Actually I'd like to have this topic just to have a source of the quotations, monologues and dialogues which are worth learning by heart. I'll start from the speech of William Wallace which makes me shivering, I think it's one of the brightest scenes in the world cinema. And this movie is a real masterpiece.
-"I am William Wallace and I see a whole army of my countrymen who came here as a free men and free men you are. Will you fight?!!"
-"No, we'll run and we'll live!"
-"If you fight you may die, if you run you'll live at least for a while, but dying in your beds, many years from now would you be willing to trade this day for all days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance!!!, to come back here and tell our enemies that you can take our lives but you will never take our FREEEEEEDOOOOM!!!!!"
I also'd like to hear or see some expressions from Troy, but still didn't happen to watch it till the end in english. Some like:
"Men are haunted by the vastness ov eternity and so we ask ourselves will our actions echo through centuries, will strangers hear our names long after we are gone and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought how fierecely we loved"
Maybe this is alrady what students must learn in schools.....
Nurochka
20-04-2008, 00:07
My favorite (and the only i remember ) quots from Troy
1. I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of tomorrow. I'm afraid of watching you sail away and knowing you'll never come back. Before you came to Sparta, I was a ghost. I walked and I ate and I swam in the sea... I was just a ghost. (Helen)
2. I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. (Achiles)
3. If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they'll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be forgotten... If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories in thousands of years! And the world will remember your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back... for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again
Glebasyan
20-04-2008, 00:14
My favorite (and the only i remember ) quots from Troy
1. I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of tomorrow. I'm afraid of watching you sail away and knowing you'll never come back. Before you came to Sparta, I was a ghost. I walked and I ate and I swam in the sea... I was just a ghost. (Helen)
2. I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. (Achiles)
3. If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they'll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be forgotten... If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories in thousands of years! And the world will remember your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back... for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again
second is the best. I'll copy it for my mobile, but I'd like to hear the conversation between Achilles and Hector, and words when Achilles' body is burnt about peaople which are born and die like a grass but these names will never be forgotten....,
Nurochka
20-04-2008, 00:25
Unfortunately (or fortunately) Troy is not one of my favorites. I watched it one time in english and half of it in Russian. But some quots 'glued' to me, so I've decided to learn those.
PS 2 is the best ofr me, too
PPS i believe that the 1 one 'glued' to me because of the fact that it was really close to my feelings then
PPPS the 3 one made me think of what i would choose :)
No_heart
23-04-2008, 18:27
It's more safe to be married to a man you can be happy with, than to a man you cannot be happy without (C)
/Sorry, I don't remember and can't find the author/
Dear God
24-04-2008, 11:48
"We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws." - Hunter S. Thompson