Questions tagged [dialogue]
Questions related to specific pieces of a work's spoken word.
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What does the carnie say?
In the Season 3 Christmas Special of Downton Abbey, after Daisy wins the gold sovereign in the ring toss, the carnie running the ring toss says something to his assistant that I couldn't understand. ...
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What is the meaning of the line "This mustn't register on an emotional level"?
In the 2009 movie Sherlock Holmes during the bare fist fight scene early on in the movie, Sherlock tries to leave the fight after but is then humiliated by his opponent who spits at him.
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What is the last line spoken in Texas Chainsaw Massacre
In the 2013 new release Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, the last line in the film is spoken by Heather as she takes the food upstairs from Jed and locks the door. I couldn't make out what she said, and ...
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What is the point of making some dialogues inaudible and not showing some language translations?
Today I was watching Sherlock Holmes and The Game of Shadows. In that movie, several foreign languages like German, French etc. were used. The film itself had no translation in English despite some ...
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What does Bob say to Charlotte at the end of "Lost in Translation"?
During the climax of the 2003 movie, Lost in Translation, the central characters, Bob & Charlotte share an emotional moment. During that time, Bob seems to have said something into Charlotte's ...
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What language do the minions speak?
In Despicable Me, what language(s) do the minions speak? There is a bit of English, but it seems like a combination of French with English?
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"What's up doc?" - Is Bugs Bunny impersonating someone?
It turns out that Bugs Bunny was impersonating someone when he ate the carrot.
Was he also impersonating a contemporary actor when he asked What's up doc? or is that a Bugs Bunny original?
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"Happiness is only real when shared"
In the 2007's movie Into The Wild,
Chris abandons society and starts living in a forest.
In the end when he is dying his last words are
"Happiness is only real when shared"
So was it a mistake to ...
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What does he mean by "Vanity-definitely my favourite sin"?
Quotation By Satan at the end of The Devils Advocate
Vanity — definitely my favorite sin.
What does he mean by that? He has succeeded in transforming Kevin to a good man. So why does he make this ...
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What does the word "Cellar Door" represent in the movie "Donnie Darko"?
I've watched Donnie Darko many times, yet I always feel like I'm missing something important when Drew Barrymore's character brings up "Cellar Door".
Karen Pommeroy: This famous linguist once said ...
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What does Barney say and mean?
It's in season 8 episode 3 of How I Met Your Mother at 8:22min. I found it on youtube too.
"Barney!!!" "Icksnay on the ealray amenay!" "Mr and Mrs Erikson?"
"Youuu son of a... itchbay!"
The itch-...
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Are Dwight's "What is my perfect crime?" lines in S05E08 - "Frame Toby" a reference to something?
Are Dwight's "What is my perfect crime?" lines in Season 5, Episode 8 titled "Frame Toby", a reference to something? What is being referenced to?
The lines:
Dwight: What is my perfect crime? I ...
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What is the earliest use of "You just/still don't get it do you?"
There is a funny montage of movie and TV clips on YouTube in which variations of the phrase "you don't get it, do you" are used. Sometime after I watched that video I saw a 1959 episode of Bat ...
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What does the conversation mean?
In Source Code, I did not get the meaning of a conversation between Capt. and Christina in the train. It was between roughly 00:42:00-00:43:00
The conversation was as follows:
Capt- Okay. Christina? ...
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In Casino Royale, what Exactly does Bond say at this moment?
After checking out some guys like Alex Dimitrios and Le Chiffre using M's credential's, he gets out in the Evening to play poker with the Alex. But, before starting his game he says something to two ...
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What did Cal mean by - "Go big or go home"?
I have seen Crazy, Stupid Love a while ago. The scene with the big fight among Cal, Jacob, Bernie and David was hilarious. It is one of my favorites.
What I don't understand is what Cal meant when ...
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What's the origin of the quote "You da man, Harry. You da man."?
I'm sure it's from a film, and I'm fairly sure it's sort-of said under the breath, in a respectful manner - for example as though the subject, Harry is out of earshot anyway.
(Similar to the bit at ...
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What does 'space between spaces' mean?
In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a short while before the ending of the movie, there was a long trail in the temple and eventually Mac and Spalko died inside the temple. Then, ...
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What is the cabby saying in Quick Change?
What is the cabby saying (and in what language) in the movie Quick Change?
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Why does Indiana Jones say 'I like Ike'?
In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a short while after the beginning of the movie, Irina Spalko captured Indy and forced him to lead the U.S soldiers military base which contains ...
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Is there a reason for this language switching?
During the various scenes that take place in Japan, the characters sometimes speak English and sometimes Japanese, sometimes even a line in English as a reply to a line in Japanese or vice versa.
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What does "yippie ki yay" mean?
In the movie Die Hard, John McClane (Bruce Willis) says the line "Yippie Ki Yay".
What does this mean?
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What is the meaning of Teddy's last dialogue in Shutter Island?
In Shutter Island, at the end of the movie Teddy had a chat with Chuck, in that scene Teddy told to Chuck as,
Which would be worse: To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?
What's the ...
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What is the origin of the dialogue "take me instead of her/him"?
In many Hollywood horror movies the last climactic scene features the dialogue "take me instead". For example, Dark Water (2005), The Exorcist and The Ring 2.
So what is the origin of this famous ...
