I thought it would be fun to start some discussions from a family card game, Movie Talk, which I never got to play with my family. The twentieth card I pulled said:
“The shortest amount of dialogue since the introduction of talkies was written for Silent Movie, Mel Brooks’ 1976 spoof on silent films. In it, mime artist Marcel Marceau utters one word: non (the French word meaning “no”).
If you could speak just one word of dialogue in a film, what word would you say?”
This is the tenth question in the cards that I’m going to change in favor of making it more “movie” related. I’m changing the question to: What is the greatest single word of dialogue in a movie?
Considering it is on several lists as “the Greatest Film Ever Made” it is certainly easy to say that the most powerful single word in movies is Citizen Kane’s “Rosebud.” It drives the plot and is still talked about in film circles to this day.
When Anakin Skywalker screams “NO!” in Revenge of the Sith it really shows his turn from Anakin to Darth Vader. He was doing everything for Padmé, and when he realizes she is dead and feels everyone else he cared about has betrayed him or turned on him he gives in to his anger and embraces the dark side.
Another single word of dialogue that comes to mind is Ash in Evil Dead 2 saying, “Groovy.” It’s just a badass scene, watching him give himself his chainsaw arm and sawed-off shotgun. Bruce Campbell delivers the line perfectly.
TLDR: What is the greatest single word of dialogue in a movie?
Submitted August 12, 2020 at 04:43AM by DParks247 https://ift.tt/31MKY6y
