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Movie Quote of the Day – Mean Streets, 1973 (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Johnny Boy: Hey Mikey, you’re really something, you know that? What’s the matter? You too good for this ten dollars? You too good for it? It’s a good ten dollars. You know something, Mikey, you make me laugh, you know that? You know, I borrow money all over this neighborhood, left and right from everybody, I never pay them back. So, I can’t borrow no money from nobody no more, right? So who does that leave me to borrow money from but you? I borrow money from you, because you’re the only jerk-off around here who I can borrow money from without payin’ back, right? Right? You know, ’cause that’s what you are, that’s what I think of you: a jerk-off. You’re smiling, right, because you’re a jerk-off! You’re a fucking jerk-off. I’ll tell ‘ya something else, Mikey, [lights ten-dollar bill on fire] I fuck you right where you breath, because I don’t give two shits about you or nobody else.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Last Detail, 1973 (dir. Hal Ashby)
Budduskey: I’m gonna kick your ass around the block for drill, man.
Bartender: You try it and I’ll call the shore patrol.
Budduskey: I am the motherfucking shore patrol, motherfucker! I am the motherfucking shore patrol! Give this man a beer.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Exorcist, 1973 (dir. William Friedkin)
Father Merrin, Father Damien Karras: The Power of Christ compels you! The Power of Christ compels you!
Movie Quote of the Day – American Graffiti, 1973 (dir. George Lucas)
Debbie: You know, Terry, I had a pretty good time.
Toad: Oh, come on, you’re just. . .
Debbie: No, no, really. I really had a good time. I mean, you picked me up and we got some hard stuff and saw a hold-up and then we went to the Canal and you got your car stolen and then I got to watch you gettin’ sick and then you got in this really bitchin’ fight. . .I really had a good time.
Movie Quote of the Day – Paper Moon, 1973 (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Moses Pray: You don’t have to worry. I ain’t about to leave some poor little child stranded in the middle of nowhere. I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples?
Addie Loggins: No, I don’t know what it is, but if you got ’em, it’s a sure bet they belong to somebody else!
Oscar Vault Monday – American Graffiti, 1973 (dir. George Lucas)
My first memories of American Graffiti mostly revolve around my love of the film’s soundtrack. I remember watching it as a little kid and not really being able to follow the plot, but absolutely falling in love with the soundtrack. It’s perhaps the best soundtrack of all time. That may be debatable, but I’ll stick with my opinion there. Apparently George Lucas wrote the screenplay after being challenge on the set of THX-1138 by Francis Ford Coppola to write something that mainstream audiences would enjoy. Lucas then set the film in 1962 around the cruising culture he remembered as a teenager in Modesto. The result was a ridiculously successful film full of early-60s, pre-Vietnam-era nostalgia. The film had a $775,000 budget and wound up grossing $118 mil. It was also nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Supporting Actress Candy Clark, Best Director and Best Picture. It was up against A Touch of Class, Cries and Whispers, The Exorcist and winner The Sting.
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