Chicken Run (2000)

Lynn Ferguson: Mac

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Quotes 

• Rocky : Easy, pops. Cockfighting's illegal where I come from.

  Bunty : And where is that exactly?

  Rocky : Just a little place I call the land of the free and the home of the brave.

  Mac : Scotland!

  Rocky : No! America.

• [the plane reels as Mrs. Tweedy hangs on to it] 

  Fowler : Great Scott, what was that?

  Mac : A cling-on, Cap'n, and the engines can't take it.

• Rocky : Ouch! What happened to my wing?

  Ginger : You took a rather nasty fall.

  Mac : [very fast, in strong Scottish accent]  And sprained the anterior tendon connecting your radius to your humerus. I gave her a wee bit of a tweak, Jimmy, and wrapped her up.

  Rocky : Was that English?

• [after Rocky leaves] 

  Babs : Perhaps he just went on holiday.

  Bunty : [grabbing Babs' knitting, throwing it on the ground, and stomping on it]  Perhaps he just went to get away from your infernal knitting!

  Mac : Well, you were the one that was always hitting him. Let's see how you like it.

  [shoves Bunty] 

  Bunty : Don't push me, four-eyes.

  [other chickens start fighting] 

• Fowler : We need more power.

  Mac : I cannae work miracles, cap'n. We're giving her all she's got.

• [after the reason for Rocky's flying ability is discovered] 

  Mac : A cannon. Aye, *that* would give ye thrust.

• Mac : Right, we tried going under the fence, and that didn't work. So the plan now is, we go over it.

  [Unveils the model catapult] 

  Mac : [Holds up turnip chicken]  This is us, right? We go in here, like this, wind her up, and let her go!

  [Catapult sends turnip flying into wall; chickens cluck frantically] 

• Mac : [very rapidly, with a thick Scottish accent]  Thrust! I went over my calculations, hen, and I forgot the key element missing is thrust!

  Rocky : [after a long pause]  I didn't get a word of that.

  Mac : Thrust. Other birds, like ducks and geese, when they take off, what do they have?

  [shouts] 

  Mac : Thrust!

  Rocky : I swear she ain't using real words.

  Ginger : She said we need more thrust.

  Rocky : Oh, thrust! Of course we need thrust. Why, thrust and flying are, well, like this.

  [crosses fingers] 

  Rocky : See, that's flying and that's thrust.

• Ginger : This isn't good, Mac. Whatever's in those boxes is for us, and I don't think it's softer hay.

  Mac : Aye, hen. And I hate to be the voice of doom, but I've been calculating my figures, and... I just don't think we're built for flyin'.

  Mac : But I saw him. He flew in over that fence.

  Ginger : Aye, aye, I believe you, but if we could see it for ourselves, that might answer some questions.

  Ginger : [sighs]  You're right. I'm sorry. We've been at this all week and we're getting nowhere. If his wing were better, he could-- Oh! I'll have a word with him.