hey Aubrey how's it going today I'm great how are you I'm awesome I'm awesome I mean do you like to
quote movies a lot are you first of all are you a movie Watcher oh yes I'm a huge movie buff if you
guys listen to the IELTS energy podcast you know that because Jessica and I end up talking about
movies a lot movies a lot I watch movies a lot in fact I just went to top gun at the theater last
night oh my gosh I've heard it's getting really good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes really did a good
job especially if you've seen the first Top Gun movie this was so nostalgic where there are a lot
of Throwbacks a lot of really fun stuff it had all the feels great action I highly recommend
it that's classic because that kind of setup where you're taking an actor who was huge in that movie
you know 30 years ago it could be a disaster and it could be great depending on how you do it and
it sounds like they really did it well I want to go this weekend and see that yes they did it
well Tom Cruise is an excellent actor yeah and it was a really fun movie because there are so many
quotes from that movie that you don't realize people say all the time sometimes we say these
movie quotes and we don't think about the movie it's from it just becomes part of the culture
like in Top Gun when they say I feel the need the Need for Speed you say that all the time just to
be funny you know like when we're about to zoom in the Tesla we'll say that and you don't think
about it and then you watch an old movie you're like that's where that quote comes from it's so
true and I'm sure for you guys for our listeners you have your own movies where you probably take
the quotes and put them into your native language and everyone knows what you're talking about right
so now your next step here with us is to get to the point where you can do that in English hear
them listen for them and also use them right Aubrey totally it's such a good skill because
when you quote a movie you have like an inside not an inside joke but this inside connection
with people where you're gonna make it like oh we both have seen that movie we both have heard this
line you are you're sharing culture together and it's such a good way to bond and build connections
it really does build connection and I've been thinking about why that is it's because you you
both understand kind of the narrative in that movie and what was going on right exactly right
and just even whenever you find that you both enjoy a certain movie or a certain genre you
have one more thing in common one more thing to chat about yeah so that's always great and we
want to talk about this today it came up recently in an episode number 1789 where we were talking
about dealing with nerves during presentations if you missed it definitely go check that one out
but this came up this Mantra that was said in the help that people repeat a lot yeah and we said we
need to do a follow-up episode about some of the movie quotes that come up in conversation a lot
yeah and the help does have a famous quote which we mentioned in the last episode so we won't go
into that one too much but we're going to go into some other ones today right Aubry yes exactly this
came up also because this comes up all the time you guys it came up in episode 1790 when Michelle
was talking about this movie Ferris dealer and she says Bueller Bueller to talk about a monotone so
we're using this kind of famous movie quote to talk about monotone but we say that all the time
too if someone's not paying attention I'll be like Bueller Bueller to get them to pay attention this
comes up all the time in American culture yeah and I think the other reason this leads to connection
is it's kind of generational right I think our generation just knows Ferris Bueller's Day Off
right whereas I think before you know the quote hello McFly which we've shared on another episode
maybe that's kind of an earlier generation a little a little bit what do you think about
that it's true yeah right my my kids wouldn't understand a lot of the movies that I quote to
people my age so this is definitely um you know you kind of have to keep in mind who will have
seen that movie yes but a lot of these quotes just become part of the culture yeah and my kids
might even quote it without realizing what movie it's from yeah and I mean you guys can use these
at work too right this is not just limited to a party or your social life this is fine if you're
on a good level of rapport with your colleagues you can throw it in here obviously not like in
a presentation but you know when you're chatting and you're having fun you're going back and forth
Aubry before we go deeper into the episode I want to make sure I mention our listeners who
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English and you might hear your name on the show right Aubry yes awesome thanks for the reviews
guys and the ratings yeah it really gives us all the good feels yeah it's so cool it's so
cool to see that you guys are loving this show and that you're sharing it with your friends
definitely all right so let's dive into some of these some you might be familiar with you guys
watch TV you watch movies and you may have just heard people quote these and either known where
the movie was from or not but now you're going to start recognizing them when you're out and
about when you're having English conversations even more because they come up really often yeah
that's true so the so the first one Aubry goes way back to the Wizard of Oz so famous yes right
do you like that movie The Wizard of Oz I love it yeah I mean it's a classic right I wouldn't say I
don't like it I have nothing against it and is it Judy Garland who is in it yes right so there was
a famous documentary that came out about her so interesting life about challenges so there's a lot
of a lot to talk about there for sure yes but you guys have probably heard this quote where Dorothy
