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Gerard Depardieu does a lovely Cyrano, but you need subtitles if you don't know French.

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I could see him in the role. But the subtitles would be a distraction for me. The only film version, not counting take-offs, that I've seen was Jose Ferrer's. Not bad, exactly. But not the same as seeing it in person.

If I remember right, we were even in the front row at the play and it was in a small, intimate theater. Actors came down the aisles to come on stage, including the first appearance of Cyrano. The baker's wife very nearly fell out of her dress. And one of the Gascon Cadets died almost at my feet. It was fun.

Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.

Walter: "Defend yourself!"

Hub: " I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN and loved only one woman with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!"

Hub: "We'll see what the man's selling. THEN we shoot him."

"Jerry, enjoy my wife."

"But I wasn't having as nearly as much sex as you were when we were married."

"mmmmmm...i've had better."

"No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There's nothing to be afraid of."

And another line from the edited tv version since there's a whole lot of cursing:

"You see what happens when you have fun with a stranger in the Alps?"

"Pai Mei taught you the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique?"

"Of course he did."

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"Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!"

"Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend."

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"It don't seem real... how he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever... how he's dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger."

"It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."

"Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming."

Russell: Cool! My mom loves that game!

Billy:He called the [poop], poop.

"Voilą! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Mr. Incredible: You mean you killed off real heroes so that you could pretend to be one?

Syndrome: Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that *everyone* can have powers. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super---[chuckles evilly]---no one will be.

"Polar bears cover their noses before they pounce on a seal. How do polar bears know their noses are black? Did they look in the water one day, see their reflection and say, 'Man, I'd be invisible if it wasn't for that thing.'"

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From the best movie I've seen this year:
"Polar bears cover their noses before they pounce on a seal. How do polar bears know their noses are black? Did they look in the water one day, see their reflection and say, 'Man, I'd be invisible if it wasn't for that thing.'"

The Informant!

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I was disappointed when he turned out to be nothing more than a pathological liar.

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But they're the best kind of liars.

The movie's definitely not for everyone, and I think it's gotten mixed reviews. I loved the flick because I read way too much into it: a treatise on American culture/values. I mean, the guy wants to be important, creating a biography that he thinks will impress people and espousing the virtues of doing the right thing when he's really just trying to get as much money as he can.

There's voice overs all through the movie, mostly having nothing to do with what's actually going on at the moment, until near the end of the movie a character asks him, "Why?" and, very softly, unlike the rest of the voice overs, "I don't know."

I think we "don't know" more often than not, and this was the cinematic version of this generation's, "Death of a Salesman".

1st soldier: Pull the other one!

Dr. Hackenbush: That's the most nauseating proposition I ever had.

Chicolini: Oh no, I no leave.

Mrs. Teasdale: But I saw you with my own eyes!

Chicolini: Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?

Radar: No, sir. That's the one he came in.

Colonel Blake: Oh, very good. Come along, my dear.

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS