Narratives
What movies do these voice-over narration excerpts come from? |
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"This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This is my life. I'm 42 years old. In less than a year, I'll be dead. Of course, I don't know that yet and in a way, I'm dead already. Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the high point of my day. It's all downhill from here." |
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"...This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence." |
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"I was the luckiest kid in the world. I could go anywhere. I could do anything. I knew everybody and everybody knew me. Wiseguys would pull up and Tuddy would toss me their keys and let me park their Cadillacs." |
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"Meet Charlie. Helpful dad, upstanding citizen, and an 18-year veteran of the greatest law enforcement agency in the land: the Rhode Island State Police." |
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"Sydney Barringer jumps from the ninth floor rooftop. His parents argue three stories below. Her accidental shotgun blast hits Sydney in the stomach as he passes the arguing sixth floor window. He is killed instantly, but continues to fall, only to find, five stories below, a safety net installed three days prior for a set of window washers that would've broken his fall and saved his life -- if not for the hole in his stomach. So Fay Barringer was charged with the murder of her son, and Sydney Barringer noted as an accomplice in his own death. And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator, that this is not just 'something that happened.' This cannot be 'one of those things.' This, please, cannot be that. And for what I would like to say, I can't. This was not just a matter of chance. These strange things happen all the time." |
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"Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." |
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"Harry has a colleague, a monster of a man -- Barry the Baptist. The Baptist got his name by drowning people for Hatchet. Barry makes sure the administrative side of the business runs harmoniously." |
| 8. |
"...Only, I didn't say 'fudge.' I said the word. The big one. The queen mother of dirty words. The f, dash, dash, dash word. It was all over. I was dead." |
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"She was nice. Nice manners, nice grades, nice looking. She was so nice, in fact, that she wouldn't let me put my hand underneath or even on top of her bra. Attack and defense. Invasion and repulsion. It was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex. They were rightfully ours, and we wanted them back." |
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"In the afternoon, we would walk with him while he unwound between services. He almost always chose a path along the Big Blackfoot, which we considered our family river." |
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"...Sometimes there's a man...Sometimes there's a man...Wow, I lost my train of thought here. But -- ah hell, I done introduced him enough..." |
| 12. |
"If he won, he'd be the first American world champion in history. If he lost, he'd just be another patzer from Brooklyn. On the 40th move of the 21st game, he countered Spassky's bishop to king-6 with a pawn to rook-4. And it was all over." |
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