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Film Misquote(s) |
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
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There are a number of variations on the
famous quote from The Godfather (1972),
based on the novel by Mario Puzo. In the book, Don Corleone says:
"He's
a businessman. I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
The modified
line was stated in both The Godfather (1972) and The
Godfather: Part II (1974),
repeated by Don Corleone and his sons Michael and Sonny:
- Don Corleone (Marlon Brando): "I'm
gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
(although it sounds like "I wanna make him...")
Play clip from The Godfather (1972):
- Michael (Al Pacino): "My father made
him an offer he couldn't refuse."
Play clip from The Godfather (1972):
- Sonny Corleone (James Caan): "And the promise
is that the deal is so good that we can't refuse."
Play clip from The Godfather (1972):
- Don Corleone (Robert DeNiro): "I make
an offer he don't refuse. Don't worry."
Play clip from The Godfather: Part II
(1974):
- Michael (Al Pacino): "I'll
make him an offer he can't refuse."
Play clip from The
Godfather: Part II (1974):
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Jaws (1975)
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Steven Spielberg's Jaws
(1975) has often been misquoted, when Police Chief Martin Brody
(Roy Scheider) exclaimed to his crewmate Quint (Robert Shaw):
"You're
gonna need a bigger boat."
Play clip from Jaws (1975):
He has been mistakenly attributed as
saying:
"We're gonna need a bigger boat."
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Network (1976)
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Director Sidney
Lumet's Network (1976) - a brilliant
criticism of television journalism (with a satirical script by Paddy
Chayefsky), was personified by unbalanced and indignant news-anchorman
Howard Beale (Oscar-winning Peter Finch), the "mad
prophet of the airwaves." His angry cry became a rallying point
in the mid-1970s, and was repeated numerous times in the film:
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore."
Play clip from Network (1976):
Although it was always spoken the same way, it has often
been misquoted:
- "I'm mad as hell." (omitting "as")
and
- "I'm not gonna take it anymore." (substituting
"it" for "this")
(Full Quotation)
"I
don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad.
It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their
job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers
keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street
and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's
no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is
unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster
tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent
crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things
are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere
is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house,
and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all
we say is: 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms.
Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and
I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave
you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest. I
don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your Congressman
because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what
to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and
the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get
mad. (shouting) You've got to say, 'I'm a human being, god-dammit!
My life has value!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you
to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and
go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'm
as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!' I
want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them
and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and
I'm not gonna take this anymore!' Things have got to change.
But first, you've gotta get mad!...You've got to say, 'I'm
as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!' Then
we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation
and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the
window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: 'I'm as
mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!'"
Play clip from Network
(1976): (short) (extended
1) (extended
2)
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Star Wars (1977) (aka Episode IV: A New Hope)
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In Star Wars (1977),
Obi Wan Kenobi (Sir Alec Guinness) NEVER said verbatim:
"May
the Force be with you."
However, he did utter a few variants:
There were two others, however, who spoke the line: "May
the Force be with you" - to the fliers (including Luke Skywalker
and others) just before the climactic Death Star trench battle:
- General Dodonna (Alex McCrindle):
"Then
man your ships. And may the Force be with you."
Play
clip from Star Wars (1977):
- Han Solo (Harrison Ford):
"Hey, Luke,
may the Force be with you."
Play clip from Star Wars (1977):
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
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In director Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse
Now (1979), the words of Lieutenant Colonel
Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall) - a hawkish, lunatic, flamboyant commander,
who wore a black horse soldier's Stetson cavalry hat with a cavalry
sword emblem, sunglasses, and a yellow dickey, has often been inaccurately
abbreviated.
His famous line of dialogue has often been stated
simply - without its full ending, as this shortened line of dialogue:
"I love the smell of napalm
in the morning...Smells (or smelled) like... victory."
The
full quotation is:
"You smell that? Do you smell that?...Napalm,
son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm
in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours.
When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin'
dink body. The smell, you know, that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smells
(or smelled) like - victory. [A bomb exploded behind
him.] Some
day, this war's gonna end."
Play clip from Apocalypse Now (1979):
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...and justice for all. (1979)
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In director Norman Jewison's courtroom
drama ...and
justice for all. (1979), defense lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Al
Pacino) did not yell out to Judge Francis Rayford (Jack Warden):
"I'm out of order? You're out of
order! This whole court's out of order!"
But he did shout:
"You're out
of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is
out of order! They're out of order!"
Play clip from ...and justice for all. (1979):
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Tommy Boy (1995)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
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In Star
Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the
startling plot-twist revelation of fatherhood by Darth Vader (David Prowse,
voice of James Earl Jones) to young Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill)
was not quoted as:
"Luke, I am your father."
Instead, it was:
Darth Vader: "No. I am
your father."
Luke (in horror): "No! No! That's not true. That's impossible."
Play clip from Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes
Back (1980):
[Note: The trilogy's most famous line was never actually
delivered by Vader - on the set. Scottish-accented David Prowse really
said: "Obi-Wan
killed your father," but
the line was secretly over-dubbed later.]
There are at least two misquotes or mis-statements of the famous line,
both spoofs: Tommy Boy (1995), and Toy Story 2 (1999):
- Tommy
(Chris Farley) spoke the line as he goofed off in front of an electric
fan:
"La, la, la, Luke, Luke, I am your father...."
Play clip from Tommy Boy (1995):
- Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen) was confronted in an elevator
shaft and told by arch-enemy nemesis Emperor Zurg (voice of Andrew
Stanton):
Emperor Zurg: "Surrender, Buzz Lightyear. I have won."
Buzz: "I'll never give in. You killed my father."
Emperor: "No, Buzz, I am your father."
Buzz (in anguish, screaming):
"Nooooo!"
Play clip from Toy Story 2 (1999):
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Mommie Dearest (1981)
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In Mommie Dearest (1981), Faye
Dunaway (as actress Joan Crawford) abusively screamed out at her young
daughter Christina (Mara Hobel) for having wire hangers in her closet:
"No - wire - hangers. What's wire hangers
doing in this closet when I told you - No wire hangers EVER! I
work and work 'til I'm half-dead, and I hear people saying 'She's
getting old.' And what do I get? A daughter who cares as much
about the beautiful dresses I give her as she cares about me. What's
wire hangers doing in this closet? ANSWER ME! I buy you beautiful
dresses, and you treat them like they were some dish-rag. You do!
$300 dollar dress on a wire hanger! We'll see how many you've got
hidden in here. We'll see. Get out of that bed. All of this is coming
out. Out! Out! Out. Out. Out. You've got any more? We're gonna see
how many wire hangers you've got in your closet. Wire hangers! Why?
Why? Christina, get out of that bed. Get out of that bed. You live
in the most beautiful house in Brentwood [She picked up a hanger
and began to beat Christina] and you don't
care if your clothes are stretched back from wire hangers. And your
room looks like a two-dollar-a-week priced room in some two-bit backstreet
town in Oklahoma. Get up. Get up. Clean up this mess."
Play clips from Mommie Dearest (1981): (short) (extended)
She never said:
"No more wire hangers,
ever!"
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Rocky III (1982)
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Actor Mr. T. (aka Laurence Tureaud) became
well-known and associated with this catchphrase (that he eventually
trademarked in 1998):
"I pity the fool."
He did say the line, but most people assume that
it originated in The A-Team TV series (Mr. T. played the
role of Sgt. Bosco Albert "B.A." Baracus), airing during
five seasons (and 98 episodes) from 1983 to 1987. [Note: In the series,
he often said a variation of the line when he referred to co-star
Capt. H.M.
"Howling Mad" Murdock (Dwight Schultz) as "that crazy
fool Murdock."]
