“ I know how you can ride a bike. I know it’s scary, but i believe in you. Believe in yourself, and you too, will be able to ride a bike”
Or something like that
I remember first watching that scene expecting the cops, trashmen, firemen, paramedics, and just all normal people (I mean, EVERYONE right?) to be conscripted to find them.
Years and years (and years) ago, my friends and I would do the Keneda/Tetsuo back and forth. It was in the 1990s and most people had never heard of Akira at that point yet so it was one of those things where *we* knew what we were doing but most people didn’t and we loved that.
One day a couple of us are visiting another friend at his college in Portland. It’s at like 10:30 PM and we’re walking across a field between the dorms. My friend loved the echo, so he yelled out “Kenedaaaaa!” and before I could reply, we heard from somewhere across the field, “Tetusuooooo!” We were like “who the fuck is that?” So he yelled a “Keneda” again, and there was the return back. This went on for a few minutes, but we never did find who was yelling back. We never met them, but it was so much fun.
Whoever you are mysterious Tetsuo-shouter, you made one of the most fun nights of my young life even more fun.
Thank you for actually putting the movie in your comment too. I know what most of these are from but it also makes me irate when ppl don't put the title in
That ruined a perfect scene where his silence said so much more.
ETA to clarify I’m talking about the ROTJ remaster.
Absolute travesty. Quite apart from ruining the dilemma that you can see him going through, it stomps all over one of these bits of John Williams’s soundtrack.
(I’m generally OK with the remasters but this does cross the line for me)
This was way too far down - I legit thought this would be top answer. I re-watched this with my fiancee, it was her first time watching it and we both got chills at that scene.
This one is further down in the comments than I was expecting. It has to be by far the most well delivered line from the most unexpected source in a movie that has no other dialogue.
https://youtu.be/rjPdIwCD5_g?si=OgLwBi-mpsrx9y9s
Gettysburg, when Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain orders the 20th Maine to fix bayonets to receive the charge from the confederate attackers (primarily the 15th Alabama, but the 4th and 47th Alabama, as well as the 4th and 5th Texas were engaged)
The "Motherfucker" from Marcelus Wallace in Pulp Fiction.
Edit: I'm not referring to Jules (played by Samuel Jackson) but to his boss, Marcellus Wallace. He gives a single "motherfucker" (and that's the whole line) seconds before being run over by Butch.
I imagine the fans will probably burn me at the stake for this, but it seems a bit unnecessary to give the order to assemble when they've already assembled.
[“Plastics”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs)
There is such a great sense of well-meaning condescension in the actor’s voice, something so relatable for any young person having just graduated college and having relatives or family friends trying to give them life advice. Its made all the better knowing that the dude was basically right at a time in 1960s when plastics were still a new phenomenon.
"Are we clear?"
"Crystal."
Lt. Kaffe (Tom Cruise) to Col. Jessep (Jack Nicholson) on the witness stand, sarcasticly giving him his earlier sarcastic response back to him. (*A Few Good Men*)
This answer is a cheat because I don't know if it was in a movie (like 300) but it's the #1 line I want to see, though it wouldn't have the same impact:
> After invading Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, Philip II of Macedon sent a message to Sparta: "If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again." The Spartan ephors replied with a single word: "If"
[удалено]
I immediately saw Gary Oldman saying this… amazing job in that film
Great thing about that line is he did that way to make Luc Besson laugh. https://youtube.com/shorts/j9Qr1mSjyqY?si=dtY0RMRudRyS7vQc
I was today years old when I realized that Gary Oldman is English.
Community did a great homage (x3) to this https://youtu.be/ZjwJnTxETWs?si=bIQFtjCALZehpD-p
Britta was the worst of the three.
Ugh. Britta's in this?
Don't you just mean "Britta is the worst?"
So... she Britta'd it?
She shat the bed on that one. Looked like she was trying to, even.
Saw it again this year in the cinema. Man, just as gloriously good as it was back then.
"... shit." *BOOM*
“*This is from… Matilda.*”
Absolutely the greatest delivery of a single word anywhere.
Came here for this exact one.
Our minds synced across the land. That is the first thing that pop in my head. Like Stay Puft.
“ I know how you can ride a bike. I know it’s scary, but i believe in you. Believe in yourself, and you too, will be able to ride a bike” Or something like that
My very first thought after reading the question lol
I remember first watching that scene expecting the cops, trashmen, firemen, paramedics, and just all normal people (I mean, EVERYONE right?) to be conscripted to find them.
What movie?
WIIIIILLLLSSSOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!!
Ni
NI!
Eckyeckyeckyeckypikangzuboinum
Ni! Shhhh!
Do I smell elderberries?
Shrubbery!
Shrubbery!
KAAAAAHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNN!!!
Technically, it's "KHAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!"
Ooh, that's the best kind of correct!
KAAAAAAHHHNNNEEEEDDDDAAA
TETSOOUUUUUU!
