Expressions originating in films

[Dr Jekyll]

Small, far away.

[Frank7]

Eric Mc said:

Higgs boson said:

That'll be the day!

I would credit that to the Buddy Holly song rather than a movie (although it's been a common enough expression for many, many years - even before Buddy Holly made it famous).

On a PBS documentary on Buddy Holly’s music that I saw last year, it was said that he wrote “That’ll Be The Day” after watching “The Searchers”, where John Wayne said it quite often, usually to Jeffrey Hunter, when Hunter issued vague threats of giving Wayne a smack in the mouth.

[irocfan]

Halb said:

I know the last two, so can guess the first is the same.

And now for something completely different, possibly one of two, for that team.

actually I stuffed up on that - I thought it was MP's Hungarian Phrase Book sketch: https://youtu.be/2YYM209GJoE


It was actually Not the 9 o'clock news:

https://youtu.be/iS2N1mBsEdM

[Halb]

InitialDave said:

The term "gaslighting" is probably a good example.

A lot of examples people are giving are either just quotes, or already existed prior to being made widely known by being used on screen.

Not quite what the thread is looking for, but there have been real products that only came into existence after being made as film props that people saw and wanted to buy (red swingline stapler from Office Space, the Talkboy in Home Alone 2). Crucial difference to "normal" product placement is that they weren't intending to make and sell them originally.

somebody told me this one, yesterday and I thought of this thread! Probably the best example!

[anonymous-user]

Eric Mc said:

How about "And why not " - attributed to Barry Norman in his TV show about films (so a double whammy). Although he always denied it.

Was one of Arnold Brown's catchphrases in the early days of alternative comedy. Used it in his Young Ones cameos (Flood and Nasty), so '82 and '84 respectively.

I can recall Rory Bremner's version of Barry Norman using it, but Brown claims that's because one of Bremner's scriptwriters was a fan. Nice example of something jumping an "attribution gap".

daddy cool said:

"Aliens" has pretty much provided most of the expressions/phrases myself and my mates use (even the bizarre ones we don't even understand, like "assholes and elbows, people!" but other lines have spread into popular culture - Call of Duty4 had a few lines lifted from Aliens (a character saying he keeps a shotgun handy for close encounters, and the phrase "Marines - WE... ARE... LEAVING!!"..

I can't read that without thinking of Boycie and Marlene in Only Fools and Horses!

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 11th April 14:09

[Cotty]

daddy cool said:

"Aliens" has pretty much provided most of the expressions/phrases myself and my mates use (even the bizarre ones we don't even understand, like "assholes and elbows, people!"

It refers to working hard at a task

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=As...