What do you want from the movies this year?
Alove storyand five watchable Oscar films?
Personally, I would settle for one great line.
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You know, the kind that immediately transcends whatever picture gave it birth.
Show me the money!
Toto, I have a feeling were not in Kansas anymore.
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Film hasnt gotten more eloquent since.
Reeves, according to theJournals John Jurgensen, averages four words per line of dialogue.
The closest thing he has to a catchphrase?
Still, great movie lines were never about eloquence.
(For the record, it was Number 37 on the AFI list.)
In truth, great movie lines arent so much written as discovered.
Why did it happen?
You might as well ask why we remember Take the cannoli.
If you look closely, the raw material is still there.
That line fromEverything Everywhere All At OnceThe universe is so much bigger than you realizehas potential.
(And, perhaps, the films title.)
Its probably no less profound than Life is like a box of chocolates.
But maybe this year.
The audience could light up to some harmless movie phrase, and make it great.
You had me at hello.
Theres no crying in baseball.
