Favorite Lines of Dialog
Submitted by bertie on Tue, 06/28/2005 - 11:52
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- "Could you make a torpedo?" The African Queen
- "So that's how it is in their family!" Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- "My own evil self is outside that door!" Forbidden Planet
- "I shot an arrow in the air / She fell to earth in Berkeley Square." Kind Hearts and Coronets
- "I think he said 'blessed are the cheesemakers'." Monty Python's Life of Brian
- "As you wish." The Princess Bride
- "That suit ain't gonna explode, is it?" Red Heat
- "There was somethin' in that cake that didn't agree with him." Some Like It Hot
- "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto. Klaatu barada nikto." The Day the Earth Stood Still
- "You've got me. Who's got you?" Superman
- "I don't deserve to die like this." Unforgiven
- "Put ... the candle ... back!" Young Frankenstein
- "The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty." Crimes and Misdemeanors
- "Why couldn't he put the bunny back in the box?" Con Air
- "We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver's seat." Apollo 11
i think i prefer the 'deserves got nothin' to do with it' part of that unforgiven ending.
What's interesting to me about "I don't deserve to die like this" it is that it underlines the fact that Little Bill sees himself as having been a virtuous upholder of morality and law.
i wouldn't say that... or at least thats not how i saw it, i saw it more like he had in some way disjointed his morality and law withholding from his mortality and was really just dragged into this, like he says he was only 'building a house'...
Could it be the fact (or revelation, possibly realization) that no one "deserve[s] to die like this"?
thats another thing i was thinking... also why I like the dialogue eastwood returns more.
Consider what has already happened in that scene. William Munny has shot Skinny, the whoremaster, dead. Little Bill seems genuinely outraged and calls Munny "a murderer". He doesn't see himself as a murderer because his killing of Munny's friend was done as the lawman of Big Whisky. Another reason why Little Bill's dying words are full of dramatic irony is because, by failing to give the whores justice in the first place, he failed to halt the whole long chain of events that have led to his own death at bountyhunter Munny's hands.
thats true... personally i just like munny's response to little bill's dying words full of dramatic irony... I think it really caps the whole theme of the movie, which I believe is 'deserve's got nothing to do with it'... for me that is what the whole movies about, no one really deserved what they got.
Jim, you might want to put part of my above post in "spoiler" mode. Sorry.