Memorable dialogues from MBFW

Like the 1st time I watched MBFW with my friends, I can’t help but recall some of the dialogue exchanges in the movie. You know how we pinoys chat after watching a movie. We talk about the scenes as if the other didn’t see it. Then, we’ll also talk about how we wanted the ending to be if we’re not satisfied with how the movie ends. Or we’ll talk about “what if’s”. Then we just keep on talking about the movie over and over again.

Wanting to write the lines correctly but not being sure if what I remember are the exact words or phrases, I searched the net and luckily, I found a list of the memorable quotes from the movie. The list is long so I just chose to copy those that I liked most.

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Julianne Potter: Michael... I love you. I've loved you for nine years, I've just been too arrogant and scared to realize it, and... well, now I'm just scared. So, I realize this comes at a very inopportune time but I really have this gigantic favor to ask of you. Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy. Oh, that sounds like three favors, doesn't it?

(Julianne in her attempt to get Michael to choose her over Kimmy)

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George Downes: When you kissed Michael did he kiss you back?

Julianne Potter: What do you mean? We were lip to lip.

(Julianne called George to tell him that she kissed Michael.)

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Michael O'Neill: Kimmy says if you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just...

Julianne Potter: Passes you by...

Michael O'Neill: Passes you by...

(Michael and Julianne were on a boat…)

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Julianne Potter: It is the duty of the best man to dance with the maid of honor.

Michael O'Neill: Dance? You can't dance. When did you learn how to dance?

Julianne Potter: I've got moves you've never seen.

(Nagpapacute si Julianne kay Michael while they were watching a field game along with some elders.)

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George Downes: Kindred spirits, eh?

Julianne Potter: No, he's nothing like me. He's like you, actually, only straight.

(I don’t remember hearing this conversation but I liked Julianne’s last sentence. George is a gay in the movie.)

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Julianne Potter: I had the strangest dream. I dreamt that some psychopath was trying to break the two of you up. Luckily, I woke up and I see that the world is just as it should be. For my best friend has won the best woman. I didn't buy you a gift. But this is on loan until you two find your song...

(Julianne, being the maid of honor, delivered this message during the reception. The song will follow in a separate post :)

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Kimmy Wallace: He's got you on a pedestal and me in his arms.

(Kimmy speaking to Julianne. Napahiya si Julianne. )

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George Downes: Why don't we stop and have a drink? You can take a later flight.

Julianne Potter: No, no, no, no. I'm a busy girl. I've got exactly four days to break up a wedding, steal the bride's fella and I haven't one clue how to do it.

(hahahaha. Poor girl.)

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Julianne Potter: Crème brûlée can never be Jell-O. YOU could never be Jell-O.

Kimmy Wallace: I HAVE to be Jell-O!

Julianne Potter: You're never gonna be Jell-O!

(What’s with Jello and what’s with crème brulee? – sosyal kasi ang crème brulee, pangalan pa lang.)

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George Downes: Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!

( George suddenly appeared during the reception huh!)

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Julianne Potter: This is my one chance at happiness. I have to be ruthless!

(Again, poor girl!)

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George Downes: Bond, Jane Bond

(Bading talaga, hahaha)

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George Downes: Michael's chasing Kimmy?

Julianne Potter: Yes!

George Downes: You're chasing Michael?

Julianne Potter: YES!

George Downes: Who's chasing you... nobody, get it? There's your answer. It's Kimmy.

(On the phone…)

Just when I was finishing the last conversation, I suddenly asked myself how this movie would appeal to me 10 years from now. Maybe, I should ask my college friends to join me so we can re-live the younger years huh!

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My Best Friend's Wedding...10 years after

From our Yangmingshan trip, Jade slept until I woke her up before 8pm so she could have dinner. Dennis turned on the TV and we saw that the movie feature is just about to start. Realizing it was “My Best Friend’s Wedding”, I told him I wanted to watch it because I haven’t seen if for a long time already. So we all sat in the sala, with Jade in our midst, and watched. Jade danced with the “Wishin’ and Hopin’” song as the movie’s introductory soundtrack. In the middle of the movie, Jade pulled us to the bedroom signalling us she wanted to sleep already. I asked Dennis if he could put Jade to sleep as I wanted to finish the movie but he told me he wanted to finish it too. We all headed up to the bedroom, turn off the light but didn’t go to sleep yet. Instead, we turned on the small TV in the room and continued to watch. I attempted to put Jade into sleep but she waited until the movie ended.

