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Cinema’s Greatest Forgotten Retorts

Adam Dietz
2 min readFeb 23, 2022

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The Sixth Sense

Cole Sear: “I see dead people.”

Malcolm Crow: “Kid, you are one odd duck!”

The Graduate

Benjamin Braddock: “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me!”

Mrs. Robinson: “So what if I am? You little dweeb!”

Chinatown

Walsh: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”

Jake Gittes: “Forget what?” [Jake winks at Walsh]

The Poltergeist

Carol Anne Freeling: “They’re here.”

Steve Freeling: “Ahh, note to self, no more sugar for Carol Anne after 7pm.”

Goldfinger

James Bond: “Uh, just a drink. A martini — shaken, not stirred.”

Mei Lei: “If a-holes could fly, this place would be an airport!”

The Wizard Of Oz

Dorothy Gale: “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

Toto: Audio: “Woof woof” Subtitles: “Gee, you think? Moron!”

A League of Their Own

Jimmy Dougan: “There’s no crying in baseball!”

Dorothy “Dottie” Hinson: “Then I guess we’re not playing baseball. I guess we’re playing a new game called…

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Adam Dietz
Adam Dietz

Written by Adam Dietz

Comedy writer with work in McSweeney’s, Slackjaw, Points in Case, etc. Editor of the Yapjaw newsletter.

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