“The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” quotes
(1988)
Terry Gilliam
directed this movie
in 1988
Title The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Year 1988
Director Terry Gilliam
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Action
Year 1988
Director Terry Gilliam
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Action
Plot – The noble cavalry officer Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchausen recalls amazing adventures undertaken with four extremely skilled companions. With their collaboration, Munchausen saves a town besieged by Turkish and travels with a little girl to the moon to visit the god Vulcan, but in the end he will be surprised by death.
All actors – John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, Winston Dennis, Jack Purvis, Valentina Cortese, Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, Peter Jeffrey, Uma Thurman, Alison Steadman, Ray Cooper, Don Henderson, Robin Williams, Sting, Andrew MacLachlan, José Lifante, Mohamed Badrsalem, Kiran Shah, Franco Adducci, Ettore Martini, Antonio Pistillo, Michael Polley, Tony Smart, Laura D'Arista, Terry Gilliam, Balbino Lacosta
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“- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: I'm Baron Munchausen!
- Berthold: That sounds nasty. Is it contagious?”“- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: You do believe me, don't you?
- Sally Salt: I'm doing my best.”“I have learned from experience that a modicum of snuff can be most efficacious.”
“We can't start escaping at a time like this. What would future generations think of us?”
“Nothing so deadens a man as ignorant numbness and conformity! Grasp the nettle!”
“I'm back! I got lips again and I'm gonna use them, baby!”
“- Sally Salt: You look different, younger.
- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: I always feel rejuvenated by a touch of adventure. For heaven's sake, don't you get any younger or I'll have to find a wet nurse.”“They're inviting us to defeat them! We must oblige them!”
“He won't get far on hot air and fantasy.”
“Now this aria reminds me of my schooldays in England.”
“- The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson: We've discussed it. You surrender.
- Sultan: But, we're winning!
- The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson: We surrendered last time! Now, it's your turn.”“I think, therefore you is.”
“You horrible little brat! Can't you let me die in peace once in a while?”
“I've got tides to regulate! Comets to direct! I don't have time for flatulence and orgasms!”
“- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: So, Mr. Jackson, still the rational man? How many people have perished in your logical little war?
- The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson: There are rules in life! We cannot fly to the moon. We cannot defy death. We must face facts, not folly. You don't live in the real world.”“- Venus: I am a goddess! I can do what I like!
- Vulcan: And I am The God, so shut up!”“- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: Gentlemen! Don't you think it would be a good idea to silence those enemy cannons?
- Gunner: No, sir.
- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: No?
- Gunner: It's Wednesday.”“- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: What's this?
- Vulcan: Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.
- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: Ah! What does it do?
- Vulcan: Do? Kills the enemy.
- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: All the enemy?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: Go away! I'm trying to die!
- Sally Salt: Why?
- Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen: Because I'm tired of the world and the world is evidently tired of me.”“You must refer to me by my complete title: King of Everything. Rei di Tutto. But you may call me Ray.”
“Hang on. Hang on! It's all coming back. I've-I've been stuck here for over twenty years, ever since you were last here on the moon. You abandoned me here! You swine! You toddled off with that old queen of tarts and left me to rot in that parrot cage, didn't you? And now you come back here, just because it suits you, after wasting half my life...” (continue)(continue reading)
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