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 31 Aug 2008, 19:16 #43020 Reply To Post
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1. Blade Runner
Improvised by Rutger Hauer on the spot, replicant Roy Batty's deeply moving existential soliloquy on a rain-lashed rooftop looks back on his galaxy-spanning four-year life as the final seconds tick away. “All those moments will be lost in time... like tears... in rain. Time... to die.”

2. Citizen Kane
“Rosebud…” Okay, so it’s a one-word speech. But Charles Foster Kane’s dying breath is the first word in the ‘greatest films of all time’, the last word in the last-gasps, perhaps the most profound movie MacGuffin ever. What is rosebud? There are two answers. Ones of them is very rude.

3. White Heat

A brutal gangster with a seriously unhealthy obsession with his dear old mum, Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett (James Cagney) ends up cornered by the feds at the top of a giant gas tower. Blowing himself up by blasting the gas tank with bullets, he yells, "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"

4. King Kong

One of the most immensely moving death scenes in cinema history, spoken as the mortally wounded great ape falls to his death from the top of the Empire State Building. Did the airplanes get him? “Oh no, says explorer-scientist Carl Denham. “It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."

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What would you or your story character's famous last words be? Not that we're morbid or anything.
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 01 Sep 2008, 11:13 #43051 Reply To Post
Kong was heard to mutter, "So far - so good!" as he passed an open 2nd floor window.
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