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What are your favourite lines as said by Marion in Raiders?
Mine are:
"I don't know what type of people you're used to dealing with, but nobody tells me what to do in my place."
"Well Jones. At least you haven't forgotten to show a lady a good time. Until I get my five thousand dollars, you're gonna get more than you bargained for. I'm your god damn partner!"
"So how come you haven't found a nice girl to settle down with and raise eight or nine kids like your friend Sallah?"
I like the inflection in the "It was wrong and you knew it" line.
She has a lot of good lines . . . but in my opinion the best communication from Marion in the whole movie isn't verbal -- it's the look she gives Indy on Sallah's terrace.
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The whole scene in the Raven (ha ha!) with Indy and Marion is great- their past is kept a bit ambiguous. It's a very well-written scene, probably the best of its type. My favorite line would have to be "I was a child! I was in love!" But then again, I'm a HUGE Marion fan- so I love all her lines.
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OH! I almost forgot about that! I love that scene too. Especially when she says, "I have no loyalty to Jones. He's brought me nothing but trouble." That's a great line.
Originally posted by 00Kevin
but the best Marion quote of them all:
"YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! I'M AN AMERICAN!!!!" [/b]
The best part about this favorite Marion line is what she says next:
"INNNNNNNDDYYYYYYYY!"
I replay that a few dozen times!
Another hilarious line occurs after she smashes Indy on the chin with the steamed-up mirror in Raiders. He screams so damn loud you can hear it on the open ocean, and she has the nerve to turn to him and quip:
While it's funny and it works in the film, I don't like the "YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! I'M AN AMERICAN!!!!" line for two reasons:
(1) after having been dragged around the world looking for Abner's pieces of junk and left stranded in Nepal where she had to fend for herself, I just don't see her uttering that line, and
(2) I don't think the whole ugly-American thing (with Americans having a feeling of entitlement) got started until after WWII. (But I admit we had the Monroe Doctrine and our (mis)adventures in the Phillipines (sp?) -- and not to forget we saved the French in WWI).