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- According to IMDb's Top 250 list, renowned writers like Quentin Tarantino and Francis Ford Coppola have penned cinema's greatest dialogue.
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- "Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give A Damn."
- "Here's Looking at You, kid."
- "Go Ahead, Make My day."
- "You Talking to Me?"
- "I'm as Mad as Hell, and I'm Not Going to Take This Anymore!"
- "Show Me The Money!"
- "You Can't Handle The Truth!"
- "I'll Have What She's having."
- "You're Gonna Need A Bigger boat."
- "I'll Be back."
This line from Gone with the Wind was declared the number one movie quote by the American Film Institute in 2005. Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) uttered the words to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leah) in response to her tearful "Where shall I go? What shall I do?" The word damn was pretty controversial during its time, as the 1930 Motion Picture Production ...
When Rick (Humphrey Bogart) toasts to Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) in Casablanca, he utters the now iconic words, "Here's looking at you, kid." The linewas never in any of the drafts of the screenplay. It has been attributed to a between-the-takes comment Bogart said to Bergman as he taught her poker. The line is uttered four times throughout the film. Bo...
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) goes into a diner for a morning cup of coffee. A robbery is in progress. Harry kills all but one of the robbers until the surviving robber grabs a fleeing waitress and threatens to shoot. Harry points his iconic .44 Magnum revolver at the man's face and says slyly, "Go ahead, make my day." Towards the end of the film...
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) talks to himself in the mirror when he utters the completely improvised line by De Niro. According to Martin Scorsese, he got the inspiration for the scene from Marlon Brando mouthing words in front of a mirror in Reflections in a Golden Eye. "In the script, it just says Travis speaks to himself in the mirror," screen...
Howard Beale (Peter Finch) utters this line with veracity on live TV in the classic Network. According to the film's director, Sidney Lumet, the "Mad as Hell" speech was filmed in just one and a half takes. Halfway through the second take, Peter Finch stopped, exhausted. What is in the completed film is the second take for the first half of the spe...
In Jerry Maguire, Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) entices Jerry (Tom Cruise) to repeat his family's mantra over and over as Jerry's clients waiting on the other phone lines began to hang up one after the other. Jerry goes all out and wins over his now sole client, Rod. During a conversation with writer/director Cameron Crowe, former Cardinals and 49...
Colonel Jessep's (Jack Nicholson) famous line, which he shouted at Tom Cruise's Lieutenant Kaffee in one of the film's final scenes, was improvised by Nicholson on set, according to some accounts. The movie's original screenplay had the line "You already have the truth," which Nicholson trimmed to the much better "You can't handle the truth."
The film is delivered with perfect timing to a waiter by a restaurant patron responding to Sally (Meg Ryan) and her fake orgasm. The film's other star, Billy Crystal, told Today, "It started in rehearsal, where Nora Ephron, who was so great, said to Rob (Reiner), 'You know, women fake orgasms,'" Crystal recalled. "He was, like, shocked — 'Well, the...
After Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) first lays eyes on the shark they are hunting, he retreats into the cabin in shock and tells Quint, "You're gonna need a bigger boat." The line was actually an inside joke. "[Richard] Zanuck and [David] Brown were very stingy producers, so everyone kept telling them, 'You're gonna need a bigger boat,'" Carl Gottlieb...
The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is refused entry to the police station where Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is being protected. He surveys the counter and then tells the police sergeant, "I'll be back."Moments later, he drives a car into the station, destroying the counter, and the sergeant. Years later, Schwarzenegger admitted that he had di...
Feb 23, 2018 · Thus, here is a list of some of the filmmakers who handle conversations the best. We tried to have a wide variety of styles, as there are filmmakers who rely almost entirely on editing, and other who barely make a cut and prefer an approach that relies more in the blocking.
May 7, 2024 · From the poignantly personal to the universally existential, here are 12 of the realest dialogues from films around the world that resonate with authenticity and depth. 1. From the USA: Good...
- Casablanca. Holding the unbeaten record of the world for “most times the movie’s title is mentioned in its runtime”, “Casablanca” is really the classic of classics.
- Hunger. Steve McQueen cast young Magneto and Davos Seaworth for his first feature film. I was surprised when I didn’t encounter any swordfights or metal bending/murdering in the whole film’s runtime, although I did came across a sweet dialogue scene.
- Goodfellas. In an attempt of reprising the role of “himself”, Joe Pesci plays a psycho mobster named Tommy, who’s as crazy as he’s funny, although Pesci’s character is in denial of those aspects of his personality.
- The Third Man. Considered one of the best classic thrillers of all time, this movie’s smart plot was decades ahead of its time, inspiring future generations of filmmakers with its flawless black-and-white aesthetic and memorable scenes; namely the famous dialogue on the Ferris wheel.
Mar 1, 2021 · From Annie Hall to The Dark Knight and all the Tarantino's in between, these are ten of the greatest dialogue exchanges in movie history.
Oct 22, 2020 · The Third Man. Film noir is a classic genre in the history of film, and it brought many great movies with brilliant dialogue. The Third Man, penned by novelist Graham Greene, is one of the best examples of this. The film follows American Holly Martins and his trip to postwar Vienna.