However, the line was first (and only) used by Mr. T.
(as Rocky Balboa’s
antagonistic boxing opponent James 'Clubber' Lang) in the
third Rocky film, Rocky III (1982) -
before The A-Team show!
The line was truncated from its full length sentence
in the film. During an interview, 'Clubber' was questioned (off-camera)
about his opponent Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone):
Interviewer (Mario Machado): "Do you hate Rocky?"
James 'Clubber' Lang (Mr. T.): "No, I don't
hate Balboa. But I
pity the fool, and I will destroy any man who tries to take
what I got!"
Play clip from Rocky III (1982):
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Aliens (1986)
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In James Cameron's action sci-fi sequel Aliens
(1986), Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), with a determined
look on her face inside a power loader, screamed out at the hostile
Alien Queen beast, while maternally protecting young Newt (Carrie Henn):
"Get away from her, you bitch!"
Play clip from Aliens (1986):
She has been incorrectly quoted as saying:
"Stay away
from her, you bitch!"
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Star Trek (2009)
Night of the Comet (1984)
For Queen & Country (1988, UK/US)
Armageddon (1998)
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The
multi-part sci-fi Star Trek TV and film series (first telecast
as a one-hour TV show in 1966 and lasting until 1969 before syndication,
and inspiring numerous feature films, beginning with Star
Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)), popularized the common phrase:
"Beam
me up, Scotty."
It has often been imagined that the phrase was spoken
to chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott,
when a landing crew needed to be transported back to the Starship
Enterprise. The "beam" quote
referred to the ship's teleportation device and the affectionately-regarded
ship's chief engineer and second officer, Lieutenant Commander Montgomery
Scott (often played by James Doohan).
Contrary to popular belief, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) never uttered
the line:
"Beam me up, Scotty."
The closest Kirk ever got to saying the exact line was
in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
(1986), as he was transported onto the stolen Klingon Bird
of Prey vessel parked in the late 20th century in Golden Gate Park
(San Francisco).
"Scotty, beam me up!"
Play clip from Star
Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986):
Throughout the years, however, there have been a number
of variants:
- In the first season episode "This Side of Paradise"
broadcast in 1967 in the TV series, Star Trek: The Original Series
(1966-1969),
Spock (Leonard Nemoy) commanded Capt. James T. Kirk (William Shatner):
"Ready
to beam up, Jim."
Play clip (excerpt):
- In the second season episode "The Gamesters
of Triskelion" broadcast in 1968 in the TV series, Star Trek:
The Original Series
(1966-1969), Kirk (William Shatner) ordered:
"Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard."
Play clip (excerpt):
- In the third season episode "The Savage
Curtain" broadcast in 1969 in the TV series, Star Trek: The
Original Series
(1966-1969), Kirk (William Shatner) said: "Scotty, beam us
up."
- A command was voiced by Captain
Kirk (voice of William Shatner) in Gene Roddenberry's and TV's Star
Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1974), in two 1973 episodes:
"The Lorelei
Signal"
"Beam us up, Scotty."
Play clip
(excerpt):
"The
Infinite Vulcan"
"Kirk to Enterprise.
Beam us up, Scotty."
- Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) spoke the line in one of the episodes
of the TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994),
with 7 seasons of episodes:
"Beam me up, Scotty."
- In the feature film Star Trek: Generations (1994),
Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) said in the film's final lines:
"Picard
to Farragut, two to beam up."
Play clip (excerpt):
- In the feature film reboot Star
Trek (2009), Capt. Kirk (Chris Pine) yelled out to the
Transport Chief:
Kirk: "Beam us up!"
Transport Chief: "I'm trying. I can't lock onto
your signal."
Kirk: "Beam us up!"
Transport Chief: "You're moving
too fast!"
Kirk: "Beam us up!"
