Star Trek: Generations — The Klingons are beating the crap out of the Enterprise when Riker and crew get the drop on them; Will says “Fire” and Lursa and B’Etor give each other the look just before they’re all reduced to sub-atomic particles.
Let’s keep going
Thelma and Louise
“For a moment there I thought we were in trouble…”
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
I won’t swear to it, but I thought he used that line in Outlaw Josey Wales, too. Chief Dan George was a national treasure.
Both were actual quotes. Still qualify for the topic, of course, but makes you marvel at how people can come up with these in real life.
And yet most Tolkein adaptations give them Scottish accents. What’s up with that?
Copying Order of the Stick.
Everybody loves Scottish accents, so “Rule of Popular,” as TV Tropes might call it.
“Scotland: Americans know it as ‘the birthplace of Shrek’ and ‘that accent you think you can do, but actually can’t’.”
—John Oliver
The Shetland Islands were historically part of Norway, until they were transferred to Scotland as a princess’s dowry. In the Orkney Islands and parts of the northern Scottish mainland Norn, a Norse language, used to be spoken. There’s just enough overlap to fudge over the difference, if you squint a bit.
There’s also his quote that still comes in handy: “Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t.”
Maybe they dont want characters that sound like this
“To be… or not… to be.”
BOOM
“My God, it’s full of stars.”
Astronaut David Bowman however not in the original 2001 A Space Odyssey, but in the sequel 2010
I suspect it has something to do with how later adaptations of Dwarves tended to made a big deal of clans. “Clans” in the Anglophone sphere tends to mean Scotland and Ireland, and so Dwarves picked up Scottish and Irish stereotypes. The accent and hard drinking, specifically.
I’d rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
Harry Dean Stanton, Repo Man
I debated putting this quote up, but couldn’t decide if they actually knew it was the end or not. After all, they’d got out of plenty of other life-or-death/capture situations before.
You have it backwards. It’s better to live on your feet than to die on your knees.
Old man in whorehouse, Catch-22
Adam Goldberg in Saving Private Ryan. He doesn’t have a final line, but the emotions playing across his face as he is losing the hand-to-hand combat with the much larger German… powerful stuff.