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favourite lines

posted 16 years ago by ponypanorama
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What where your favourite lines from this film?

Mine -

*Ornshaw is marrying Danny and Melody and everyone is laughing*

Ornshaw - Shut up! It's not funny, it's serious!

Also, when Ornshaw is trying to read the part of the priest and can't read it so just goes 'Would ya?', then Danny goes 'Yes I would', and Ornshaw goes 'Huh, thought you might!'

But theres so many other great lines so what are you favourite?

Also I have a question, when they are in the classroom and the teacher goes 'The Jewish children may now leave for private study.' And Ornshaw and another boy (I think hes called O'Leary) stand up to go with them, and the teaccher goes, 'O'Leary (?) have you informed the Holy Father of your change in faith.' And then he says to Ornshaw, 'And you Ornshaw, you can wait till after class to go to your __________'

What does he say, I can never quite catch it. Thanks!

[–] ponypanorama 16 years ago

Oh yeah! I LOVE JACK WILD!!!! HES AMAZING!

[–] eeree3 16 years ago

My favorite line was when he was in formation and one of
the teachers says he smells like whiskey and Jack says that
its from cough syrup and the teacher replies still smells
like whiskey it kinda reminded me of a kid I knew in the
7th grade. Jack Wild was really good in the part he played
in the movie its a shame that he is gone.

[–] manhie 16 years ago

My favorite line is Melody: How long is 50 years. Daniel: 150 school terms not including holidays. Melody: Will you love me that long. Daniel: nodded.
Melody: I don't think you will. Daniel: of course, I love you a whole week already.

Sorry to tell you, Jack Wild past away several years ago. He died of lung cancer.

[–] fitrma 16 years ago

As for you Ornshaw, you may rush to your matzos after my lesson.

matzo = jewish food.

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[–] mikekelly38 16 years ago

...but your quote is inaccurate.

Mr Dicks: "Now why are you here, Ornshaw?"
Ornshaw: "Because you invited me, sir."
Mr Dicks: "And why did I invite you, Ornshaw?"
Ornshaw: "Well, because I couldn't translate the Latin, sir."
Mr Dicks: "Why, Ornshaw, why?"
Ornshaw: "Because it's a bloody silly, out-of-date language, do you mean, sir?"
Mr dicks: "Two was it Ornshaw? I think we'll make it four. And why do you think it's a...(pause) silly, out-of-date language, Ornshaw?"
Ornshaw: "Well, because I couldn't speak to a dead Roman even if I knew the bloody lingo, sir."

P.s. The above exchange is my favourite part of the whole film, so please don't think I was patronizing you, I just like quotes to be accurate.

nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit.

[–] mamamiasweetpeaches 15 years ago

You already named my favorite ones. When Ornshaw is marrying them and he yells "SHUT UP! Its not funny! Its SERIOUS!
amd when Daniel says he will take Melody as his bride and Ornshaw says "Yeah, thought ya might" (for some reason that "thought ya might" scene is the scene I remember from the very first time I saw the movie as a kid on TV). Even though Melody and Daniel are nice Ornshaw totally steals the movie!

By the way, when Daniel and Melody are riding away on the trolley Ornshaw yells some stuff at them one of which starts with "and dont forget ..........." I can never make out what he says there. Anyone know???

UPDATE: I just thought of another one: When Melody and her female friend are dancing at the school dance and Daniel asks Ornshaw to dance with the friend so he can dance with melody and Ornshaw says "She looks like she wet herself" LMAO! Too funny!

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[–] waterviola 15 years ago

The line is
"and don't forget to change at Clapham Junction."

Some bits I love:

The headmaster standing in front of the portrait of himself in the exact same pose when he is lecturing Danny and Melody.

Melody doing a double-take when ALL of the kids walk by her carrying goldfish, shortly after she gets hers.

Danny's Mom discovering Danny drawing a nude based on some porno magazine he got at school. As Mom confiscates it she obviously gets a bit of a thrill from it.

I love the description of old folks are "old miseries".

"I don't think I want to dance with you. You don't dance very well."
"What do you mean I don't dance very well?!"
"You dance stupid!"

[–] mamamiasweetpeaches 15 years ago

I just laughed out loud at " you dance stupid!" ...... KICK

I also laugh when I see Ornshaw at the dance with that bow thing around his neck

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[–] manhie 13 years ago

I believe he said to ornshaw, and you ornshaw, you can wait till after class to go to your mass(es). The A sound is heavier with the British accent.

[–] mikekelly38 13 years ago

The Head says Matzos not Masses. This is a joke at Ornshaw's attempt to leave with the Jewish boys. Matzo is unleavened bread eaten by Jews.

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[–] radiokaraoke 9 years ago

Melody: [reading from a tombstone] "Fifty years' happiness." How long's fifty years?

Daniel: A hundred and fifty school terms, not including holidays.

Melody: Will you love me that long?

Daniel: [nods affirmative] Mmm-hmmm.

Melody: I don't think you will.

Daniel: Of course. I've loved you a whole week already, haven't I?

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[–] lombano 9 years ago

Definitely when Melody says to Daniel something like "My friend Muriel, the big one, says you've been telling everyone that you love me. I don't mind it, but..." It's just such a hilarious response to someone else being in love with you, made a bit more incongruous by happening in a cemetery of all places.