{Match the line quoted to the movie it's from. (The clips are clues, though the passages don't include these quotes.) Lines 12, 15 and 18 are subtitled translations, from the German and twice from the French, respectively. Line 11 is a dialogue subtitle from a silent film. Post your guesses in the comment thread below, in fact feel free to post comments on any of the live or archived film discussions on this site.)
1.“The cat’s in the bag and the bag’s in the river.”
2.“There’s a high speed pursuit, we got a shooting and then this execution type deal.”
3.“I’m the only thing that stands between you and darkness and night, son. The other side of me is chaos.”
4. “There’s always room at the top for brains, money or a good pair of titties.”
5. “Shoot then, if it pleasures you.”
6. “A pity he exists.”
7. “So these faked suicides of yours are for your mother’s benefit?”
“No. . . . I would not say benefit.”
8. “Kit’s the most trigger happy person I ever met.”
9. “And what magazines sell best?”
“The ones with ladies on the front covers and no front covers on the ladies.”
10. “Try to break into my house—I ought to blow you away. I got to tell you the truth—the only reason I don’t is ‘cause someone might hear me.”
11. “Can you lend me a rope so I can swing a fellow out where I can get a better shot at him?”
12. “What are they saying?”
“Meat, meat, fresh meat, coming up the river.”
13. “Mister Hickok, that man’s really dead.”
“Got him through the lungs and heart both.”
14. “Success to crime.”
15. “So now white people wait ‘til they’re dead to talk to black folks? Well it’s too late!”
16. “Hospital hallucination scene, take two.”
17. “Mister President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I am saying ten to twenty million dead, tops. Depending on the breaks.”
18. “If we don’t eat. . . we won’t die.”
19. “There’s nothing urgent here. Redundant.”
20. “All right then, who do you like as the killer?”
May 14, 2011
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