The best The Lost City quotes highlight the entertaining and star-studded movie’s ability to combine elements of action, comedy, and romance into one big adventure. Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum combine their star power into this blockbuster that follows romance novelist Loretta Sage (Bullock), who is captured by a megalomaniacal billionaire to discover a lost city of treasure from one of her books. The unlikely hero off to rescue her is her book cover model Alan Caprison (Tatum), who proves ill-equipped for the jungle adventure.
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Along with the charisma of its A-list stars, as well as wonderful supporting roles from the likes of Daniel Radcliffe and Brad Pitt, The Lost City also features a sharp and fun script. There are some laugh-out-loud lines in the movie that highlight the actors’ comedic skills, but there are also moments of solid character development and romantic interactions that are just as memorable. These standout The Lost City quotes help to make it a perfect rewatchable movie.
10 “You’re So Afraid Of Life Hurting You Again That You’ve Stopped Living.”`
Alan Caprison
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Alan and Loretta make for an interesting pair in the movie with a unique relationship. While Loretta is a successful and celebrated novelist, she has lost her passion for the work since the death of her husband years ago. On the other end, Alan is a somewhat dim-witted model who serves as the basis for her fictional romantic hero, Dash McMahon, seen on the cover of her books. Unlike Loretta, Alan truly loves his job and doesn’t want it to end.
It is through Alan that Loretta learns to move on and embrace the adventure of life again.
Alan came across as a rather simple-minded person at the beginning, yet he was spot on in advising Loretta to give things a chance instead of choosing to wallow over the past. While she dismisses him as someone who is just trying to hold onto the slight bit of fame and success that he has, he is able to see that she is closing herself off to the rest of the world because of her pain. It is through Alan that Loretta learns to move on and embrace the adventure of life again.
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9 “Jungles Eat People Like Us. And I Don’t Want To Mess Up The Jumpsuit Because It’s On Loan.”
Loretta Sage
While The Lost City has a setting that would be seen in any of the Indiana Jones movies, the main characters of the adventure are as far from Indy as it gets. That is where a lot of the fun of the movie comes from with Loretta and Alan being fish out of water in the dangerous jungle, completely unprepared for the hardships ahead, as shown in this hilarious quote delivered by Sandra Bullock.
Alan tries to maintain a positive attitude early on when they find themselves stranded in the jungle, but Loretta is not at all concerned with pretending she has it all together. She immediately admits to the fact that she and Alan have no business being in the wild like this and emphasizes this fact with her concern over the fancy dress she is wearing. Bullock has played plenty of tough characters in her career, so it is a sign of her versatility how effective she is at playing this hapless character.
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8 “Miss Sage, Surely This Isn’t How You Want Your Story To End.”
Abigail Fairfax
After playing one of the most iconic movie heroes in history throughout the Harry Potter movie franchise, Daniel Radcliffe has built an interesting career in other roles. This includes stepping into his memorable villainous role as billionaire Abigail Fairfax in The Lost City. Radcliffe uses his likability and humor to great effect as Fairfax puts on a charming and polite demeanor even when kidnapping Loretta, but this quote is a great display of his menace as well.
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After invoking the memory of Loretta’s late husband in an effort to get her on board with his plan, Fairfax uses his gentle and friendly persona to subtly threaten Loretta, suggesting that she might not get the same happy ending that happens in her books. Radcliffe’s delivery of the line helps to make Fairfax truly stand out as a fun and unique villain for the story instead of just going for the typical evil mastermind route.
7 “Only A Fool Would Choose A Horse By Its Color.”
Jack Trainer
Brad Pitt’s movie cameos have been getting more wild and entertaining over the years. While his role in The Lost City is hilariously brief, his character of Jack Trainer does fill in more of a supporting role and makes the most of his short screen time. Trainer is set up to be the real hero of the story and a capable man that Loretta and Alan desperately need on their team. Pitt seems to be having a lot of fun playing the overly stoic Navy SEAL hired to rescue Loretta.
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When Trainer picks up Alan at the airport as they set out to get Loretta back, Alan is surprised by the small size of Trainer’s car. However, Trainer delivers this hilarious philosophical response that immediately adds to the mysterious and impressive aura around the character. However, fitting the movie’s theme about smashing the romantic illusions of these mystery stories, Trainer admits he just read that off of a sign.
6 “You Know What’s Ironic? I Thought You Of All People Would Know Not To Judge A Book By Its Cover.”
Alan Caprison
Channing Tatum is another actor who is no stranger to playing impressive heroic lead characters, so it is a lot of fun to see him shed some of that persona and play the goofball in The Lost City. However, along with bringing a lot of humor to the role, Tatum is able to give Alan depth, which is key to the character and his relationship with Loretta as it evolves over the story. It’s also one of the key themes of the movie.
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The hurt Tatum communicates with this quote helps the audience accept that he deserves more respect than he had been given.
