tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post114504590606632457..comments2024-03-24T02:21:43.001-07:00Comments on Things THEY Don't Want You To Know: The Best Movie Line EverBrianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post-1158250127082576682006-09-14T10:08:00.000-06:002006-09-14T10:08:00.000-06:00I am your father... that's crap from a crap maker ...I am your father... that's crap from a crap maker to the crap lovers. CRAP!!!<BR/><BR/>"I am your father" is not particularly catchy and most people, outside of movie characters using it in good attempts at bad comedy, don't say it.<BR/><BR/>Thus, your nomination fails on that point.<BR/><BR/>It's not iconic, it was an uttely out of left field surprise and the closest thing I can think of that might be pop and fits in with it is Joseph telling his brothers who he was after they'd dumped him in a ditch and he became Pharoh of Egypt... hardly iconic.<BR/><BR/>It doesn't sum up the plot twist either, that happens when Luke holds his dying father in his arms at the end of the sixth chapter and they reconcile showing that evil and good can work together and be more powerful than either side alone.<BR/><BR/>It doesn't sum up the movie, either. Lando being forced by the wookie to turn the Millenium Falcoln around and pick up Luke just because Leia has a funny feeling, demonstrating that Luke is held up and simultaneously crushed by his family.<BR/><BR/>It doesn't sum up an entire Generation, either... "May the force be with you", the line that built an empire of New Age, did that.<BR/><BR/>"Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"<BR/><BR/>Is iconic, it holds and builds upon tradition going back beyond Sparticus and Metropolis and up into Roots, Indiana Jones, The Matrix, and "V" for Vendetta.<BR/><BR/>It is catchy and is used frequently in the most sensible and ridiculous of contexts all over the world.<BR/><BR/>It sums up the plot twist: though shot in the neck, Taylor heals and finds that he is able to speak again, which he and several people the first time they saw it thought would not happen, and not only does he speak but the first thing he does say is amazing, it shows the ragged slave garbed beast as a being, perhaps more powerful than his masters. It sums up the movie, All he wants to do is get away from the apes for the entire film and the apes are always trying get back on top of him.<BR/><BR/>It sums up three generations and <I>all</I> generations yet to come, the oppressed will always be there and at some time or other all people feel oppressed. The movie transcends racial barriers and gender barriers and class barriers. When the movie originally played in theaters, the producers were astounded that black and brown audiences and feminists loved it. People everywhere were able to so easily and clearly identify with Taylor.<BR/><BR/>Your quote does nothing you claim one should, mine does them all.<BR/><BR/>"Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"<BR/><BR/>-Allex SpiresAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com