I’m loving this bit from the wags at McSweeney’s (hat tip to Movie City News), which reduces classic movies to their essences in just three lines of dialogue or less. It looked like fun to me, and I thought we should try it here, PopWatchers. Here, for instance, is The Sixth Sense:
HALEY JOEL OSMENT: I see dead people.
BRUCE WILLIS: Don’t worry, you’ll be all right…
BRUCE WILLIS: … Oh.
After the jump, the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in just three lines…
GANDALF: You must destroy the ring, Frodo.
GOLLUM (pictured): My preciousssss! [Chomp!]
FRODO: Ouch.
Your turn.
X-Men
Professor X – “We’re not what you think.”
Magneto – “You should have killed me when you had the chance!”
Wolverine – “Gotcha.”
Wizard of Oz
Dorothy: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
All: “We’re off to see the Wizard”
Dorthy: “There’s no place like home”
Se7en
Spacey: I’m awesome
Pitt: #*&@ you
Paltrow: …
The Matrix:
Morpheus: Take the Red Pill…
Neo: There is no spoon.
Neo: Woah
When Harry Met Sally:
Harry: Men and women can never really be friends.
Sally: Yes they can.
Marie: How was it?
Harry Potter
Trelawney: Neither can live while the other survives.
Harry Potter: I can do magic!
Voldermort: Avada Kedavra
Gone With the Wind
Aunt Pittypat: “Yankee in Atlanta!”
Scarlet: “As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again.”
Rhett: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
The Departed:
Costello: “I get a feeling we have a rat on our crew.”
Dignam: “Whoop-de-f***ing-do”
Various: *gunshots to the face*
The Lion King:
Scar: “Long live the King!”
Timon & Pumba: “Hakuna Matata”
Mufasa: “You must take your place in the circle of life.”
“The Usual Suspects”
Chazz Palmintieri: Who is Keyser Soze?
Kevin Spacey: Is there a Keyser Soze?
Chazz Palmintieri: HE’S Keyser Soze?
Ferris Buehler’s Day Off
Ferris: They bought it.
Cameron: We’re pinched for sure.
Ferris: Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jerry Maguire:
Jerry: “Who’s coming with me?”
Rod Tidwell: “Show me the money!”
Dorothy: “You had me at hello.”
Back to the Future:
Marty: “Are you telling me you build a time machine out of a DeLorean?
Biff: “He-lloooo”
Dr. Brown: “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
(can you tell I’m really enjoying this?)
Psycho:
Norman Bates: “We all go a little mad sometimes.”
Marion Crane: “I’m going to take a shower…”
Norman Bates: “Mother! Oh God! Blood!”
Titanic:
Rose: Outwardly, I was everything a well brought up girl should be. Inside, I was screaming
Rose: I’m flying Jack!
Rose: I’ll never let go…