Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Pineapple Express

Pineapple Express is a movie that stars Seth Rogen as Dale Denton who is a 25-year-old process server. Dale is a male who is constantly smoking weed.  The whole movie pineapple express takes a turn around when he is going to deliver a debt paper to Ted Jones a drug lord. When he is about to step out of the car he witnesses Ted Jones and his girlfriend Carol murdering an Asian. This brings us t the plot of the movie which is him being followed by Ted. Ted wants to murder Dale so he will not say anything about what he witnessed. Ted is able to follow Dales tracks by a roach(blunt) that he throughout the window. That was not just any roach, it contained Pineapple Express a type of weed that Ted provided and only to one supplier.

Throughout the story there are many quotes and things that the characters state that made the story a comedy and made everything in the movie function.

 

What’s down there, a fucking Rancor?

 

This was one of the quotes within the movie that attracted my attention. This is a rhetorical question mixed with a comedy and sarcasm. This was a good use of syntax that spurred my laughter. This specifically caught my attention because I remembered rancor from the movie star wars.

 

This is like if that Blue Oyster s#*&% met that African Kush I had - and they had a baby. And then, meanwhile, that crazy Northern Light stuff I had and the Super Red Espresso Snowflake met and had a baby. And by some miracle, those two babies met and fu#$% - this would the s#$& that they birthed.

When I heard this line I was line oh my god. It made me laugh so much. This line uses great diction. All the quote was used to explained that the pineapple express was that good. When in another case he could have used something like this is the best weed he’d ever have, he decides to add meaning to the statement and give a more visual demonstration of how good it was.