Getting in the last word-Final lines in movies

Cafe Society
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“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

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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:

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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.

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Oswald Cabal (Raymond Massey) at the end of H.G. wells’ Things to Come (1936)

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“Jack. . .I swear…” - Brokeback Mountain

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I’m not really fond of these, but they belong in any listing of Last Lines:

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.

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I’d love the last line to be “The stuff dreams are made of”, because “Huh?” really isn’t a great last line.

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Czarcasm, I believe we should give “The Maltese Falcon” special dispensation.

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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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“Stand still, Godfrey. It’ll all be over in a minute.”