AJ at 2011-03-12 16:04:37:

The "French" Soldier from Monty Python and the Holy Grail - for insults.

French Soldier: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s

Jason at 2011-03-12 16:20:17:

Here is an insult quote from "Sexy Beast". This verbal venom is from the infamous Don Logan, played by Ben Kingsley.

Don: "Shut up, cunt. You louse. You got some fuckin' neck ain't you. Retired? Fuck off, you're revolting. Look at your suntan, it's leather, it's like leather man, your skin. We could make a fucking suitcase out of you. Like a crocodile, fat crocodile, fat bastard. You look like fucking Idi Amin, you know what I mean?"

Speaking of Don Logan, I would love to see him appear in your "Great Characters" section. Kingsley looks like he is having the time of his life playing that part.

Jason at 2011-03-12 16:24:50:

Here is another lengthly, hilarious string of insults courtesy of Clark Griswald in "National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

Clark: "...I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"

Scott at 2011-03-12 16:38:50:

Okay, we're at 3 insults to 0 understatements. Folks who want the latter are going to have to step up. We've already got a famous one: "You're gonna need a bigger boat."

Insults! Understatement! Who will be the winning theme for next week's Daily Dialogue?!?!

CWillGoWrite at 2011-03-12 18:06:49:

One more for insults...

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Plainview: Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth, Eli.
Eli Sunday: No...
Plainview: You slithered out of your mother's filth.
Eli Sunday: No.
Plainview: They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantlepiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at your mother's teat? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli- one of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose.

Go to 10:18 for the dialogue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPFUFfK6fkY

Scott at 2011-03-12 19:51:31:

All right, things are heating up. Looks pretty even at this point. Seems like it's easier to source insults, but the understatements seem to offer some pretty classic lines. What was that one from Major League: "Just... a bit outside."

Jason at 2011-03-12 20:57:41:

JOE PESCI'S INSULTS FROM "CASINO"

Nicky Santoro: "If you ever get of line over there again, I'll smash your fuckin' head in so hard, you won't be able to put that cowboy hat on. You hear me? Fuckin' hick."

Nicky Santoro: "You took your boots off? You put your feet on the table? You shit-kicking, stinky, horse-manure-smellin' motherfucker you. You fuck me up over there, I'll stick you in a hole in the fuckin' desert."

Nicky Santoro: You call yourself a man? You know you're a lyin', low-life, motherfuckin' gambling degenerate prick? You know that's what you are? Two small kids at home. I gave you money to pay the fuckin' rent and buy groceries, put the heat on. You know your wife called Frankie and told him the fuckin' heat's off?"

Jason at 2011-03-12 21:13:27:

INSULTS FROM "THE DEPARTED"

Billy Costigan: "Maybe it would have done you some good to have some *questions* from time to time, you know? "Am I an asshole? Are my kids a mess? Is my wife a money-grubbing whore?" I mean, those are questions, right? "Have I ever been good to my dying sister or am I just now pretending to be?"

Ellerby: I'm gonna go have a smoke right now. You want a smoke? You don't smoke, do ya, right? What are ya, one of those fitness freaks, huh? Go fuck yourself.

Frank Costello: You recall our chat? Little boys. Sucking on their peckers, etc... and so forth. I am as God made me. Is that your rationale? May I remind you - in this archdiocese, God don't run the bingo.
Young Priest: May I remind you - that pride comes before the fall.
Frank Costello: How's Sister Mary Teresa doing? Had a tasty relationship before she took her vows.
[Costello hands the priests a nude drawing of the nun]
Frank Costello: Enjoy your clams, cocksuckers.

Jason at 2011-03-12 21:18:00:

...and probably the most brutal cinematic insult I have ever heard, last posted in "Daily Dialogue" 1/19/11, Alec Baldwin's seething diatribe in "Glengarry Glen Ross"

http://www.gointothestory.com/2011/01/daily-dialogue-january-19-2011.html

Annika W at 2011-03-12 22:31:42:

For insults, take your pick from Gunnery Sergeant Hartman's lines in Full Metal Jacket. IMDB has a ton:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/quotes

One of my favorite passages -

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: How tall are you, private?
Private Cowboy: Sir, five-foot-nine, sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Five-foot-nine, I didn't know they stacked shit that high! You trying to squeeze an inch in on me somewhere, huh?
Private Cowboy: Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit! It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your mamma's ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think you been cheated! Where in the hell are you from anyway, Private?
Private Cowboy: Sir, Texas, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Holy dog shit! Texas! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don't much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?
Private Cowboy: Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Are you a peter puffer?
Private Cowboy: Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I bet you're the kind of person who'd fuck a person in the ass and not even have the common courtesy to give him a goddamn reach around! I'll be watching you!

And here's the link to Hartman's entire opening rampage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Nf1MK7lts

Scott at 2011-03-13 08:47:53:

Clearly folks are in an insulting mood! So we'll run with that this week. And we've got some good understatements as well, so let's do that one the following week. Thanks for all your suggestions.

And as always, if you have a theme you think might be an interesting one for Daily Dialogue, please post in comments or email me.

Annika W at 2011-03-13 10:53:29:

Hi, Scott,

If you run the Full Metal Jacket excerpt, I left a word out when I was transcribing. Here's the correct version of one of the lines:

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Holy dog shit! Texas! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?

BlueDjinn at 2011-03-13 19:33:21:

Hi, new here, love the blog (found it after finally getting around to watching the 2009 Star Trek reboot and searching for some other folks' takes on it).

Insult: Ricky Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross:

"WHAT YOU'RE HIRED FOR, is to help us... does that seem clear to you? TO HELP US, not to... FUCK-US-UP! To help those who are going out there to try to earn a LIVING! You fairy. You COMPANY MAN."

Understatement: Dwayne T. Robinson

"We're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess."