All that remained of the German regiment was a little cloud of dust. For much of the film, he has been portrayed as a monster; a giant, crazed animal to be feared. Even more cheer-inducing is what happens in the finale; Lt. Raine (Brad Pitt) carves a swastika into the forehead of the movie's chief villain, SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), and declares "I think this just might be my masterpiece.". This pays off in the final scene, where they're driving a yacht away from a pier. From old-school classics like Casablanca to modern masterpieces like Inglorious Basterds, these are the most remarkable final movie lines of all time. Give me some wine, and let me speak a little. ", "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. The story he tells sometimes horrific, sometimes absurd, often both takes him across the country, from a Southern state college for Negroes to Harlem, where he falls in and out with a black activist group. Snow fell from the darkening, leaden sky. Killer John Doe (Kevin Spacey) reveals that he cut off the head of protagonist Mills' pregnant wife and stuck it in a box. A stormy wind rattled the scrap-iron in the ruins, whistling and howling through the charred cavities of the windows. Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (1936). If he ever had a reason to hate the water, it would be after the harrowing experience he's just had. "From Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Its desultory plot and muffled despair still feel strikingly modern. The first sentence of a book may be what draws the reader in, but it is the closing sentence that makes many books memorable. The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. His enemy in this case is Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges), his late father's old business partner, who also manages Stark Industries. said, watching her hand. It was, in so many ways, a film ahead of its time. A character in one of Jess Walters novels says, A book can only end one of two ways: truthfully or artfully. Alas, most dont end truthfully or artfully, but there are rare exceptions: novels that conclude with such gracefully calibrated language that we close the back cover and feel physically imprinted, as though the words were pressed into us by a weight we can hardly fathom. I ran. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them. The last line of DFW's first novel hints at what else he had in store. 'Keep going, El,' he says, 'Keep going.' OPTIONS: Show cue speeches Show full speeches # Act, Scene, Line (Click to see in context) Speech text: 1. In fact, he confesses that the universality of his experience frightens him. Those words are meaningful because the entire theme of The Dark Knight is meaningful. As you probably guessed, the famous lines above open Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. Although two centuries have passed since Dr. Victor Frankenstein turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, his creatures plaintive cry still moves anyone who has a beating heart. Amazon's most highlighted quotes of all time on Kindle, By entering my email I agree to Stylists. Its a deeply contemplative story about a man whose inept parents were imprisoned for bank robbery, leaving him and his twin sister to fend for themselves when they were 15. Most grandiose and declarative/most often quoted by people who have no idea where its from: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known., 18. Rabbit eventually crawls home, determined to be better, but his flight instinct is not so easily quelled. Best description weve ever read of rationalizing one decision over and over as you make the other decision with your body: They were frantic, calling out to him, but they were dead, as dead as the ancient dead, and he was alive, he was needed at home, it was a no-brainer, no one could possibly blame him for this one, and making a low sound of despair in his throat he kicked off his loafers and threw his long ugly body out across the water. ", "I'm fine. ", "Yukiko's diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on the train to Tokyo. He becomes a script doctor on what she intends to be her comeback project, a film she wants legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille to direct. He wanted money and power and influence, and he had those things. ", Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Sskind, "Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. The final scene finds him with the statue in his hands. The Silence Of The Lambs "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner." Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) 127 33 2. His story about a reformed miser was an immediate bestseller, and, a few years later, he began offering public readings that attracted enormous crowds in England and America. We arrive at the final page in a state of utter desolation. He and Rick suddenly have things of substance in common. Salinger (1951). In the movie's final minutes, the limping Verbal exits the police station, and viewers see his disability immediately disappear. In fewer words than most novelists use in a single paragraph, Sendak managed to capture our fundamental fears and thrills. Peter Pan. I carry a lot of scars. It is based on the true story of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), a guy who grew up idolizing gangsters as a kid. Quiz: which Shakespeare characters speak these lines about love? If you don't stop and look around once and a while you might miss it." Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) 111 27 3. And so she does. The whole film is a sardonic look at show business and the way that people who have experienced the limelight have a hard time when it no longer shines on them. . II,1,385. He wants Mills (Brad Pitt) to kill him so that he can finish his series of murders based on the seven deadly sins. That this sentence is the last line from Cheever's last novel makes it even more of a quaint, humble nod to his role as a teller of quiet, suburban stories. If you do, you start missing everybody. The next day, Tony stands at a press conference and makes a stunning confession: "the truth is, I am Iron Man.". The last bit of spoken dialogue is what's most likely to stick with audiences, and, if it's particularly poignant, it can seriously boost a film's reputation. Al takes Smails on in a high-stakes golfing grudge match with an assist from caddy Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe), whose cardinal sin is coming from a working-class family. Twilight came on. Only after getting away from it for a while does she realize just how happy she is there. It was a bestseller when it was published during the Great Depression, and just last year, it ranked No. And all that cal. "For both of us a new life is beginning" Constellations An Ideal Husband Chimerica 3. can use to call home. Wake up to the day's most important news. Alices Adventures in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll. This novel, about a man and his little boy walking through an apocalyptic wasteland, mesmerized and terrified readers. One of his associates leads him away from the scene of a standoff, offering the advice, "forget it, Jake. The plot of Sebolds debut novel sounds equally gruesome and mawkish: Susie, a 14-year-old girl, is raped and murdered by a neighbor, and then she describes her familys reaction from heaven. 01. of 10. Orwells classic dystopian novel about a totalitarian state has never gone out of print, but it got a huge boost two years ago from the election of Donald Trump. ", "He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Toy Story 3 (2010) "So Long, Partner." Toy Story 3 ends on a note that is both beautiful and sob-inducing. Others enter into the language, take on a life of their own, and eclipse their source. After playing for a few moments, Andy hops in his car and drives away. Play. NEXT: 10 Best Comedy Movies Of 2021, According To IMDb, 13 Best Shark Movies To Watch This Summer (That Aren't Jaws), 10 Unpopular Opinions About E.T. The miserable change now at my end. Amen. ", "But I don't think us feel old at all. Now, fortunately, the tumultuous story of Janie, a black woman in Florida, is firmly rooted in the canon of American literature, and every year new readers come and see., Where the Wild Things Are, Lorrie Moore, one of the best short story writers alive, once said, The end of a story is really everything, and for many years it seemed she had abandoned novel writing altogether. Everything about The Matrix is designed to make the viewer's head spin. His mix of treacly self-pity, witty cynicism and clinical depression speaks for millions of lonely people forced to endure a world of phonies. Even the novels greatest fans have complained about those tedious final chapters, in which Tom and Huck plot to free Jim from the Phelpses farm. Most Beckettian closing to a Beckett novel: Perhaps its done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I dont know, Ill never know, in the silence you dont know, you must go on, I cant go on, Ill go on. The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, is perhaps the best Batman story ever committed to film. Censors objections have shifted over the years (from truancy to the n-word), but its been banned in parts of the country ever since. '", "I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be. ", RELATED: 10 Unpopular Opinions About E.T. ", "Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for himand it was still hot. Part of HuffPost News. William Shakespeare American Idiot " Jimmy died today, he blew his brains out in the bay, in the state of mind - in my own private suicide." St. Jimmy And Then There Were None "The legal life's narrowing. ", Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, "And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldnt see to kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, my mother and son, my wife and our daughter, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next doors cat, and every star in the heavens. Ominous and syntactically exciting, this final line brings Conrad's dark novel full circle. ", A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, Asne Seierstad, "It was then that I began to sit on my bed and stare out at the nibbling squirrels, and to make up powems from intense abstraction, hour after unmarked hour, imagination scarcely faltering once, rhythm hardly skipping a beat, while sisters called me, suns rose and fell, and the poems I made, which I never remembered, were the first and last of that time", "And presently, like a circling typhoon, the sounds of battle began to return. The movie ends with police boss Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) suggesting that he and Rick join the Free French army. Shakespeare's plays and sonnets are some of the most quoted in all of literature. ", "The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling. Quiz: Is this acting advice from Laurence Olivier or @Tips4Actors? "What have you. ", Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling, "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance. 6 on PBSs Great American Reads. But like several of our most popular books Im looking at you, To Kill a Mockingbird its immortality has been buttressed by an exceptionally memorable film adaptation. ", "But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. Salinger (From Nine Stories ). ", "Might I trouble you then to be ready in half an hour, and we can stop at Marcinis for a little dinner on the way? The mystery ends with a revelation of incest, the death of a major character, and a lot of bad people still left to do their thing. "I've shat in better places than this" Saved Blasted Hamlet Reveal 3. Filmmaker Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) corrects the officer, saying "no, it wasn't the airplanes. A watchful protector. Stane has a personal agenda that involves manipulating the company for his own personal gain. ", "It begins like this: Barrabs came to us by sea", "He now has more patients than the devil himself could handle; the authorities treat him with deference and public opinion supports him. Everything revolves around the identity of a mysterious criminal named Keyser Soze. A Complete List of Shakespeare's Plays. Of course, Eugenides is also echoing the end of James Joyces Ulysses, whose last extraordinary sentence is about 4,000 words long and ends with Molly Blooms boundless enthusiasm: yes I said yes I will Yes., Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell (1949). Gittes is not happy. For generations of us, this is the first final line that knocked our booties off. Moments. William Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest dramatist of all time. Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts. '", "The broken flower drooped over Ben's fist and his eyes were empty and blue and serene again as cornice and facade flowed smoothly once more from left to right, post and tree, window and doorway and signboard each in its ordered place. by John Steinbeck (1939). A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore (2009), Novels and short stories make different demands on their forms and their readers. He is attacked by planes circling the building, shooting at him. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Everything will crumble. The Usual Suspects isn't just a movie; it's a magic trick. Over the course of the movie, he sees evidence that the world can be a pretty horrible place. Good . For a time, Hill enjoys the flash, the cash, and the fear-driven respect that comes from being a mobster. "He loved Big Brother. Gordon reluctantly agrees. It pulls together elements from a lot of disparate influences to ask what reality is and how anyone could really know if what they are experiencing is real. It's an action-filled finale that leads to Neo's poignant last words. . The chaos and disappointments of the preceding months have cured him of pointless fantasies, and he dismisses Bretts romantic speculation with this bitter rhetorical question. All gathering towards this one.". An entire novel can be ruined by a disappointing ending, but by the same token, an entire novel can be made by a wonderful one. It's the choice we make to get on with it. Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked, I cried to dream again. We can stop at Mancini's and have a little dinner on the way. 'Everything's ready. The entire Toy Story series deals with the connection between playthings and the children who own them. Inside, the agent comes to the shocking realization that he just let the real Keyser Soze get away. Sophocles. by J.D. How now, spirit! I don't know why mine never turn out like hers, or why my tears flow so freely when I prepare them - perhaps I am as sensitive to onions as Tita, my great-aunt, who will go on living as long as there is someone who cooks her recipes. Best reason to go adventuring in Wonderland: Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days. "From In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Its possible to measure the weight of a novel by the size of its impact crater. The mourning narrator, Nick Carraway, places Gatsbys romantic quest in the context of those first Dutch settlers who projected their hopes on the lush shores of this now corrupted country. It was Beauty killed the Beast.". Best wonderfully mangled last line from a wonderfully mangled novel: Prettiest description of oblivion and both the interconnectedness and meaninglessness of worldly phenomena that also sounds something like a dehumanized version of the last line of The Great Gatsby: The wake itself remains, etched out across the waters surface; then it fades as well, although no one is there to see it go. While nowhere close to historically accurate, it's a fine example of cinematic wish fulfillment. Se7en is one of the most nihilistic motion pictures ever made, and Somerset's quote reflects that. "From How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, It'd be a glaring omission to not mention Fitzgerald's oft-quoted thesis about the American Dream. I am haunted by humans. ", "Again and again I called out for Midori from the dead centre of this place that was no place. The 1933 version of King Kong is an all-time classic thanks in no small part to its dramatic ending. Some of those great final lines remain markers of our favorite novels, holy relics of our most cherished reading experiences. ", "'From the Land of Oz,' said Dorothy gravely. In this closing scene, the lovely Lady Brett tempts Jake once again to imagine what a damned good time they could have had. But over the old man's head they looked at each other and smiled. His final advice, not to tell anybody anything, could have run anywhere in the novel, but it sounds especially poignant at the end of his journey. 8. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.From To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Goodfellas ends with him stuck in the kind of lifestyle he always hoped to avoid. See if you recognise these closing lines of 10 great plays, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 'You bull's pizzle': match Shakespeare's insults to his plays quiz. What Jack tells Marla at the end of the film underscores the primary idea behind the story which is that he has lost himself and can't quite find his way back. And oh, Aunt Em! I said that they shouldnt be frightened (although I am often frightened) and that there was value everywhere. By stating this hard-earned insight, and . ", A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, "'God's in his heaven, alls right with the world,' whispered Anne softly. The cults of the famous and the dead. The great thing about this final line is that it finds Tony Stark doing something few superheroes ever do, which publicly identifying himself. 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