[…] NOTE: Any more suggestions for this theme? Because this is sort …read more […]

Sister Act (1992) Screenplay by Joseph Howard Sister Mary Patrick: Really. Mary Clarence? Were you a choir mistress? Dolores: Sort of freelance. Sister Mary Lazarus: Freelance? Really? Oh. You don't think I see? You think I took vows yesterday? I know what you're up to. You and Reverend Mother. Dolores: Uh. What? Sister Mary Lazarus: You're a ringer. She brought you here to replace me. Out with the old! Sister Mary Patrick: Oh. Could you help us. Mary Clarence? Mary Lazarus, you're terrific. but we could really use some help. Nun #1: Please. You've heard us. Sister Mary Patrick: We're terrible. Nun #2: Please. Do something for us. Please. Sister Mary Lazarus: Well. There's a word for this. Mutiny. So. Mary Clarence, you think you can do better? I believe I'd like to see that. Go ahead, Sister. Make 'em sing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37hkxf5RaXc Tuesday I suggested a scene from Ghost World because it summarizes pretty much what awkwardness is: repression of a pattern of behavior that would fit better a certain situation. Usually such repression is internal to the mind of the character, and that scene was quite unique since it showed an external repression agent. There's another good source for awkwardness though: unawareness. Today's scene shows precisely that: the nuns need the help of Dolores and are unaware about her past. A jealous Sister Mary Lazarus feels challenged and for a moment we think that she may aware about Dolores' real identity, but she is actually more than clueless and we can feel with Dolores the awkwardness of her situation in the convent.

Love Actually (2003) Written by Richard Curtis Having trouble finding that specific clip on youtube: this part happens right after the dialogue below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSlw3MhVk5g Juliet: I thought I might be able to swap it for some pie or... or maybe Munchies? Mark: Actually, I was being serious. I don't know where it is. I'll have a poke around tonight... Juliet: Mark, can I say something? Mark: Yeah. Juliet: I know you're Peter's best friend and I know you've never particularly warmed to me. Look, don't... don't argue. We've never got friendly. But I just wanted to say, I hope that can change. I'm nice. I really am. Apart from my terrible taste in pie and... It would be great if we could be friends. Mark: Absolutely. Juliet: Great. Mark: Doesn't mean we'll be able to find the video, though. I had a real search when you first called and couldn't any trace of it, so... Juliet: Well, there's one here that says "Peter and Juliet's Wedding". Do you think we might be on the right track?

Dialogue: "The coffin is moving! There's somebody alive in there. Can't you all see? Open your eyes!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kHdxUBrDak Words can't express how much I love this movie. Daniel's awkward boring speech at his own father's funeral when everyone really wanted the high-flying author brother to give it was bad enough. On top of that, Simon, the usually mild-mannered solicitor has a seriously bad trip. In front of his stuffy soon-to-be-father-in-law. And then worst of all, he tips over the body. All of these things have a call-back at the end of the movie. Daniel finally nails the speech. Finally the coffin DOES move and somebody is alive in there. And the wife, on hearing the dark secret, has a real hissy fit. There's a bit with the priest too, but well, I'll leave some tid-bits for you to discover.

Fight Club (1999) Writers: Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Huy-JP1xo (Don't worry, it's a safe for work version that doesn't includes Tyler's "special edit") MARLA You shot yourself NARRATOR Yes, but it's OK. Marla, look at me, I'm really OK. Trust me. Everything is gonna be fine. You met me at a very strange time in my life. From a screenplay hosted on: http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fight-Club.html MARLA My God, you're shot... JACK Yes. Jack tries to got up. Marla helps him. MARLA Who did this to you? JACK I did, I think. But, I'm okay... I'm fine... MASSIVE EXPLOSION... the glass walls rattle... Jack and Marla look -- OUT THE WINDOWS: a BUILDING EXPLODES; collapsing upon itself. Then, ANOTHER BUILDING IMPLODES into a massive cloud of dust. Jack and Marla are silhouetted against the SKYLINE. Jack looks to Marla, reaches to take her hand. JACK I'm sorry... you met me at a very strange time in my life. Marla looks at him. ANOTHER BUILDING IMPLODES and COLLAPSES inward... and ANOTHER BUILDING... and ANOTHER... The FILM SLOWS, then ADVANCES ONE FRAME at a TIME -- SHOWING SPROCKET HOLES on the SIDES. EACH FRAME is an IMPLODING BUILDING -- then, ONE FRAME IS A PENIS. Then, the IMPLODING BUILDING again. SPEED UP the frames, LOSE the sprocket holes, RESUME NORMAL SPEED... FADE TO BLACK:

