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"I would like to continue with an examination of time. From the moment we enter this life, we are in the flow of it. We measure it and we mark it, but we cannot defy it. We cannot even speed it up or slow it down. Or can we ? Have we not each experienced the sensation… that a beautiful moment seemed to pass too quickly… and wished that we could make it linger ? Or felt time slow on a dull day… and wished that we could speed things up a bit ?"
"I thought we might end this evening with a discussion of the soul. All of the greatest religions speak of the soul’s endurance beyond the end of life. So what then does it mean to die?"
"Life and death. Space and time. Fate and chance. These are the forces of the universe. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a man who has unlocked these mysteries. From the furthest corners of the world where the dark arts still hold sway he returns to us to demonstrate how nature’s laws may be bent. I give you Eisenheim."
"As a boy, I'm told, he had a chance encounter with a travelling magician. One version of the story was that the man himself vanished... along with the tree. People began to think he had some sort of special power... or at least that he was a bit different. And then he met her."
"Edward Norton - Edward Abramovich aka Eisenheim"
"Paul Giamatti - Chief Inspector Walter Uhl"
"Jessica Biel - Duchess Sophie von Teschen"
"Rufus Sewell - Crown Prince Leopold"
"The war between Sorcerers was fought in the shadows of history, and the fate of mankind rested with the just and powerful Merlin. He told his secrets to three trusted apprentices, Balthazar, Veronica, and Horvath. He should have trusted only two..."
"This is the Merlin Circle. It focuses your energy. Helps you master new spells. It is where you will learn the Art. Step inside, you leave everything else behind. Once you enter, there is no going back."
"Love, is a distraction. Sorcery requires complete focus. Let's go Thunder and Lightning, there's more to learn."
"Dave? You should run."
"What happened to "don't touch anything?""
"It's okay. I have to go into town anyway to get your anti-itch cream."
"[singing] I got a date with a girl 'cause I'm... awesome!"
"[to Becky] These coils are my life. Two years I'm down here working with them and they're making their own music and it was lost on me and I was never able to appreciate it, until I met you. And I heard you talking about music on your radio show... [sighs] I'm sappy."
"No, no, this is not happening, I taste sour in my mouth."
"[to Balthazar] Are you insane? [Balthazar thinks, then holds up his fingers an inch apart] Little bit. Okay."
"It's the coolest job ever."
"A job so great, it's magic."
"Kansas is full of good men. I don't want to be a good man...I want to be a great one."
"[stuck in the tornado] I don't want to die! I haven't accomplished anything yet! Please!"
"Oz? That's my name. Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. But everyone calls me Oz."
"How hard can it be to kill a Wicked Witch?"
"I have everything I ever wanted."
"Aren't you the Great Man we've been waiting for?"
"I am on no one's side. You know that I simply want peace, that's all I ever wanted, and the wizard can do that. He's a good man."
"This is who I am now. I want him to see me like this. I want him to know that he was the one who made me this way."
"You're capable of more than you know..."
"The shield allows a good-hearted person to pass."
"You can't give me that. You took what mattered most to me: My father."
"I don't need them. The bubbles are just for show."
"Watching our hero fill the clown-sized shoes of prophecy is only as unbearable as its creators' inability to make their tale distinct. But enlivening detail is absent from most of Oz the Great and Powerful, a film that is largely distinguished by the fact that it's not quite as flavorless as it could have been (especially when compared to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland) … Yet when a film positions itself in the shadow of a beloved fantasy classic, passable isn't good enough. "Oz" never goes anywhere you don't expect it to. … Oz the Great and Powerful was apparently made by a committee whose honorary speaker just happens to be the director of Drag Me to Hell."
"Raimi has kept hold of his irreverent sense of mischief. Telling the story of the faux wizard’s journey to stewardship of Oz, the new film somehow manages to be eye-wateringly vast and endlessly light on its feet. How refreshing it is to enjoy something we never knew we wanted. … It transpires that, like Monty Python’s Brian, this Oz meets the description of a saviour, long prophesied in myth, who will lead the magic kingdom to safety and prosperity. Oz’s sleepy eyes sparkle at the prospect of access to a hoard of gold. But dangers await him. … Yes, the picture feels a little like a cynical money-trap for the cinematic shoulder season. But Raimi really makes it fly. It’s all because (you knew something like this was coming) of the wonderful, wonderful things he does."
