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selenakFive favorite (or most memorable) lines of dialogue.
Five? Only five? I'm a Joss Whedon fan. And a Blake's 7 fan. And - okay. Five.
1) "I can't be the first person who has trouble taking you seriously, can I?" Arvin Sloane, to McKennas Cole (Quentin Tarantino) while the later is giving him a typical Tarantino-style pop culture rant while torturing him; Alias. What makes the scene is that Sloane isn't a tough action hero; in fact, he's the villain of the show. It's not that he doesn't feel fear and pain, either. (He shows them later once the ordeal is over, but to his frenemy, Jack Bristow, and only to Jack. Certainly not to Cole.) But with that once sentence, he gains the upper hand in a situation where the odds are completely against him.
2) "Also, I can kill you with my brain." It's the "also" that makes it; River Tam, in Firefly, being hilarious and scary and sincere in the way Whedonian creations can be.
3) "Did it occur to you, mother, that it might be you they hate, rather than me?" "Nothing occurs to you that didn't occur to me first. That is the affliction with which I live." Tiberius and Livia in I, Claudius. Livia: still ruling supreme among ruthless, cruel and witty matriarchs.
4) Darla, pressing a cross into Angel's flesh and burning him with it: "No matter how good a boy you are, God doesn't want you!" He backs off. "But I still do." In one sentence, you have the Darla/Angel (without - us) relationship and my favourite arc until Connor came back from Quor'toth. And it was a last minute rewrite of the original script, too. Darla in Angel: The Series.
5) "I never wanted you to… I remember when you first arrived on Babylon 5. You were so full of life... innocent. I was not kind to you. I treated you poorly. I think that I did that because I was... envious of you. Envious that you had come so far and yet were still... innocent, in your way. You still believed. I, on the other hand... I cannot tell you that your pain will ever go away. I cannot tell you that you will ever forget his face. I can only tell you that it was necessary. You may have helped to save our people. You did a hard thing... but you still have your heart, and your heart is a good one. You would not be in such great pain otherwise. It means there is still hope for you. And for that... I find I still envy you." - Londo Mollari to Vir Cotto, in Babylon 5. Londo has so many funny lines, and so many moving lines; it's incredibly hard to pick one bit of dialogue and interaction. But this is my choice, because the scene it is from is outstanding in many ways. Through a variety of circumstances, Vir has just killed for the first time. The man he killed was one of the vilest villains of the show, but Babylon 5 still doesn't treat this as an easy thing, and shows the aftermath on Vir, whom Londo finds drunk. Londo's attempt to comfort Vir here sums up the depth of emotion between them and the self awareness of Londo in one swoop.
Five? Only five? I'm a Joss Whedon fan. And a Blake's 7 fan. And - okay. Five.
1) "I can't be the first person who has trouble taking you seriously, can I?" Arvin Sloane, to McKennas Cole (Quentin Tarantino) while the later is giving him a typical Tarantino-style pop culture rant while torturing him; Alias. What makes the scene is that Sloane isn't a tough action hero; in fact, he's the villain of the show. It's not that he doesn't feel fear and pain, either. (He shows them later once the ordeal is over, but to his frenemy, Jack Bristow, and only to Jack. Certainly not to Cole.) But with that once sentence, he gains the upper hand in a situation where the odds are completely against him.
2) "Also, I can kill you with my brain." It's the "also" that makes it; River Tam, in Firefly, being hilarious and scary and sincere in the way Whedonian creations can be.
3) "Did it occur to you, mother, that it might be you they hate, rather than me?" "Nothing occurs to you that didn't occur to me first. That is the affliction with which I live." Tiberius and Livia in I, Claudius. Livia: still ruling supreme among ruthless, cruel and witty matriarchs.
4) Darla, pressing a cross into Angel's flesh and burning him with it: "No matter how good a boy you are, God doesn't want you!" He backs off. "But I still do." In one sentence, you have the Darla/Angel (without - us) relationship and my favourite arc until Connor came back from Quor'toth. And it was a last minute rewrite of the original script, too. Darla in Angel: The Series.
5) "I never wanted you to… I remember when you first arrived on Babylon 5. You were so full of life... innocent. I was not kind to you. I treated you poorly. I think that I did that because I was... envious of you. Envious that you had come so far and yet were still... innocent, in your way. You still believed. I, on the other hand... I cannot tell you that your pain will ever go away. I cannot tell you that you will ever forget his face. I can only tell you that it was necessary. You may have helped to save our people. You did a hard thing... but you still have your heart, and your heart is a good one. You would not be in such great pain otherwise. It means there is still hope for you. And for that... I find I still envy you." - Londo Mollari to Vir Cotto, in Babylon 5. Londo has so many funny lines, and so many moving lines; it's incredibly hard to pick one bit of dialogue and interaction. But this is my choice, because the scene it is from is outstanding in many ways. Through a variety of circumstances, Vir has just killed for the first time. The man he killed was one of the vilest villains of the show, but Babylon 5 still doesn't treat this as an easy thing, and shows the aftermath on Vir, whom Londo finds drunk. Londo's attempt to comfort Vir here sums up the depth of emotion between them and the self awareness of Londo in one swoop.
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Date: 2008-09-06 06:57 am (UTC)And # five just makes me sniffle.
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Date: 2008-09-06 07:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-06 09:35 am (UTC)But I don't think there's a single scene with Vir that I don't want to hug him...
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Date: 2008-09-06 11:44 am (UTC)