K2 (film)

K2 is a 1991 film about two friends' ascent of the second-highest mountain on Earth. The two main characters of the film are loosely based on Jim Wickwire and Louis Reichardt, the first two Americans to summit K2 in 1978.
 * Directed by Franc Roddam. Written by Patrick Meyers and Scott Roberts.

Between the earth and the sky lies the sheer face of adventure.

Taylor Brooks

 * [to Harold] H! Fuck the rules! [starts climbing a building]

Dialogue

 * Taylor Brooks: If you ask me, it costs too much.
 * Harold Jameson: What?
 * Taylor Brooks: Love. It's way overpriced.


 * Harold Jameson: It's beautiful
 * Taylor Brooks: Course it's beautiful, did you think I'd take you to an ugly mountain?


 * Harold Jameson: What about, uh, Dallas? What's his name? What's his problem?
 * Taylor Brooks: Dallas Woolf. We went to Law School together. He was good in the classroom... I was better in the courtroom. There's no contest in the bedroom!


 * Taylor Brooks: Mrs. Perkins, dinner tonight?
 * Pam Perkins: What about it?
 * Taylor Brooks: Have it with me.
 * Pam Perkins: No.
 * Taylor Brooks: C'mon! Why not?
 * Pam Perkins: Look Mr. Brooks, I already have a date.
 * Taylor Brooks: Break it! Overtime.
 * Pam Perkins: Thanks. But I never shit where I eat.
 * Taylor Brooks: Oooh. I wasn't aware, Mrs. Perkins, you shit at all!


 * Taylor Brooks: You climatizing, Harold?
 * Harold Jameson: Good news or bad news when you bleed from your ears?
 * Taylor Brooks: Good news.


 * Taylor Brooks: What the hell is goin' on?
 * Phillip Claiborne: Just lost the porters.
 * Takane Shimuzu: What are we going to do now?
 * Taylor Brooks: Fuck them. We don't need them, we are taking it by ourselves.
 * Dallas Woolf: That's 7 tons of gear. When you wanna do this, before or after you get dressed?


 * Taylor Brooks: I didn't make the world the way it is, Harold. I'm just trying to get through it, as fast and as clean as possible.
 * Harold Jameson: [after staring straight at him for 5 seconds] We ALL make the world the way it is.
 * Taylor Brooks: Yeah, well, we know who made this.
 * [Taylor tosses his unfinished bowl of oatmeal into the pot and exits the tent]

Cast

 * Michael Biehn - Taylor Brooks
 * Matt Craven - Harold Jameson
 * Raymond J. Barry - Phillip Claiborne
 * Luca Bercovici - Dallas Woolf
 * Patricia Charbonneau - Jackie Metcalf
 * Julia Nickson-Soul - Cindy Jameson
 * David Cubitt - Peter
 * Hiroshi Fujioka - Takane Shimuzu
 * Jamal Shah - Malik
 * Kehli O'Byrne - Pam Perkins