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Origin of "knife to a gunfight" quote
I hope this question isn't too tirivial, but in The Punisher Harry Heck says to Frank
You are one dumb son of a bitch. Bringing a knife to a gunfight.
right before Frank kills him making said ...
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What did David say to the engineer in Prometheus?
In Prometheus, when the android David is talking with the Engineer, first he stumbles a bit and stays crouched, then they are all asking him questions and David seems to translate it. Then they all ...
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Daniel Day Lewis Quote in Last of the Mohicans
In The Last of the Mohicans, Hawkeye, played by Daniel Day Lewis, appears out of the forest to save the Major from a raiding party of Indians. When the Major grabs a gun and is about to fire at one of ...
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What did Black Widow say?
In the film The Avengers, Black Widow is a Russian super-spy. In the scene that introduces her, it ends with her receiving orders to bring in Dr. Bruce Banner. After receiving these orders, the ...
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What does Buster say under the bleeps in the "Bringing up Buster" episode of Arrested Development?
In the third episode of the first season of Arrested Development, titled "Bringing up Buster," there are two instances when Buster uses (what is assumed to be) obscene language to describe his mother, ...
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Pepper's comment about Latin
In Iron Man 2, Pepper and Tony are discussing Natalie and there's a discussion about Latin. Pepper explains that you can read Latin but you can't speak it?
I thought Latin was commonly spoken in ...
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Why does Obi-Wan say that he'll become more powerful if Vader kills him?
When Obi-Wan fights Darth Vader in Episode IV: A New Hope, he says:
You can't win, Vader. If you strike me down, I shall become more
powerful than you can possibly imagine.
What does he mean by ...
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When did Matt and Trey stop intentionally censoring South Park with bleeps?
I am aware Matt and Trey intentionally censored South Park, but for some time, southparkstudios.com has been offering uncensored versions of the show about a week or two after airing on TV. And, ...
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Why can't the soldier "get used to the new rags"?
About 13 minutes into I Am Legend Robert Neville has a flashback where he starts to rescue his family. While he loads them into the car, the camera cuts to two soldiers and one says to the other "Can'...
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What's the meaning behind the phrase "The blood stays on the blade"?
At the beginning of the movie Gangs of New York, Priest Vallon tells his son not to wipe the blood of the blade after he's cut himself shaving, saying "The blood stays on the blade". I've watched the ...
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What's the German quotation in The Sunset Limited?
In The Sunset Limited, White aka "the professor" (played by Tommy Lee Jones) quotes a short German sentence.
I am German myself, but I was unable to understand it. Were the words he said actually ...
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"There are two kinds of people" quote [closed]
I'm trying to remember the title of a movie that had this quote (or something very similar) in it, can anyone help?
"there are two kinds of people in this world, those who bend facts to fit beliefs,...
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Movie where Peter Lorre asks, "Can I kill him? Can I kill him now, boss?" [closed]
I know this is a bit on the trivial end, but I'm trying to locate a movie for reference in something I'm writing. I know I've seen this somewhere, and I can't place it. I don't think I saw the ...
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What does Dutch mean in Predator when he said that fighting armed people made Predator a “poor sport?”
In the movie Predator (1987), near the end, after they try to trap the Predator in that net, and it shoots its way out, a lot of them die.
One guy is badly injured, so Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) ...
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What is the meaning of the line at the end of Chinatown?
At the end of the amazing film Chinatown, Jake Gittes is told, 'Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown'.
What are supposed to deduce from this? Is it that Jake is powerless to prevent or challenge what had ...
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What was the line that David Prowse said on Bespin set?
In various Star Wars documentaries it is mentioned that Mark Hamill and George Lucas were apparently the only two people on set who knew that James Earl Jones would eventually dub Vader with the ...
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English puns in OSS 117, Cairo Nest of Spies?
In the movie, OSS 117, Cairo Nest of Spies, the spy defeats two Russians and the subtitles say something along the lines of
They were "Russian" at me
This makes sense in English, but the movie is ...
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Language of the Moria password in The Fellowship of the Ring
At the gates of Moria there is a riddle on the door. "Speak Friend and Enter".
Frodo then asks Gandalf "What is the elven word for 'Friend'?" who replies and the door opens.
Given Moria is a ...
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In Tombstone what is the meaning of the line spoken by Doc Holiday?
In the movie Tombstone, Val Kilmer gives a brilliant delivery of the line
I'll be your huckleberry.
I cannot remember any dialogue leading up to it that explained this retort. Was there any or is ...
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What does the dialogue in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil mean?
What does John Cusack's character mean when he says "Nicholas himself wouldn't have as much eggs as you" in the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
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What would Jacob Palmer's (Ryan Gosling's) accent in Crazy Stupid Love be classified as?
The movie Crazy, Stupid, Love seems to be shot primarily in California. But still Ryan Gosling has this weird accent. What would you call this accent? Is there a specific reason for this accent?
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Meaning of the biblical quote at the end of Raging Bull?
The movie Raging Bull closes with a Biblical quote from the Gospel of John. What is the meaning of the quote, and how does it relate to the plot of the film?
"So, for the second time, [the Pharisees]
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How is the opening quote from movie Apocalypto related to the movie?
Before starting of the movie "Apocalypto" it shows the quote:
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. - Will Durant
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