# Getting in the last word-Final lines in movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 26, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981 "2021-05-26T21:34:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/61 "2021-05-28T02:20:52Z")
“Mr. Rusk, you’re not wearing your tie.” Alfred Hitchcock’s **Frenzy** ---
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_Psycho_ “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…” ---
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_Hey, Hilts!_ The Great Escape ---
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“Don Corleone” ---
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_Shut up and deal._ — _The Apartment_ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/66 "2021-05-28T12:16:50Z")
> [@](#): > > We’ll have lots of sons and name them all after you. It’s a great line, but it needs context. It’s from **Charade** (1963), and it’s spoken by Reggie Lampert (Audry Hepburn) to Cary Grant’s character. Throughout the film he has, when forced to, admitted that the last name he gave her was false – Peter Joshua, Alexander Dyle, Peter Canfield, and Brian Cruikshank (which is probably his real name). Several prints ruin the last line by cutting it out or having some annoying sound over it. Similarly, the last line of Fred Zinneman’s **Day of the Jackal** : > [@](#): > > But if The Jackal wasn’t Calthrop, then who the hell was he? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/67 "2021-05-28T12:18:24Z")
Next to me in the blackness lay my oiled blue steel beauty. The greatest Christmas gift I had ever received, or would ever receive. Gradually, I drifted off to sleep, pranging ducks on the wing and getting off spectacular hip shots. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/68 "2021-05-28T12:50:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Little animals. And if we’re no more than animals, then we must snatch each little scrap of happiness, and live and suffer and pass, mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done. It is this, or that - all the Universe or nothingness! Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be? Oswald Cabal (Raymond Massey) at the end of H.G. wells’ **Things to Come** (1936) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/69 "2021-05-28T12:52:11Z")
_“Jack. . .I swear…”_ - Brokeback Mountain ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/70 "2021-05-28T12:54:41Z")
I’m not really fond of these, but they belong in any listing of Last Lines: > [@](#): > > So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God’s silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man’s own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends is man’s conception, not nature’s. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist! They’re from Richard Matheson’s **The Incredible Shrinking Man** (1957). I think they were hard-pressed to give the film an upbeat ending, couldn’t really find one, and took refuge in bombastic rhetoric. Scott Carey continued to shrink. And, although he beat the Spider, it’s clearly only a matter of time before a robin or a nematode or an amoeba gets him. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/71 "2021-05-28T13:15:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Heavy. What is it? > > The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of. > > Huh? I’d love the last line to be “The stuff dreams are made of”, because “Huh?” really isn’t a great last line. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/72 "2021-05-28T13:19:21Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’d love the last line to be “The stuff dreams are made of”, because “Huh?” really isn’t a great last line. Czarcasm, I believe we should give “The Maltese Falcon” special dispensation. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/73 "2021-05-28T13:21:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Alta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. And your father’s name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. > > It’s true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God. ---
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**Judy Maxwell** (Barbra Streisand): Let me tell you something. Love means never having to say you’re sorry. **Howard Bannister** (Ryan O’Neal) : That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. (Of course, riffing on the fact that “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” was the last line (spoken by O’Neal) in the movie **Love Story** (1970)) ---
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“I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves. I hope we passed the audition.” –John Lennon/Let It Be ---
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"Sir! I have a plan! Mein Führer! I can walk!" ---
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“I used to hate the water.” “I can’t imagine why.” ---
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“We belong dead.” ---
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“Watch the skies!” ---
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