Las Frases y Discursos más Célebres del Séptimo Arte

El año 2005 la AFI publicó su lista de las 100 frases mas célebres del séptimo arte en una lista denominada AFI’s 100 Movie Quotes en la cual se compilaban las frases mas recordadas por el público habiendo incluso muchas llegado a formar parte de la cultura popular.
Más allá de validar o no lo acertado de la inclusión final de cada una de las frases ganadoras, me gustaría indicar aquellas que efectivamente han formado parte de mi lenguaje propio, es decir que en algún momento han sido usadas por mi persona en alguna situación real, mayormente en son de broma o chacota con amigos o conocidos.

Estas son pues las 10 frases que yo recuerdo haber usado por lo menos alguna vez en mi vida:
1) "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." — Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), The Godfather (1972)
2) "May the Force be with you." — Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Star Wars (1977)
3) "You talkin' to me?" — Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), Taxi Driver (1976)
4) "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." — Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall)
5) "I'll be back." — The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), The Terminator (1984)
6) "It's alive! It's alive!" — Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), Frankenstein (1931)
7) "Houston, we have a problem." — Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Apollo 13 (1995)
8) "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." — Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)
9) "Elementary, my dear Watson." — Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone)
10) "Hasta la vista, baby." — The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Ahora bien, así como existen citas celebres en el cine, también existen discursos célebres, es por eso que a continuación doy mi lista de aquellos que a su manera me han impresionado notoriamente, los consigno en ingles, su lenguaje original, pues no quiero correr el riesgo de que pierdan fuerza en la traducción pues deseo que puedan ser leídos e interpretados como lo hubiera querido el genial guionista que escribió cada uno de ellos.

1) Siempre me gustaron las películas de Edward Norton a quien de hecho considero el mejor actor de su generación, sin embargo el aprecio no solo es por su calidad interpretativa, si no por los personajes que suele escoger, usualmente atormentados y al límite, así como también por la calidad y contundencia de sus parlamentos, recuerdo sus caústicas líneas en Historia Americana X así como en El Club de la Pelea, sin embargo es en La Hora 25, donde encarna al personaje de Monty Brogan, un hombre en su último día libre antes de ir a prisión, el cual en una genial escena se manda el monólogo mas rabioso y políticamente incorrecto que pueda recordar y que es conocido popularmente como The Fuck Speech.
"Fuck me? Fuck you! Fuck you and this whole city and everyone in it.
Fuck the panhandlers, grubbing for money, and smiling at me behind my back.
Fuck the squeegee men dirtying up the clean windshield of my car. Get a fucking job!
Fuck the Sikhs and the Pakistanis bombing down the avenues in decrepit cabs, curry steaming out their pores, stinking up my day. Terrorists in fucking training. SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!
Fuck the Chelsea boys with their waxed chests and pumped up biceps. Going down on each other in my parks and on my piers, jingling their dicks on my Channel 35.
Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit and their tulips and roses wrapped in plastic. Ten years in the country, still no speaky English?
Fuck the Russians in Brighton Beach. Mobster thugs sitting in cafés, sipping tea in little glasses, sugar cubes between their teeth. Wheelin' and dealin' and schemin'. Go back where you fucking came from!
Fuck the black-hatted Hasidim, strolling up and down 47th street in their dirty gabardine with their dandruff. Selling South African apartheid diamonds!
Fuck the Wall Street brokers. Self-styled masters of the universe. Michael Douglas, Gordon Gecko wannabe mother fuckers, figuring out new ways to rob hard working people blind. Send those Enron assholes to jail for FUCKING LIFE! You think Bush and Cheney didn't know about that shit? Give me a fucking break! Tyco! Worldcom!
Fuck the Puerto Ricans. 20 to a car, swelling up the welfare rolls, worst fuckin' parade in the city. And don't even get me started on the Dom-in-i-cans, 'cause they make the Puerto Ricans look good.
Fuck the Bensonhurst Italians with their pomaded hair, their nylon warm-up suits, their St. Anthony medallions, swinging their, Jason Giambi, Louisville slugger, baseball bats, trying to audition for the Sopranos.
Fuck the Upper East Side wives with their Hermes scarves and their fifty-dollar Balducci artichokes. Overfed faces getting pulled and lifted and stretched, all taut and shiny. You're not fooling anybody, sweetheart!
Fuck the uptown brothers. They never pass the ball, they don't want to play defense, they take fives steps on every lay-up to the hoop. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended one hundred and thirty seven years ago. Move the fuck on!
Fuck the corrupt cops with their anus violating plungers and their 41 shots, standing behind a blue wall of silence. You betray our trust! Fuck the priests who put their hands down some innocent child's pants. Fuck the church that protects them, delivering us into evil. And while you're at it, fuck JC! He got off easy! A day on the cross, a weekend in hell, and all the hallelujahs of the legioned angels for eternity! Try seven years in fuckin' Otisville, J!
Fuck Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and backward-ass, cave-dwelling, fundamentalist assholes everywhere. On the names of innocent thousands murdered, I pray you spend the rest of eternity with your seventy-two whores roasting in a jet-fueled fire in hell. You towel headed camel jockeys can kiss my royal Irish ass!"

