# Immediate Pre-Death Quips in Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506 "2004-07-29T22:14:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/61 "2004-07-30T21:47:57Z")
“My wife might have bloddy well turned up” –Lord Farrow, _Head_, _Blackadder II_ ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/62 "2004-07-30T21:57:43Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Well, Moby Dick was a movie before Star Trek II was. > > However, according to IMDB, the actual quote is. . . > > “From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.” > > I don’t know if “Ye damned whale” was in the book. > > But, since the poster dropped “ye damned whale”, we’ll have to give it to Khan with a nod in Ahab’s direction. “Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/63 "2004-07-30T22:00:42Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Evidently you don’t know it, either, if we’re talking about _The Wizard of Oz_. The line is actually “I’m melting! I’m _melting!_ Ohhhhh… What a world! What a world!” > > Of course, if you had another movie in mind, so be it. He had [another movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/) in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/64 "2004-07-30T22:13:32Z")
“YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!” - Red Leader, **Star Wars** “A spear?” - Chief Phillips, **Apocalypse Now** “Do it.” - Sgt. Barnes, **Platoon** “I would like to have seen Montana.” - Capt. Borodin, **Hunt for Red October** “Rollo Tomassi.” - Jack Vincennes, **L.A. Confidential** ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/65 "2004-07-30T22:41:49Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > He had [another movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/) in mind. I’m pretty even in that movie a high-pitched “Oh, what a world!” is audible. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/66 "2004-07-30T23:04:01Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > “YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!” - Red Leader, **Star Wars** \*\* 😃 “They came from…behind!” - Gold Five “I can’t hold them!” - Red Ten “No, I’m all right…ahhhhh!!” - Red Six (Porkins) “I’m hit!” -Red Nine “The guns…they’ve stopped!” - Gold Two “Loosen up!” - Gold Leader “I can’t hold them!” - Red Ten “Wait!” - Red Three (Biggs Darklighter) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/67 "2004-07-31T02:55:43Z")
“I hope I give you the shits, you fuckin’ _wimp!_” (spits) —_Dog Soldiers_ ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/68 "2004-08-01T18:06:00Z")
“What is this magic?” –Prof. Quirrell, _Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone_ ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/69 "2004-08-02T13:41:37Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > “Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!” I should have figured Melville would never have been so terse. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/70 "2004-08-02T13:48:50Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > How about “Forgive them, father. They know not what they do.” **The Bible** No, then he said, “I can see your house”. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/71 "2004-08-02T14:20:44Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “I’m melting! I’m melting!” > > I refuse to give the cite. If you don’t know it, there’s no hope. :rolleyes: Of course! Judge Doom in _Roger Rabbitt_! 😉 And **wolf\_meister** , you’re close - the Emperor’s line in ROTJ is “And now, young jedi, you will die.” Geez, I’m a nerd. Snicks ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506/72 "2004-08-07T12:06:29Z")
“Corn Nuts!” Heather Chandler in _Heathers_. “I have lost everything but my white plume.” Cyrano in _Cyrano de Bergerac_. “Earn this.” Captain Miller in _Saving Private Ryan_. “Oh n—” Tommy DeVito in _Goodfellas_. “Superman…” The Iron Giant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immediate-pre-death-quips-in-movies/257506.md?page=3)