# Coolest one-word film dialogue **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-one-word-film-dialogue/775540 "2016-12-24T16:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
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“_His…to…ry_” - original _Longest Yard_ “CAMELOT!” - _…Holy Grail_ “Plastics” - really? Do I need to say? ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-one-word-film-dialogue/775540/2 "2016-12-24T17:03:03Z")
Mel Brooks _Silent Movie_. Marcel Marceau - “NO!” ---
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“Nuts” (Battle of the Bulge) 1965 Wide Screen Epic ---
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[“Wrong.”](http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/wrong.gif) – Commando ---
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I’ve mentioned these before in a thread: Eskimo–the priest in Heathers. Everyone—Stansfield in Leon ---
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“Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!” - _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-one-word-film-dialogue/775540/7 "2016-12-24T17:20:52Z")
John Ford’s The Quiet Man. En route to Inisfree for the first time, horse-drawn cab driver Michaleen Oge Flynn (Barry Fitzgerald) looks at the American Sean Thornton (John Wayne) and as though to sum their respective nations, disdainfully says, ‘Prohibition’. MiM ---
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> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > Mel Brooks _Silent Movie_. Marcel Marceau - “NO!” In _Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia_ (#2 on my alltime list), Warren Oates suddenly has someone under gunpoint with the gravelly-voiced admonition “_noooooooooo…_” ---
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“_MOOOOOOOOOOM!!!_” - Rupert Pupkin’s demo recordings, in _King of Comedy_, are getting constantly interrupted by his mom, who is inquiring what all the racket is downstairs. ---
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“_Inconceivable!_” - The Princess Bride ---
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Kkkkkkkkhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn!!! ---
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“Rosebud.” ---
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“BEANERS!” - _Up In Smoke_ ---
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> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > Mel Brooks _Silent Movie_. Marcel Marceau - “NO!” “_Non_!” ---
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“Scouts?” ---
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> [@terentii](#): > > “_Non_!” Thanks. Been a long time since I watched that. ---
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> [@hogarth](#): > > [“Wrong.”](http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/wrong.gif) – Commando [“Wrong”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACqhW2ThcqI) ---
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“EVERYONE!!!” - _Leon_. ---
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Not even a word: Walter Matthau’s glare at Martin Balsam at the conclusion of “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” (1974). ---
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“Fluoridation.” - _Dr. Strangelove_ “Krysmopompas!” - _Kamikaze 89_ “Satan!” - _Rosemary’s Baby_ “STEL-LAAAAAAA!” - _A Streetcar Named Desire_ “WOOD-STEIN!!!” - _All the President’s Men_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-one-word-film-dialogue/775540.md?page=2)