Friday Favourites on a Saturday

I know that this is a day late, which isn't really very good for a new series of posts, but better late than never right ;)

This week's favourite comes from a film that I've loved for a really long time. It comes across as a superficial teen rom-com (and let's face it, they'd probably never deny that), but I love the fast-paced dialogue that shows that underneath the shallow-ness of the characters, there is a great depth of intelligence, even if, at time, the characters themselves might not be fully aware of the irony of their words!

Cher: Would you say I'm selfish?

Dionne: No, not to you face.

Murray: Woman, lend me fi' dollars.

Dionne: Murray, I have you repeatedly not to call me "woman".

Murray: Excuse me, "Ms. Dionne".

Dionne: Thank you.

Murray: My street slang in an increasingly valid form of expression. Most of the feminine pronouns do have mocking, but not necessarily misogynistic undertone.

Cher: I want to do something for humanity.

Josh: How about sterilization?

Cher: Miss Stoeger, I would just like to say that physical education in this school is a disgrace. I mean, standing in line for forty minutes is hardly aerobically effective. I doubt I've worked off the calories in a stick of Carefree gum.

Heather: It's just like Hamlet said, "To thine own self be true."
Cher: Hamlet didn't say that.
Heather: I think I remember Hamlet accurately.
Cher: Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.

Josh: You look like Pippi Longstocking.
Cher: Well,  you look like Forrest Gump. Who's Pippi Longstocking?
Josh: Someone Mel Gibson never played.

This post is dedicated to Brittany Murphy

1977 - 2009