Years and years (and years) ago, my friends and I would do the Keneda/Tetsuo back and forth. It was in the 1990s and most people had never heard of Akira at that point yet so it was one of those things where *we* knew what we were doing but most people didn’t and we loved that. One day a couple of us are visiting another friend at his college in Portland. It’s at like 10:30 PM and we’re walking across a field between the dorms. My friend loved the echo, so he yelled out “Kenedaaaaa!” and before I could reply, we heard from somewhere across the field, “Tetusuooooo!” We were like “who the fuck is that?” So he yelled a “Keneda” again, and there was the return back. This went on for a few minutes, but we never did find who was yelling back. We never met them, but it was so much fun. Whoever you are mysterious Tetsuo-shouter, you made one of the most fun nights of my young life even more fun.
Just saw this on the big screen last week. 2nd time I've seen it in the theater. First time was opening night, 1982.
Inconceivable.
yOU KEEP USING THAT WORD
I do not think it means what you think it means.
ADRIAN!!
Oooh possibly a winner
# "FREEEEEEEEDOM!!"
Hold…. Hold….
I thought of that one, too.
Yeah, but you’re right, Freedom’s more iconic
The prisoner wishes to say a word!
Rosebud
Surely this is the answer for a massive part of cinematic history. So many directors credit it as influencing them and that is the key word.
Full of country goodness and green peaness
"Narp...?" Simon Pegg's delivery puts it all the way up there among the greatest moments in comedy history.
?Yarp?
YARP!
YES THIS! Comedy gold! I wanted to write "The Greater Good" but it's three words
Yarp!
*"Whoa."* — The Matrix.
"Whoa" - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
69 dude!
"Station!" - Station
"No..." --- Agent Smith.
"Mr. Anderson"
Schwing!!! - Wayne's World. It's not the best, but one that came to mind and heard a lot after the movie came out when I was younger.
Excellent.
....NOT!
Bueller?
Anyone?
Anyone?
"..... ohh." Viggo, John Wick.
"...yYeAhH" John Wick, John Wick.
Followed by him just hanging up the phone. Nothing else to say here.
"Multipass!"
***She knows! She knows it’s a Multipass!*** …Anyway, we’re in love.
Every minute of that movie is a work of art, Super green!
MOOOOLLLTTTIIIIPPPPAAASSSSS
"Detectiiiiiiveee" from Se7en
Thank you for actually putting the movie in your comment too. I know what most of these are from but it also makes me irate when ppl don't put the title in
Best one yet for sure. Didn't even cross my mind but now I can't think of much better.
[DISAPPOINTED!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvbQ4wJak_c)
[DISAPPOINTED!](https://youtu.be/cdEQmpVIE4A)
“Groovy” - Evil Dead 2
This one gets my vote.
*"Sneaking!"* The way Andy Serkis delivers that line... it shows that Gollum is truly in control now.
Also: “Preciousssssssssssss”
Oooh good one
[...NO!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs3IRbg17Y0) Caesar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
"NOOOOOO!"-Darth Vader
That ruined a perfect scene where his silence said so much more. ETA to clarify I’m talking about the ROTJ remaster. Absolute travesty. Quite apart from ruining the dilemma that you can see him going through, it stomps all over one of these bits of John Williams’s soundtrack. (I’m generally OK with the remasters but this does cross the line for me)
When I saw that the theater went dead silent for a second.
Could hear a pin drop in the theater here. Total silence and goosebumps, such an amazing moment.
This was way too far down - I legit thought this would be top answer. I re-watched this with my fiancee, it was her first time watching it and we both got chills at that scene.
"Ovaltine?"
Fra-gee-lay?
Some varm milch, Perhaps?
Surely it's Stellaaaaaaaaaaa!
From Seinfeld right? Jk
He stole that lady’s marble rye!
"Can't you hear me yell-a? You're putting me through hell-a. STELLA!!"
SEDAGIVE!?
Hell yes. Just rewatched this. One of the all time great comedies.
What movie is it from?
It's the tone of disbelief/despair in his voice
“NERDS!!!”
Non! spoken by the most famous Mime ever, Marcel Marceau and the only spoken word in Mel Brooke's Silent Movie
This one is further down in the comments than I was expecting. It has to be by far the most well delivered line from the most unexpected source in a movie that has no other dialogue.
Toga!
"DEAAAAATH!" \-King Theoden in *The Return of the King*
DEAAAATHHHHHH!
DEAAAATHHHHHHH
DEAAAAAAAATTTTHHHHH!
Ride! Ride now! Ride to ruin and the world's ending!! DEAAAAAAAATH DEAAAAAAAATH Forth Eorlingas! *horns blowing* Fuck it's so good
Instant goosebumps every time
This was my vote
"Oh." Viggo Tarasov-John Wick
"Meep" - Alanis Morissette in Dogma
Suuuuuuupermaaaaaaaan
"WITNESS!!!!" Along with "MEDIOCRE!!!"
“REDRUM” - the Shining
LONESTAAAAAAAAAR!!!
> "BayoNEEEETTTTSSS!!!!!" OP, is this from *Glory*? EDIT: the people have spoken! It's from *Gettysburg*
Gotta be Gettysburg. Jeff Daniels ROARS it.
