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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:16:30 GMT -5
Well, let's see... most of my favorite quotes have already been mentioned. I like it when Brandt says "Why do they keep these animals? What do they- do they eat 'em?" I thought his ignorance was pretty funny. Extraordinary funny! And also another proof why he's far away from reaching Preston's professionalism as a Cleric. Even if a Cleric is not supposed to feel, he must still know his adversaries so he can fight them properly. Brandt has a long way to go still.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:19:27 GMT -5
It's not a line as such, but the little grin Preston gives DuPont's growling bodygaurd before he grabs a Katana and unleashes hell is wonderful. And the casual expression on his face seconds later when he's stood calm amidst a pile of bodies, followed by the "Don't just sit there, get him!" look Dupont gives Brandt is all pure class and very, very funny without ever a word being spoken. Fully agree! The look on John's face, especially after he has finished Brandt off & he makes that lovely pose with his sword, is priceless! That says it all! Some of the best dialogue spoken is spoken in silence! EQ is no exception. It's the eyes that do the talking.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:23:22 GMT -5
One of my favorites that I don't think has been mentioned is when Preston says "I'm coming" then shoots the screen. That actually made me stand up and scream I was so excited. This line is awsome! All cliché of course, but who cares? And, once again, that determined look on John's face is priceless. I sure wouldn't want to be his enemy!
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:24:59 GMT -5
"Maybe I'm just better," Preston, in reply to Brandt. John Preston being humble & yet not! Love it! ;D
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:25:59 GMT -5
I'm temped to say : The whole script Good choice!!!
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:27:30 GMT -5
I wish I had the "shooting script" for EQ as well as the "draft script." For everyone waiting for me to finish...its slow go. The 54 pages are all scanned and all aligned. Now I have to go through each page individually and remove the blotches, enhance the letters, and reformat them so they don't take up as much memory (also to load faster.) Anyway...my goal is to have them completed by Wednesday or Thursday... I'll be looking forward to this, Jen. Take your time.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:30:39 GMT -5
That quote is so simple, yet so powerful. I love that scene as well. I really like when Christian knocks Brandt's mask off.quote] That is also a little hint of Brandt's final demise! If he hadn't been wearing a mask & John had had a real sword in this moment, the same thing that later does happen would have happened here too! An interesting, little detail! No totally uncommon in action films, sometimes they even say how it will end very early in the film & then you have no clue until it does occurr.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:32:11 GMT -5
Mary: "News bulletin. I'm a Sense Offender. I don't hang around much with Cleric." Wonderful quote! It's great to see Mary being ironic as well.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:34:54 GMT -5
DuPont: "Are you PLAYING with me, Cleric?!" ;D I can't help but to find this whole scene hilarious, even if that is not what it's supposed to be. But John is trying to hide that he's feeling & that he knows more than what he's supposed to while DuPont to the brink of foolishness almost reveals that he's feeling too. These are two such wonderful contradictions happening at once that the irony is all there in the seriousness.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 3:57:43 GMT -5
I have so many myself, I hope you can bare with me. Here goes, on no order what so ever: TEXTNo. Not without incident! I asume you dream, Preston. Remember me! Are you playing with me, Cleric!? ;D I'm coming! You really should learn to knock. ;D The first thing you learn about emotion is that it has its price. A complete paradox. But without restrain, without control, emotion is chaos. Captain, I'm asking you one last time. Don't do this! I think in the end, it'll be better if you have it. I promised you that I would bring you that man. And I have! Looking for something? If I were you I'd be more careful in the future. Then you know what I'm gonna do now. - Then I'm sorry. - No, you're not. You don't seem to know the meaning. It's just a... vestigial word for a feeling you've never felt I told you I'd make my career with you, Preston! Be careful, Preston! You're treading on my dreams! Not by my friends. By me! - How did you know? - You forget, it's my job to know what you're thinking. You were lovers. The Cleric are our ultimate line of defence. If the Resistance compramises it, we are doomed. Cleric... I can only hope that one day be as uncompromising as you. - You're an Offender! - I'm not! - No? Then why are you so scared of me? They miss things sometimes. I thought I'd take it down myself, get it done properly. I pay it gladly! There are numerous more, more or less the entire script.