"Now that I'm a parent, I realize that Oz is the father figure … He's not a bad man but not someone who can solve all his children's problems for them, either. All he can really do is appreciate them for who they are, so that they learn to appreciate themselves. … As much as I enjoyed Sam Raimi's new movie, which is breezy and bright in myriad dimensions, I doubt his story will exert a … hold on the popular imagination for generations to come. … we're no longer watching Dorothy, an innocent abroad. Instead, we have James Franco's Oscar Diggs ("Oz" for short), a charismatic charlatan and a two-bit showman with an eye for the ladies — any lady, really; wiccans welcome! If there's a throne and a treasure trove at the end of the rainbow, maybe he'll stick around the next morning. He's not all heel, though. At least he has the decency to be embarrassed that he's not the magical savior everyone seems to be expecting. He says he aspires to greatness, even if he never seems likely to stretch for it. … The new "Oz" falls short of the 1939 "Oz" in charm and innocence and certainly in songs (there is only one, a brief, jokey number from the Munchkins). But as family entertainment, it's hard to fault such a rapturous spectacle and astute, suspenseful piece of storytelling."
"No movie ever can, or will, replace 1939’s The Wizard Of Oz, but taken on its own terms, this eye-filling fantasy is an entertaining riff on how the Wizard of that immortal film found his way to Oz. Like the stage musical Wicked, it assumes that its audience knows the story told in The Wizard of Oz. … The production pays homage to the 1939 movie by opening in black & white, in the old-fashioned Academy screen ratio, then expanding and turning into vivid color once the magician named Oz (short for Oscar) arrives in the faraway land that bears his name. I was a bit skeptical about the casting of James Franco in this role, as a small-time carnival magician, but he is thoroughly engaging as a struggling con man and charmer. … Is this an Oz for the ages? That’s not for me to predict, but I do think it gives audiences of 2013 a satisfying big-screen experience. It doesn’t eclipse The Wizard of Oz, but it fills the bill as a modern-day companion piece."
"James Franco has turned much of his adult life into performance art that feels equal parts sincere and con game, and it would seem he'd be well cast as Oscar Diggs, a small-time illusionist and unabashed serial liar working the dusty back roads of Kansas in 1905. The problem is, Franco's a lot more believable playing slimy than sincere, and the part requires him to do both. It's a steady but less-than-captivating performance. … Much of Oz the Great and Powerful centers on Oscar's transformation from me-first slickster to the Wizard of Oz, aka Man Behind the Curtain. With Oscar relying heavily on the inventions of Thomas Edison, his hero back on Earth, to pull off his biggest trick ever, Oz the Great and Powerful finally breaks free of its beautiful but artificial trappings and becomes a story with heart in the final act. Thing is, we know Oz and its wizard and those witches and the Munchkins are destined for a far greater adventure a little ways down the Yellow Brick Road. The landscape won't be as amazingly gorgeous and the witches won't be able to fly about and hurl fireballs with the ferocity they display here, but it will be a much more magical adventure all the same."
"James Franco - Oscar Diggs / Wizard of Oz"
"Mila Kunis - Theodora / The Wicked Witch of the West"
"Rachel Weisz - Evanora / The Wicked Witch of the East"
"Michelle Williams - Glinda the Good Witch / Annie"
"Zach Braff - the voice of Finley the Flying Monkey / Frank, Oscar's circus assistant"
"Joey King - the voice of China Girl/Girl In Wheelchair"
"Tim Holmes - the Strongman"
"Bill Cobbs - Master Tinkerer"
"Tony Cox - Knuck the Fanfare Player"
"Abigail Spencer - May"
"Bruce Campbell - a Winkie guard"
"Whatever this grand trick is, it was designed a long time ago, and I believe that what's about to follow, is really going to amaze. So I suggest you sit back and enjoy your front row seat. You paid quite a lot of good money for it."
"Want to know how they did it? Just say the magic word."
"There is a legend of a secret order born in ancient Egypt called "the Eye". It is said that they perfected sleight of hand to steal food from the Pharaohs and give it to the slaves. Their purpose: using magic and illusion to even the scales of justice. Are the Horsemen the next in a long line of fools to believe this myth? Will they evade the rules of law and logic like they did in Las Vegas? Or will the dark mysticism of this Southern swampland get the better of them?"
"First rule of magic: always be the smartest guy in the room."
"Let me warn you. I want you to follow. Because no matter what you think you might know, we will always be 1 step, 3 steps, 7 steps ahead of you. And just when you think you're catching up, that's when we'll be right behind you. And at no time will you be anywhere other than exactly where I want you to be. So come close, get all over me; because the closer you think you are, the less you'll actually see."
