Sunday, January 1, 2012

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS
Movie, 2009
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/


Excerpts:



- There's nothing in here actually about fighting.
The New Earth Army was tasked with preventing conflict.
We're a force of peace, not war.
Bill understood if you want to change the world,
you're going to start by changing the armies.



We must create Warior Monks -
men and women who can fall in love with everyone,
sense plant auras, pass through walls,
stop saying mindless cliches, and see into the future.
I want you to join me in this vision.
Be all you can be.



What are you doing?
- Salute to the Sun.



Optimum trajectory.
Your life is like a river.
If you're aiming for a goal
that isn't your destiny,
you're always going to be swimming against the current.
Young Gandhi wants to be a stock-car driver.
It's not gonna happen.
Little Anne Frank wants to be a high school teacher.
Tough titty, Anne. It's not your destiny.
But you will go on to move he hearts and minds of millions.
Find out what your destiny is,
and the river will carry you.
Now, sometimes.. events in life.. give an individual clues
as to where their destiny lies.
Like those little doodles you just happened to draw.



There's three of them, and they've got guns.
_ We're Jedi, Bob.
_ We don't fight with guns.
_ We fight with our mind.



You've got to free your feet
before you can free your mind.


Not really much of a dancer, sir.
_ Now, that's not true, is it?
_ You can dance.
_ It's just someoe told you not to.
_ ... I'm ordering you to let the dance out!



Rank, medals... these things mean little to the Jedi.
But growth in spirit, in wisdom, in psychic power,
these are things that earn our respect.




I don't need a watch. I'm using Level 2.
_ What is that?
Level 2. Intuition.



It was the Dim Mak.
_ The Dim Mak?
Dim Mak.
Quivering Palm. The Death Touch.
It's forbidden in the New Earth Army.
_ What does the Death Touch do?
It kills you, Bob.
One Touch.
_ Jesus.
There's a story that Wong Wifu,
the great Chinese martial artist,
was in a fight with a guy
who was beating him,
and the guy gave him this light tap,
and Wong looked at him,
and the guy just nodded.
That was it.
He'd given him the Death Touch.
Wond died.

_ Then and there?
No, aBout 18 years later.
That's the thing about the Dim Mak --
you never know when it's going to take effect.


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