The Running Man (film)
From Wikiquote
The Running Man is a 1987 action film about a police officer wrongfully accussed by the government of a massacre, who now must survive in a violent game show, The Running Man.
[edit] Ben Richards
- ...because I'm going to say please!
- I'm not into politics. I'm into survival.
- Women. Can't live with 'em, can't live... with 'em.
- [After Laughlin has been killed, Ben rips a camera off the wall and speaks into it to Killian] You cold-hearted bastard! I live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your god-damn spine!
- Killian, here's your Subzero, now plain zero.
- I told Killian I'd be back. I wouldn't want to be a liar.
- [After Amber asks what happened to Buzzsaw, whom Ben cut in half with a chainsaw] He had to split.
- [About to throw a flare onto the gas from Fireball's gas line] How about a light?
- Hey!, Christmas Tree.
[edit] Damon Killian
- Hello? May I have the number for the Justice Department. Entertainment Division, please.
- I want a kiss, now, a big kiss, but remember... no tongues.
- (On the phone getting chewed out by government officials for the death of Subzero) Yes, I know a Stalker died. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Now look! You hired me to keep the people entertained. If you want to avoid tax revolts, food riots, and bread lines you sure as hell are not going to do that with reruns of Gilligan's Island!...Gilligan's Island?...You know! The one with the boat?...Hums a few bars from "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island".
[edit] Dialogue
- (Start of the show. Ben Richards is in a rocket sled about to be launched into the game zone. He has agreed to do this because Killian threatened to send his friends Will Laughlin and Harry Weiss into the game zone, where they would have been slaughtered)
- Damon Killian: Now Ben, we all know you are a big tough guy, but it takes a big man to admit when he needs a little help from his friends. So do not worry Ben, you will not be lonely!
- (Capsules open to reveal a shocked Laughlin and Weiss in rocket sleds, showing that Killian has lied to Richards)
- Ben Richards(talking to himself): That bastard!
- Damon Killian: On your marks! Get set!...
- Ben Richards: Killian! I'll be back!
- A brief pause as both men look at each other
- Damon Killian(quietly to Ben): Only in a rerun!
- Damon Killian(loudly): ...GO!
- (Rocket sleds of the three men are launched through a series of tubes and into the game zone, where they await being hunted by the Stalkers)
- Buzzsaw: The saw is a part of me. And now, I am going to make it a part of you!
- Ben Richards: That is OK, keep it!
- Damon Killian: OK Agnes. Who do you think is going to make the next kill? Fireball or Dynamo?
- Agnes: Boy, that is a toughy. Thinks it over for a few seconds. Umm...I am going to go with...Ben Richards.
- (Audience boos)
- Damon Killian: Agnes, Ben Richards is a Runner. You have to elect a Stalker.
- Agnes: I can vote for anyone I want and I endorse Ben Richards. That boy is one mean motherfucker!
- Amber is hiding from Fireball and takes refuge in a destroyed locker room. She is shocked to see a charred skeleton, then to see two more. Amber studies the dogtags to identify the skeletons
- Amber Mendez: Whitman.
- Amber Mendez: Price.
- Fireball: Haddad.
- Amber is also shocked that Fireball found her quietly
- Amber Mendez: Last season's winners?
- Fireball: No. Last season's losers.
- (Control room. An enraged Captain Freedom enters wearing a goofy looking outfit that makes him look like a Mars man)
- Captain Freedom: Forget it, Killian, I will not do it! I refuse to go for any of these tricks.
- Captain Freedom begins removing tech adhesives while Killian rolls his eyes
- Damon Killian: Oh Cap, will you please spare me the gladiator zen! We got to keep the ratings going.
- Captain Freedom: Ten years ago I was killing men like this with my bare hands! This is a sport of death and honor, Code of the Gladiator!
- Damon Killian: Get him out of here!
- Sven, Killian's bodyguard, is reluctant to throw Captain Freedom out of the building
- Damon Killian: What is the matter? Steroids make you deaf? Kick him out, NOW!!
- Sven shrugs his shoulders at Captain Freedom, who sighs and walks out of the control room on his own without Sven having to get rough