Play clip from Star
Trek (2009):
The misquote was heard in a number of other non-Star
Trek films, including Night of the Comet (1984), For
Queen & Country (1988, UK/US), and Armageddon (1998):
- Samantha (Kelli Maroney): "Beam me up, Scotty."
Play clip from Night of the Comet (1984):
- "Beam me up, Scotty."
For Queen & Country
(1988, UK/US)
- Rockhound
(Steve Buscemi): "While I don't share his enthusiasm,
you know me. Beam me up, Scotty."
Play clip from Armageddon (1998):
Additional references to the misquote:
- In the animated Fox-TV series Family Guy, in
a 1999 episode (Season 1, Episode 2) titled "I Never Met the
Dead Man," William Shatner (voice of Seth MacFarlane) showed
up at the Griffin family's house, fell down, and said:
"Beam me up, God!"
Play clip from TV's Family Guy (1999):
- James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty, used the
phrase as the title of his 1996 autobiography, titled: Beam Me
Up, Scotty, subtitled: Star Trek's "Scotty" In His
Own Words.
- William Shatner spoke the exact phrase in his audiobook
adaptation of his 1995 novel, Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden.
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Dragnet (1987)
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Detective Joe Friday (Jack Webb) in the
50s NBC-TV classic police series Dragnet never said: "Just
the facts, ma'am," although there were variations, such as:
"All
we want (or know) are the facts, ma'am."
or
"We just want to
get the facts, sir."
However, the inaccurate line was reinforced in the
collective memory in numerous ways:
- Milton Berle, on his NBC-TV show parodied the show
in a classic spoof.
Play clip from The Milton Berle Show:
- Comedian Stan Freberg made fun of the show in one
of his skits in the early 1950s: "St. George and the Dragonet"
Play clip from St. George and the Dragonet:
- Dan Aykroyd (as Detective Joe Friday) uttered the
line in the updated film Dragnet
(1987):
"Just the facts, ma'am."
Play clip from Dragnet (1987):
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Wall Street (1987)
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References to the "Greed is Good" speech
in Wall Street (1987) usually truncate the actual words of the
lengthy quote, spoken by Oscar-winning Michael Douglas (as ruthless stockbroker
Gordon Gekko).
The actual line was:
"The point is, ladies and gentlemen,
that greed,
for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary
spirit..."
Play clip from Wall Street (1987):
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A Cry in the Dark (1988, Australia/US) (aka Evil Angels)
The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
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One of the most mis-quoted lines of all
time was in the film A Cry in the Dark (1988, Australia/US).
The actual line in the film was delivered by distressed mother Lindy
Chamberlain (Meryl Streep), referring to her 9-week-old baby Azaria
Chamberlain that was carried off by a wild dingo (dog) from their campground
tent in 1980, although no one believed her:
"The dingo's got my baby."
Play clip from A Cry in the Dark (1988, Australia/US):
She was convicted of murdering her baby - but later acquitted
when new evidence suggested that the baby was, in fact, killed by a
dingo.
The phrase (in The Simpsons, Seinfeld,
and a few films) has often been mangled, such as:
"A dingo
ate my baby."
The
line was spoofed in "The Stranded" episode (Season
3, Episode 10, in 1991) of the TV sit-com Seinfeld by
Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), who used a mock Australian accent to humor
a woman who claimed her fiancee had disappeared:
"Maybe the dingo ate your baby?"
Play clip from Seinfeld (1991):
In The Rugrats Movie (1998), a news-reporter asked
Didi Pickle (voice of Melanie Chartoff) about her missing baby:
"Is it true a dingo ate your baby?"
Play clip from The Rugrats Movie (1998):
Alpa Chino (Brandon
T. Jackson) also inaccurately referenced the line in a conversation with
Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.) in Tropic Thunder (2008):
"I'm sorry a dingo ate your baby."
"You know that's a true story?
Lady lost her kid."
