“The Majestic” quotes
(2001)
Frank Darabont
directed this movie
in 2001
Title The Majestic
Year 2001
Director Frank Darabont
Genre Drama
Year 2001
Director Frank Darabont
Genre Drama
Plot – To Peter Appleton, a successful writer, everything seems to be going right: his latest film - 'The predators of Sahara' - is very successful at the box office and he's respected in Hollywood. However one day he's accused of being a Communist: USA is living the McCarthyism period and Appleton is forced to flee and finds himself in Lawson, an unknown town where he is mistaken for Luke, a war hero died eight years ago.
All actors – Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau, Brent Briscoe, Ron Rifkin, Gerry Black, David Ogden Stiers, James Whitmore, Susan Willis, Catherine Dent, Brian Howe, Karl Bury, Chelcie Ross, Amanda Detmer, Allen Garfield, Daniel von Bargen, Shawn Doyle, Mario Roccuzzo, Frank Collison, Bill Gratton, Ginger Williams, Ken Magee, Csilla Horvath, April Ortiz, Larry Cox, Julie Richardson, Scotty Leavenworth, Grant Vaught, Bob Wells, Kevin DeMunn, Earl Boen, Bruce Campbell, Cliff Curtis, Michael Sloane, Garry Marshall, Paul Mazursky, Sydney Pollack, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Matt Damon, Matt G. Wiens, Jeffrey Adams, Kris Andersson, Alvah Bessie, Herbert J. Biberman, Jennifer Blaire, Greg Brown, Chris Carver, Lester Cole, Lathan Crowe, Corey Foxx, Kate Greeke, Gordon Hart, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jensen, Mary Kircher, Tony Laanan, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Brian Libby, Melissa S. Markess, Amanda Melby, Christopher Metas, Melissa Noble, Samuel Ornitz, Kimberly Prendez, Maudie Purcell, George Ratliff, Craig Richards, David Rosenbaum, Adrian Scott, Gary Sommers, Robert Thorne, Jack Truman, Steven Paul Zsenyuk
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“Aside from the fact that this is a free country, and you can be a communist if you want to be a communist, leaving that aside, if you're accused falsely you have a duty as well as a right to stand up and suggest they drop dead.”
“This is all a game... but it's their game. You play by their rules or they'll destroy you.”
“- Adele Stanton: Do you remember me?
- Peter Appleton: No, but I'll sure try.”“- Adele Stanton: He would've stood up to them.
- Peter Appleton: Yeah well, he's not here... to vouch for that, is he? We have to take your word for it! And forgive me but everybody's memory of Luke is a little rose-colored in this town. Besides, I'm not Luke. While he was liberating Europe, I was running the PX. He couldn't wait to save the...” (continue)(continue reading)“When bullies rise up, the rest of us have to beat them back down, whatever the cost. That's a simple idea, I suppose, but one worth giving everything for.”
“I can't take this constant nagging. I'm leaving you, Jerry. I'm leaving you, and I'm taking the monkey with me.”
“- Irene Terwilliger: Really, Luke! That's no way to treat Mr. Liszt. Stop that! Stop it, stop it! Who taught you to play like that? I demand to know. Where on earth did you learn to play such a thing?
- Emmett Smith: I taught him that... when you weren't looking!”“He couldn't wait to save the world! Me, I was happy not to go overseas!”
“- Peter Appleton: Tell me again what a great guy Luke was, 'cause God I haven't heard that enough!
- Adele Stanton: He wouldn've stood up to them.
- Peter Appleton: Yeah well, he's not here... to vouch for that, is he? We have to take your word for it! And forgive me but everybody's memory of Luke is a little rose-colored in this town. Besides,...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Adele Stanton: So are you really a communist?
- Peter Appleton: No, I'm really not.
- Adele Stanton: I didn't think so. Only a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist could have gotten The Majestic up and running.”“Adele, I'm sorry the way things turned out. I never meant to hurt anyone, least of all you.”
“I'm sorry... but it occurs to me that there is a bigger issue today than whether or not I'm a Communist.”
“- Peter Appleton: Adele, I'm sorry the way things turned out. I never meant to hurt anyone, least of all you.
- Adele Stanton: People get hurt sometimes, we can't always help it.”“Why would you want to stay at home and watch a little box? Because it's convenient? Because you don't have to get dressed up, because you could just sit there? I mean, how can you call that entertainment, alone in your living room? Where's the other people? Where's the audience? Where's the magic? I'll tell you, in a place like this, the magic...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Taste my steel, you dog!”
“- Elvin Clyde: Who did you go as?
- Peter Appleton: A horny young man.”“When bullies rise up, the rest of us have to beat them back down, whatever the cost. That's a simple idea, I suppose, but one worth giving everything for.”
“- Peter Appleton: I thought this was a democracy.
- Leo Kubelsky: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, they're all just pieces of paper with signatures on them. And you know what a piece of paper with a signature is: a contract. Something that can be renegotiated at any time. Just so happens that the House un-American activities...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Adele Stanton: Do you remember me?
- Peter Appleton: [immediately attracted to her] No, but I'll sure try.”“I didn't want to end up like him. I wanted to survive! You stand for a cause, you get mowed down. Look. Look! That's the real world. I want my goddamn life back, Adele...”
“This is a free country, you can be a communist if you want to be a communist!”
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