I was at a meeting today with some kind of university bigwig, and he said “parlance” twice, the second time even saying “in the parlance of”. They showed the Big Lebowski at my local totebagger theater last week and I almost asked him if he’d just seen it, but then thought better of it.
Here’s a few movie dialog questions.
1. What movie(s) do you quote the most frequently in conversation?
2. What movie(s) do you think has the best dialogue ever?
3. And what is the single best scene of dialogue in movie histories?
I’ll go with
1. Pulp Fiction, Big Lebowski, and Spinal Tap (not sure of order).
2. Chinatown (the various lines are little too complicated to work into conversation).
3. “How fast was I going, officer” from Double Indemnity
Update. This is good too
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