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Post by Balehead on Jul 13, 2003 14:35:03 GMT -5
I have so many myself, I hope you can bare with me. Here goes, on no order what so ever: There are numerous more, more or less the entire script. Ooh, great list! EQ has such great quotes in it. Kudos to the writers.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 14:47:52 GMT -5
Ooh, great list! EQ has such great quotes in it. Kudos to the writers. It's always a thrill, especially in this genre, when you stumble over such an intelligent script as this is! In sci-fi & futuristic action films there's always this one line that irritates you. I find no such thing in EQ, even if it had every chance of suffering from the same fate. It chose not to. Clever! It wouldn't surprise me if Wimmer has worked on EQ for years. Does anyone know?
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Post by JenGe on Jul 13, 2003 16:11:42 GMT -5
It wouldn't surprise me if Wimmer has worked on EQ for years. No, he didn't...he stated the following... Wimmer wrote "Equilibrium" in early 1999. "It was very easy (to write)," he explained. "In fact, I wrote it because it was an idea I'd had in the back of my mind for several years. I didn't think it was a commercial idea, but it was something I just wanted to express and get out of the way so I could write other more commercial things. So I wrote it in four or five days. After a few months of (having it sit) in the closet, I showed it to my friend Lucas Foster on a lark and he actually liked it, surprisingly enough and thought we could get it made and offered to support me as a director. Naturally, I said OK."Article Link - World without feelings in Wimmer's 'Equilibrium'
BTW, the draft version of the script/screenplay has been on the site for several weeks now. Its completed and you can find it here... www.freewebs.com/equilibrium-movie/Screenplay1.htm
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 16:18:12 GMT -5
OK! The actual writing of it was quick. But not the ideas to it, that's what I meant. Sorry about that. I don't think you imagine such an intelligent story that this is in just 4-5 days. That Wimmer wrote it down in that time, however, does not surprise me the least.
I think we all can draw a sigh of relief that this story didn't stay in that closet of his, huh!?
BTW, I read that old draft script when it was posted. Already then, great peice of work. Still, one early scene is now entirely missing & the now (perhaps) infamous gun-swap scene wasn't there at all. Not to mention everything going on with Mary! Interesting!
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Post by JenGe on Jul 13, 2003 16:20:22 GMT -5
I'm still looking for a copy of the "shooting script" which should be much closer to the film.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 13, 2003 16:21:52 GMT -5
I'm still looking for a copy of the "shooting script" which should be much closer to the film. That would be very interesting indeed to read!
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Post by skippythegator on Jul 14, 2003 1:42:58 GMT -5
surprised no one's mentioned this one:
(sweeper team captain): Oh ****!!! Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him!!!!
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Post by Imylover on Jul 14, 2003 10:11:49 GMT -5
surprised no one's mentioned this one: (sweeper team captain): Oh ****!!! Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him!!!! ;D Yes, that's a good one! I giggle everytime. Still, I must say that the Sweepers can't have that much training compared to the Clerics. In this scene, at least the Captian DID have agreat oppertunity in this very moment when he says those words to actually gun John down, but of course misses. Not that I want our dear John shot, but just like thje Stormtroopers of SW, the Sweepers doesn't seem to be able to hit much, even if they are better than the Stormtroopers. They don't miss the Offenders, that I have noticed.
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Post by Balehead on Jul 14, 2003 17:30:01 GMT -5
;D Yes, that's a good one! I giggle everytime. Still, I must say that the Sweepers can't have that much training compared to the Clerics. In this scene, at least the Captian DID have agreat oppertunity in this very moment when he says those words to actually gun John down, but of course misses. Not that I want our dear John shot, but just like thje Stormtroopers of SW, the Sweepers doesn't seem to be able to hit much, even if they are better than the Stormtroopers. They don't miss the Offenders, that I have noticed. Yeah, I completely agree with that. The sweepers seem pretty helpless and incapable because they have so many opportunities to shoot Preston, but don't actually hit him (but of course, as you said before, I don't want him getting shot either .