2) Inolvidable Michael Douglas retratando al tiburón financiero Gordon Gecko en la película Wall Street donde suelta su célebre discurso en el que nos da su particular visión de la vida y los negocios.
"The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -for lack of a better word- is good.
Greed is right.
Greed works.
Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Greed, in all of its forms -greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge- has marked the upward surge of mankind.
And greed -you mark my words- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.
Thank you."

3) Quien que haya visto la película no recuerda el fabuloso final de Blade Runner?, con el androide replicante Roy Batty interpretado por el genial Rutger Hauer filosofando y encontrándole valor y sentido a la vida justo antes de morir, no hay ocasión en la que vea esta escena sin sentir un nudo en la garganta.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die."

4) No imagino arenga mas motivadora que la dada por William Wallace a sus huestes en Corazón Valiente, montado sobre su caballo, con la cara congestionada por la emoción contenida, momentos antes de la decisiva batalla contra los ingleses estando en notoria desventaja numérica.
"I am William Wallace.
And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny!
You have come to fight as free men.
And free man you are!
What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?"
"Two thousand against ten?" - the veteran shouted. "No! We will run - and live!"
"Yes!" Wallace shouted back.
"Fight and you may die.
Run and you will live at least awhile.
And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!"

5) Las películas épicas se caracterizan por transmitir al espectador esa sensación de grandiosidad y magnificencia propia de las hazañas de poderosos y bravos guerreros y que mejor que el discurso dado en el entierro Vikingo en 13 Guerreros para transmitirnos este sentimiento y remitirnos a épocas de gloria y grandeza.
"Lo, there do I see my father.
Lo, there do I see my mother,
and my sisters, and my brothers.
Lo, there do I see the line of my people,
Back to the beginning!
Lo, they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them,
In the halls of Valhalla!
Where the brave may live forever!"

6) La pandilla “The Warriors” soñaba con unificar las pandillas de Nueva York para poder juntos asumir el control de la ciudad y como olvidar el vibrante discurso en el que Cyrus le hace notar a su audiencia que solo es necesario hacer los números, CAN YOU DIG IT SUCKER?.
“Can you count, suckers?
I say the future is ours..If you can count
Now look, what we have here before us.
We've got the parkstones sitting next to the branksome.
We've got the skinnys, right next to the perry dowding white trackies Nobody is wasting nobody
That is a miracle And miracles..is the way things ougth to be.
You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs.
And there's over a hundred more.
That's 20,000 hardcore members.
Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers!
Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town.
Can you dig it? Can you dig it? CAANN YOUU DIG ITT!
Now, here's the sum total: One gang could run this city! One gang.
Nothing would move without us allowing it to happen.
We could tax the crime syndicates, the police, because WE got the streets, suckers!
CAN YOU DIG IT? CAN YOU DIG IT? CAANNNNNN YOUUU DIIGGG ITT?”

7) El deseo de venganza lleva al caído en desgracia general romano Maximus a realizar portentosas hazañas como gladiador en el coliseo romano y nos entrega aquella memorable escena en la que "El Español" se despoja de su yelmo y revela su verdadera identidad al emperador Cómodo con un corto pero contundente discurso en el que destila todo su implacable odio.
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius,
Commander of the Armies of the North,
General of the Felix Legions,
loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius,
father to a murdered son,
husband to a murdered wife,
and I will have my vengeance -- in this life or the next"

8) Las películas bélicas, sobre todo aquellas que nos muestran como se prepara a una persona para matar al enemigo, son escenario típico para que duros instructores den rienda suelta a toda su soez verborrea para abusar verbalmente de los pobres e inexpertos cadetes en nombre de volverlos máquinas asesinas, nunca podré olvidar el implacable discurso del sargento Hartman a sus reclutas en "Nacido para Matar" en una secuencia que dura mas o menos un tercio de la película y en la que Hartman nos abruma con una retahíla de epítetos que recuerdo hirió la susceptibilidad de muchos espectadores el día que tuve la oportunidad de ver la película en la pantalla grande en la época de su estreno.
"If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon.
You will be a minister of death praying for war.
But until that day you are pukes.
You are the lowest form of life on Earth.
You are not even human, fucking beings.
You are nothing but unorganized grabastic pieces of amphibian shit.
Because I am hard you will not like me.
But the more you hate me the more you will learn.
I am hard but I am fair.
There is no racial bigotry here.
I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers.
Here you are all equally worthless.
And my orders are to weed out all non-hackers who do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved Corps.
Do you maggots understand that?"

9) Odios ancestrales, opresión, humillación, abusos, "The only way, the only solution is the Violent Revolution ..." brama el grupo de Thrash metal Kreator haciendo tributo al incendiario discurso de Cesar en la revolución de los simios en La Conquista del Planeta de los Simios.
"Where there is fire, there is smoke.
And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of Man's downfall - the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind.
The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie buried under radioactive rubble!
When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity!
And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends!
And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty!
And that day is upon you NOW!"

10) Como olvidar el perverso discurso de Mr. Blonde en Perros del Reservorio antes de empezar a torturar a Marvin el policía, Tarantino duramente criticado por hacer lucir "cool" a un frío y desalmado psicópata, con bailecito incluido.
"Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right?
I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless.
Not to get information.
It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop.
You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before.
All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get."

11) Imposible olvidar el peculiar discurso y la manera solemne de recitarlo de Jules Winfield en Pulp Fiction antes de ejecutar a su victima de turno con furia bíblica incluida.
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."