"I know that you're nauseous right now and I'm hopin' to lead you to victory"

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

"...the glass floor is insecure from a psychological point of view as well. To walk over a void is like walking on nothing. It gives the same sensation of dizziness and falling as that which is felt on top of a mountain or high tower. The depth has a magnetic effect -- it 'sucks' us downward -- a phenomenon indicating that depth, just as all other types of space, is a potential sphere of activity which we 'try out' by 'falling'. The transparent floor conveys, therefore, a spontaneous feeling of insecurity and danger."

"The Open Floor," Archetypes in Architecture, Thomas Thiis-Evensen
"Swimming Pools (Drank)," Good Kid M.A.A.D City, Kendrick Lamar

break it up

3 Women (1977)

"The mirrored floor gives no main directional indication of space-- one finds oneself in its centre. But, this centre is not a specific place on the floor, rather it is like the centre of a 'sphere' in which all directions are equal.... On the mirror floor we find ourselves, therefore, in the middle of what is in principle a homogenous and directionless space.... 

... The reflecting floor is an 'indistinct' mirror floor.... The reflection creates a belowness, one which shifts between light and dark in that objects, cieling and walls are transformed and converted into diffuse forms as they are reflected downwards. The characteristic has a counter effect on objects above the floor. Objects are optically detached and freed from the floor on which they stand. They seem to stand only on their own shadows."

Archetypes in Architecture, Thomas Thiis-Evensen

"...one of those deviations by which man thinks to reconstruct himself."

The Paper Chase (1973)

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

what shocks the system

There Will Be Blood (2008)

"'I began to mourn for my spirit, and the spirits of all people who cast a shadow a long way beyond what they are, and for the beasts that walk out of the darkness alone; I began to wail for all the little beasts in their mothers, who would have to step down and begin going decent in the one fur that would last them their time. ... 

...And then at the child -- there was terror in it and it was running away from something grown up; I saw that she was sitting still and she was running; it was in her eyes and in her chin, drawn down, and her eyes wide open.'"

"Watchman, What of the Night?" Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

drama queen, "a dealer in second-hand"

Mr. Mom (1983)

"'Shut up,... Shut up, you don't know what you are talking about. You talk all the time and you never know anything. It's such an awful weakness with you. Identifying yourself with God!'"

"The Squatter," Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

first, the burnout

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

"Two spirits were working in her, love and anonymity. Yet they were so 'haunted' of each other that separation was impossible."

"Night Watch," Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

"With the fury of a fanatic he hunted down his own disqualification..."

Rocky (1976)

"From the mingled passions that made up his past, out of a diversity of bloods, from the crux of a thousand impossible situations, Felix had become the accumulated and single--the embarrassed."

"Bow Down," Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

maybe tomorrow

The Big Chill (1983)

nothing fits

Wise Blood (1979) 

"If our actions take place below the ground, we become dependent on its characteristics, we are in the clutch of the ground. We are faced with primordial forces, the ground's own phenomena. To be beneath the ground means that we have left the near and familiar which is above the ground to enter into a lower region unknown and confining. The way in which the surface leads us down into the ground is, however, decisive for our impressions. If the surface cracks and breaks open, we 'fall'. The sensation of falling, of plunging through empty space is fraught with fear and danger. If, on the other hand, the earth sinks as in a trough, the ground follows long and we feel we are being 'guided' down."

"If the level of our actions is above the mass, our spontaneous reaction is one of independence. We are in control of the ground and liberated from the depths beneath. In this case a feeling of superiority may be the result. The scale of variations within this shared experience depends upon equally specific situations."

"Interplay in Nature's Floor," Archetypes in Architecture, Thomas Thiis-Evensen.