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BEST of British Movies & Speeches
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Proud to be British, what do you consider a best of British movie or speech
This one I have picked; I consider both, Great British Movie with "a proud to be British" speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVVrZJaN1IU
"The mafia? I've shit 'em!" - Long Good Friday final scene
1980
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Withnail and I.
Funded by a Beatle and full of eccentrics and madness and wit and tabloids and Shakespeare and the Lakes.
Add publicans with the complexions like the inside of a teapot.
And dead eels.
And farming families who aren't like the bucolic evocations from an H.E. Bates novel. |
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From the exchange between Major General Urquhart and his batman Corporal Hncock as things begin to unravel in A Bridge Too Far
Hancock: Tea sir?
Urquhart: I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My plan has been scuppered now the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications have completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?
Hancock: It couldn't hurt Sir. |
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"Do you know what I'd do if I had the whip hand? I'd get all the coppers, governers, posh whores, army officers and members of parliament and I'd stick them up against this wall and let them have it 'cause that's what they'd like to do to blokes like us" - Colin Smith, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
"What I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda" - Arthur Seaton, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"From the exchange between Major General Urquhart and his batman Corporal Hncock as things begin to unravel in A Bridge Too Far
Hancock: Tea sir?
Urquhart: I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My plan has been scuppered now the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications have completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?
Hancock: It couldn't hurt Sir."
epic full of great speeches. gene hackman when they are all debating where it went wrong, nijmagen, the single road. hacknan says"Doesn't matter what it was. When one man says to another, "I know what let's do today, let's play the war game."... everybody dies. |
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WAR starts at Midnight...you laugh at my belly but you don't know how i got it..you point at my mustache but you don't know why i grew it..get out ya jumped up gangster! -- (paraphrase as memory fades)
Roger Livesy
Powell & Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
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By *ittie4UCouple
over a year ago
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Great idea for a thread.
Can only be one clip for me.
From 4min 45sec on this clip sums up so much of what I hope being British is about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dUv5FcyNM0
'It's unforgivable. I lost my temper' |
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