Ah, Twitter memes; they come and go so quickly. This week's big hit was #1stdraftmovielines, in which the Twitterverse took iconic lines and wondered what they could have been if not for a trusty rewrite. Some were hilarious, some were confusing, and a lot tackled the same lines. Still, from the chaos emerged stars, and these are some of our favorites:
"Adrian! Excuse me! Adrian!" — @robcorddry
"Hi, I'm Harpo Marx. I don't speak. Here, let me sound this bicycle horn and make a comical face." — @dynamoe
"Bond. James Bond, D.D.S." — @timcarvell
"I'm getting too old for this youth related insanity." — @paulscheer
"Then, Dorothy, repeat these words: 'Home is one of my top travel destinations.'" — @sashafrerejones
"Sometimes there is so much forced metaphor for meaning in the world, like this paper bag for example." — @alexblagg
"E.T. needs to make a call." — @seangunn
The pictured tweet is from @kentremendous (aka Office writer Michael Schur).
Flex those muscles, PopWatchers! Hit us with your best first-draft movie lines either here in the comments or at ye olde Twitter stream. You're following @EWPopWatch, right?








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Noah: I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you every day for a year! Don’t you check your Myspace?
Allie: You wrote me? I never check that thing anymore.
“Greed is not too shabby.”
“It was beauty that killed the beast. And yeah, all of those bullets didn’t help.”
“Of all the pirate-themed pizzerias in the world, she has to walk into mine.”
The Force might be with you.
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You know what they call a Big Mac in Paris? Yeah, me either. I went to Wendys.
You missed the best one!
“Either they are misinformed, fail to appear, or are unconcerned about what happens in the neighborhood” from @Mosley17
“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?? Cuz the last time I checked, mirrors don’t talk.”
“Luke, I got the paternity test back, and it ain’t looking too good.”
It doesn’t take much to see that three schmoes’ issues don’t mean bupkis in this nutty world.
Here were my contributions:
“Shaken, stirred, who gives a crap? Just pour the damn drink.”
“Soylent Green is… surprisingly, quite tasty.”
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? No? Are you f***ing retarded?”
“May the midichlorians in your bloodstream continue to reside in you.”
“Frankly, my dear, meh…”
Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you’re a jerk. I’m going to kill you now.
Bond pretty much used that in Casino Royale.
Wow, the talent-gap between the posted Twitters and the stuff in the above comments is immense! Nice attempts but lame for the most part.
Are You Crying? Because That’s abnormal behavior for a baseball player.