"As of this instant, we are ahead of them. We need to keep it that way, understand?"
"So here's my new theory: the legend is that the Eye is everywhere, waiting for the truly great magicians to distinguish themselves from the mediocre ones. Maybe that was you. Deep down inside, you wanted nothing more than to be part of the Eye, but you were never invited, so you tried to destroy them, but instead, what happens? You pissed them off."
"Welcome to the Eye."
"Come in close, because the more you think you see, the easier it'll be to fool you."
"4 amazing magicians. 3 impossible heists. 1 billion dollars. This is no illusion."
"Look closely, because the closer you think you are, the less you will actually see."
"Can you hear it, Lieutenant? It has the voice of a mad bull!"(the crematorium)"
"They'll lock me in jail in a padded cell with a strait jacket! No,Thank You! I'll take the chair!""
"3D THRILL! Fuel for the human bonfire!"
"SPINE CHILLING-THRILLS!"
"Astounding! Astonishing! Amaazing! So different you'll hardly believe your eyes!"
"Vincent Price — Don Gallico / Gallico the Great"
"Mary Murphy — Karen Lee"
"Eva Gabor — Claire Ormond"
"John Emery — The Great Rinaldi"
"Donald Randolph — Ross Ormond"
"Lenita Lane — Alice Prentiss"
"Patrick O'Neal — Police Detective Lt. Alan Bruce"
"Jay Novello — Frank Prentiss"
"[voice over] Danger is unknown to the true believer. Have faith my son!"
"The Thrill of Thrills! The Master Magician is Back! You will thrill at his amazing new adventures in this latest and greatest mystery drama"
"Bela Lugosi — Frank Chandler/Chandu the Magician"
"Maria Alba — Princess Nadji"
"Clara Kimball Young — Dorothy Regent"
"Lucien Prival — Vindhyan"
"I killed Buffo Black - and placed the guilt on Mark Royce, I thought if Mark were out of the way, Julie would come back to me, but they love each other and I am old... there's nothing left in life for me- it was murder. Your Honor and I will pay!"
"Conrad Veidt — Erik the Great"
"Mary Philbin — Julie"
"Leslie Fenton — Buffo"
"Fred MacKaye — Mark Royce"
"[to Stan] It's better to spend one night with a corpse than 60 days with the cops."
"[to Stan] Well, here's another nice predicament you've gotten me into."
"Stan Laurel — Stanley"
"Oliver Hardy — Ollie"
"Harry August Jansen — Dante The Magician"
"Sheila Ryan — Margo"
"John Shelton — Tommy White"
"Don Costello — Doc Lake"
"Elisha Cook Jr. — Frank Lucas"
"Edward Gargan — Police Lt. Foster"
"Addison Richards — Attorney Malcolm Kilgore"
"George Lynn — Darby Mason"
"James Bush — Joe Morgan"
"Lou Lubin — Dixie Beeler"
"I suppose it all started with the snow. You see, it was a very special kind of snow. A snow that made the happy happier and the giddy even giddier. A snow that made a homecoming homier and natural enemies friends. Naturally. For it was the first snow of the season. And as any child can tell you, there's a certain magic to the very first snow. Especially when it falls on the day before Christmas. For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow... [laughs] Well, something wonderful is bound to happen."
"Jackie Vernon - Frosty"
"Jimmy Durante - Narrator"
"June Foray - Karen, schoolteacher, and Karen's friends"
"Billy De Wolfe - Professor Hinkle (The Magician)"
"Paul Frees - the traffic cop, ticket taker, and Santa Claus"
"Michael Mandy: Charlie Brown"
"Sydney Penny: Lucy van Pelt"
"Cindy Reilly: Sally Brown"
"Earl Reilly: Linus van Pelt, Franklin"
"Brent Hauer: Peppermint Patty"
"Shannon Cohn/Casey Carlson: Marcie"
"Christopher Donohone: Schroeder"
"Bill Melendez: Snoopy and Woodstock"
"The Eye. It may not lie, but don't think for a moment that it can't be lied to. Seeing is believing. But is it truth... or just an illusion? People see the Horsemen as noble Robin Hoods. But are they? Or are they nothing more than common thieves? Depends on your point of view. Here's what you know: they robbed a bank in Paris from a stage in Las Vegas. They fleeced an insurance magnate out of hundreds of millions of dollars and disappeared from a roof in New York, always showering their devoted fans with money. Here's what you don't know: they left one man behind, framed, holding the bag... me."
