atonement + cinematography
(requested by eriklehnhserr)
Tag: movies
If I die first, and I almost certainly will, you will be my sole heir. Thereâs not much in the kitty, except a set of ivory-backed hairbrushes and my library of romantic poetry, but when the time comes, these will be yours. Along with whatever we havenât already spent on whores and whiskey.
I don’t get it. Did my hair get flat? Did I stumble into some bad lighting? What’s wrong with me?
So, okay. Like right now, for example, the Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, “What about the strain on our resources?“ But it’s like, when l had this garden party for my father’s birthday, right? l said RSVP because it was a sit down dinner. But people came that, like, did not RSVP. So, l was like totally bugging. l had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, squish in extra place settings, but by the end of the day it was, like, the more the merrier. And so, if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians. And in conclusion, may l please remind you that it does not say "RSVP” on the Statue of Liberty. Thank you very much.
Amelie has a strange feeling of absolute harmony. It’s a perfect moment. A soft light, a scent in the air, the quiet murmur of the city. A surge of love, an urge to help mankind overcomes her.
Quite frankly, I didn’t even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bullshit. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn’t believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they’re using you guys as canaries. And, in theory, if bin Laden isn’t there, you can sneak away and no one will be the wiser. But bin Laden is there. And you’re going to kill him for me. – Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Dear Diary, my teen-angst bullshit now has a body count.
why didn’t this performance earn an oscar
“I knew it was a marvelous part, but I never cared for Scarlett. I couldn’t find anything of myself in her, except for one sentence. The odd thing is that they would cut it out in the various rewriting that went on, but I always fought to have it put back. It was the only thing in the character that I could take hold of. It’s in the scene after Frank’s funeral when Scarlett gets drunk and tells Rhett how glad she is that her mother is dead and can’t see her. ‘She brought me up to be kind and thoughtful and ladylike, just like her, and I’ve been such a disappointment.’ I liked her then for her honesty.”
Let me tell you something. There’s no nobility in poverty. I’ve been a poor man, and I’ve been a rich man. And I choose rich every fucking time.