So I Married an Axe Murderer
So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 film set in San Francisco, starring Mike Myers, who plays a beat poet who suspects his girlfriend is an axe murderer. It was written by Robbie Fox and directed by Thomas Schlamme.
Stuart Mackenzie
- Head! Pants! Now!
- Give your mother a kiss, or I'll kick your teeth in.
- Look at the size of that boy's head. It's like an orange on a toothpick.
- No kidding. His head's like Sputnik. Spherical, but quite pointy in parts.
- Oooh, that was offsides, wasn't it? Tonight he'll cry himself to sleep... on his huge pillow!
- We have a piper down. I repeat, a piper is down. 'S all right, he's just pissed.
- Let's get pissed!
- May, turn off the Bay City Rollers! The soccer game's about to start!
- Heed! Paper! Now! Move that melon of yours and get the paper if you can, hauling that gargantuan cranium about!
- May, shut it!
- [singing "Do You Think I'm Sexy" with bagpipes] If you want my body, and you think I'm sexy, c'mon baby let me know! Haggis solo!
Charlie Mackenzie
- [is served a huge cup of coffee] Excuse me miss, there seems to be a mistake. I believe I ordered the large cappuccino. Hello?!
- Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to belief, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they make me horny, on Saturday morny... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Hey Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love.
- I believe most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
- You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called FA-QUE! (pronounces it "fuck you") It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground.
- Come, Nadia. Let us dance like children of the night!
- [after being asked by Harriet what he looks for in a woman] Most people say a sense of humor, but I'm gonna have to go with breast size.
- I like the night life. I like to boogey.
- I think I'm dating Ms. X...
- Harriet! Harry-it, hard-hearted harbinger of haggis... Beautiful, bemuse-ed, bellicose butcher. Un-trust... ing. Un-know... ing. Un-love... ed? He wants you back, he screams into the night air like a fireman going to a window that has no fire... except the passion of his heart. I am lonely! It's really hard! This poem... sucks.
- I care for Apple Jacks a great deal.
Dialogue
- Harriet Michaels: Do you actually like haggis?
- Charlie Mackenzie: No, I think it's repellent in every way. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
- Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as the Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
- Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?
- Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tets-up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee beady eyes! And that smug look on his face, "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
- Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate the Colonel?
- Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartarse!
- Charlie Mackenzie: Coo-coo.
- Charlie Mackenzie: How many people have you brutally murdered?
- Harriet Michaels: Well, brutal's a subjective term. What's brutal to one person might be entirely reasonable to someone else.
- May Mackenzie: Charlie, hand me the paper.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Mom, I find it interesting that you call The Weekly World News "the paper." A paper contains facts.
- May Mackenzie: This newspaper contains facts. Look at this. "Pregnant man gives birth." That's a fact!
- Charlie Mackenzie: So Tony, what's the deal with your clothes?
- Tony Giardino: What do ya mean?
- Charlie Mackenzie: I mean you look like Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch.
- Tony Giardino: What are ya talking about, I look hip!
- Charlie Mackenzie: No no no no no no no, you look like an undercover cop TRYING to look hip.
- Tony Giardino: I AM an undercover cop trying to look hip.
- Tony Giardino: Every time you meet a nice girl you can get close to, you always break up with them for paranoid reasons.
- Charlie Mackenzie: That's not true. I broke up with those girls for very good reasons.
- Tony Giardino: Oh really?
- Charlie Mackenzie: Yes.
- Tony Giardino: Oh really? What about Jill?
- Charlie Mackenzie: She was in the mafia.
- Tony Giardino: What about Pam?
- Charlie Mackenzie: She smelled like soup.
- Rose Michaels: Let me make you some breakfast.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Oh gee, you know, I-I'd love to but, you know, I'm really running late.
- Rose Michaels: What would you say to silver dollar pancakes, fresh squeezed orange juice, bacon, and Kona coffee?
- Charlie Mackenzie: Well, that sounds great.
- [scene changes to her pouring Charlie a bowl of Fruit Loops]
- Rose Michaels: Sorry, I didn't have those other things.