Forgot the trivia bit... Trivia: According to author Chuck Palahniuk, much of the specific content of the novel (such as splicing single frames of pornography into family films, attending support groups for the terminally ill, erasing video tapes etc) came from stories told him by friends, and from things his friends actually did. Whilst writing the novel, Palahniuk also interviewed numerous young white males in white-collar jobs, discovering that "the longing for fathers was a theme I heard a lot about. The resentment of lifestyle standards imposed by advertising was another." More trivia: Author Chuck Palahniuk's novel was discovered by Fox 2000 Pictures executive, Raymond Bongiovanni who sent it to Laura Ziskin, President of Production at Fox 2000 Pictures. She felt it was a tremendous piece of literature, but not necessarily a great movie. The book was sent to a 20th Century Fox studio reader to evaluate its potential as a possible film, and the report sent back to Ziskin slammed the novel, saying it could never be made into a film, that it was "exceedingly disturbing", "volatile and dangerous", and would "make audiences squirm". Despite this however, Ziskin decided to go ahead with the project temporarily and began to look around for producers who might be willing to take it on. It was first offered to Lawrence Bender and Art Linson, but they turned it down (although Linson would ultimately return as producer). Next, it was offered to Joshua Donen and Ross Grayson Bell of Atman Entertainment. They both loved it and immediately agreed to produce it. Bell has since stated that the highly critical report from the studio reader was all he needed to make him want to work on the film, feeling every reason that the reader gave for why the film couldn't be made, was another reason to make it. Donen and Bell immediately organized a read-through of the book with some actors, who performed a roughly scripted version of the novel over the course of a six-hour session, and he sent recordings of the session to the still wavering Ziskin. As soon as Ziskin heard the recording, she agreed that a film adaptation could work, purchased the rights to the novel for $10,000, and green-lit the project. And more trivia: Chuck Palahniuk revealed that when he wrote the book, he did not actually know that Tyler and the Narrator were the same person until he was two thirds of the way through writing the story, at which point he noticed that they acted together as one person and chose to finish the story as such.

Tootsie (1982) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTXkhM6v-Y Dorothy Michaels: Thank you, Gordon. Well, I cannot tell you all how deeply moved I am. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would be the object of so much genuine affection. It makes it all the more difficult for me to say what I'm now going to say. Yes. I do feel it's time to set the record straight. You see, I didn't come here just as an administrator, Dr. Brewster; I came to this hospital to settle an old score. Now you all know that my father was a brilliant man; he built this hospital. What you don't know is that to his family, he was an unmerciful tyrant - a absolute dodo bird. He drove my mother, his wife, to - to drink; in fact, she - uh, she she she went riding one time and lost all her teeth. The son Edward became a recluse, and the oldest daughter - the pretty one, the charming one - became pregnant when she was fifteen years old and was driven out of the house. In fact, she was so terrified that she would, uh, that, uh, that, that, that the baby daughter would bear the stigma of illegitimacy that she, she - she decided to change her name and she contracted a disfiguring disease... after moving to Tangiers, which is where she raised the, the, the little girl as her sister. But her one ambition in life - besides the child's happiness - was to become a nurse, so she returned to the States and joined the staff right here at Southwest General. Well, she worked here, she knew she had to speak out wherever she saw injustice and inhumanity. God save us, you do understand that, don't you, Dr. Brewster? John Van Horne: I never laid a hand on her. Dorothy Michaels: Yes, you did. And she was shunned by all you nurses, too... and by a, what do you call it, what do you call it, a - something like a pariah, to you doctors who found her idealistic and reckless. But she was deeply, deeply, deeply, deeply, deeply, deeply loved by her brother. It was this brother who, on the day of her death, swore to the good Lord above that he would follow in her footsteps, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just owe it all up to her. But on her terms. As a woman. And just as proud to be a woman as she ever was. For I am not Emily Kimberly, the daughter of Dwayne and Alma Kimberly. No, I'm not. I'm Edward Kimberly, the recluse brother of my sister Anthea. Edward Kimberly, who has finally vindicated his sister's good name. I am Edward Kimberly. Edward Kimberly. And I'm not mentally ill, but proud, and lucky, and strong enough to be the woman that was the best part of my manhood. The best part of myself. Jeff That is one nutty hospital. Ron Carlisle I knew there was a reason she didn't like me! You can't beat those reaction shots. Trivia: The movie's line "That is one nutty hospital." was voted as the #44 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.

Silver Linings Playbook (2012) Screenplay by David O. Russell Based on The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick Try to find a scene on this movie that doesn't deal with awkward. http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Silver-Linings-Playbook.html