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Post by Mallory on Jul 15, 2003 2:03:06 GMT -5
My favorite quote and I don't it has been mentioned is almost that end, before the No not without incident quote.
Preston: "But...We've never met before" Father: "No" (pause) McFayden "Don't look so surprise Preston why should father be more real than any other political puppet"
Boy that was a kick to every Government officials, Presidents ect, No wonder it considered a dangerous movie. Now listen to that line again and here all the bloody implications behind it.
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Post by Cruis.In on Jul 15, 2003 16:23:56 GMT -5
actually he says any "other" political puppet. yes very good line. cuds.
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Post by Balehead on Jul 16, 2003 16:31:17 GMT -5
Wow, yeah, I completely forgot about that line. It is pretty powerful.
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Post by Balefan22 on Jul 17, 2003 14:15:14 GMT -5
My fav line is when when Preston is doing the polygraph test. The guy says without incident. Then Preston says no and kicks all of their asses.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 17, 2003 15:22:20 GMT -5
My fav line is when when Preston is doing the polygraph test. The guy says without incident. Then Preston says no and kicks all of their asses. If we do a quick summury, I think the line; "No! Not without incident!" is the most loved one among the fans. Almost everybody here has mentioned it & have it on their list if they made one. I was one of them & THAT is my personal fav line in EQ, among many others too. But if I have to pick one, that is the one.
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Post by Imylover on Jul 18, 2003 10:20:50 GMT -5
Here's another quote for you:
"Be careful, Preston! You're treading on my dreams!"
Throughout the entire film, in one way or another, they keep coming back to Partridge &/or that Yates poem. I like that!
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Post by Balehead on Jul 18, 2003 18:10:38 GMT -5
Here's another quote for you: "Be careful, Preston! You're treading on my dreams!" Throughout the entire film, in one way or another, they keep coming back to Partridge &/or that Yates poem. I like that! Yeah, I like that a lot, too. I think that part of the Yates poem is really cool. You can get a lot out of it.
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Post by Cruis.In on Jul 19, 2003 7:23:17 GMT -5
this thread is 6 pages, forgive me, ive been through them but cant remember everything that was mentioned.
but here goes...
this one...
at the end when Dupont is gloating, i think in his office. he is referencing to the beginning when he asked him that in that first interview, about his wife.
"how did it feel Preston?"
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Post by Imylover on Jul 19, 2003 7:34:47 GMT -5
at the end when Dupont is gloating, i think in his office. he is referencing to the beginning when he asked him that in that first interview, about his wife. "how did it feel Preston?" Believe me, I noticed this one & it's meaning the very first time I saw EQ. I just love how this film brings it all together within itself. That practically immidiately at the beginning of the film we are given hints of how thinks will turn out in the end. And when you see & hear the simular or the same things again at the end, this particular quote is just an example, then you are able to understand what was happening & what the film is all about. Kurt Wimmer has done an excellent job, I hardly need to mention that really. If he has missed a detail somewhere it can't be any of importance because I can't find it. They may have messed things up with the gun swap but that's an editing problem, not a story/script problem.
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Post by Trinity on Jul 19, 2003 18:59:49 GMT -5
at the end when Dupont is gloating, i think in his office. he is referencing to the beginning when he asked him that in that first interview, about his wife. "how did it feel Preston?" Yes, yes! Excellent. I love that shot. Just look at DuPont's face! He gloats perfectly. And I also love when he asks him the same question twice earlier in the movie. I know I've mentioned it in prior posts, but when he asks Preston that question, I love the way Bale plays it. He looks down as if searching for something he cannot possibly find. And when DuPont asks him again. He tries again, to no avail. Watch Preston's face. Excellent direction as well. What a great movie!
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Post by Cruis.In on Jul 20, 2003 0:48:17 GMT -5
hey you know what i always noticed...in his interviews with dupont, he always sends a sharp glare to the sweepers standing in the corner...in the beginning when he asked him how he feels, especially...at this time Preston is not supposed to be feeling, why would he feel the need to send that share glance to the sweeper..........i know later on in the movie , hes lining them up
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