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#109285 08/05/03 04:20 AM
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Certain lines have jumped off the movie screen as catch-phrases and then actually endured to become a permanent part of the language. Here's a few more-obvious ones:

"Go ahead, make my day."
--Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry

"You talkin' to me?...You talkin' to ME!!?"
--Robert DeNiro,Taxi Driver

"The usual suspects."
--Claude Raines, Casablanca

"I'll make you an offer you can't refuse.".
--Marlon Brando, The Godfather

They're baaaaaack!" (used interchangeably with he, she, we're, it's, etc)
--Little Girl, Poltergeist

"Smile when you say that."
--Humphrey Bogart, [ferget which movie...mebbe The Petrified Forest?]

And, of course, the now-omnipresent and much-variated

"Badges? We dun need no steenkin' badges!"
--The deputized Mexican Banditos in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles. ("roolz" here, of course )

Anybody have any others? Or corrections on these? (which I'm sure Faldo will be more-than-glad to provide, if necessary )

However, I'm looking for the ones that have really been integrated into the language. For instance, while "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" from Casablanca is often used tongue-in-cheek, it never really took on a life of it's own linguistically, so it wouldn't rank here. However, come to think of it, "We'll always have Paris" from the same film has taken on a sort of idiomatic life of it's own, meaning any special moment shared in memory, so that could qualify. In the same vein "Follow the yellow brick road", while often quoted meaning to keep on following a certain path, never crept out of it's original aura, so I'm not sure it would qualify here either. And if someone sez Schwarzenegger's I'll be back, I'll scream. OTH, I think his "Ostalevista, baby!" [sp?] needs to be here.

And "Be afraid. Be very afraid." was the promo on the poster for The Fly, I don't think Jeff Goldblum ever said it in the film, did he?


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Another one from Casablanca that has a fair degree of currency:

"I'm shocked, simply shocked."

And it's usually used with the same sense of irony as intended in the original.


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"Ostalevista, baby!" [sp?]

Hasta la vista. De nada.


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What a great idea for a thread, Juan! Sorry I can't think of anything right off, but I'll return if I do.

Loftan just offered:

"Here's lookin' at you, kid" from Casablanca and "You had me at hello," from Jerry McGuire--and I have no idea what Lof's talking about, but she assures me this is a phrase that her age group picked up.

Edit:

Lof's got another one--

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" from Oz

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Wait a minute:

"Badges? We dun need no steenkin' badges!"
--The deputized Mexican Banditos in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles.


What happened to Treasure of the Sierra Madre?


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"Ostalevista, baby!" [sp?]

Hasta la vista. De nada.


Thanks, AnnaS. I'm amazed Faldo didn't catch this!




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I don't ctach things, Juan.


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Jerry Maguire

Thanks, Dub-Dub...reminded me of "Show me the money!" --Cuba Gooding, Jr.


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What about, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."? Doesn't that come from the movie rather than the book?


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And was Monty Python's "And now for something completely different", which I've heard and used often, actually a line of dialogue or just a title?


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