Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)


Wang Chi: You ready, Jack? Jack Burton: I was born ready.

Jack Burton: I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

Jack Burton: Feel pretty good. I'm not, uh, I'm not scared at all. I just feel kind of... feel kind of invincible. Wang Chi: Me, too. I got a very positive attitude about this.
Jack Burton: Good, me too.
Wang Chi: Yeah! [pause] Jack Burton: Is it getting hot in here, or is it just me?

Jack Burton: Ol' Jack always says... what the hell?

Jack Burton: You know what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like this?
Thunder: Who?
Jack Burton: Jack Burton. *Me*!

Jack Burton: Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes."

Jack Burton: Well, ya see, I'm not saying that I've been everywhere and I've done everything, but I do know it's a pretty amazing planet we live on here, and a man would have to be some kind of FOOL to think we're alone in THIS universe.

Jack Burton: Everybody relax, I'm here.

Jack Burton: Tall guy, weird clothes. First you see him, then you don't.

Jack Burton: This is gonna take crackerjack timing, Wang.

Jack Burton: Would you stop rubbing your body up against mine, because I can't concentrate when you do that.

Jack Burton: Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president.

Jack Burton: [tapping on the walls] Two, three feet thick, I'll bet. Probably welded shut from the outside, and covered with brick by now!
Wang Chi: Don't give up, Jack! J
ack Burton: Oh, okay, I won't, Wang! Let's just *chew* our way outta here.

Jack Burton: We really shook the pillars of heaven, didn't we, Wang?

Jack Burton: [pointing to Chinese writing on elevator] What does that say?
Wang Chi: [speaks Chinese] Hell of Boiling Oil.
Jack Burton: You're kidding.
Wang Chi: Yeah, I am. It says Keep Out.

Jack Burton: Son of a bitch must pay!

Wang Chi: That's why the bottle didn't slice. My mind and my spirit are goin' north and south.

Eddie: Well sure it was a war. And anybody that showed up was gonna join Lem Lee in the Hell of Being Cut to Pieces.
Jack Burton: Hell of being what?
Eddie: Chinese have a lot of Hells.

Uncle Chu: What the hell is Gracie Law doing here?
Jack Burton: She can't get enough of me. Gracie: Hah! He wishes.

Jack Burton: I don't get this at all. I thought Lo Pan-
Lo Pan: Shut up, Mr. Burton! You are not brought upon this world to get it!

Jack Burton: This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.

[in a whore house] Jack Burton: Henry Swanson's my name, and excitement's my game.
White Tiger: Cash or charge? J
ack Burton: Oh gosh, cash, I guess. I mean it's not deductible, is it.

Jack Burton: Oh, my god, no. Please! What is that? Don't tell me!
Egg Shen: A guardian. What it sees, Lo Pan knows!

Jack Burton: What does that mean? Huh? "China is here." I don't even know what the hell that means.

Margo: This is just so shocking. I mean I must just be so monumentally naive.
Eddie: You are.

Lo Pan: And now, my beloved disciples. The moment of truth... the needle of love.

Lo Pan: What does it mean? Two girls with green eyes. After all these years.
Gracie: You bastards, unchain me. You're not gonna get away with this. Where's Lo Pan?
Lo Pan: [speaks Chinese] This one has fire as well!

Thunder: Play your cards right... you live to talk about it!

Jack Burton: Which Lo Pan? Little old basket case on wheels or the ten foot tall roadblock?

Egg Shen: Can see things no one else can see. Do things no one else can do.
Jack Burton: Real things?
Egg Shen: As real as Lo Pan!
Jack Burton: Hey, what more can a guy ask for?
Egg Shen: Oh, the six-demon bag!
Jack Burton: Terrific, a six-demon bag. Sensational. What's in it, Egg?
Egg Shen: Wind, fire, all that kind of thing!

Jack Burton: [speaking to Lo Pan] Are you crazy... Is that your problem?

Gracie: [Jack starts up the Pork Chop Express] What was that?
Jack Burton:6.9 on the Richter scale!

Jack Burton: We made it. Holy shit, we made it!

Jack Burton: I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why're you dressed like that?

Jack Burton: You got a tongue, Dave. Ask her yourself.

Gracie: [on their way to confront Lo Pan] Do you have a gun, I hope?
Jack Burton: I have a knife.
Gracie: A knife? This guy's twelve feet tall!
Jack Burton: Seven. Hey, don't worry, I can handle him.

Lo Pan: You never could beat me, Egg Shen.
Egg Shen: Lo Pan is down there.
Jack Burton: Down where?
Egg Shen: Where is the universe?

