Famous Lines – Answer Key

01) “We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t, and we’re slowly learning that fact, and we’re very very pissed off.”

Title: Fight Club

Year: 1999

Director: David Fincher

Plot: An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression. Well, that’s just the beginning…

Lead Roles: Edward Norton (The Narrator), Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden)  and Helena Bonham Carter (Marla Singer)

Trivia: Tyler Durden  was originally going to recite a workable recipe for home-made explosives (as he does in the novel). But in the interest of public safety, the filmmakers decided to substitute fictional recipes for the real ones.

In the short scene when Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are drunk and hitting golf balls, they really are drunk, and the golf balls are sailing directly into the side of the catering truck.

In the scene where Tyler is giving an inspirational speech to the Fight Club members, he says “We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars.” Right as he says “rock star” at 1:11:00, he looks specifically at Jared Leto’s character. Jared Leto formed the band ’30 Seconds to Mars’ in 1998. Their last album went platinum.

Free Hugs (Against Prejudice)

Bricklayer’s Accident (true story)

Dear Sir:

I am writing in response to your request for additional information in Block #3 of the accident reporting form. I put “Poor Planning” as the cause of my accident. You asked for a fuller explanation and I trust the following details will be sufficient. I am a bricklayer by trade. On the day of the accident, I was working alone on the roof of a new six-storey building. When I completed my work, I found that I had some bricks left over which when weighed later were found to weigh 240 lbs. Rather than carry the bricks down by hand, I decided to lower them in a barrel by using a pulley which was attached to the side of the building at the sixth floor. Securing the rope at ground level, I went up to the roof, swung the barrel out and loaded the bricks into it. Then I went down and untied the rope, holding it tightly to insure a slow descent of the 240 lbs of bricks. You will note on the accident reporting form that my weight is 135 lbs. Due to my surprise at being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go off the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rapid rate up the side of the building. In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel which was now proceeding downward at an equally impressive speed. This explains the fractured skull, minor abrasions and the broken collarbone, as listed in Section 3, accident reporting form. Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley which I mentioned in Paragraph 2 of this correspondence. Fortunately by this time I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold tightly to the rope, in spite of the excruciating pain I was now beginning to experience. At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of bricks hit the ground and the bottom fell out of the barrel. Now devoid of the weight of the bricks, the barrel weighed approximately 50 lbs. I refer you again to my weight. As you might imagine, I began a rapid descent down the side of the building. In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming up. This accounts for the two fractured ankles, broken tooth and severe lacerations of my legs and lower body. Here my luck began to change slightly. The encounter with the barrel seemed to slow me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell into the pile of bricks and fortunately only three vertebrae were cracked. I am sorry to report, however, as I lay there on the pile of bricks, in pain, unable to move and watching the empty barrel six stories above me, I again lost my composure and presence of mind and let go off the rope.

Are you afraid of heights?

If you fancy a dip in this pool, you’ll need a head for heights – it’s 55 storeys up. But swimming to the edge won’t be quite as risky as it looks. While the water in the infinity pool seems to end in a sheer drop, it actually spills into a catchment area where it is pumped back into the main pool. At three times the length of an Olympic pool and 650ft up, it is the largest outdoor pool in the world at that height. It features in the impressive, boat-shaped ‘SkyPark’ perched atop the three towers that make up the world’s most expensive hotel, the £4billion Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore.

Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)

I am the escaped one

I am the escaped one,
After I was born
They locked me up inside me
But I left.
My soul seeks me,
Through hills and valley,
I hope my soul
Never finds me.

Fernando Pessoa (1888 – 1935)

Famous Lines

Can you identify the lines below? From what movies were they taken?

01) “We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t, and we’re slowly learning that fact, and we’re very very pissed off.”

02) “You get to know a lot butchering meat. We’re made up of the same things -flesh and blood, tissue, organs. I love to work with pigs. The nearest thing in nature to the flesh of a man is the flesh of a pig.”

03) “Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh? Didn’t want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh? Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why? Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit? Hah? What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot ’em a mile away? You’ve gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. C’mere… You’re taking this very personal.”

04) “See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you’re gonna start doing some thinking on your own, and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are 2 certainties in life. One, don’t do that. And two you dropped 150 grand on a fucking education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.”

05) “The first night’s the toughest. No doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born. Skin burning, and half blind from that delousing shit they put on ya. And when they put you in that cell, and those bars slam home. That’s when you know it’s for real. Whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left, but all the time in the world to think about it.”

Commonly Confused Words – Part02

Capital (noun): Money

Capital (adjective): Most important

Capitol: Government building

Complement: Match

Compliment: Praise

Continual: Constantly

Continuous: Uninterrupted

Decent: Well-mannered

Descent: Decline, fall

Disburse: To pay

Disperse: To spread out

Disinterested: No strong opinion either way

Uninterested: Don’t care

Elicit: To stir up

Illicit: Illegal

Eminent: Well known

Imminent: Pending

Envelop: Surround

Envelope: Paper wrapping for a letter

Farther: Beyond

Further: Additional

Immigrate: Enter a new country

Emigrate: Leave a country

Loose: Not tight

Lose: Unable to find

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