estepheia: (It's only a movie...)
estepheia ([personal profile] estepheia) wrote2011-10-19 07:08 pm

Need help finding a suitable movie quote

After poring over this problem for days, I finally decided to ask you guys for help.
My novel has been finished for quite some time, and I've mailed the outline to publishing companies, without success, but now I want to enter the full manuscript in a competiton. Each chapter opens with a more or less famous movie quote that fits the events that follow. Only one pivotal chapter towards the end has no quote yet, and somehow I can't find one... Maybe you guys can help?

Movie should be well-known, should be PG13-ish or under, ideally a movie that a 12-y-o boy may have seen.
Situation: one boy helps another boy climb out of a celler where he's been locked up, while the house is on fire...
Whole novel is about friendship and courage. Possible themes: climbing, fire, buddy moment....

It would even help if you don't know an exact quote but remember a scene that fits, in that case I can go to imdb and hunt for a suitable quote.

Your help would be greatly appreciated. :)

[identity profile] behindblue-eyes.livejournal.com 2011-10-19 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm... Is Donnie Darko rated higher than PG13? The teacher in that one said: "This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that Cellar Door is the most beautiful." Might be interesting. Otherwise...maybe something from The Sandlot (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Sandlot)?

[identity profile] estepheia.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for your help. Good quote, but a little bit too intellectual at that point in the book. Remindes me that I should watch Donnie Darko again...
Cheers!