Dude, Where’s My Catchphrase?
Love them or hate them, it’s a fact that many movies become instant classics because of a good catchphrase. Just look at some of last year’s Best Picture contenders: No Country for Old Men had, “Call it, friend-o” and There Will Be Blood had the oddly brilliant, “I drink your milkshake!”, accompanied with the lesson to never go bowling with Daniel Day-Lewis. Heck, the entire script of Juno reads like an endless series of catchphrases cleverly strung together to form a plot (honest to blog!).
So what memorable lines can we take away from 2008?
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: “I was born under unusual circumstances.”
- Frost/Nixon: “When the President does it, that means it is not illegal!”
- Milk: “My name is Harvey Milk, and I’m here to recruit you!”
- The Reader: I can’t even think of a good possibility from The Reader.
- Slumdog Millionaire: “It is written.”
But who knows, maybe you’ll find it hilarious to tell people you were born under unusual circumstances...but that’s just like, your opinion, man…
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