I watched the timeless British classic Withnail & I for probably around the 43rd time last night, so for any fellow obsessives out there, here's my top 10 lines from the film, in no particular order. Anyone who hasn't seen it should stop reading now...
1) 'I mean to have you even if it must be burglary!' - Uncle Monty outlines his determination to have his wicked way with Marwood - 'I'.
2) 'Don't threaten me with a dead fish!' - Withnail responds indignantly to being menaced with a moribund eel by Jake the poacher.
3) 'There is, I think you will agree, a certain je ne sais quois about a firm, young carrot' - Monty explains his life long love of vegetables in his own inimicable style.
4) 'Four floors up on the Charing Cross Road and never a job at the top of them' - Monty again, lamenting the inefficiency of his theatrical agent, one Raymond Duck.
5) 'Stop saying that Withnail, of course he's the fucking farmer!' - 'I' becomes increasingly frustrated by Withnail asking a man on a tractor three times if he is 'the farmer'.
6) 'We want cake and fine wine. We want the finest wines known to humanity; we want them here and we want them now.' - A drunken Withnail outlines his demands to the proprietor of the Penrith Tea Rooms.
7) Withnail: 'My family don't like me being on the stage'
'I': 'Then they must be delighted by your career so far'
'I' makes a withering but accurate assessment of Withnail's lack of progress in his thespian endeavours to date.
8) 'Even a stopped clock keeps the right time twice a day' - 'I' philosophising in the bath.
9) 'They're selling hippy wigs in Woolworths man. The greatest decade in the history of the world is over ... and we have failed to paint it black.' - drug dealer Danny reflects backs at the end of the 60s.
10) 'Scrubbers! Scrubbers!' - Withnail charms some passing schoolgirls while sticking his head out of the Jag's window.
There's my ten - no doubt my fellow Withnail afficianados will think there's many others that should be in there instead!
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