Tethered_Kite:
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Same here Canvas Shoes. We’ve been laughing forever over this line and can’t remember.
Our three best bets are “The Outrage” with Paul Newman, “Texas Across the River.” and “4 For Texas.” But I can’t nail it down.
“The Outrage” is based on “Rashomon” an old story where everyone gives version of an incident implicating others and making himself the hero. So maybe it’s the former?
You’ve seen it??? My sister and I are quite sure we’re going to go to our graves never knowing what movie it was. And until now, I’ve never met anyone who’s also seen it. You’ve given me renewed hope.
A bit of black humor:
Terry Kath : “Don’t worry, it’s not loaded.”
Colibri
December 7, 2013, 7:50pm
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More black humor:
“Uh-oh.”
Francis “Dick” Scobee, Space Shuttle Challenger Commander
Fictional or not, these have been my favorite “last words” since that film came out.
Unless i’m scrambling memories again, the “I’ve seen things…Tannhäuser Gate” lines were scripted; at the last minute, actor Rutger Hauer added the two final sentences (quoted above) with director Ridley Scott’s blessing.
Chicago Flight 191 : “Damn.”
To balance things a bit, the best famous but thankfully NOT final words: “We’ll be in the Hudson!”
A professor, Dr. Samuel Upham, was on his deathbed and the people gathered there wondered if he’d died. Someone said, “Feel his feet. No one ever died with warm feet.”
Dr. Upham opened his eyes. “Joan of Arc did.”
Then he died.
Damfino
December 7, 2013, 9:15pm
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Tethered_Kite:
When my dad came back from WWII he apprenticed with an Norwegian immigrant old-style house painter. That way he could make some bucks while he got re-established and settled.
When Ole (yes, his real name) was dying Dad went to see him.
Ole was on his back in a hospital bed and the last words he said to my father before he dozed off for the day were, “Da ceilin’ neets paintin’.”
Remember, we are strong people. We can survive anything.
Let me hear from you some time.
Don’t forget me.
I love you.
And I like the possibly apocryphal, “I told you I was sick.”
Spike Milligan wanted “I told you I was sick” on his headstone but the church authorities didn’t allow it . So he wrote it in Gaelic .
Executioner: Any last words?
General Woundwort: Come back! Come back and fight! Dogs aren’t dangerous!
“I am about to – or I am going to – die: either expression is correct.”
~~ Dominique Bouhours, French Grammarian, d. 1702
Aha, but his body was never found…
TreacherousCretin:
Fictional or not, these have been my favorite “last words” since that film came out.
Unless i’m scrambling memories again, the “I’ve seen things…Tannhäuser Gate” lines were scripted; at the last minute, actor Rutger Hauer added the two final sentences (quoted above) with director Ridley Scott’s blessing.
That’s possibly one of the most heartwrenchingly beautiful death speeches I’ve ever heard in a film. Pure word pictures.
Though I could swear that the first time I watched it he also said something about seeing the two moons (or two suns) rise over the beaches of some planet.
I’ve never been able to confirm that. Nor has anyone else. Dontcha just hate that?
None of the movies above have anything on Beavis and Butthead Do America …
Gunman: Do you have any last words?
Butthead: Uhhhhh… “butt cheeks”?
TreacherousCretin:
Fictional or not, these have been my favorite “last words” since that film came out.
Unless i’m scrambling memories again, the “I’ve seen things…Tannhäuser Gate” lines were scripted; at the last minute, actor Rutger Hauer added the two final sentences (quoted above) with director Ridley Scott’s blessing.
That’s pretty much how it happened according to the Wikipedia page. Hauer dropped some lines and added the ending.
"Tears in rain" is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. Written by David Peoples and altered by Hauer, the monologue is frequently quoted. Critic Mark Rowlands described it as "perhaps the most moving death soliloquy in cinematic history", and it is commonly viewed as the defining moment of Hauer's acting career.
The monologue is near the conclusion of Blade Runner, in which detective R...
silenus
December 8, 2013, 1:10am
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My favorite is what will undoubtably be Mankind’s Final Words;
“Hold my beer.”
“Let’s see if there’s one in here for me!”
Jon-Erik Hexum (/ˈhɛksəm/; November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984) was an American actor and model, known for his lead roles in the TV series Voyagers! and Cover Up, and his supporting role as Pat Trammell in the biopic The Bear. He died by an accidental self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head on the set of Cover Up.
Hexum was born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1957 to Thorleif Andreas Hexum, a Norwegian immigrant, and Gretha Olivia (Paulsen) Hexum, a Minnesota-born American of Norwegian ...
Chefguy
December 8, 2013, 4:02am
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“I had the right of way.”
Some Victorian-London criminal, just as the hangman pulled the lever: "I am Jack - "
