Saturday, July 12, 2008

Did I dazzle you?

I had a 1590 on my SAT, I got a 44 on my MCAT, and I have a 4.0 GPA from MIT. I thought I had my life mapped out, but then I remembered what my non linear equations professor once told me, always account for variable change... I let down my good friends, but as it turns out, they weren't too bad at simple math either. I scored the prettiest girl in school. I got beaten down by an old school Vegas thug who was having trouble excepting his retirement, but I worked out a deal with him that got him a nice pension... And I lied to my mother, but I confessed a lie and well, she still loved me... So my senior year of college I joined this team and I learned this new skill. I went to Vegas 17 times to use it. I made hundreds of thousands of dollars counting cards. And then I had it all stolen from me, twice... How's that for life experience professor? Did I dazzle you? Did I jump off the page?

~ Ben Campbell in 21 (2008)

7 comments:

Shaan said...

finally saw it eh? :)

Anonymous said...

i had great expectations from that movie.. but it was a disappointment of sorts.. don't you think?
Albin

Anonymous said...

@Shanim: Oh ya - i saw it :)

@Albin: It was a decent flick but wot made it interesting was that it's based on a true story supposedly :)

Pallavi said...

Ah. Didnt I tell you it was one of the best dialogues ever written? :D
I wish I could dazzle someone like that!

Anonymous said...

@Palz: I thot of u only when I heard that dialogue "Did I dazzle u - did I jump off the page?" :D :) Hope u get 2 dazzle some1 like that someday :P

Broken said...

it was good film .... well for me also the true story part was not convincing.

Anonymous said...

I thought this movie kinda sucks at first. My friend had downloaded this for weeks but I hadn't chance to watch it.Until today I went to watch this movie with my gf. (Actually we don't have any other choices)

With twisted ending I found out it's kinda interesting. Or maybe because of my inner geekness?