Whats your favrite line or scene from Serenity? by JaynesBowie

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Whats your favrite line or scene from Serenity?

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 8:49 AM

Mine's Rivers line, after Simon's gotten shot.

"You protect me, you'v always protected me. My turn."

Jayne: "Testing, testing. Captain, can you hear me?"
Mal: "I'm standing right here."
Jayne: "You're coming through good and loud."
Mal: " 'Cause I'm standing right here."

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 8:58 AM

DAYVE

"I aim to misbehave......"

"endeavor to persevere..." Chief Dan George as Lone Waite, Indian chief

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 9:08 AM

NANITE1018

hmm... mine is the whole one-take shot with everyone in it. it's hi-larious!

[As Serenity begins a fiery dive into atmo, Mal hears a loud metallic clank.]
Mal: What was that?
Wash: Did you see that?
Mal: Was that the primary buffer panel?
Wash: It did seem to resemble…
Mal: Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship for no apparent reason?
[Serenity shudders.]
Wash: Looks like.
Mal: I thought Kaylee just checked the entry couplings. I have a very clear memory of it!
Wash: Yeah well, if she doesn't give us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burn-through, this landing is going to get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define interesting!
Wash: [deadpan] "Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: [on the ship intercom] This is the captain, we have a lil' problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight… turbulence, and then… explode. [to Wash] Can you shave the vector?
Wash: I'm doing it! It's not enough.
Mal: Just get us on the ground!
Wash: That part will happen pretty definitely.
Jayne: We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!
Mal: Jayne, how many weapons you plan on taking? You only got the two arms.
Jayne: Well, I just get excitable as to choice. Like to have my options open.
Mal: I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job.
Jayne: Yeah, well what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.
Mal: No grenades.
Jayne: Huh…? Aw!
Mal: No grenades!
Zoë: We crashing again?
Mal: Talk to your husband. Mule prepped?
Zoë: Good to go, sir. Just loading her up.
Zoë: Those grenades?
Jayne: Yeah, Captain doesn't want them.
Zoë: Jayne, we're robbing the place. We're not occupying it.
Mal: Kaylee! Kaylee, what in the sphincter of hell are you playing at? We got the primary buffer panel coming right—
Kaylee: Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret.
Mal: You told me those entry couplings would hold for another week!
Kaylee: That was six months ago Cap'n.
Mal: My ship don't crash. [If] she crashes, you crashed her.
Mal: Doctor. Guess who needs a to get inocced before we hit planet-side. [Serenity shudders.] Bit of a rockety ride. Nothing to be worried about.
Simon: I'm not worried.
Mal: Fear is nothing to be ashamed of, Doctor.
Simon: This isn't fear. This is anger.
Mal: Well, kind of hard to tell one from t'other, face like yours.
Simon: Well, I imagine if it were fear, my eyes would be wider.
Mal: Hmm, I'll keep a lookout for that next time.
Simon: You're not taking her.
Mal: No, no! This is not a thing I'm interested in talking over with—
Simon: She is not going with you, and that's final.
Mal: I hear the words "that's final" come out your mouth ever again, they truly will be… This boat is my home. You all are guests on it.
Simon: Guests? Now I earned my passage, Captain—
Mal: —and it's time your little sister learned from your fine example.
Simon: I have earned my passage treating bullet holes, knife wounds, laser burns—
Mal: Some jobs are more interesting than others.
Simon: —and you want to put my sister in the middle of that.
Mal: Didn't say "want." Said "will." It's one job, Doc. She'll be fine.
Simon: She's a seventeen year old girl. a mentally traumatized seventeen—
Mal: She's a reader. Sees into the truth of things. Might see trouble before it's coming. Which is of use to me.
Simon: And that's your guiding star, isn't it? What's of use.
[Serenity shudders.]
Mal: Honestly, Doctor I think we may really crash this time anyway.
[Simon inoculates Mal.]
Simon: Do you understand what I've gone through to keep River away from the Alliance?
Mal: I do, and it's a fact we here have been courteous enough to keep to our own selves.
Simon: Are you threatening to—
Mal: I look out for me and mine. That don't include you 'less I conjure it does. Now you stuck a thorn in the Alliance's paw. That tickles me a bit. But it also means I got to step twice as fast to avoid them and that means turning down plenty of jobs. Even honest ones. Put this crew together with the promise of work which the Alliance makes harder every year. Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another… So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you. Dong-luh-mah? [Chinese: "Are we clear?"] Ni cho lyen, yo may yo? [Chinese: "Is that your worried face?"]
Mal: Zoe, Wash gonna straighten this boat out before we get flattened?
Zoe: Like a down in a feather, sir. No one flies like my mister.
Simon: River.
River: I know, we're going for a ride.

