“The closest thing he has to a catchphrase?” writes Jurgensen. “’Yeah.’”
Still, great movie lines were never about eloquence. Some of the best, in fact, were frightfully austere, almost abstract, like those elliptical jazz song titles, “Now’s the Time” or “Don’t Be That Way.”–James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd and William Wisher–didn’t even need a noun to make you remember “I’ll be back.”
In truth, great movie lines aren’t so much written as discovered. They are found art–something the audience, for reasons of its own, chooses to extract from the sometimes hopeless muddle of words that find their way into a shooting script. As recently as 2010, that happened with, which, weirdly, had a cultural touchstone on its hands when Liam Neeson, as Zeus, thundered: “Release the Kraken!”
T-shirts, angry kitty memes, voter fraud accusations all followed, not because the film’s four writers had created movie poetry, but rather because viewers had endowed their line with layer upon layer of unanticipated resonance. Why did it happen? Who knows. You might as well ask why we remember “Take the cannoli.”to make something grand of their often modest lines.
—“The universe is so much bigger than you realize”—has potential. It’s probably no less profound than “Life is like a box of chocolates.” But I don’t think we’ll be seeing it on the merchandise in some next-generation Bubba Gump’s Shrimp Company thirty years from now.
'Get busy living, or get busy dying.'
The fact that this came out around the same time people displayed their affection for the line “In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you” really takes the wind out of the sails of this argument.
'Say, any of you guys know how to Madison?'
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