On the other hand, her best friend is
  Anna Scott.

    HONEY
  That's true, I can't deny it.  She
  needs me, what can I say?

    BELLA
  And most of her limbs work.  Whereas
  I'm stuck in its thing day and night,
  in a house full of ramps.  And to add
  insult to serious injury -- I've
  totally given up smoking, my favourite
  thing, and the truth is... we can't
  have a baby.

 Dead silence.

    WILLIAM
  Bella.

 Bella shrugs her shoulders.  Bernie is totally grief-struck.

    BERNIE
  No.  Not true...

    BELLA
  C'est la vie... We're lucky in lots
  of ways, but... Surely it's worth a
  brownie.

 William reaches for her hand.  Max breaks the sombre mood.

    MAX
  Well, I don't know.  Look at
  William.  Very unsuccessful
  professionally.  Divorced.  Used to
  be handsome, now kind of squidgy
  around the edges -- and absolutely
  certain never to hear from Anna again
  after she's heard that his nickname
  at school was Floppy.

 They all laugh.  Anna smiles across at William.

    WILLIAM
  So I get the brownie?

    MAX
  I think you do, yes.

    ANNA
  Wait a minute.  What about me?

    MAX
  I'm sorry?  You think you deserve the
  brownie?

    ANNA
  Well... a shot at it.

    WILLIAM
  You'll have to prove it.  This is a
  great brownie and I'm going to fight
  for it.  State your claim.

    ANNA
  Well, I've been on a diet since I was
  nineteen, which means basically I've
  been hungry for a decade.  I've had a
  sequence of not nice boyfriends -- one
  of whom hit me: and every time my heart
  gets broken it gets splashed across
  the newspapers as entertainment.
  Meantime, it cost millions to get me
  looking like this...

    HONEY
  Really?

    ANNA
  Really -- and one day, not long from
  now...

 While she says this, quiet settles around the table.  The thing
 is -- she sort of means it and is opening up to them.

    ANNA
  ... my looks will go, they'll find out
  I can't act and I'll become a sad
  middle-aged woman who looks a bit like
  someone who was famous for a while.

 Silence... they all look at her... then.

    MAX
  Nah!!!  Nice try, gorgeous -- but you
  don't fool anyone.

 The mood is instantly broken.  They all laugh.

29. Adaptation (2002)
Opening Monologue
Internal dialogues are a bitch.

CHARLIE

[voiceover] Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier my hair wouldn't be falling out. Life is short. I need to make the most of it. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm a walking cliché. I really need to go to the doctor and have my leg checked. There's something wrong. A bump. The dentist called again. I'm way overdue. If I stop putting things off I would be happier. All I do is sit on my fat ass. If my ass wasn't fat I would be happier. I wouldn't have to wear these shirts with the tails out all the time. Like that's fooling anyone. Fat ass. I should start jogging again. Five miles a day. Really do it this time. Maybe rock climbing. I need to turn my life around. What do I need to do? I need to fall in love. I need to have a girlfriend. I need to read more and prove myself. What if I learned Russian or something, or took up an instrument. I could speak Chinese. I'd be the screenwriter who speaks Chinese and plays the oboe. That would be cool. I should get my hair cut short. Stop trying to fool myself and everyone else into thinking I have a full head of hair. How pathetic is that. Just be real. Confident. Isn't that what women are attracted to? Men don't have to be attractive. But that's not true. Especially these days. Almost as much pressure on men as there is on women these days. Why should I be made to feel I have to apologize for my existence? Maybe it's my brain chemistry. Maybe that's what's wrong with me. Bad chemistry. All my problems and anxiety can be reduced to a chemical imbalance or some kind of misfiring synapses. I need to get help for that. But I'll still be ugly though. Nothing's going to change that.

30. As Good As It Gets (1997)
'Do NOT knock on this door' speech
It's not a subtle point you're making