Inspired by the One time in band camp thread, I was wondering what movies have inspired phrases or sentences that have been repeated in many other movies, often with hilarious or ironic results. For instance, “Go ahead, make my day” first appeared in Sudden Impact, but has been used in countless other movies since then.
What others are there?
Note: This is not a thread about your favorite line in a movie, or a line often quoted near the office water cooler, it’s about lines that are repeated in countless other movies, usually as homages. Here are four examples. I don’t know their sources, so if y’all could fill me in, I’d appreciate it:
“Is that a ______ in your __________, or are ya just glad to see me?”
“Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”
“Hey, I’m walkin’ here!”
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
Star Wars: A New Hope
Remember Han Solo’s effeminate conversation with an Imperial in the detention block?
At the end he shoots the console and says “Boring conversation anyway… Luke we’re gonna have company!”
In Navy SEALS with Charlie Sheen (my scene description may be a little off but the lines are right)
At the end of the movie two of the SEALS (disguised as locals), one of which is Sheen, are watching a building from cover. Other SEALS are trying to sneak out of the building. A guard happens upon them (Sheen and the other). Their backs are to the guy so he thinks they are just fellow guards out of position. He starts yammering at them and Charlie Sheen turns around and shoots him. He then says “Boring conversation anyway…(two the guys sneaking out of the building) Lieutenant we’re gonna have company!”
“No matter where you go, there you are.” Used in both “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,” and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.” The usage was not an homage, however – they appear to have come up independently.
Mae West said “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?” in She Done Him Wrong (1933).
Alfonso Bedoya, playing a Mexican bandit, said “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” in Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy (1969).
This was a tagline for The Fly (1986); this one I don’t know offhand if there was an earlier reference. I can’t seem to find one.
Not from a movie, originally, but I just heard a clip from a movie that’s just been released called King’s Ransom in which a character says “I love it when a plan comes together.”
Thanks for those. I was pretty close on my guesses. But I think you’re off on The Fly. I think there might be an earlier instance of it. Or, I could be wrong.
It wouldn’t surprise me - that’s the one I was most unsure about, but everything I can find online confirms that. All of the other attributions to it are much later than 1986.[
From dictionary.com
1.Having qualities or characteristics more often associated with women than men. See Synonyms at female.
2.Characterized by weakness and excessive refinement.
Han Solo does adopt an effeminate voice for his conversation with the Imperial.
The Naked Gun spoofed the line from Dirty Harry about the trouble in the Fillmore district.
(paraphrasing)
Mayor: “And Callahan - I don’t want any more trouble out of you like last year in the Fillmore disctrict - got it? That’s my policy.”
Harry: “Well, when I see a man chasing a woman with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That’s my policy.”
Mayor: “Intent? How did you figure that?”
Harry: “Well when a naked man is chasing a woman with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the red cross.”
The Naked Gun version:
Frank: “Well, when I see five guys dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park, I shoot the bastards, that’s my policy.”
Mayor: “That was a Shakespeare In The Park Production of Julius Caesar! You killed five actors!”
When John & Yoko spent a week on The Mike Douglas Show in the 70’s MD asked John if they’d seen the film.
John replied, “Love means never having to watch that movie!”