the main character says there's no place like home to get back home and we say this all the time word
for word just like this when we come back home after a trip maybe and you you've been staying
in hotels or you've been camping you might just get home and say oh there's no place like home
but do you know what's interesting about this one is it's almost literally become more of an
idiom that's embedded fully in the language and I forgot that it was actually from The Wizard of
Oz right that's what I was saying they just become part of the culture right my kids might have might
say this even if they've never seen The Wizard of Oz because it's just become part of like you said
an idiom an expression that we say all the time and not all of them are to that level yet right I
mean the Bueller Bueller one is not obviously and there's another one from The Wizard of Oz Aubry
it's the we're not in Kansas anymore Toto right totally yes right she says this when they get
to Oz and everything is so different and strange yeah so if something's happening that's really out
of the usual abnormal yeah or you're in a country something so different then we would say that oh
we're not in Kansas anymore right like when you're feeling so disoriented you have no nothing to rely
on that you're familiar with we're not in Kansas anymore right or at the Toto part which was her
her dog right her little dog that followed her around that's right I forgot she says it to the
dog but yeah you can you can add that too oh not in Kansas anymore Toto yeah I love it all right
what else this is so fun what do we have next okay so the next one is from the movie Apollo 13 which
came out in the mid 90s and it's Houston we have a problem I say this all the time if there's just
something there's a problem can't figure something out something's going wrong yeah one would just
say oh there's a problem you say Houston and we have a problem and of course I mean Houston Texas
which I guess is where the the control center Center was exactly for NASA so they like are
talking to all of the engineers at Nasa to let them know there's a problem so yeah it's really a
fun thing to say if something's going a little bit wrong yeah what would be an example recently that
if you could think of something Aubry where you used that and there was some kind of problem uh
um so my daughter um this happens a lot with my kids right okay um my daughter had left her
phone at home and we didn't know where she was she hadn't let us know where she's going surely
she just left with friends she's 15 years old 16. she has some Independence you know but when
I found her phone on the desk I was trying to text her and I heard it buzz on my desk I picked it up
I was like Houston we have a problem I love that that's a good example or if your kids are really
young and they accidentally put dish soap in the dishwasher and you come home and the typical
problem everywhere the kitchen is flooded Houston we have a problem so those are just some household
examples guys but great one not quite to the level of literally just a phrase we say without
connection to the movie but very common one right Aubrey totally exactly we're all thinking of that
Apollo 13 movie when we say it yeah but we say it for any problem definitely it doesn't have
to be have anything to do with NASA right we just say it for anything going wrong isn't it
interesting how certain phrase I mean Apollo 13 it was a great movie but it wasn't like Titanic
that had record-breaking you know movie sales as far as I know so it's interesting that you know
that quote just was grabbed and translated into the culture totally it's fascinating how about
the average person on the street hasn't actually seen that movie especially anyone younger than
us a little bit but exactly they still will not be surprised to hear that phrase that is weird I love
that interesting that's everyone every producer's dream right movie Producers dream exactly right to
have your film live in history become a part of the culture for sure for sure so then we
have another one which is what Aubry yes so this comes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes where
um Sherlock Holmes says to his partner Watson Elementary my dear Watson and this is an old
movie too right this came out the same year as The Wizard of Oz 1939. and we see it when
you figure out a problem or someone asks you a question and you know the answer you might say
Elementary my dear Watson meaning oh I know the answer to that right an elementary it
means basically basic right it's basic my dear Watson right and we have the
word elementary for elementary school for kids right between what age is Aubry yeah from about
um Age 5 to 12 is elementary school so we're thinking any of the subjects they would cover
the easier math all of that would be Elementary education right we would be able to solve those
math problems maybe yeah so yeah he's saying this is a very Elementary question it's a good
adjective to describe something as simple or easy I kind of feel like this can only be said with a
British accent I don't know or those of it were like trying and butchering the British accent
right right right right I don't I don't personally use this but I want you guys to you know you can
use it or you can just recognize it right if someone just says if you want to know what
they're saying right yeah exactly okay this next one I don't I don't really know actually really
okay so this the film is on the waterfront which a lot of people haven't seen it's from 1954. but
I say this a lot I hear this a lot especially when you're playing sports something goes wrong and you
like lose you're not going to win you'll say I could have been a contender meaning like I had
a chance at one point I could have won but then I did something wrong I made a mistake there's a
whole you know a longer phrase that's pretty famous right where he's saying you know you
don't understand I could have had class I could have been someone I could have been a contender
