So this week’s Daily Dialogue featured movies written by women. And per the recent contest, I thought this suggestion would make for a fun theme:
* A character’s final dying words (suggested by Peter Dwight)
So please post your favorite dialogue of a character’s dying words in comments. Let’s see if we can put together 7 great sides, one for each day next week.
*SPOILER ALERT*
The cookies sure were good. – Kitano, Battle Royale
*END SPOILER*
Shoot straight, you bastards – don't make a mess of it! – Harry Morant, "Breaker Morant"
Trinity in The Matrix Revolutions.
From Mel Brook's Robin Hood: Men in Tights:
(Sheriff of Rottingham with Robin's sword sticking out of his back):
-"It's not so bad…"
(Gets a better look)
-"I was wrong…"
Topples over.
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2B9nyGCF00 (from about 9:08 onward)
From the recent "14 Days of Screenplays":
Vasquez, "You always were an asshole, Gorman."
Then — boom goes the dynomite! Vasquez and Gorman share a commmunal grendade before a hungry alien drone can get in that first tasty bite.
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
"Don't tell Harry…"
Green Goblin/Norman Osborn
Spiderman (2002)
Another favorite, though a more disturbing one…
"WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION NUMBNUTS?! DIDN'T MOMMY AND DADDY SHOW YOU ENOUGH ATTENTION WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?!?!"
*BLAM!*
- Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, Full Metal Jacket
(sorry about all the caps but I couldn't think of a better way to capture the sheer force of nature that was R. Lee Ermey's performance, y'know?)
Though it isn't from a film, I have to throw this one out there. To me, it's one of the most memorable TV deaths of all time.
When Agent Caitlin Todd gets shot at the end of the Season 2 finale of NCIS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuw_60MczpE
I remember my heart actually stopping when I watched that go down.
"I'm going home too, I'm going to blue bayou." -Crease "Man on Fire"
How about Tom Hanks' dying words from "Saving Private Ryan"? And Bill Murray's suicide from "Groundhog Day"?
Good stuff. Any more memorable dying words quotes?
"Is that the best you can do, you pansies?"
-Marv, Sin City, in the electric chair
+++
"We're going to pull together and we're going to find a way to get outta here! First, we're gonna seal off this–"
Samuel L. Jackson, Deep Blue Sea, killed by a shark
+++
"But… I'm a fucking demon!"
-Jason Lee, Dogma, killed by a blessed golf club
"Time…to die." Roy Batty, Blade Runner
"Oh… my…" James Kirk, Star Trek: Generations
DUKE
The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.
OTTO
That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me.
DUKE
Yeah, but it still hurts.
Repo Man
"James. Earn this." ~ John Miller Saving Private Ryan
"The horror. The horror." ~ Walter Kurtz, Apocalypse Now
"To the last, I will grapple with thee. From Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!" ~ Khan, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
"WWRRRAAAAAAAGGHHHAAAGGHGHHHHHH!!!!!" ~Toht, Raiders of the Lost Ark
RAT FARTS! – The Bishop in Caddyshack