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Top 10 Closing Lines in Movies


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and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top ten closing lines in movies
butter ringing phone has to be answered
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destined for this list we’ve looked
across all cinema genres and selected
the best closing lines for the purposes
of this video we understand a closing
line to be the last piece of speech or
narration within a movie script and as
we are revealing the final lines in
movies you may be hit with some spoilers
so a spoiler alert is probably in order
also take the tub number 10 the Dark
Knight some men just want to watch the
well but so you just edge of your seated
your way through one of the greatest
superhero movies of modern times and
then you’re treated to this a closing
line worthy of an especially classic
caped crusader it sums Batman’s entire
anti heroism act up perfectly
why see wedding
because we have to chase this is a guy
who tries his best to defend the city
even if the city tries it’s best to
paint him as the villain because he’s
the hero Gotham deserves but not the one
it needs right now
Gary Oldman’s perfect delivery leaves
the audience in no doubt because he can
take it
this nights good in a dark kind of way
and this movie is great no question he’s
a silent guardian and watchful protector
Yawk night number nine Fight Club
gentlemen welcome to Fight Club you’ve
just shot yourself in the face the city
is about to systematically explode
before your very eyes the girl you like
is right there with you and this is all
your own doing some on your mind you
know our next closing line is quite
clearly an appropriate one your voice in
my head
your voice in mine ed Norton’s tussling
with Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden comes to a
head in this scene as he we and the
perfect pixie soundtrack question the
guy’s cognitive conditions you met me at
a very strange time my life
very strange time in your life you can
say that again
number eight
The Silence of the Lambs moaning if
there’s one turn of phrase that just
shouldn’t be uttered by a cannibal it’s
this one
jodie foster’s Clarice Starling has
spent this entire movie waging a
psychological battle against Hannibal
Lecter but with this final line Anthony
Hopkins character claims the upper hand
at the last half the Lambs
stop screaming spoken from the other
side of a long distance phone line
perhaps the doctor really is gonna wine
and dine an old friend or associate
entertaining them for the evening before
bidding them farewell but we sincerely
doubt it
I do wish we could chat longer but
I’m having an old friend for dinner
number seven back to the future when
this baby hits 88 miles per hour you’re
gonna see some serious shit fine now
Marty McFly should really know to expect
the unexpected when it comes to dock and
the DeLorean are you telling me you
built a time machine kind of a DeLorean
the way I see it if you’re gonna build a
time machine into a car why not do it
some style still Michael J Fox is slight
uncertainty is set up enough for this
sensational closing line it just doesn’t
get any cooler than a slightly cracked
old guy in a heavily souped-up sports
car
donning some sort of designer eyewear
before taking his wheels off road
literally precisely whoa this is heavy
oh wait it does get a little cooler as
the line sets up perfectly for the
sequel hey Doc we got a backup we don’t
have enough road to get up to 88 roads
well we’re going we don’t need
number six Chinatown
a title drop in a closing line is very
rarely a bad thing but this is the best
of its kind Jack Nicholson has really
been put through the mill in this movie
but the climactic scene is emotional
strain at its most taut shots are fired
people are killed
injustice is served it’s an ending that
satisfies because it doesn’t satisfy and
it’s a closing line that reflects that
what are you doing here
the Morty it’s my lunch hour I thought
I’d drop by and see who dropped dead
lately Chinatown may as well have an
abandoned all hope banner strewn across
its entrance now how to forget the
unforgettable yeah okay it’s Chinatown
number five Sunset Boulevard your Norma
Desmond used to be in silent pictures
used to be big I am big it’s the
pictures that got small a movie about
the movies but about so much more
besides our next ending utterance is the
final piece within a framing device
executed to perfection
poor devil still waving proudly to a
parade which had long since pasture by
time periods are jumbled in this film
but for the final scene we are
definitely and regrettably in the
present and at a point where the once
great Norma Desmond has finally lost
touch with reality and Ricky
she’s about to get locked up the whole
thing is magnificently messed up all
right mr. DeMille I’m ready for my
close-up
number four Planet of the Apes did your
stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape
a couple newly freed from an oppressive
society in which they found themselves
very much alienated I see you brought
the female of your species I didn’t
realize that man could be monogamous on
this planet it’s easy an apparently
peaceful canter along an isolated beach
this closing line might have had a very
different feel to it it might have been
a peaceful happy ending God
back
I’m home but then the Statue of Liberty
turned up very far away from where we
usually associate it and charlton heston
quite rightly damned us all to hell you
blew up damn you
it’s probably the most outwardly
dramatic final line to make our
countdown today number 3 Casablanca
all the gin joints in all the towns in
all the world
she walks into mine a movie that has it
all
Casablanca is rounded off with one of
the most quotable closing lines in
cinema history
you’ll always have past World War two
has spread across Europe and no one can
sleep safe at night
so when Rick Blaine’s old flame Ilsa
lund turns up in his Moroccan bar
Humphrey Bogart’s character is
determined to help Ingrid Bergman out as
much as possible he’s looking at you kid
it just happens that he needs a little
help from Louie and the beginning of a
beautiful friendship to make that
possible Louie I think this is the
beginning of a beautiful friendship
number two the usual suspects
his name is verbal verbal killed it’s
easily one of the best final scenes ever
and it’s our runner-up on today’s
closing line countdown he becomes a myth
a spook story that criminals tell their
kids at night rat on your pop and Keyser
Soze will get Kevin Spacey verbal Kint
Keyser Soze call him what you will
delivers the last lines of the usual
suspects with appropriate devilishness
unveiling awesome deception and a
miraculous recovery because you’re
stupid verbal because you’re isn’t so
simple I want to know is who’s the GIMP
we’re good by title Sosa if he comes up
for his pleasure so stupid having
houdini’d his way out of the police
station he has every mouth on screen and
off of it wide open and amazement it’s
truly the greatest trick ever told
greatest trick the devil ever pulled was
convincing the world he didn’t exist and
like that he’s gone before we unveil our
top pick here are a few honorable
mentions yeah
everybody gets cold
can’t doubt a little faith in me
well denim airplanes got it oh no it
wasn’t the airplanes
it was Beauty kill the bees an average
nobody get to live the rest of my life
like a schnook some bitch stole my
oh we have 12 vacancies 12 cabins 12
vacancies they yeah they moved away the
highway number one psycho we’ve given
you uplifting closing lines and big ewis
ones and iconic ones but we leave you
with the psychotic and a snippet of
Alfred Hitchcock that really stays with
you she just goes a little mad sometimes
we all go a little mad sometimes Norman
Bates is mommy’s boy times a million and
in this final monologue we’re treated to
and terrified by the man in all of his
malevolence it said when a mother has to
speak the words that condemn her own son
but I couldn’t allow them to believe
that I would commit murder
it’s the she that really sends shivers
down your spine though they’re probably
watching me well let them let them see
what kind of a person I am a defining
detail the likes of which Hitchcock had
a reputation for bringing out it’s the
closing line to close all others not
even gonna SWAT that fly I hope they are
watching their see they’ll see and
they’ll know and they’ll say why she
wouldn’t even harm a fly
do you agree with our list what big
screen last line did we overlook I think
this just mounting my masterpiece for
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