A respectable collection of closing quotes from movies. Still, I would like to have seen one of my all-time favorites. It was from the movie, “Dr. Zhivago.” Zhivago’s brother is convinced that Tanya is his brother’s daughter, but she is unconvinced. He asks her: “why won’t you believe it? Don’t you want to believe it?”, to which she replies: “not if it isn’t true.”
By the way, if you want to set someone up for a couple of sucker-bets from well-known movies, try these: (1) who played the “thin man” in the movie of that same name? Most people will answer “William Powell.” No, it was Edward Ellis, the victim of a murder. He is referred to – by Powell – as “the thin man.” That movie was such a hit that the producers came up with a number of sequels using “the thin man” name, and most of us just assumed it was a reference to Nick Charles (i.e., William Powell).
(2) Another sucker-bet can be found in the final line of the film “The Maltese Falcon.” If you ask people what that final line was, you are likely to get the response (from Humphrey Bogart) “the stuff that dreams are made of.” But after saying this, the police detective (Ward Bond) utters the final line: “huh?”
