# Most memorable dying words in a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372 "2004-09-21T20:35:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/201 "2004-10-01T18:33:24Z")
What … is … happening … to … me …? What … is … happening? ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/202 "2004-10-01T18:41:40Z")
> [@RadioWave](#): > > “There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said … no. Somehow we missed it. Well, we’ll know better next time.” > “Until then …” Tim Roth as [Rosencrantz|Guildenstern] in _Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead_ And now, a misquote I noticed years ago: “My time in the light is short…” Not his actual dying words, but later purported to have been, and not by the character who actually spoke them. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/203 "2004-10-02T02:16:30Z")
Let’s try another one: “I’m glad it’s you.” * * * One more chance on the one I posted that has not been answered yet: “Looks like the job is done, sir.” --Older man, spoken just before he takes a bullet in the forehead, from a period piece that came out last year. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/204 "2004-10-03T00:47:43Z")
Mary Corleone just says “…Dad…” Saw that movie for the first time a few days ago. I’m curious about “Don’t you want to hear my last words?” “I just did.” I looked up an answer online, but I could swear the line was from a movie I’ve seen. Maybe I’ve just heard it on this board? ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/205 "2004-10-03T01:06:08Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Mary Corleone just says “…Dad…” Saw that movie for the first time a few days ago. > > I’m curious about “Don’t you want to hear my last words?” “I just did.” I looked up an answer online, but I could swear the line was from a movie I’ve seen. Maybe I’ve just heard it on this board? I think it was something from that other thread about the last things characters here before they die/are killed in a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/206 "2004-10-03T01:07:32Z")
Gah. **HEAR** , not HERE. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/207 "2004-10-03T01:09:10Z")
Yes, I saw those words in that thread, too, but they seemed familiar even before that. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/208 "2004-10-13T01:51:22Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Let’s try another one: > > “I’m glad it’s you.” > > * * * > > One more chance on the one I posted that has not been answered yet: > “Looks like the job is done, sir.” --Older man, spoken just before he takes a bullet in the forehead, from a period piece that came out last year. Okay, it was Sailing Master John Allen in **Master and Commander** , just as they’re boarding the French ship. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/209 "2004-10-13T01:52:53Z")
“I’m glad it’s you” is from a 2002 movie. ---
**Author:** ![Muerte\_Viscosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Muerte\_Viscosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muerte_Viscosa)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/210 "2004-10-13T04:14:42Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > “I don’t wanna die! I DON’T WANNA DIE!!!” Rita Hayworth’s character in **The Lady From Shanghai** ---
**Author:** ![PucksRaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecd19e/32.png) [@PucksRaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PucksRaven)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/211 "2004-10-13T05:38:56Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m glad it’s you Paul Newman in Road to Perdition. Great movie. Great line. Great scene. Can’t think of any that haven’t been used. . . ---
**Author:** ![Waccoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Waccoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waccoe)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/212 "2004-10-13T08:02:35Z")
Yeah, yeah. Let’s. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/213 "2004-10-13T15:28:49Z")
> [@capacitor](#): > > Here’s one: > > “Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha…” Princess Bride, Fassini the evil Sicilian and self proclaimed “genius”. Immediately after drinking iocaine. “… the end of Rico…” was Edward G. Robinson, in Little Caesar. The quote about killing a man for a pair of boots was the punk in Road Warrior. Max had cuffed him to a car, there was a crude device to set the car on fire, and a hacksaw. “… I was building a house…” and “See you in hell…” is Sheriff Little Bill, in Unforgiven. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/214 "2004-10-13T15:32:50Z")
Oops, it was the first movie, Mad Max. Road Warrior was the sequel. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/215 "2004-10-13T16:36:49Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Not said on camera, but these last words can be inferred. > > “…Arch Stanton.” I’m confused. The Bad (Lee Van Cleef to avoid any confusion) didn’t say it and I don’t know what his last words were. As for The end of Ugly, my recollection is poor. In my mind’s eye, I’m seeing 2 endings, one is ugly shouting “you son of a (sound effect)” and the other is the good turning around, shooting the rope and Ugly’s head falling onto the gold. Can anyone clear this up? I can’t think of a good one, so here, “I’m melting. . . melllltiiiiinnnnggg” ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372/216 "2004-10-13T16:40:44Z")
I don’t know what Angel Eyes (van Cleef) said, but I do have that music stuck in my head now (the pocket watch - when the song ends you shoot). Tuco (the ugly) didn’t die. As Blondie (Eastwood) rode away, he shot the rope Tuco was “almost” hanging from, just as Tuco’s feet started to slip off the tombstone. So, Tuco lived. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-memorable-dying-words-in-a-movie/265372.md?page=10)