Well, be sure and stay scary and intimidating-like. I hear once word leaks out that a pirate has gone soft, people begin to disobey you, and then it's nothing but work, work, work all the time.
All the really good interrogattors of my acquaintance can quote huge chunks of that movie.
Different personalities, one and all, but there is something (and there is a core disdain for silly, while believing implicitly in the doctrine of plain questioning, but I digress), which causes all of them to love that film.
Which one? The Princess Bride or Pirates of Penzance? Because if it's the latter, Id' be concerned. If it's the former, I suspect many people just like that movie because it's got everything, as Peter Falk says: "fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, True Love, miracles...." Plus, it's sweet without beyong cloying.
(ETA: Also, for me, I have always had an appreciation for stories that see humor in what is sometimes the absurdity in life - and that movie has plenty of it. It's the reason I love Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, etc.)
Princess bride, though Gilbert and Sullivan isn't unknown.
The oddity isn't that people can quote from it, but that (by and large), it's not a film with a a high quotient of quoters in the army; outside my profession.
At least insofar as I can tell. Heck, it's 20 years old now, so that's also a limiting factor.
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Re: I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical!
Date: 2008-12-16 06:47 am (UTC)Re: I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical!
Date: 2008-12-16 06:55 am (UTC)All the really good interrogattors of my acquaintance can quote huge chunks of that movie.
Different personalities, one and all, but there is something (and there is a core disdain for silly, while believing implicitly in the doctrine of plain questioning, but I digress), which causes all of them to love that film.
Re: I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical!
Date: 2008-12-16 03:27 pm (UTC)(ETA: Also, for me, I have always had an appreciation for stories that see humor in what is sometimes the absurdity in life - and that movie has plenty of it. It's the reason I love Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, etc.)
Re: I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical!
Date: 2008-12-17 10:38 pm (UTC)The oddity isn't that people can quote from it, but that (by and large), it's not a film with a a high quotient of quoters in the army; outside my profession.
At least insofar as I can tell. Heck, it's 20 years old now, so that's also a limiting factor.
Re: I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical!
Date: 2008-12-16 09:35 am (UTC)/stardust