Opening and Closing
Match each of the movie opening lines below (listed 1 through 12) to its closing lines (listed A through L) that follow. (It's easier if you print it out first.) |
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| Opening Lines |
| 1. |
"Alright Curly, enough's enough. You can't eat the Venetian blinds, I just had them installed on Wednesday." |
| 2. |
"It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon from the Castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, Defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England!" |
| 3. |
"Doug. Honey, are you alright? You're dreaming. Was it about Mars?" |
| 4. |
"I know we haven't been together that long, but these last ten months have just been the happiest of my life. You're not only the person I love, you're also my best friend, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?" |
| 5. |
"Hello?"
"Sonny, it's your dad. You asleep?"
"No. Hey, man, I was exercising..." |
| 6. |
"So this is the world and there are almost 6 billion people on it. When I was a kid there were three. It's hard to keep up." |
| 7. |
"Mommy got sick. It happened just like that. There was nothing anybody could do. It isn't fair, there's no reason. But if we start asking why, we'll go crazy." |
| 8. |
"I'm LOST!!! Where's the line? What do I do?" |
| 9. |
"Henslowe, do you know what happens to a man who doesn't pay his debts? His boots catch fire!" |
| 10. |
"Tommy! Hurry up, you're going to be late for school again!"
(running into door) "Oooo. Son of a--" |
| 11. |
"Three minutes. This is it, ground zero. Would you like to say a few words to
mark the occasion?"
"Mmmmphf...mmmmmphf..."
(Voiceover) "With a gun barrel between your teeth you speak
only in vowels." |
| 10. |
"...Did you hear that?
"Hear what?"
"Are you sure this line is clean?"
"Yeah, of course I'm sure."
"I better go." |
| Closing Lines |
| a. |
"Is that the guy with the old balls?"
"I don't think you're supposed to say balls, okay? Testicles" |
| b. |
"You met me at a very strange time in my life." |
| c. |
"It will be a love story, for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be Viola." |
| d. |
"I just had a terrible thought. What if this is a dream?"
"Well then, kiss me quick before you wake up." |
| e. |
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown." |
| f. |
"But I am flying, and from way up here you all look like little ants. Auf Widersehen." |
| g. |
"I'm trying to do everything you'd be doing and so far it's going pretty good. I just want to tell you I still love you, I sure miss you a lot. Oooo. Son of a-- That's gonna leave a mark." |
| h. |
"Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I succeeded, but I love my wife, I love my life, and I wish you my kind of success." |
| i. |
"We better go. Shall we?"
"Sam... It's nice to meet you." |
| j. |
"I'm going to hang up this phone and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and control, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible." |
| k. |
"You have another question? Sure. I got one question for you. It's 'Can you deal with that?'" |
| l. |
"Yes, they're the ones. I'm sure."
"Don't let any of them go through."
"That's them. Yes."
"Put him in the van." |
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