Escape from New York - Frasi celebri

Escape from New York (1981)

Bob Hauk: You go in, find the President, bring him out in less than 24 hours, and you're a free man.
Snake Plissken: Bullshit!
Bob Hauk: I'm making you an offer.
Snake Plissken: Get a new president.
Bob Hauk: Is that your answer?
Snake Plissken: I'm thinking about it.
Bob Hauk: Think hard. We're still at war. We need him alive.
Snake Plissken: I don't give a fuck about your war...or your president.

Bob Hauk: I'm not a fool, Plissken!
Snake Plissken: Call me "Snake."

Hauk: Plissken? Plissken, what are you doing?
Snake Plissken: Playing with myself! I'm going in.

Bob Hauk: Remember, once you're inside you're on your own.
Snake Plissken: Oh, you mean I can't count on you?
Bob Hauk: No.
Snake Plissken: Good!

The Duke: They sent in their best man, and when we roll across the 59th Street bridge tomorrow, on our way to freedom, we're going to have their best man leading the way - from the neck up! [cheering erupts]
The Duke: On the hood of my car!

Bob Hauk: You going to kill me, Snake?
Snake Plissken: Not now, I'm too tired. [pause]
Snake Plissken: Maybe later.

Romero: You touch me... he dies. If you're not in the air in thirty seconds... he dies. You come back in... he dies.
Romero: [Romero takes a package out of his shirt and unwraps it to reveal the President's middle finger, complete with ring] Twenty seconds.
Hauk: I'm ready to talk
Romero: Nineteen. Eighteen.
Hauk: What do you want?
Romero: Seventeen. Sixteen.
Hauk: Let's go. Let's go!

President: [shouting] You're the Duke! Ha ha!!
President: [fires machine gun at the Duke]
President: [shouting] You're the Duke of New York!
President: [fires machine gun at the Duke]
President: [quietly] You're...A-number one

Nothing is written

Nothing is written
In a couple of hours, it will start all over again,
The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces,
And the moon will boot up on the black screen of the sky,
humping toward God-knows-what,
And we, with our pinched mouths and pinched eyes, the next morning
Will see its foot print like a slice of snow
Torn off over Mt.Caribou,
Looking for somewhere else to be born.
CHARLES WRIGHT

François Pinault - Mapping the Studio

François PinaultFrançois Pinault is a billionaire French businessman who runs the retail company PPR. He is a friend of former French President Jacques Chirac. His holding company Artemis S.A., owns (or owned), among others, Converse shoes, Samsonite luggage, Château Latour, the Vail Ski Resort in Colorado, and Christie's auction house. Artemis also owns Executive Life (now Aurora Life) in California, which was sued by policy holders when the company failed. Pinault owns one of the biggest collections of contemporary art worldwide. On the magazine ArtReview's 2006 list of most powerful people in modern art, he was ranked in first place. In 2006 he obtained the ownership of Palazzo Grassi in Venice to display the collection.

Mapping the Studio"Mapping the Studio" is a show in which the collection of François Pinault is the basis of the exhibition. Taking place on June 6, 2009, it is coorganized by the curators Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami. It includes 300 works from over 50 artists, including Robert Gober, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Mike Kelley, Cady Noland, Sigmar Polke, and Charles Ray. The presentation reflects Pinault’s over 30-year commitment to postwar art and his devotion to a group of contemporary artists whose works he has collected in depth.

What I believe - J. G. Ballard

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

I believe in my own obsessions, in the beauty of car crash, in the peace of the submerged forest, in the excitements of the deserted holiday beach, in the elegance of automobile graveyards, in the mystery of multistorey car parks, in the poetry of abandoned hotels.

I believe in the forgotten runways of Wake Island, pointing toward the Pacifics of our imaginations.

I libri principali dello scrittore sono: La mostra delle atrocità, probabilmente il suo capolavoro, dopo tre anni pubblica Crash in cui riprende i temi del romanzo precedente e dal quale è stato tratto un film per la regia di David Cronenberg. Abbandonato il tema della fantascienza scrive il romanzo L'impero del sole dalla forte componente autobiografica. Il suo ultimo romanzo è Regno a venire (Kingdom Come), una opera di critica sociale dove parla di consumismo, della società tardo capitalistica, dei mass media.

The Futurism

Futurism – The Scuderie del Quirinale, in conjunction with the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre George Pompidou in Paris and with the Tate Modern in London, is devoting a exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the Manifesto of Futurism published by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Paris.

Blade Runner

I've seen things you people

wouldn't believe. Attack ships

on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

I watched c-beams glitter in the

dark near the Tannhauser Gate.

All thoese...moments will be lost...

in time, like tears...in rain.

Time to die.

Androide Roy Batty

Blade Runner, 1982