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I saved you. I saved this city and all your worthless lives. Game of Thrones – Tyrion's Courtroom Speech from The Laws of Gods and Men
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In the book version of this scene, Tyrion only thinks this line – he doesn’t say it to the crowd.

I saved you all, Tyrion thought. I saved this vile city and all your worthless lives.

This is because the TV version of Game of Thrones doesn’t allow for internal dialogue or voiceovers, but Tyrion’s heroics at the Battle of Blackwater Bay are important to mention here.

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This fulfills the Ethos section of Aristotle’s rhetoric triangle- Tyrion builds trust with the audience and credibility. Though the rhetorical device is a bit wasted on them, since they’ll kill him anyway.

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All these other girls are tempting
But I'm empty when you're gone
And they say OMI – Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)
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Feeling empty inside is a symptom of depression, so OMI should hang on to this girl for as long as he can.

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Do you need me?
Do you think I'm pretty?
Do I make you feel like cheating? OMI – Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)
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By the third question, this girl entices him to cheat, but OMI’s already found his cheerleader and turns her down. In the music video, an attractive stranger (at 1:23) asks this of him.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Genius Users (Ft. Black_Panther_JS, ChaosInMyMind, Cordyleome, DCA, EwokABdevito, Genius Lists, Heisenferg, Joybadass, JulyStatue, PsyQonaut, Quikstik, Rapfanatic, SamuelJarred, Sbarro_Soundsystem, Screen Genius, SkyArt, Slightly_senile, ​sosad2112, TwoTecs, Waldfield, WuTangKillaBee & Xenophontis) – Favorite Movies of All Time

This nudged Memento out as my favorite film about memory because I didn’t want the list to get too Nolan-centric.

It might get buried under layers of sci-fi elements and Jim Carrey silliness, but this is one of the most emotionally powerful movies ever made. While the triumph in most romance movies comes in defying a parent or not caring what society has to say, Joel and Clementine disobey what they are biologically wired to do in order to get back together.

The message that there is more to each of us than a bunch of chemicals and neurons might make Rust Cohle roll his eyes, but it makes most people, even the cynical, believe that there might be something to it.

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Couldn’t put it any better myself.

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In Bruges Genius Users (Ft. Black_Panther_JS, ChaosInMyMind, Cordyleome, DCA, EwokABdevito, Genius Lists, Heisenferg, Joybadass, JulyStatue, PsyQonaut, Quikstik, Rapfanatic, SamuelJarred, Sbarro_Soundsystem, Screen Genius, SkyArt, Slightly_senile, ​sosad2112, TwoTecs, Waldfield, WuTangKillaBee & Xenophontis) – Favorite Movies of All Time

This is kind of a wild card pick, but there’s no way I could leave it off my list. Most movies that try to juggle drama and comedy end up with a strange, lukewarm film that’s funnier than most dramas and more interesting than most comedies, but much less funny than most comedies and less interesting than most dramas.

In Bruges masters this balancing act by allowing for moments of pure comedy, real drama, and often a blend of the two. The result is a movie that’s almost always funny, but when it chooses to get a touch sentimental it doesn’t feel forced or cheesy.

Colin Farrell stars as hitman Ray, Brendan Gleeson co-stars as his partner Ken, and Ralph Fiennes steals the show as their frighteningly ridiculous boss Harry Waters in the “fairytale town” of Bruges, Belgium.

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Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – 2015 Oscar Nominations
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PTA adapted his screenplay from Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. Anderson is consistently nominated for the Screenplay category, and while Inherent Vice was fairly divisive, it has an outside shot if Sniper does well in the major categories.

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Oh, mothers, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun The Animals – The House of the Rising Sun
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At this point the narrator addresses the audience, pleading the mothers in the crowd to keep their children from going down the same path as he did. He addresses the mothers instead of the fathers because mothers have been much more responsible in his personal experience.

At the time of this song’s release, mothers were also primarily at home raising their children while the father worked, which is another reason why the singer addresses the mothers.

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It’s gotta be some kind of gambling/drinking establishment

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maybe that place is jail maybe

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Spend your lives in sincere misery. I swear I’ve listened multiple times and that’s all I can here

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