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Movie Quote of the Day – Inside Llewyn Davis, 2013 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Lillian Gorfein: This is not our cat!
Llewyn Davis: What? Of course that’s your cat!
Mitch Gorfein: Oh, my God.
Lillian Gorfein: It’s not even male. Where’s its scrotum, Llewyn?
Llewyn Davis: Wha. .. it’s. . .
Lillian Gorfein: Where’s its scrotum?!
Movie Quote of the Day – Fargo, 1996 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Marge Gunderson: Have you done an inventory recently?
Jerry Lundegaard: The car’s not from our lot, ma’am.
Marge Gunderson: How can you be sure without doin’ a. . .
Jerry Lundegaard: Well, I would know. I’m the executive sales manager.
Marge Gunderson: Yah, but I understand. . .
Jerry Lundegaard: We run a pretty tight ship here.
Marge Gunderson: I know, but how do they establish that? Are the cars counted daily, or what kind of a routine here?
Jerry Lundegaard: Ma’am! I answered your question.
Marge Gunderson: I’m sorry, sir?
Jerry Lundegaard: Ma’am, I answered your question. I answered the darn. . .I’m cooperating here, and there’s no. . .
Marge Gunderson: Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me. I’m just doing my job here.
Jerry Lundegaard: I’m. . .I’m not. . .I’m not arguin’ here. I’m cooperating and there’s no. . .We’re doin’ all we can.
Marge Gunderson: Sir, could I talk to Mr Gustafson?. . .Mr Lundegaard.
Jerry Lundegaard: Well, heck! If you wanna. . .if you wanna play games here. . .I’m workin’ with ya on this thing here, but. . .okay, I’ll do a damn lot count.
Marge Gunderson: Sir, right now?
Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, right now. You’re darned tootin’.
Movie Quote of the Day – Barton Fink, 1991 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Charlie: I could tell you some stories. . .
Barton: Sure you could and yet many writers do everything in their power to insulate themselves from the common man, from where they live, from where they trade, from where they fight and love and converse and, and, and. . .So naturally their work suffers and regresses into empty formalism and. . .well I’m spouting off again, but to put it in your language, the theatre becomes as phony as a three-dollar bill!
Charlie: Well I guess that’s a tragedy right there!
Barton: You’re alright, Charlie. I’m glad you stopped by.
Movie Quote of the Day – Raising Arizona, 1987 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Nathan Arizona: Who the hell are you?
Leonard Smalls: Smalls. Leonard Smalls. My friends call me Lenny; but I got no friends.
Oscar Vault Monday – A Serious Man, 2009 (dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Joel and Ethan Coen’s 14th feature film was also their third film (out of four) to be nominated for Best Picture (1996’s Fargo was the first, 2007 Best Picture winner Now Country For Old Men the second, 2010’s True Grit the fourth). It’s also probably the most insular of their films; those who love it really love it, but many who saw it just couldn’t relate. The setting of the film, St. Louis Park, Minnesota in the late 1960s, adds a slight autobiographical element to the film and its plot deals heavily with Jewish mysticism and spirituality. The film was only nominated for two Academy Award, winning none: Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were: Avatar, An Education, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, The Blind Side, Up, Up In The Air and winner The Hurt Locker.
Movie Quote of the Day – True Grit, 2010 (dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
Mattie Ross: I know you can drink whiskey and snort and spit and wallow in filth and bemoan your station. The rest has been braggadocio. They told me you had grit and that is why I came to you.
Movie Quote of the Day – O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Pomade Vendor: I can get the part from Bristol. It’ll take two weeks, here’s your pomade.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Two weeks? That don’t do me no good.
Pomade Vendor: Nearest Ford auto man’s Bristol.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Hold on, I don’t want this pomade. I want Dapper Dan.
Pomade Vendor: I don’t carry Dapper Dan, I carry Fop.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don’t want Fop, goddamn it! I’m a Dapper Dan man!
Pomade Vendor: Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
Movie Quote of the Day – A Serious Man, 2009 (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)
Rabbi Scott: Just look at that parking lot.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Big Lebowski, 1998 (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Dude: They gave the Dude a beeper, so whenever these guys call–
Walter: What if it’s during a game?
The Dude: I told him if it was during league play–
Donny: If what’s during league play?
Walter: Life does not stop and start at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit.
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