I first watched MBFW sometime between October and November of 1997… yes, that was 10 years ago. I watched it with my good friends while we were in Manila for the board exams review. I still remember that the moviehouse was jampacked so we had to squeeze ourselves until we reached the front with the screen right infront of us. I guess we seated on the floor. Since we were younger then, the movie really attracted us. But then I realized, until today, after 10 years, the “kilig” effect is still there. I don’t know about my husband’s reaction but I saw that he also enjoyed it.

The story is about two friends who made a pact that if they reach 28 and still haven’t got their partners, they will end up together. The girl was unattached seemingly waiting for the boy to propose but unfortunately figured out that the boy is already engaged and is about to get married 4 days after she knew it. So she had to make a way to stop the wedding.

Here are two versions of the movie plot from tvguide and wikipedia.

As her 28th birthday approaches, perpetually noncommittal food critic Julianne (Julia Roberts) is haunted by the deal she made with best-buddy Michael (Dermot Mulroney), who's always carried a torch for her: They vowed that if neither had married by the age of 28, he'd propose. But when the dreaded phone call comes, it's worse than she had imagined: Michael has fallen in love with someone else. And worse still, this perfect being (Cameron Diaz) is blonde, younger, richer and more good-natured than Julianne. Though atypical in that our gal is forced to fight for her man by any means necessary, this Roberts vehicle is still a first-class showcase for her blinding smile, cascading locks and amiably klutzy mannerisms. But its revelations are Diaz and Rupert Everett, who plays Roberts' boss: Her Kimmy, all insouciance and honest ditziness, is enough to make a frat boy's knees go weak, while he -- the exceedingly suave and witty voice of reason -- gives a modern spin to the classic role of romantic confidant. Every time Everett walks into frame, you can't help but think how much better a movie this would be if there were only more of him in it. This amiable comedy may not be hugely sophisticated, but Hogan does manage to make his attractive leads look like complete idiots, no mean achievement in image-obsessed Hollywood.

Julianne heads to Chicago intent on sabotaging Michael's wedding to the perky Kimberly 'Kimmy' Wallace (Diaz). Soon after Julianne's arrival in Chicago, and after Michael has introduced her to his fiancee Kimberly, Kimmy puts Jules on the spot, in the presence of Jules' best friend Michael, to be Kimmy's maid of honor, so Jules consents, which establishes a comical Hyde/Jekyll scenario for Julianne, who on the one hand, has to appear to be true to the role of being Kimberly's dutiful maid of honor, while nevertheless secretly looking for any opportunity to sabotage Kimmy's wedding to Michael. When other ploys by Julianne fail, she concocts her own fake engagement to her gay friend George (Rupert Everett) --a surprise not only to Michael, but also to George when he hears Jules announce their supposed engagement to Michael when George and Michael meet. Julianne's schemes are sometimes blatently devious, even cruel; in one case, she manages to convince Michael that Kimberly is attempting to steer him into a career decision that he doesn't want to take.

After one scheme after another has failed, Julianne finally confesses to Michael that she is in love with him, but it is truly not meant to be, and Michael does end up marrying his fiancee Kimberly. Two notable differences from most romantic comedies, are that the heroine and hero do not end up together, and that the main character, Julianne is, by her own eventual tearful admission, the "bad guy." Fortunately, everyone is forgiven in the end, and Jules contentedly dances with George at the wedding reception of Kimmy and Michael.

I remember now that all of my girlfriends who watched the movie with me had purple motif on their weddings. In the movie, purple was the wedding’s motif. Coincidence, errr…

I know KGF even bought the movie’s soundtrack in a casette form – CD’s were’nt in yet at that time.

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