The final speach
Hi! Can someone help me find that last Michelle's monologue by the car, please? Where she finaly explains i realises that she loves him? Tnx!
shareMichelle Pfiffer - "I want to go to Chow Funs"
Bruce Willis - "I thought we agreed we couldn't really talk at Chow Funs"
M - "I know"
B - "Are you saying Chow Funs because you can't face telling the kids? Because if that's why you're saying Chow Funs, don't say Chow Funs"
M - "That's not why I'm saying chow Funs, I'm saying Chow Funs because we're an us. There's a history here, and histories don't happen overnight. In Mesopotamia or Ancient Troy there are cities built on top of other cities, but I don't want another city, I like this city. I know what kind of mood your in when you wake up by which eyebrow is higher, and you know I'm a little quiet in the morning and compensate accordingly, that's a dance you perfect over time. And it's hard, it's much harder than I thought it would be, but there's more good than bad and you don't just give up!"
"And it's not for the sake of the children, but God they're great kids aren't they? And we made them, I mean think about that! It's like there were no people there, and then there were people and they grew, and an an an I won't be able to say to some stranger Josh has your hands or remember how Erin threw up at the Lincoln Memorial"
"And I'll try to relax, let's face it, anybody is going to have traits that get on your nerves, I mean, why shouldn't it be your annoying traits, and I know I'm no day at the beach, but I do have a good sense of direction so I can at least find the beach, which isn't a weakness of yours, it's a strength of mine" (tears)
"And God your a good friend and good friends are hard to find. Charlotte said that in Charlottes Web and I love how you read that to Erin and you take on the voice of Wilber the Pig with such dedication even when your bone tired. That speaks volumes about character!" (sobbing now)
"And ultimately, isn't that what it comes down too? What a person is made of? That girl in the pin helmet is still here 'bee boo bee boo' I didn't even know she existed until you and I'm afraid if you leave I may never see her again, even though I said at times you beat her out of me, isn't that the paradox? Haven't we hit the essential paradox? Give and take, push and pull, the yen the yang. The best of times, the worst of times!"
"I think Dickens said it best, 'He could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean', but, doesn't really apply here does it? What I'm trying to say is, I'm saying Chow Funs because, I love you"
Bruce Willis, running to the car, jumping up and down ....
"Did you hear that kids?!?! Mom wants to go to chow Funs!"
Thanks for posting it! Reading that made me cry again... I loved this movie.
shareaww just saw the movie two weeks ago and i loved it and this quote puts me in tears.
shareAfter 11 years of marriage, I separated in Summer 2000, divorced in Winter 2000, and saw the movie on DVD around that time.
It always pissed me off.
It was like a story where everything gets wrapped up neatly in the last chapter, only fooling the people who have never actually been in the situation depicted. Like teens watching a slasher movie, laughing, enjoying yet never even grasping what it is to lose someone you love, watch someone murdered.
This movie was painful. Not because it was poorly made, acted or directed. Not because it deals with divorce, but because it leaves you stupidly thinking that any split up can have a happy ending.
They don't all have happy endings.
Some marriages were wrong to begin with. And you don't realize it until way too late.
Believe it or not, some people who have divorced end up back together... I know because my friend's parents split more than 5 years ago and a year later they remarried. Unfortunately, most divorces don't end that way, my parents' divorce has been final for 6 years. The movie is not necessarily duping people into thinking that happy endings are in store for every divorce, it's just presenting a hopeful idea that we all (well... some/most) wish was true... it doesn't mean we believe it... it just gives us a feeling of hope.
shareHope.
Easy word, complex emotion.
After 23 years of marriage, on December 8, 2001, Barbara died. Hope, however did not.
Each of our lives can be inspired by our parents, our friends, our lovers, and why not the movies we see?
"The Story Of Us" is our story. We write it as we live it and draw truth from whatever spring we drink from.
I enjoyed this movie. I rejoice in love! My hope for a future lived in love continues and "hooray" for all our stories that give us hope! ........ G.
Captxun:
It isn't that the movie wants you think that ALL marriages can work out in the end. It is a movie that makes you sit down, figure out the problems, think of all the times, and figure out for yourself if the good times outweigh the bad times. It is a movie that makes you think, understand, and fully consider life if you simply let go of a marriage.
