QotD

[libertango]

"You can't buy silence. You can only rent it. So if someone has something on you, they are always going to have it. So the cost has no ceiling. And the fear has no end to it. That's why some knowledge, some information is like a terminal disease. It's contagious and it's fatal."

-- spoken by the character Gregory Stark in Zero Effect, written and directed by Jake Kasdan. (at 1:18 in run time)

Comments

[farmgirl1146.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the wonderful quotation.

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

Sure thing. I've loved that quote for a while -- Netflix gave me the chance to nail it down.

It's an interesting little movie, though maybe too quirky for some. Bill Pullman plays Daryl Zero, a Holmes pastiche, and Ben Stiller plays the Watson cognate. The line above goes to the client, played by Ryan O'Neal.

It's also interesting to see the overlaps with House now, since they come from the same source material. Just different riffs of the same tune.