Expressions originating in films

[GliderRider]

Were any of these in common usage before Full Metal Jacket? They're all pretty commonplace now.

'Get with the program'

'Eat st and die'

'I'm gonna tear you a new asshole'

[Eric Mc]

GliderRider said:

Were any of these in common usage before Full Metal Jacket? They're all pretty commonplace now.

'Get with the program'

'Eat st and die'

'I'm gonna tear you a new asshole'

I remember saying all those things in 1964 - although I wouldn't have spelt programme that way.

[_Leg_]

I've trained my sons such that if we're ever in a garden centre as a family and I say, "Are we looking for a shrubbery?" one will instantly reply, "One that looks nice?" and the other will complete it with, "but not too expensive?" whereupon my wife will add, every time, "idiots".

Not a word for word quote I realise but it's nigh on a family tradition. My sons are 18 and 20. We've been doing it for a good ten years now.

[crofty1984]

"I don't give a damn"

[Halb]

THe interesting thing about that, is the inflection gives it away. Clark was instructed to take the stress away from 'damn'.

[poing]

In this house at least.

"..and theeennnn..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqwzuiSy9y0

[AW111]

The greater good.

[wibble cb]

AW111 said:

The greater good.

Simcoe County.Ontario got there first:




That's one Parish council I don't want to cross...

[Dr Jekyll]

CrutyRammers said:

GliderRider said:

At risk of extreme risk of earning a 'whoosh parrot', the true meaning of 'going ballistic' is that the aeroplane is heading vertically upwards, so using a combination of its kinetic energy and thrust to gain height, not aerodynamic lift.

Indeed in the film they do just that. But surely you've heard people use it to mean that someone lost their temper?

But more precisely, it means an aircraft or missile being no longer under control but simply obeying the law of gravity. So you can see the connection with someone losing control.

[Johnspex]

Eric Mc said:

Johnspex said:

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).[/quotei
I heard, many years ago, that Buddy Holly wrote That'll be the day after hearing John Wayne say it at least once and possibly more (my memory is not good on that point) in a film. It was possibly the Searchers.

So, I guess that one has gone full circle. Started off as a line from a movie, became a song, became a saying, became a movie.

When was the original "That'll be the Day" movie released? Buddy Holly's song dates from the period 1957 to 1959. There was a 1973 movie called "That'll be the Day" starring David Essex - which was called after the Buddy Holly song.

Don't forget that Holly was killed in an aeroplane crash in 1959.

That's what I said. First the line (in the fifties) , then the song (in the fifties), then the saying (from the fifties onwards), then the movie ( from the seventies but about the fifties). OK?

[aka_kerrly]

227bhp said:

Sorry not a film, but originating from Hawaii Five O: "Book 'em Danno".
Popular in the 80s, probably some old people still using it.

The phrase Five-0 to describe almost any police force around the world is surely a better example for the thread.

[Antony Moxey]

Eric Mc said:

GliderRider said:

Were any of these in common usage before Full Metal Jacket? They're all pretty commonplace now.

'Get with the program'

'Eat st and die'

'I'm gonna tear you a new asshole'

I remember saying all those things in 1964 - although I wouldn't have spelt programme that way.

You spelt out the words you were speaking? 'Get with the P. R. O. G. R. A. M. M. E?' Or are you just being clever?

[aka_kerrly]

Antony Moxey said:

are you just being clever?

Being British.

[Eric Mc]

Johnspex said:

That's what I said. First the line (in the fifties) , then the song (in the fifties), then the saying (from the fifties onwards), then the movie ( from the seventies but about the fifties). OK?

I would say the expression predates the 1950s too - by a long margin.

[Eric Mc]

aka_kerrly said:

Antony Moxey said:

are you just being clever?

Being British.

Correct. Nobody in Britain would have spelt the word "programme" the American way back then. It's only with the advent of computers into our daily lives ( really the 1980s) that American spelling has come to dominate.

[james_tigerwoods]

I (and now a few people I know) use the phrase "that sucks the sweat" - Which is shortened from "that sucks the sweat from a dead man's balls". Used it at the weekend and shocked a few people.

For those that don't know it, it's from Good Morning Vietnam

[daddy cool]

"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!!".
Newt's "They mostly come at night... mostly" is another one that can be reapplied endlessly - and in fact formed most of Cartman' lines in one episode of South Park.
Oh, and "Game over man, game over!", natch.

[TTmonkey]

"Say hello to my little friend"

[Dr Jekyll]

Some people tried to use the Batman phrase 'Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?' because they liked it even though it didn't actually mean anything.

[daddy cool]

TTmonkey said:

"Say hello to my little friend"

Used that rather unsuccessfully on a few first dates