That's awesome! and hi-larious!

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 9:16 AM

RYCE

The end of the movie when Mal sits in Wash's seat. The first thing he does is flip Wash's three switches that he uses for everything...I loved that little touch, which just made me all teary-eyed again!

No power in the 'verse can stop me!

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 9:47 AM

MSG

Kaylee Frye: Goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Oh, God! I can't *know* that!
Jayne Cobb: I could stand to hear a little more

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 9:56 AM

TRISTAN

Mal: Do you want to run this ship?
Jayne: Yes!
Mal: (pause) Well, you can't!

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 10:03 AM

WHOOPS

Check the Sig although im not sure whether its the best would have to watch it again.

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"Love. You can do all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air you
don't love, she'll shake you off sure as a turnin' of worlds. Love keeps her in
the air when she oughtta fall down. Tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens.
Makes her a home." Mal

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 10:03 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Mal: Was that the Primary buffer panel? Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship?

I saw that in the previews and I was hooked!

one of the Forsaken TM

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 11:23 AM

VOSHEXETER

River: I tore these out of your symbol and they turned into paper.

voshExeter

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 11:30 AM

ELIANA

Wash: This could get interesting!
Mal: Define 'interesting'
Wash: Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?

Mal: You told me those entry couplings would hold for another week!
Kaylee: That was six months ago Cap'n

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 11:33 AM

BIGWOLF18

wash kicks pigu with his...
"this is a fertile land and we will rule with justice and prosperity and we will call it...this land. i think we should call it your grave! no..curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! RAGR no, no, oh god no!"

classic!

also: OH MY GOD ITS GROTESQUE! oh and theres something in a jar.

alan tudyk is a god!
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smile everybody!

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 11:39 AM

PAGANPAUL

See my signature line above.

A close second would have to be...
MAL (sitting naked and alone in the desert): "Yeah, that went well."

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 2:14 PM

LISSA37

I'm the third person, I believe, to post something similar to this, so I won't quote it again, but my favorite scene from Serenity is the opening scene (after River's escape and The Operative, of course) between Mal and Wash. My best friend and I have learned the whole scene and we quote it at random in the middle of our conversations. I love it!

BigWolf18 -- I couldn't agree more on your tag line. Alan Tudyk is AMAZING! I can't believe I'd never heard of him before I saw the movie.

*****
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!" - Wash

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 2:56 PM

GOAT

My favorite has to be one of Kaylee's from TBDM when Zoe, Jane, Simon, River and Kaylee are about to make a stand against the reavers.

Simon (to Kaylee): I just wanted to keep River safe. Spent so much time on Serenity ignoring anything ... that I wanted for myself. My one regret in all of this ... is never being with you.

Kaylee: With me? You mean to say, as ... Sex?

Simon: I mean to say.

*Kaylee: Hell with this. I'm gonna live.

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 3:03 PM

SPACECOYOTE

If I'm not back in a hour, you take this ship and come rescue me.
Mal

A dog that @#$%s fast doesn't @#$% long

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 3:05 PM

METTASUTRA

Mal: This is what I do, darlin'. This is what I do.

...combined with the expressions that flicker across his face as he says it.

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 3:35 PM

RMMC

"I swallowed a bug."

Check out my .sig above for another.

That and MSG's contribution above.

******
RMMC

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 4:03 PM

SPASSJUNGE

In Bushwhacked, during the montage of interrogation scenes, when it cuts to Jayne, and he is just sitting with his arms crossed glaring at the Alliance guy. I crack up every time.

Glänzend!

