# When (blank) dies, their Oscar clip will be (blank) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114 "2007-06-07T14:23:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/1 "2007-06-07T14:23:17Z")
I originally thought of this as a Star Trek thread but you can use it for any movie star. Keep in mind they tend to shy away from dialogue. My Trek actors would be Nichelle Nicoles, when she pulls the phaser on the rookie in ST III Lenoard Nimoy He’ll say, Live Long and Prosper. Shatner Probably some smirking scene, though they may go with one of his closing lines “Let’s see what she’s got” “That a-way” or “Second star to the right and straight on till morning” George Takei will have him sitting as the captain during his last chat with Kirk in VI or his line “Fly her apart then!” from STVI. But of course, it doesn’t have to be just Star Trek. I’ve heard there are movies other than Star Trek made. OK so when Harrison Ford dies, they will show Han Solo and Indy Jones. But what clip? Sword vs pistol? “Trust me”? Him adjusting the ammount of sand in the bag and snatching the idol? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/2 "2007-06-07T14:32:35Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Lenoard Nimoy He’ll say, Live Long and Prosper. [/QUOTE] Either that, or he’ll be on the inside of the reactor, dying, whispering to Shatner through the glass. _The needs of the many…outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one._ Excuse me, I need to go cry now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/3 "2007-06-07T14:50:19Z")
Spock: “I have been, and always shall be, your friend.” Kirk: "It was… fun. Oh, my… " Riker: "Speak for yourself sir, I plan to live forever. " ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/4 "2007-06-07T15:01:02Z")
Actually I think the Oscar clip people tend to stay away from death scenes in the rememberance montage. So I don’t think they will do those. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/5 "2007-06-07T15:05:51Z")
Too bad, those were their best lines. For Shatner, I think the scenes with Edith Keeler epitomize his Kirkness. Add in the Torn Shirt Kirk from _Shore Leave_ (fighting Finnegan) and perhaps a shot of him in his chair (all TOS, btw, no bloody A, B, C, or D!) and you have what I would see as a fitting tribute. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/6 "2007-06-07T15:06:15Z")
Anthony Hopkins: I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti Jack Nicholson as Randall Patrick McMurphy with the water hose. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/7 "2007-06-07T15:09:52Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Actually I think the Oscar clip people tend to stay away from death scenes in the rememberance montage. So I don’t think they will do those. [/QUOTE] In that case Spock, with his Vulcan lyre, crooning “Ah-ah-a-ah…bitter dregs…” :D:D Oscar clip all the way. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/8 "2007-06-07T15:17:43Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] Too bad, those were their best lines. For Shatner, I think the scenes with Edith Keeler epitomize his Kirkness. Add in the Torn Shirt Kirk from _Shore Leave_ (fighting Finnegan) and perhaps a shot of him in his chair (all TOS, btw, no bloody A, B, C, or D!) and you have what I would see as a fitting tribute. [/QUOTE] But those aren’t move clips. When Jame D died, did they show a clip of him from the TV series? I can’t recall. They may have had a shot of him in engineering with his red shirt but, I think they like movie clips. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/9 "2007-06-07T15:22:48Z")
**Paul Newman** : That “big, old Luke smile” from _Cool Hand Luke_. **Peter O’Toole** : Robes blowing in the wind from _Lawrence of Arabia_. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/10 "2007-06-07T15:34:16Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] But those aren’t move clips. When Jame D died, did they show a clip of him from the TV series? I can’t recall. They may have had a shot of him in engineering with his red shirt but, I think they like movie clips. [/QUOTE] Well, it is the Academy Awards show remembrance clip show, so that’s why they’re going to show movie clips. (That said, I love that part of the broadcast.) ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/11 "2007-06-07T15:49:33Z")
I had a thread like this back in 2005. Much like those in the Oscar montage, it died quickly. [LINK](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=303703) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/12 "2007-06-07T15:53:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Jack Nicholson as Randall Patrick McMurphy with the water hose. Nahh — I’d expect the “Diner” scene from **Five Easy Pieces** to be his signature scene. It really would be a shame if they used “Heeeeeeere’s …Johnny!” from **The Shining** , or one of his Joker scenes from **Batman** , or a scene from his Roger Corman flicks (or **Little Shop of Horrors**!), but I’ll bet someone will be dumb enough to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/13 "2007-06-07T15:55:27Z")
Charlton Heston will be Moses, parting the Red Sea. And that’s a pity, because he had much better roles, and was a better actor, than that part let him be. It was too early in his career to. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/14 "2007-06-07T16:16:00Z")
When (Adam Sandler) dies, their Oscar clip will be (blank). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/15 "2007-06-07T16:51:57Z")
Heston: “DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!” Steve Martin: “I was adjusting your breasts. They were all out of whack.” Harrison Ford: “It belongs in a museum!” Antagonist: “So do you!” Mark Hamill: “May the Force be with you.” Rutger Hauer: “I want more life, fucker!” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/16 "2007-06-07T17:54:05Z")
Actually, for Rutger, they should use the redemption/death of Roy Batty, because of how moving the words are: “I’ve seen … things … you people wouldn’t believe.” Brad Pitt: “Neal, in Montana there’s three things we’re never late for: church, work and fishing.” or maybe: “No words can describe it. May as well ask Heaven what it sees; no human can know.” ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/17 "2007-06-07T18:03:45Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] When (Adam Sandler) dies, their Oscar clip will be (blank). [/QUOTE] At this point something from Spanglish or Punch Drunk Love. Both terrific movies (PDL was I think the best movie that year) which showed that he can actually act. For big stars don’t they tend to show 2 or 3 clips? Especially if they had long careers. For Nicholson, I could see them showing, Little Shop, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and As Good as it Gets. Julia Roberts it will be the Pretty Woman laughing snapping jewelcase scene. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/18 "2007-06-07T18:37:27Z")
Olivia de Havilland’s death will revive Gone With The Wind. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/19 "2007-06-07T18:43:04Z")
Nicholson: “You can’t HANDLE the truth!” Heston: “Get your paws off me, you DAMN DIRTY APE!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114/20 "2007-06-07T18:48:41Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] For big stars don’t they tend to show 2 or 3 clips? [/QUOTE] Some of the people listed here are famous enough that they’ll probably get a separate tribute of their own and not just be included in the montage. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-blank-dies-their-oscar-clip-will-be-blank/407114.md?page=2)