Play clip from Tropic Thunder (2008):
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Field of Dreams (1989)
The Cable Guy (1996)
How High (2001)
My First Mister (2001)
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Racing Stripes (2005)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
The Comebacks (2007)
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"If
you build it, they will come"
was NOT what the voice said in Field of
Dreams (1989).
Instead, it was:
"If you build
it, he will come."
Play clip from Field of Dreams (1989):
The misquoted (or repeated) line was heard in a number
of films, including The Cable Guy (1996), How High (2001),
My First Mister (2001), Eight Legged Freaks (2002), Racing
Stripes (2005), The Benchwarmers (2006), and The Comebacks (2007):
- "If you build it, he will come."
Play clip from The Cable Guy (1996):
- Character Whispering on TV: "If you build it, they will come."
Field of Dreams Guy (Tracy Morgan): "Whatcha mean, 'If you build it,
they gonna come?' Who are these people that are gonna come to a f--kin'
cornfield? You know, who gonna cut the grass?"
How High (2001)
- "If you listen very carefully, you can hear it."
"What do you
mean? Like, 'If you build it, they will come'?"
My First Mister (2001)
- "If you build it, they will come."
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
- After Nolan Walsh (Bruce Greenwood) had just cut
a racetrack in Reggie's cornfield -
Reggie (Jeff Foxworthy): "If you build it, they will come."
Racing Stripes (2005)
- Mel (Jon Lovitz): "If you build it, nerds
will come."
Play clip from The Benchwarmers (2006):
- Lambeau "Coach" Fields (David Koechner): "Yeah, this
is great. In the middle of nowhere, how am I gonna find an All-American
quarterback?"
God (voice of Rodney Saulsberry): "If
you build it, he will come. If you build it, he will come..."
"Coach" Fields:
"Who will come?"
God: "Your father. Your dead father."
"Coach" Fields: "My father's not dead. I just spoke with him this morning."
Play clip from The Comebacks (2007):
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Home Alone (1990)
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Here is a "misquote" of
sorts -- there
was a wrongly-attributed picture from the film in a poster for Home
Alone (1990), used to prominently advertise the film.
It has often been assumed that Kevin
(Macaulay Culkin) had his hands up to his face and was screaming at the
realization that he'd been left "home alone" or abandoned.
Home Alone Poster
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Home Alone Screenshot
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In fact, Kevin was screaming because he had just
applied too much stinging after-shave to his cheeks.
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)
The Cable Guy (1996)
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Serial
killer Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter's (Anthony Hopkins) words
in Best Picture-winning The Silence of the Lambs
(1991) have often been misquoted. In the scene of young
FBI agent trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) encountering
him in a massive, temporary iron cage during one of her later meetings
with him in the middle of the Historical Society Room on the fifth floor,
he was often misquoted as saying:.
"Hello, Clarice."
However,
his real words were:
"Good evening, Clarice."
Play
clip from The Silence of the Lambs (1991):
The quote was also found in Hannibal
(2001), which had two references:
- The original quote was repeated:
"Good
evening, Clarice. Just like old times."
Play clip from Hannibal (2001):
- Then, in a phone conversation,
Hannibal's line was stated differently:
"Is
this Clarice? Well, hello Clarice..."
Play clip from Hannibal
(2001):
In The Cable Guy (1996), the title character Ernie
"Chip" Douglas (Jim Carrey) imitated and mis-quoted Hannibal Lecter,
while placing pieces of chicken skin over his face:
"Check this out. Silence of the Lambs! Hello, Clarice.
It's good to see you again."
Play clip from The Cable Guy (1996):
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Forrest Gump (1994)
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A minor misquote has often plagued
title character Forrest Gump's (Tom Hanks) most famous line of dialogue
in Forrest
Gump (1994) - about what his mother told him. It was spoken
in the past tense, not present tense. It should be:
"My
mama always said, 'Life was like
a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get'."
Play clip from Forrest Gump (1994):
The incorrect version:
"My mama
always said, 'Life is like
a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get'."
