I invite you to give me some advice. Any kind at all. I promise I will consider it seriously, and not argue about why it's impossible or unreasonable. Go ahead!
"Never... no... Always... check your sources." (Sometimes, you just have to quote Real Genius, and neither the line about Socrates nor the one about the temple, the sun-god robes and the little pickles are actually advice, as such.)
Very young Val Kilmer plays one of the ten smartest people in the world, finishing college at a school suspiciously like CalTech (seriously, my wife, who went to CalTech, loves to narrate it with every single thing that's borrowed from the real school;). It includes many classic lines, such as:
"You have to get even with Kent! It's a moral imperative!!"
"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?" "No." "Why am I the only one who has that dream?"
"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?""
"Your colon: What does it look like?"
"Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?" "No." "A girl's got to have her standards."
There's a spaceborn assassination laser with a giant spinning mirror, a hyperactive girl who sands her own floor and knits sweaters overnight while being utterly brilliant and inventing all kinds of things, the biggest Jiffy-Pop ever, a guy who lives in the walls and enters the Frito-Lay sweepstakes one million six hundred and fifty thousand times, and smart people on ice. You must watch it.
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Real Genius?
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New advice: Watch Real Genius.
Very young Val Kilmer plays one of the ten smartest people in the world, finishing college at a school suspiciously like CalTech (seriously, my wife, who went to CalTech, loves to narrate it with every single thing that's borrowed from the real school;). It includes many classic lines, such as:
"You have to get even with Kent! It's a moral imperative!!"
"Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"
"No."
"Why am I the only one who has that dream?"
"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?""
"Your colon: What does it look like?"
"Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?"
"No."
"A girl's got to have her standards."
There's a spaceborn assassination laser with a giant spinning mirror, a hyperactive girl who sands her own floor and knits sweaters overnight while being utterly brilliant and inventing all kinds of things, the biggest Jiffy-Pop ever, a guy who lives in the walls and enters the Frito-Lay sweepstakes one million six hundred and fifty thousand times, and smart people on ice. You must watch it.
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