# Movie quote question

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-question/205934
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 6, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-question/205934 "2003-10-06T21:45:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![maralinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@maralinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maralinn)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-question/205934/1 "2003-10-06T21:45:46Z")

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I’m not sure why I know so may people who want to know this, but I do.

Is the following from a movie:

“What does it do?”  
“Nothing, that’s the beauty of it.”

See also  
[http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7949](http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7949)

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### Author: ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-question/205934/2 "2003-10-07T01:22:38Z")

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Willie Wonka. I just posted to the movie quote board. Don’t believe I registered for that. Here comes more spam.

MY 13-year-old movie geek fed me the answer. He used to beat the MOvie Geek on tv most of the time. He(my son) is awsome.