Having featured notable father-son conversations the last two weeks and with Mother’s Day upon us, I suggest for next week that we do notable mother-daughter, mother-son, and mother-children (young or adult) conversations in movies.
Per usual, it’s helpful to copy/paste the dialogue from IMDB.
And it’s really helpful if you can find the corresponding video on YouTube.
But don’t sweat it. If you’ve got a good suggestion, but no time to surface the references, that’s fine. Just want the best compilation possible.
So please have at it in comments.
Almost Famous
Anita Miller: "First it was butter then it was sugar and white flour, bacon, eggs, balogna, rock 'n roll, motorcycles. Then! It was celebrating Christmas on a day in September when you knew it wouldn't be commercialized! What else are you gonna ban?"
Elaine Miller: "Honey, you want to rebel against knowledge, I'm trying to give you the cliffnotes on how to live life in this world."
Anita Miller: "We're like nobody else I know!"
Elaine Miller: "I am a college professor. Why can't I teach my own kids? Use me!"
Anita Miller: "Darryl says that you use knowledge to keep me down. He says that I'm a 'Yes' person and you are trying to raise us in a 'No' environment.'
Elaine Miller: "Well, clearly 'No' is a word Darryl doesn't hear much."
Anita Miller: "I can't live here! I hate you! Even William hates you!"
Young William: "I don't hate her."
Anita Miller: "You do hate her! You don't even know the truth."
Elaine Miller: "Honey, don't be a dramaqueen."
Anita Miller: "Feck you!"
Elaine Miller: "Hey!"
Anita Miller: "This is a house of lies!"
Elaine Miller: "Well there it is, your sister used the 'F' word."
Young William: "I think she said 'feck.'"
Elaine Miller: "What's the difference?"
Young William: "The letter 'u.'"
Best video I could find. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRilgDGHxM
Harold and Maude
Mrs. Chasen: I have here, Harold, the forms sent out by the National Computer Dating Service. It seems to me that as you do not get along with the daughters of my friends, this is the best way for you to find a prospective wife.
[Harold starts to interrupt]
Mrs. Chasen: Please, Harold, we have a lot to do and I have to be at the hairdresser's at three.
[she looks over the papers]
Mrs. Chasen: The Computer Dating Service offers you at least three dates on the initial investment. They screen out the fat and ugly, so it is obviously a firm of high standards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULhsGYaIoBw
Terms of Endearment
Emma: Tommy, you be sweet. Be sweet. And stop tryin' to pretend that you hate me. I mean, it's silly.
Tommy: I like you.
Emma: Okay, then will you listen especially close?
Tommy: What?
Emma: You'll listen real hard?
Tommy: I said, what?!
Emma: I know you like me. I know it. For the last year or two you've been pretending that you hate me. I love you very much. I love you as much as I love anybody…as much as I love myself. And in a few years, when I haven't been around to be on your butt about something, or irritating you, you're gonna remember. You'll remember that time when I bought you the baseball glove when you thought we were too broke. Or when…I read you those stories, or, or when I let you goof off instead of mowing the lawn, lots of things like that. And you're gonna realize that you love me. And maybe you're gonna feel bad, because you never told me, but don't! I know that you love me! So don't ever do that to yourself, all right?
Tommy: Okay…
Emma: Okay?
Tommy: I said okay!
Boogie Nights
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Boogie-Nights.html
Didnt manage to copy the dialogue, something about the HTML-codes..
Boogie Nights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmLqtKcQ3r8
Im sorry I didnt manage to publish the dialogue. Something about HTML-codes..?
Anyway, it can be found here:
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Boogie-Nights.html
(Scene 25)
Not sure if this one counts, but here goes…
Norma Bates: No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap, erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds!
Norman Bates: Mother, please…!
Norma Bates: And then what? After supper? Music? Whispers?
Norman Bates: Mother, she's just a stranger. She's hungry, and it's raining out!
Norma Bates: "Mother, she's just a stranger"! As if men don't desire strangers! As if… ohh, I refuse to speak of disgusting things, because they disgust me! You understand, boy? Go on, go tell her she'll not be appeasing her ugly appetite with MY food… or my son! Or do I have tell her because you don't have the guts! Huh, boy? You have the guts, boy?
Norman Bates: Shut up! Shut up!
from PSYCHO (1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, screenplay by Joseph Stefano, based on the novel by Robert Bloch
here's the trailer, couldn't find a clip of that scene online
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdxNmvXusM0&feature=fvsr