The line
wasn't in the 1986 novel by Winston Groom -- the closest it came was
the novel's first line with reversed meaning:
"Let me say this.
Bein' an idiot ain't no box of chocolates."
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The Mask (1994)
A Day At the Races (1937)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
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In The Mask
(1994),
the Mask/Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) - after being shot - spoofed many
semi-familiar lines from a range of films:
- "Hold me closer, Ed. It's getting dark."
Referencing A Day at the Races (1937).
Flo (Esther Muir): "I want to be near you. I want you to hold
me. Hold me closer! Closer! Closer!"
Dr. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx):
"If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of ya!"
Play clip from A Day at
the Races (1937):
- "Tell Auntie Em to let Old Yeller out."
Referencing both The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Old
Yeller (1957).
- "Tell Tiny Tim I won't be comin' home this Christmas."
Referencing A Christmas Carol (1937, 1951).
- "Tell Scarlett I do give a damn."
Play clip from The Mask (1994):
Referencing Gone With the Wind (1939). Play
clip:
- "Thank you, You love me, you really love me."
This line misquoted the end of Sally Field's Oscar
acceptance speech in 1985 for her performance in Places in the
Heart (1984): "...The first time, I didn't
feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the
fact that you like me, right now. You like me!"
Play end of Sally Field's speech:
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Apollo 13 (1995)
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Quoted below is the
entire conversation surrounding the crisis in Apollo 13 (1995)
involving astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) as he communicated with
Houston's NASA Mission Control:
Astronaut Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon): "Hey,
we've got a problem here."
Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks): "What did you do?"
Swigert: "Nothin'. I stirred the tanks."
Mission Control: "Whoa! Hey! Uh, this is Houston. Uh, say again please."
Lovell: "Houston, we
have a problem."
Play clips from Apollo 13 (1995): (short) (extended)
[Note: The line has often been misquoted as: "Houston,
we've got a problem" - similar to the words
of astronaut Swigert in the film.
However, the quote in actuality was "Houston,
we've had a problem." Some of the film's posters emphasized the
misquote, since they were printed with: "Houston,
we have a problem."]
The actual message during the original Apollo
13 mission was first delivered by astronaut Jack Swigert, and basically
restated by Lovell:
Astronaut Jack Swigert: "Hey, Houston,
we've had a problem here."
Mission Control: "Uh. Say again, please?"
Astronaut Lovell: "Ah, Houston, we've had a problem."
Play clip: (The
real Apollo 13 mission)
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Titanic (1997)
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Another of the most mis-quoted film lines
was from James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic (1997). The line
spoken by Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jack was:
"I'm the king
of the world!"
Play clip from Titanic (1997):
It was NOT:
"I'm king of the world."
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
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In director Peter Jackson's first film
in the trilogy, The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Wizard
Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) did not command:
"Run, you fools!"
Instead
with his final known words before he was dragged into the abyss by
the slain Balrog of Morgoth (known as Durin's Bane), he urged others
to fly ("flee" or "run"):
"Fly, you fools!"
Play clip from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001):
[Note: In the original theatrical release,
Gandalf's line was modernized to: "Run, you fools!" However,
when the DVD was released, the line was changed to more faithfully
reflect the novel.] |
Skyfall (2012)
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In the opening song lyrics of the 23rd
official James Bond film Skyfall
(2012),
some of the chorus of Adele's title song "Skyfall" revealed a
plot spoiler - a clue that Bond's childhood home was Skyfall, a location
in Scotland where the action film would end.
The lyrics of the main chorus were: "Let the sky
fall," referring to the opening scene in which James Bond (James
Craig) literally fell from the sky after being shot from a moving train
and plunged several hundred feet into a body of water.
After the chorus was repeated, however, it ended with
"At Skyfall." Skyfall was revealed not to be a past mission or code
word, but a geographic place.
Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At Skyfall
Play clip from Skyfall
(2012):
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