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Have we heard the last (truly memorable) word from Hollywood?
Probably not, but it’s been a while since the movies had everybody parroting a great line.
Like, say, “Go ahead, make my day.” That was from “Sudden Impact,” written by Joseph Stinson and others, more than 27 years ago.
Sticky movie lines were everywhere as recently as the 1990s. But they appear to be evaporating from a film world in which the memorable one-liner — a brilliant epigram, a quirky mantra, a moment in a bottle — is in danger of becoming a lost art.
Life was like a box of chocolates, per “Forrest Gump,” released in 1994 and written by Eric Roth, based on the novel by Winston Groom. “Show me the money!” howled mimics of “Jerry Maguire,” written by Cameron Crowe in 1996. Two years later, after watching “The Big Lebowski,” written by Ethan and Joel Coen, we told one another that “the Dude abides.”
But lately, “not so much” — to steal a few words from “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Released in 2006, that film was written by Sacha Baron Cohen and others and is one of a very few in the last five years to have left some lines behind.
Michael Cieply, “Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello,” The New York Times, October 20, 2010
Conclusions I’ve drawn from this article:
- Mr. Cieply does not know what Mean Girls is;
- By extension, Mr. Cieply has never been on Tumblr.
Other fun facts about this article:
- It does not feature the phrases “Why so serious?” or “Vote for Pedro.”
- Nor does it include the words “snakes,” “motherfucking,” or “plane.’
(via screwrocknroll)
It also does not include “Turn left”, “Oh snap!”, “The black lung”, “Really, really, really, ridiculously good looking”, “Orange Mocha Frappacinos”, “You think you’re too cool for school, but I have a news flash for you, Walker Kronkite, you aren’t”, “What is this, a centre for ants?!”
Zoolander is easily the most quotable movie of the last decade. MAJOR omission there.
(via naysayersspeak)
I had the same thoughts reading this.
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jakec said:
Every line from Anchorman or Superbad.
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