Most marriages end because the people in them stop communicating. I can attest to this fact. My DH and I have been together for about 20 years now. In those 20 years, we came close to divorce three times. Thankfully, we had the commonsense to get over the fighting and yelling at each other long enough to sit down and think about the things we did right instead of the things we did wrong. In the end, the right overshadowed the wrong. We realized we did love each other. He was and is my best friend. While we do have our problems and I annoy him as much as he annoys me, we are an US. We are a family and families have problems. It is sticking together through the good and the bad, the sickness and the health, the hard times and the good times that makes it all work. It's worth it if both of you remember why you got together in the first place. It's worth it some times. And when it is worth it, there is nothing better.
As much as my DH pisses me off at times (and vice versa), I love him. I loved him the first time I saw him. I loved him the day I married him. I love him when we had our children. I loved him from the beginning and will until the end regardless if we remain married or not. He is my best friend and he is a terrific father even if he can be a royal pain in the a$$ at times. That's marriage. You can't give up on it. It takes compromise and finding a solution or way to co-exist. It's hard work but if you put in the time, it is worth it in the end. If it were easy, it would not be so memorable or precious.
The things we want the most are the hardest to achieve and attain.
Paisley
This speech saved my marriage. My husband cheated on me, and I should have wanted to leave him and I couldn't. I couldn't and I couldn't explain why. Until this movie...which came out right in the middle of all this sh*t going on in our marriage, and it explained exactly why I didn't want to walk away. We just had our 30th anniversary...and this is still the reason I've stayed. I just came to realize that, while my marriage was really f'ed up, my family was still amazing. And they still are. And they're worth fighting to stay together for.
It's the shared memories...who the hell else would ever care, much less understand about the time my son lost his baseball glove and we found it in the fridge or the story of my daughter and her candy cane. See...they mean nothing to you even reading this. But that's all I have to say and we're both splitting our sides in laughter.
That's worth fighting to stay together for. It's been the hardest journey of my life, but I don't regret it.
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I loved your post. I also watch this whenever my husband and I aren't getting along. I always cry by the end!
shareYou're an idiot to stay with someone who cheated on you. You guys divorce yet?
shareCaptxunderpants, I am sorry that you had such a terrible experience, and I know that bad endings to relationships are becoming more common. But just as you said that not all splits have happy endings, not all splits end unhappily.
I have been married 15 years, and this movie very accurately reflects my marriage -- a continuous rollercoaster of ups and downs with a serious crisis that almost resulted in our divorce. But when I had to make the decision about whether to stay or go, the way I felt was perfectly reflected by Michelle Pfiffer's words in that final speech. Although I was incredibly pissed off at my husband (that's an understatement) I still loved him and our life we had built together. And although I had said, very naively before I was married, that I would leave any man who did what he did, I couldn't do it -- and the final speech sumed up prefectly why I couldn't leave him. Yes, most marriages that end unhappily were mistakes right from the beginning, but I don't think this movie addresses those marriages. It addresses the marriages that are right from the beginning and are worth fighting for when you inevitably hit the rough patches. And that is why I appreciate this movie so much, because I can't remember hearing this message in a Hollywood movie before.
My parents went through the same kind of "7-year-itch" thing...but after about 15. They sat my sister and me down and talked to us about them separating. After about a year of them really, truly working on it and realizing they really did love each other, they were stronger than ever and remained that way until my mom died young.
They're not saying that all marriages can be saved - or should be. This movie showed something different - that even people who are meant to be together can get put off-track by kids, jobs - life.
It's meant to be a romantic movie...but dramatic at the same time and was VERY realistic. Not all marriages should happen, but not all are meant to end in the same respect.
The biggest problem in their marriage was that Bruces character was always taking things not seriously enough which meant Michelle's character had to be serious and that difference caused the problems in their marriage. It is best described by the when she is talking about Harold and the magic crayon
In anny case even though this was the case it got sorted in the end because they realised the probs werre caused becos they were thinking about themselvews only ....it was when rthey thought about themselves as an us (a unit ) that they were able to go past their hurts...which i think is the point of the movie.
Even the titel supports that
if it were up to me I'd chose to speak like Humphrey Bogart, but....it isn't