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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Title Drop

By Tangotiger, 01:20 PM

Non-sports post.

Title Drop is when the title of the movie is spoken in the movie.  On NPR a few weeks ago, they asked the listeners for the movies whose last spoken words were a Title Drop.  They said there were three.  All I could think of was “Dark Knight!  Dark Knight!”.  And she said three movies, one of which was Spiderman (how could I have forgotten that?  Peter Parker walks away and says “I’m Spiderman” in the voice over).  But, the host did not say “Dark Knight”.  I knew I was right, because Gordon was doing his thing while Batman was escaping, and he said “Dark Knight”, and then the scene ended, and “Dark Knight” appears at the start of the credits.  Then I watched the movie.  Talk about a TECHNICALITY.  The movie is called “The Dark Knight”.  And Gordon’s last three words were “A Dark Knight”. 

Anyway, I don’t remember the other shows she said.  I think she said Contact and Saving Private Ryan (just a fleeting memory of the show), but I don’t remember at all how Contact ended, much less the words spoken.  And, weirdly for me, I never saw Saving Private Ryan.  Anyway, if anyone knows the movies, please list them.  And, if there are especially cringworthy or funny Title Drops, I’d like to hear them too.

My favorite funny one was Star Trek: First Contact, when Zefram Cochrane said “a star trek”.  I love James Cromwell.  Dude’s a great actor.


#1    epoc      (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 13:41

I’m pretty sure “The Breakfast Club” ends with the words “the breakfast club,” as part of Anthony Michael Hall’s voice-over reading of his letter to the principal.


#2    David A.      (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 13:52

Forrest Gump. Little Forrest says his name on the school bus.


#3    salb918      (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 14:12

I think Chinatown qualifies.


#4    James K.      (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 14:17

Iron Man?  I think.


#5          (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 14:27

Casablanca

No Country for Old Men

Umm… probably a bunch of these.


#6          (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 15:19

I watched 3000 Miles to Graceland this morning (terrible movie) and they do it.


#7    Fat Ted      (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 15:39

tough question, but I think it’s pretty cool when movies do it so I’d love to think of some more


#8    Fat Ted      (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 16:14

RocknRolla, the Guy Ritchie film from last year just watched it and it ends with the title as well.


#9    Matt      (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 18:54

Heck, any film title that is its location (setting) is pretty likely to have it.
I do admit that I am nearly always looking for the title drop in movies and novels.


#10          (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 22:31

Gone Baby Gone (about the 3:05 mark) seemed so forced it took me out of the movie.


#11    Matthew Cornwell      (see all posts) 2009/12/29 (Tue) @ 22:42

"For Your Eyes Only”?  Even though the female lead may have said “darling” after that?


#12          (see all posts) 2009/12/30 (Wed) @ 01:16

The last line of “Some Like It Hot” is “Nobody’s perfect.” But the first time I ever saw it was in Copenhagen, in English with Danish subtitles, and the Danish title of the film was the Danish translation of “nobody’s perfect.”


#13          (see all posts) 2009/12/30 (Wed) @ 17:21

It’s funny, the only one I can think of is not a movie, but a TV show - Arrested Development.  After it was said, Ron Howard, the narrator of the show, said “Hey! That’s the title of the show!”


#14    JD      (see all posts) 2009/12/31 (Thu) @ 02:13

These don’t end the films, and they’re slightly altered, but in “Remember the Titans” Will Patton’s character says something about how the players should make the other team “always remember the night they played the Titans.”

In Natural Born Killers, Mickey Knox (Harrelson) says “I’m a natural born killer” during his interview in the prison.


#15          (see all posts) 2009/12/31 (Thu) @ 02:15

Clear and Present Danger.


#16    Tangotiger      (see all posts) 2009/12/31 (Thu) @ 11:49

John/15: good one, and certainly neither humorous nor cringe-worthy.  Indeed, it becomes a sort of inflection point.  That’s a very legitimate way to make a Title Drop.  I had also read the book by the way (back when reading a 700 page book was possible, when I was using mass transit), and I don’t remember that title drop at all.


#17    Anthony      (see all posts) 2009/12/31 (Thu) @ 12:53

Not quite last line, but last exchange at least from Back to the Future, Part II:

Doc: I just sent you back to the future.
Marty: No, I know, you did send me back to the future. But I’m back. I’m back from the future.
Doc: Great Scott! (passes out)

There’s also Bill Pullman’s “Today we celebrate our Independence Day!” speech from Independence Day. That was a winner.


#18    Tangotiger      (see all posts) 2009/12/31 (Thu) @ 13:06

Winner?  That is exactly what I was thinking when I said corny.


#19    Dave P.      (see all posts) 2009/12/31 (Thu) @ 15:20

Forgive me if I’m re-posting, but I think I screwed up my initial post at some point.

This may or may not be one of the movies NPR was talking about, since it’s a bit obscure, but it’s one of my favourites:

“in the end she did for me what I have done for so many: help solve a problem, first by observation, then by careful intervention - in other words, the Zero Effect.”

Title drops are Bill Pullman’s signature, apparently . . .


#20    Anthony      (see all posts) 2010/01/01 (Fri) @ 10:23

18/Right, that was meant facetiously.


#21          (see all posts) 2010/01/02 (Sat) @ 14:09

"Dude, where’s my car?”


#22          (see all posts) 2010/01/02 (Sat) @ 15:50

Do musicals count?  Typically, there are whole songs with a title drop:  The Wizard of Oz, White Christmas, The Sound of Music


#23    Anthony      (see all posts) 2010/01/02 (Sat) @ 17:46

A Bronx Tale.


#24          (see all posts) 2010/01/02 (Sat) @ 22:52

@Tango - The Independence day speech is corny (as are a lot of the quotes, see Will Smith, in that movie) but it’s still fun every time. 

See, if you make a title drop, and it’s corny, it’s okay as long as it doesn’t break the mood of the movie.  In Independence Day, its a corny popcorn movie with special effects...so it fits perfectly.


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