- Rose Michaels: You know Harriet.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Well, actually I don't.
- Rose Michaels: But you did have sex with her.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Hello!
- John Johnson: Hello everyone, I am a park ranger and I will be leading you on the tour. All of the park rangers were, at one time, guards, myself included. My name is John Johnson but everyone here calls me "Vicky".
- Tony Giardino: I love Vicky.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Yeah, Vicky's the best.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Hi, can we get our check please? Thanks.
- [the check comes]
- Charlie Mackenzie: I'll get that.
- Tony Giardino: No i got it.
- Charlie Mackenzie: No, no, no, no.
- Tony Giardino: No, no, no. Let me.
- Charlie Mackenzie: No, no, no, no, no, no.
- Tony Giardino: Charlie, please.
- Charlie Mackenzie: No, no, no, no, no, no.
- Tony Giardino: Let me pick this up, please.
- Charlie Mackenzie: No, no, no, no, no, no.
- Tony Giardino: I insist.
- Charlie Mackenzie: No, no, no, no, no, no. No to infinity. Negatory. Negatory, good buddy. Ne-ga-to-ry!
- Harriet Michaels: I'll pick up the check.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Okay.
- Stuart Mackenzie: So, Charlie tells me you're a butcher.
- Harriet Michaels: Yes, I am a butcher.
- Stuart Mackenzie: Do you link your own sausage?
- May Mackenzie: Harriet, why don't you come with me. I have wonderful photographs when he was a wee baby.
- Stuart Mackenzie: And show her the picture of Charlie when he shit his pants at Niagara Falls.
- Harriet Michaels: Charlie, have you ever stood at the edge of a cliff or a subway platform with someone and you thought just for a split second "What if I pushed him?"
- Charlie Mackenzie: Well, not really. Usually I follow the Judeo-Christian ethic of "Thou shalt not kill" but that's just me.
- Frank/Obituary writer: Here's another one here, Native San Franciscan, plumber, Elliot, Ralph. Moved to Dallas, disappeared four months ago. Body was found in a sewer.
- Newspaper reporter: Well, guy takes his job too seriously, life goes down the drain. Haha.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Did they mention anything about his wife?
- Newspaper reporter: Alright, okay. Look, I know that we're talking about real people so I'm sorry.
- Charlie Mackenzie: No, no. I'm serious, did they mention the wife?
- Newspaper reporter: No, look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make a joke about other people's lives.
- Charlie Mackenzie: No, no. I'm really serious. Did they mention the wife? I just want to know about the wife.
- Newspaper reporter: Hey, hey! You win, you win, okay? I'm a bad person!
- Frank/Obituary writer: Hey, c'mon take it easy, will ya?
- Newspaper reporter: No, he's saying I'm a bad person and that I'm insensitive. He's saying I'm a shit.
- Frank/Obituary writer: He's not saying you're a shit!
- Charlie Mackenzie: Did they-did they mention the wife?!
- Newspaper reporter: No! No! They didn't mention the wife! Ya happy?! Yeah! Oh hoo, yes, yes. I'm insensitive! I'm a very insensitive man! Stop your job, look at the insensitive man! That's what they're paying you for!
- Frank/Obituary writer: [to Charlie] He was my ride home.
- Charlie Mackenzie: I don't want to lose you.
- Harriet Michaels: You didn't. You rejected me.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Okay, I'm un-rejecting you.
- Harriet Michaels: Ralph, this is Charlie.
- Ralph: It's really great to meet you.
- Charlie Mackenzie: Oh no, no. It's great to meet you. Yes, yes. I love you!
- [hugs her tightly out of happiness, making his towel drop]
- Charlie Mackenzie: ...I'm naked, aren't I?
- Charlie Mackenzie: Marry me.
- Harriet Michaels: No..
- Charlie Mackenzie: ...Please?
Cast
- Mike Myers - Charlie/Stuart Mackenzie
- Brenda Fricker - May Mackenzie
- Anthony LaPaglia - Tony Giardino
- Nancy Travis - Harriet Michaels