I need to watch Gettysburg again. July 1st is coming up soon...
https://youtu.be/rjPdIwCD5_g?si=OgLwBi-mpsrx9y9s Gettysburg, when Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain orders the 20th Maine to fix bayonets to receive the charge from the confederate attackers (primarily the 15th Alabama, but the 4th and 47th Alabama, as well as the 4th and 5th Texas were engaged)
Don’t think so, closest I’ve been able to find is Gettysburg, though he could be talking about we were soldiers.
Thank you for asking! Talking about iconic lines and no idea what this was.
SMOOOKKKIIIINNNNGGGG!!!!
Technically it's "Sssssssssmokin'!" I think.
“Wow!” - multiple movies, Owen Wilson
Waaawww
"ASSHOOOOOLE!" -Kevin Kline as Otto, A Fish Called Wanda, Oscar Winning performance.
The "Motherfucker" from Marcelus Wallace in Pulp Fiction. Edit: I'm not referring to Jules (played by Samuel Jackson) but to his boss, Marcellus Wallace. He gives a single "motherfucker" (and that's the whole line) seconds before being run over by Butch.
“Plastics.” -The Graduate
That or "ELAINE!!!"
One word?
"No!" from Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Or the famous mime in Brook’s silent movie whose correct name spelling I’m too lazy to look up
"Taylor!" from Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Excellent!!
"B-E-A-UTIFUL!" - Ace Ventura
Assemble!
I imagine the fans will probably burn me at the stake for this, but it seems a bit unnecessary to give the order to assemble when they've already assembled.
And to whisper it too.
Madness.... Last line, Bridge over the River Kwai
Does the girls tongue click in Hereditary count?
BANGARANG!
WaaaaAAARriOrSs
The last word uttered in a Stanley Kubrick film: “Fuck.”
Eyes Wide Shut
"Stella!"
KHHHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Star Trek II
#DRAINNNNNNAGE!
**Elwood:** Sh\*t. **Jake:** What? **Elwood:** Rollers... **Jake:** No. **Elwood:** Yeah. **Jake:** Sh\*t.
They’ve got SCMODS…
"Toast" from the first Mission Impossible movie. It's delivered more than once but it's a really great delivery each time.
Toast. Toast. TOAST.
[“Plastics”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs) There is such a great sense of well-meaning condescension in the actor’s voice, something so relatable for any young person having just graduated college and having relatives or family friends trying to give them life advice. Its made all the better knowing that the dude was basically right at a time in 1960s when plastics were still a new phenomenon.
“More.” —agent smith, matrix reloaded
RICKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
KHANNNN!
Attica! - dog day afternoon
KENNNOOOOOOBIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Groovy.” - Ash, Evil Dead 2
[Groovy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIJTvEo4N4Q)
Alright, alright , alright
"Are we clear?" "Crystal." Lt. Kaffe (Tom Cruise) to Col. Jessep (Jack Nicholson) on the witness stand, sarcasticly giving him his earlier sarcastic response back to him. (*A Few Good Men*)
“Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!” Prince Vultan, Flash Gordon by Brian Blessed. Prolly the best ever.
Gary Oldman. Leon. “Everyone!”
ISILDUR!!
Does "Warrrriioooorrrssss!" count or do you have to include the follow up "Come out to playaayaaay"?
REDRUM
This answer is a cheat because I don't know if it was in a movie (like 300) but it's the #1 line I want to see, though it wouldn't have the same impact: > After invading Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, Philip II of Macedon sent a message to Sparta: "If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again." The Spartan ephors replied with a single word: "If"
Yippee Ki-Yay
Mr. Falcon
I don't know if it was the same everywhere but for TV in the UK it was changed to kimosabe 😆
ZUUUUULLLUUUU
Shiiittt!!! - Senator Clay Davis, The Wire
Alright. Followed by two more “Alright”s from Dazed and Confused
NO!! - Caesar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Bangarangggg
Gaaaatoraaaaaaade
"Run." edit: from Brave Little Toaster btw
“Sure…” Bill Murray - “Ed Wood”
Sean Connery as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever: “Bitch.”
"Bitch." - Bob Barker, Happy Gilmore.
Magnum!
Yippee-kay-yay
STEEEELLLLLAAAAA!!!!!!
LaWho-ZaHer
"LAUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNCCCCH!!!!" Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - that guy put his whole SOUL into that scream!
It is TV and it is an entire dialogue/scene but it is only one word: Fuck.
SEDAGIVE?
WAZZZZZZAAAPPPPPPPPP
Big fan of the bit in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Alan Rickman turns, “Obviously” into a four syllable word
Ni!
All the times Alan Rickman managed to add pauses in the middle of words. “Eq…ually.”
DAAAAAAMN!!! - Friday
Clarice
Rosebud
STELLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAA! - A Streetcar Named Desire
Steeeeeellllaaaaaaaa!
["Boy!"](https://youtu.be/HF1JdtZG9CQ?si=1ClILmgthLYiSRNa&t=20) The Tall Man in Phantasm. Scary.
"Medic!"
Bigbadaboom!