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Weekly Theme for October 26: Famous Last Words

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mercurial
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10/26/2009 7:34 PM
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Weekly Theme for October 26: Famous Last Words

We're getting a little burned out here at Weekly Theme so I thought it only fitting that this week's theme should focus on famous last words. Be it those from a character before their untimely end or the final lines delivered in the film itself, which one's have resonated the most with you all?

Here's a little inspiration if you're drawing a blank:

http://www.filmsite.org/greatlastlines.html

On the more mushy side, there is of course, "there's no place like home!" from The WIzard of Oz. "Love means never having to say you're sorry." from Love Story always bring a little tear to my generally hard veneer. And my personal favorite, "Let's not ask for the moon. We have the stars." uttered by Bette Davis in the overly melodramatic (but that's what makes it good) Now, Voyager.

After finally seeing Sunset Boulevard a few months ago, the final line delivered by Gloria Swanson has become a staple in my quote book: "All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!"

And lastly, one of my favorite final lines in a film comes from Eyes Wide Shut. While Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are Christmas shopping with their young daughter, Kidman with her sweet and proper voice simply says, "****." And that's what you're left with. Love it.

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Love Story (1970)

Now, Voyager (1942)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Risselada
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11/2/2009 3:13 PM
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Re:Weekly Theme for October 26: Famous Last Words

My favorite film The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly always gives me huge goosebumps at the very end. Tuco yelling, "Hey, Blondie! You know what you are?! Just a dirty son of a --" and then the famous wa-ah-ah-ah-aaaaah sound burst forth to drown out his last word. I love it!

Robert Bresson's movies always have great last images, but great last lines too I'd say.

From Diary of a Country Priest - "All is grace"

Pickpocket - "Oh, Jeanne, what a strange way I had to take to meet you"

Last lines of Badlands after Kit the mass murderer is being brought in by the cops:

KIT
Sir... Where'd you get that hat?

TROOPER
State.

KIT
Boy, I'd like to buy me one of those.

TROOPER
You're quite an individual, Kit.

KIT
Think they'll take that into consideration?

Dr. Strangelove - "Mein Führer! I can walk!"

Stroszek - "We have a 10-80 out here, a truck on fire, we have a man on the lift. We are unable to find the switch to turn the lift off, can't stop the dancing chickens. Send an electrician, we're standing by."

White Heat - Cody Jarrett's last lines - "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - "Just a flat out high-speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, straight into frantic oblivion safety, obscurity. Just another freak in the freak kingdom."

I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang:

Hellen: How do you live?

James Allen: I steal.

The Kentucky Fried Movie - "I'm not wearing any pants. Film at eleven."

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