Metropolis is the classic silent-movie industrial dystopia from 1927. It portrays a futuristic city comprising a two-tier society of haves and have-nots who are kept unaware of each other’s existence.
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Charlie Creed Mills as David in The Fifth Element: "Father, are you SURE she's a supreme being?"
Carl Duering as Dr. Brodsky in A Clockwork Orange: "Very soon now, the drug will cause the subject to experience a death-like paralysis, together with deep feelings of terror and helplessness. One of our early test subjects described it as being like death, a sense of stifling or drowning, and it is during this period we have found that the subject will make his most rewarding associations between his catastrophic experience-environment and the violence he sees."
Summer Glau as River Tam in Serenity: "You take care of me, Simon. You've always taken care of me. My turn."
Rupert Graves as Dominic Stone in V For Vendetta: "We're under siege here, the whole city's gone mad!"
Cyril Cusack as Charrington in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements..."
Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises: "Do you think this is gonna last? There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."
Brigitte Helm as Machine-Man Maria in Metropolis: "You know that I have always spoken of peace...but your mediator has not come... You have waited long enough! Your time has come -! Who is the living food for the machines in Metropolis!? Who lubricates the machine joints with their own blood?! Who feeds the machines with their own flesh?! Let the machines starve, you fools! Let them die! Kill them - the machines!!"
Suzanne Hamilton as Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "It's the one thing they can't do. They can torture you, make you say anything. But they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you. They can't get to your heart."
Warren Clark as Dim in A Clockwork Orange: "Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you. I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime, not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. Well, it stands to reason I won't have it."