"Are you listening, Horsemen? When you emerge, and I know you will, I will be there, waiting for you. 'Cause mark my words, you will get what's coming to you... in ways you can't expect, or imagine, but very much deserve. Because one thing I believe in is an eye for an eye."
"As the Horsemen like to say, magic is about controlling perception. You see them as champions of the truth. But are they? Or is that just another one of their illusions? So since they clearly love secrets, let's reveal some of theirs. Do you recall the death of Jack Wilder? What if I told you that he's not just alive, but he's actually right here! And do you know who else is here? The FBI. Let's let them in, shall we? And now, for the big reveal. There is a fifth Horseman. And he's not only their leader; he's also the biggest criminal of them all. Soon-to-be former FBI agent Dylan Rhodes!"
"Before you die, Dylan, I would like you to really take this moment in because this is the consequence of your personal vendetta come to life and staring you in the face. I also want you to know that when you're gone, we're not going to stop. We're gonna destroy everything you believe in, starting with the Horsemen, and ending with the Eye. Now then, cast your mind back to standing by the banks of the river watching your father descend, disgraced and discredited. The horrid psychic pain as you have relived for years. I felt that same thing two years ago as you drained not just my father's fortune, but his dignity! And yet you took pleasure from it. This should bring back some childhood memories."
"You know, you make it almost too easy? I mean, even your hilarious attempts to make yourselves unpredictable, just follow the same pattern each time. Set up, set up, set up. Big reveal. Which, tonight, was going to be at the stroke of midnight, middle of the Thames? Tell me if I'm warm. Well, there will be a big reveal, and it will come now."
"I wanted to meet you. Everybody, really. I want to be a part of the Eye, OK? I said it. I do. And I want to use my magic for good, like you and Merritt and Jack, especially. Oh, that's right. I know that Jack is alive. I know that he faked his own death. I'm a huge fan of faking deaths. That was crazy! By the way, I am so sorry that Henley left you. You know what I heard... about Henley? No? Well, I heard that she got tired of waiting around. She lost faith, so she asked for an out, and the Eye gave it to her. But who knows, right? In matters of the heart, so difficult to tell. I mean, maybe she got sick of you. You ever think about that? Control issues? Maybe you just didn't tie her up tight enough."
"Do you guys ever think that the Eye is watching this? You know, that maybe this is even what they want? And at the exact right moment, they're gonna swoop in, and we'll be like, "Yes! Thank God you're here! Thank God! Just in the nick of time, Eye!" And then we'll just celebrate, and it was all worth it in the end? I don't even really think that, either, so... it's cool."
"Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel Atlas, a member of the Four Horsemen."
"Mark Ruffalo as Dylan Rhodes, a former FBI agent, the new leader of the Four Horsemen and the son of the late illusionist Lionel Shrike."
"Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney, a member of the Four Horsemen, and Chase McKinney, an associate of Mabry. They are twin brothers who specialize in hypnosis."
"Dave Franco as Jack Wilder, a magician specializing in card tricks. He is a member of the Four Horsemen."
"Daniel Radcliffe as Walter Mabry, Arthur Tressler's illegitimate son, a young technology tycoon."
"Lizzy Caplan as Lula May, a new member of the Four Horsemen, replacing Henley."
"Morgan Freeman as Thaddeus Bradley, a magic debunker, exposing the tricks of other magicians; the grandmaster of the Eye and a friend of Lionel Shrike."
"Jay Chou as Li, a Macanese magic shop owner and member of the Eye."
"Sanaa Lathan as Deputy Director Natalie Austin, an FBI deputy director who tracks down Rhodes for helping the Horsemen."
"Michael Caine as Arthur Tressler, the Four Horsemen's former sponsor, who wants revenge for losing his money and power."
"Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Allen Scott-Frank, head of the Macau Science Center and member of the Eye."
"Ben Lamb as Owen Case, Walter's former business partner."
"David Warshofsky as Agent Cowan, an FBI agent and a skeptic of Rhodes'."
"Tsai Chin as Bu Bu, Li's grandmother, who owns a magic shop in Macau and is also a member of the Eye."
"Richard Laing as Lionel Shrike, a magician who drowned while performing an escape trick thirty years ago, Dylan's late father. The character was previously played by an uncredited Elias Koteas in the first film."