# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 5
**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, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/81 "2021-05-28T14:08:27Z")
“There’s no hurry, you see. We have All the Time in the World.” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/82 "2021-05-28T14:13:59Z")
“The horror…the horror.” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/83 "2021-05-28T14:17:13Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’d love the last line to be “The stuff dreams are made of”, Maybe there should be a thread for great penultimate lines. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/84 "2021-05-28T14:20:32Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Maybe there should be a thread for great penultimate lines. My top contender would be Hal singing “Daisy, Daisy…” a half hour before the end of _2001_, disqualified for this thread only by the dumb mission recording. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/85 "2021-05-28T14:23:43Z")
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind: “I came up with a new game show idea recently. It’s called _The Old Game_ . You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn’t blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.” ---
**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, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/86 "2021-05-28T14:24:42Z")
Excluding the “What happened to them afterwards” setyion by the narrator, the following exchange from **A Man for All Seasons** (1966) Thomas More (to executioner): Be not afraid of your office. You send me to God Thomas Cranmer: You’re very sure of that, Sir Thomas? More: He will not refuse one so blithe to go to him. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/87 "2021-05-28T14:37:18Z")
“Traffic was a bitch”. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/88 "2021-05-28T14:51:12Z")
“Heading, sir?” “Out there. Thataway!” ---
**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, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/89 "2021-05-28T19:34:57Z")
“This is…The End” Robert Morley at the end of **Around the World in 80 Days** (1956) > **[Around the world in 80 days - Closing credits - Vídeo Dailymotion](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5cfnjm)** > > 'Around the world in 80 days' is one of the first major films to show an extended closing credit sequence. Saul Bass is the person responsible for this animation. After the credits, the movie has a 5 minute sequence with exit music to play while the... ---
**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, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/90 "2021-05-28T19:45:22Z")
“[turning to address camera] Of course the operation was a success… or _you_ wouldn’t be here.” **Creation of the Humanoids** ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/91 "2021-05-28T20:28:18Z")
Bridge on the River Kwai - “Madness” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/92 "2021-05-29T14:27:12Z")
“No!” Marcel Marceau, _Silent Movie_ ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/93 "2021-05-29T15:54:55Z")
Stallone in Rambo: "I want what they want and every other guy who came over here, and spilled his guts and gave everything he had wants: for our country to love us, as much as we love it.” “Good luck, John.” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/94 "2021-05-29T18:25:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Marcel Marceau, _Silent Movie_ Good catch! I was about to point out that it’s not the final line in the film until I realized that it is the _only_ line. First _and_ final line. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/95 "2021-05-29T21:18:08Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > “Madness” [The Bridge on the River Kwai - Madness… MADNESS! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAoBW3yjlvA) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/96 "2021-05-29T21:24:42Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Good catch! I was about to point out that it’s not the final line in the film until I realized that it is the _only_ line. First _and_ final line That was my favorite response also. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/97 "2021-05-30T02:37:21Z")
“The son of a bitch stole my watch!” – _The Front Page_ The 1928 version had the sound of a typewriter key drown out the word “bitch,” but Walter Matthau speaks it loudly in the 1974 version. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-in-the-last-word-final-lines-in-movies/942981/98 "2021-05-30T05:13:55Z")
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