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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 5:42 PM

LISSA37

Quote:
Originally posted by SpassJunge:
In Bushwhacked, during the montage of interrogation scenes, when it cuts to Jayne, and he is just sitting with his arms crossed glaring at the Alliance guy. I crack up every time.

Glänzend!

I love that whole part. Each person's interrogation fits their character so well.

Jayne's is the best, though. I always crack up, too.

He's just so funny there!

*****
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!" - Wash

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 7:55 AM

DONCOAT

Quote:
Originally posted by nanite1018:
Zoe: Like a down in a feather, sir. No one flies like my mister.

I believe that line would be "Like a downy feather, Sir."

Makes a bit more sense to me that way...

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I'm pointin' right at it!

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 8:00 AM

DAYVE

"...i swallowed a bug..."

edit: oops, sorry RMMC.... missed yours

"endeavor to persevere..." Chief Dan George as Lone Waite, Indian chief

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 8:02 AM

DAYVE

instead, how about...

"...40?...my muscular buttocks....."

"endeavor to persevere..." Chief Dan George as Lone Waite, Indian chief

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 9:43 AM

FIZZIX

I'm partial to the deleted scene of Mal/Operative at the end. "If you're still standing there when that engine turns on, you never will know."

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May not be smart, and it may not please you, but you're definitely gonna see what I have to say.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 10:19 AM

RMMC

Not a problem, Dayve!

I think it's worthy of being mentioned twice.

But then, they all are.

dang, I forgot a couple more I love:

"Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint."

"And don't ride in anything with a Capissen 38 engine, they fall right out of the sky."

******
RMMC

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 10:29 AM

NANITE1018

Quote:
Originally posted by DonCoat:
Quote:
Originally posted by nanite1018:
Zoe: Like a down in a feather, sir. No one flies like my mister.
I believe that line would be "Like a downy feather, Sir."

Makes a bit more sense to me that way...

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I'm pointin' right at it!

Yeah, i didn't right that. It was a transcript i found on the net, because i couldn't remember it all. I think i fixed it in my head but not on the post. Oh well. Thanks for the correction!

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 11:35 AM

FIZZIX

Quote:
Originally posted by RMMC:
Not a problem, Dayve!

I think it's worthy of being mentioned twice. But then, they all are.

dang, I forgot a couple more I love:

"Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint."

"And don't ride in anything with a Capissen 38 engine, they fall right out of the sky."

******
RMMC

OH, I admit, I loved the albatross exchange... I forgotted about it.

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May not be smart, and it may not please you, but you're definitely gonna see what I have to say.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 12:05 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

There are too many great lines in the BDM to pick just one, but I will offer up one that no one else has mentioned. The line is not that great in and of itself, but its strength is in Adam's delivery.

"Hey! I'm talkin' at you!" as Mal is walking away from him during their talk after rescuing Inara.

As for a purely visual scene, my favorite is just before the Reaver attack at the end, as we see an overhead shot of Zoe loading her gun. Her actions are so deliberate you know what is on her mind, killing as many of them as she possibly can to avenge Wash.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 12:46 PM

TROGMAN

Lines - "The thought had crossed my mind..." and the "I am to misbehave" speech.

Scene - River's two fights, in the bar and at the end. Wow.

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Unexpected.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 4:23 PM

LISSA37

Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
There are too many great lines in the BDM to pick just one, but I will offer up one that no one else has mentioned. The line is not that great in and of itself, but its strength is in Adam's delivery.

"Hey! I'm talkin' at you!" as Mal is walking away from him during their talk after rescuing Inara.

As for a purely visual scene, my favorite is just before the Reaver attack at the end, as we see an overhead shot of Zoe loading her gun. Her actions are so deliberate you know what is on her mind, killing as many of them as she possibly can to avenge Wash.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

I looove that shot of Zoe. Absolutely beautiful work in that scene, on the part of Gina Torres (sp?) and Joss. There are other Zoe scenes like that (mainly in the show), with no actual words but deliberate actions that clearly portray what she's thinking, what her intentions are, etc. ... but that one is my favorite.

*****
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!" - Wash

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 4:24 PM

LISSA37

Gorramnit, I've discovered the art of the double post. Errors = double posts, apparently. My apologies!

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