but usually when we quote it or you will hear it quoted you'll just say I could have been a
contender that's interesting I I love this yeah and I like that on this episode Aubry we have
quotes from all throughout the 1900s we're not just talking about quotes from the 90s the 2000s
right we're going way back in history because these quotes have been embedded in the language
so good exactly yeah like the older the film The more it's multi-generational more people are aware
of it we've heard it for years and years and years so it becomes embedded in the culture newer movies
there's definitely quotes that come from newer movies that yeah you've heard you know maybe
from Forrest Gump life is like a box of chocolates or something like that but it'll take a few years
for those to really get embedded in the culture so much or not I mean some of them might go away
I don't know about the box of chocolates maybe it'll last maybe not we don't know but these ones
are here forever because they've lasted more than 50 years so exactly right we still hear them okay
the next one's really fun it's from a movie called Midnight Cowboy from 1969. okay I say this all the
time I hear this all the time really if you are walking and someone cuts you off or maybe nearly
hits you or isn't paying attention to you you can say I'm walking here and often they'll say it
twice because in the movie it's twice I'm walking here I'm walking here okay all I can think about
is our listeners know you lived in New York for a while so all I can think about you is you in like
the East Village and everyone's bumping you and you're like I'm walking here I'm walking here yes
right and you see it it's been in newer movies too you'll see them quote that movie in another movie
they're crossing a road and a car like almost hits them and they'll hit the you know the hood
and say I'm walking here so this it's embedded in culture and one of those quotes that you hear in
other movies oh I feel like I always learn so much on these episodes with you Aubrey this is
great this is great so good okay Aubry so should we show our listeners how it's done in a role play
what do you think that's definitely right you want to sneak these into conversations you're
going to hear other people use them so we're going to give you a little role play about how you can
do that very easily and naturally yeah and here in this role play we are returning home after a
short vacation such a good feeling to come back home after a vacation yeah all right here we go
okay I'll start us off okay there's no place like home seriously I can't wait to sleep in my own bed
uh oh Houston we have a problem what is it it look everything in the freezer has melted it must have
lost power while we were gone Oh look The Breaker was tripped at least we know what the problem was
Elementary my dear Watson I can't imagine saying that about a home improvement project oh that's
funny it's just the breaker right just turn the breaker back on no no no no no no no and no matter
what you're calling an electrician yeah oh for sure no question I do not do any kind of fixing
around the house no I don't either I'm not gonna lie I wouldn't be the one figuring out that it
was the breaker no no way all right so what did we use here we used some of these ones here yes
I started very first with the one from Wizard of Oz we walk in the door and I just say oh there's
no place like home yes yes and then you said oh Houston we have a problem right oh I've come in
I've noticed something's wrong maybe I can smell the stuff in the freezer or there's stuff leaking
out of the freezer I see there's a problem and I would I would say this right away like oh Houston
we have a problem interesting I love it and it's fun to say it's fun like you are kind of
you're playing around you're being playful when you're doing this right and I don't think if it
was something really really dangerous an emergency you wouldn't use it right Aubrey no that's a good
point right if you just saw someone get hit by the a car or something much more serious you're
not gonna say this it's a little playful of like oh shoot something's gone wrong but it's clearly
not that serious yeah so that's important to remember because I think if it were an emergency
you wouldn't have time to think about that quote right you wouldn't really yeah and then at the end
I said Oh look The Breaker was tripped at least we know what the problem was Elementary my dear
Watson so I'm saying that's easy I can fix that no problem right yes that's funny how immediately
you're like oh I wouldn't say that because it's true is only applicable if it's a very simple
fix something that's very easy you understand what it is yeah if this is something difficult
or challenging for you you wouldn't say it but if it were yeah you should be like Elementary
my dear Watson for sure I love it so what's the takeaway for our listeners today this has been a
really fun episode yes so fun natives throw famous movie quotes into conversations all the time you
guys are going to start hearing these that we shared today in movies in conversations with
co-workers and friends and it's a really fun way to build connection through this shared cultural
experience yeah guys so good remember here we are all about connection right how can we connect and
this is one of the ways to do it you can choose a few of them try them out but most importantly
expect to hear them so that you can respond the right way to really connect I love it so good
sure go see these films if you haven't listen for the line and then listen for them elsewhere right
practice using a couple so that like you said you can use them when chatting with a friend or or a
co-worker I love it so good well Aubry thanks for bringing these on the show thanks for bringing us
back into the 1900s too how cool to have that historical angle on English I love it all right
well you have a good day I'll talk to you in the next one you too see you later Lindsay bye bye