Loretta’s perception of Alan was that he was a pretty boy who coasted through life on his looks. Alan’s retort cemented the fact that there was more to him than met the eye, and it was both a realization meant for Loretta and the audience themselves. Alan turned out to be a genuinely kindhearted man who went through life-threatening scenarios to save Loretta. The hurt Tatum communicates with this quote helps the audience accept that he deserves more respect than he had been given.
5 “You All Need To Do Something About This. And If You Can’t, I Will.”
Beth Hatten
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Before winning an Oscar for her performance in The Holdovers, Da’vine Joy Randolph was a welcome addition to the cast of The Lost City. She plays Beth, Loretta’s agent who serves as another character that avoids the stereotypes of these kinds of roles. Initially, Beth is pressuring Loretta to be more engaged with her fans and help boost the sales of her books, making her out to be the standard business-minded agent who only cares about their clients making them money.
While Beth’s subplot is secondary, Randolph makes it seem at times like she is the main character.
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When Loretta is kidnapped, Beth shows her true colors as a friend as she is willing to do anything to save her. This line shows the impressive resolve and take-action approach that Beth has. She is the type of friend anyone would love to have, seeing as she travels across the ocean to rescue Loretta, proving to be one of the most capable characters in the movie. While Beth’s subplot is secondary, Randolph makes it seem at times like she is the main character.
4 “I Want Something Nobody Else Has.”
Abigail Fairfax
Another aspect of Abigail Fairfax that makes him a great villain in the story is his motivations make him simultaneously dangerous and pathetic. Fairfax carries a massive chip on his shoulder throughout the story, which stems from his father handing the business empire to his younger brother. Abigail becomes obsessed with the lost city’s treasure to the point where he has delusions of grandeur, unaware that it is taking him down a dangerous path.
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When even his hired henchmen begin to question the danger that Fairfax is putting them in to get his treasure, he refuses to give up out of his own ego. He carries the belief that finding the treasure will validate him as a genius his father didn’t acknowledge, no matter how many people got hurt. However, this line also cements that at the center of it all, he is also just a spoiled rich kid who thinks he deserves it all.
3 “I Said Some Really Mean Stuff To Her And I Regret It, And I Just Need To Take It Back.”
Alan Caprison
Compared the Jack Trainer, Alan falls very short in terms of his abilities to be a helpful hero to Loretta. He is so out of his element that it is questioned why he would even come to the jungle on this mission instead of leaving it in Trainer’s more-than-capable hands. Initially, it seems as though Alan is worried that losing Loretta would mean losing his own career as her book cover model, but the truth of his rescue mission is another sign of his kindness.
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While Alan’s previous comments about Loretta being stuck in the past might ring true to her character, it is something that he comes to regret given the pain that she experienced. While it is a long way to go for someone to apologize for a rude remark, Channing Tatum’s charming performance as Alan makes it seem like that is the kind of thing he would do.
2 “My Father Was A Weatherman.”
Jack Trainer
The appearance of Jack Trainer as the movie enters its adventure storyline is a funny moment in how ideal of a hero he seems. It fits perfectly into the movie’s theme of these types of adventures being so outside of the realm of reality only to suddenly become real. Loretta has been growing disillusioned with her books lately, partially because of how unrealistic they seem. However, on top of Fairfax insisting the treasure she wrote about was real, Trainer seems like the dashing hero who steps right out of her books.
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He shows no modesty in trying to deny it and simply credits it to good genes and moves on.
The impressive aspects of Trainer end up being a running joke as both Loretta and Alan are distracted by how perfect he seems. Even in the midst of Loretta being rescued, she asks in confusion, “Why are you so handsome?” Trainer’s response is a hilarious hint that he has been asked that before. He shows no modesty in trying to deny it and simply credits it to good genes and moves on.
1 “Sweeter After Difficulty.”
Loretta Sage
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Loretta’s journey in moving on from her past heartbreak is an important one in the movie and offers some of the most touching moments. Though she never forgets the memory of her past love, she learns to overcome the difficulty. Loretta and her husband’s favorite saying was translated from Latin to be these words, which came to pass at the end of her adventure with Alan. She came to appreciate the struggle she undertook on the island because it brought her a new outlook on life.
It was fitting how well the quote connected to her journey, as Loretta finally found the closure she needed to move on from her husband’s demise. Moreover, she found Alan’s presence to be sweeter after they went through near-fatal scenarios, meaning fate itself was pointing her toward pursuing a romance with him.
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Originally titled The Lost City of D, The Lost City is a romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. Bullock stars as Loretta Sage, a novelist, as well as Dr. Angela Lovemore, the heroine of her successful romance series. Together they try to escape from a billionaire who is hell-bent on discovering an ancient burial chamber that is described in one of Sage’s books.
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*Availability in US Director Adam Nee , Aaron Nee Release Date March 25, 2022 Cast Sandra Bullock , Channing Tatum , Brad Pitt , Danielle Radcliffe , Patti Harrison , Da’Vine Joy Randolph Runtime 112 Minutes
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