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Post by mikef6 on Mar 15, 2017 22:17:14 GMT
On one of the general boards there is a thread speculating on the English language in 100 years. Well, it hasn’t changed all that much in the last 300 years, I was thinking, except for slang and catchphrases. But on the other hand "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" will be 78 years old this year and is still going strong. "Beam us up, Scottie" will be 51 in 2017 and "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" turns 45.
What others?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2017 22:27:50 GMT
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." (1950)
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 15, 2017 22:53:35 GMT
Not sure about anything, but maybe the first one. "Here's looking at you, kid." - 75 this year "What's it all about, Alfie?" - 51 this year "Go ahead. Make my day." - 45 this year Those are all perfect. "Go ahead. Make my day" may be just a little more perfect. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 15, 2017 22:56:46 GMT
"We don't need no steeenkin' bad-jess" has its uses.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 15, 2017 23:02:00 GMT
Not sure about anything, but maybe the first one. "Here's looking at you, kid." - 75 this year "What's it all about, Alfie?" - 51 this year "Go ahead. Make my day." - 45 this year Those are all perfect. "Go ahead. Make my day" may be just a little more perfect. "I'm shocked, shocked" is another sharing the origin of your avatar, and as much as I'd like to believe the films will live as long as the phrases, I can't help but wonder how many future generations might be using them without knowing where they came from. |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 15, 2017 23:06:08 GMT
Mr Brown (Richard Conte) in The Big Combo (1955) ..."First is First , second is nobody"
" I Know nothing" Still used regularly mostly by opposing politicians claiming a Sergeant Schultz moment, in full..."I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!" from Hogan's Heroes TV 1965-71
Taken from a poem from Rudyard Kipling an often quoted and famous catchphrase...
"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din." from the 1939 film
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 15, 2017 23:20:43 GMT
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Post by gunshotwound on Mar 15, 2017 23:30:00 GMT
"Is it safe?" - (1976) 41 years
"I'll give him an offer he can't refuse." (1972) 44 years
"You ain't seen nothing yet." (1927) 90 years |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 12:11:40 GMT
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." (1942)
"It's nothing personal, only business." (1972)
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Post by london777 on Mar 16, 2017 16:00:01 GMT
"You're gonna need a bigger boat" (often adapted to "We're gonna need a bigger boat").
Never made it to deserved stardom:
A pithy line which summed up the whole of a movie in four words was "Baby, I don't care" from Out of the Past (1947). I use it a lot. Will you join me?
One for the future?:
Another line which encompasses the whole of a movie in just five words (and probably clinched an Oscar for the actor): "I just can't make it" from Manchester by the Sea. (2016).
"You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment" from the UK original series of House of Cards is widely used there, not least by real-life politicians. I don't know if it is used in the US version, but I guess it is too elegant to become popular in the USA?
Another one fully embedded in UK parlance is: "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" (Italian Job, 1969). Useful whenever someone f*cks up a task by being clumsily over-enthusiastic.
Where I live on a dysfunctional Caribbean island "We're not in Kansas anymore" is frequently used to remind privileged Yanks where they are, when they complain if they cannot get hot water, or 24 hour electricity, or their favorite brand of sauce from the store, or are shaken down by the cops.
Great thread by the way, mikef6, and so far everyone is playing nicely.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 16, 2017 17:48:02 GMT
Those are all perfect. "Go ahead. Make my day" may be just a little more perfect. "I'm shocked, shocked" is another sharing the origin of your avatar, and as much as I'd like to believe the films will live as long as the phrases, I can't help but wonder how many future generations might be using them without knowing where they came from. " but wonder how many future generations might be using them without knowing where they came from." An expression I hear constantly from retail and wait staff is "Sorry about that." I doubt very much that any of them know that they are quoting a catchphrase from a TV show that went off the air, probably, 20 years before they were born. The full phrase is "Sorry about that, Chief" and it is from "Get Smart" a spy spoof comedy (one of the few sit-coms not centered around a family) that began in the fall of 1965 and ran for five seasons. Its last new episode was aired in May 1970. |
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 16, 2017 19:50:27 GMT
"Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."; comes in handy when dealing with frustrating people. |
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Post by marshamae on Mar 16, 2017 20:03:39 GMT
I think many lines from the three Godfather films are in the language to stay.
Xxx is sleeping with the fishes
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I don't want xxx to come out with just his D$£#% in his hand
Every time I think I'm out...they pull me back in.
Then there is the immortal " Frankly my dear I don't give a damn"
How about" I'm ready for my close up " with or without Mr DeMille
it's chinatown
"She's my sister....my daughter..." accompanied by head whipping from side to side
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Post by london777 on Mar 16, 2017 20:15:48 GMT
I think many lines from the three Godfather films are in the language to stay. Xxx is sleeping with the fishes Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. I don't want xxx to come out with just his D$£#% in his hand Every time I think I'm out...they pull me back in. Then there is the immortal " Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" How about" I'm ready for my close up " with or without Mr DeMille it's chinatown "She's my sister....my daughter..." accompanied by head whipping from side to side All very good except the last one. If you hear that said a lot you must come from West Virginia or Texas. |
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Post by marshamae on Mar 16, 2017 20:25:46 GMT
"She's my sister....my daughter..." accompanied by head whipping from side to side
All very good except the last one. If you hear that said a lot you must come from West Virginia or Texas.
Hey we have our fair share of irregularity in Ohio. Lol
Seriously I was very surprised to hear college students throwing this one around...and they were very surprised I knew where it was from.
I had a college prof of teaching methods who loved quoting the untouchables " enthusiasms! " " part of a team!" It was sort of menacing.
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Post by MiketheMechanic on Mar 17, 2017 1:36:38 GMT
Some of the more recent catchphrases:
"Hasta la vista, baby"
"May the force be with you"
"You can't handle the truth"
'Show me the money"
"You had me at hello"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 18, 2017 3:58:04 GMT
How's about "I'm walkin' here!" accompanied by slamming a hand on the hood of the car that is in the cross walk?
Actually did that in New York soon after seeing "Midnight Cowboy". Fortunately the taxi driver did not retaliate and run me down.
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Post by Jillian on Mar 19, 2017 14:05:43 GMT
You talkin´to me
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 25, 2017 8:48:20 GMT
Not sure about anything, but maybe the first one. "Here's looking at you, kid." - 75 this year "What's it all about, Alfie?" - 51 this year "Go ahead. Make my day." - 45 this yearDo you mean Clint Eastwood's line, or something else? If it is Eastwood's line, that would be thirty-four years this year, the line having occurred in the fourth Harry Callahan film, Sudden Impact (Eastwood, 1983). ... amazing how Casablanca produced two all-time classic lines, with the one that you cited and also, "Play it again, Sam." |
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 25, 2017 8:51:08 GMT
... sort of a dark horse: "A man's got to know his limitations." - Harry Callahan, Magnum Force (Ted Post, 1973)
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