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But I'm the greatest actor in the world and I can make even shit sound good." The "shit" script would get nominated for best original screenplay at the 2001 Oscars and Crowe would win best actor.Ī variation of the line was uttered by Sen. It went over like gangbusters, even though Crowe still hated it: "It was shit. He routinely strayed from the script - by John Logan and William Nicholson - trying to improvise a bunch of alternatives, until Scott forced him to read the line as written.
Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott didn’t quite see eye to eye on the screenplay, and on this line in particular. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
Later he told me, 'I had always wanted to say 'I love you' like that in a movie.'" Tom had delivered the line so powerfully, and so directly to her, she was still getting over it. By the end of his speech, everybody was in tears.
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Why don't you give me a crack at it.' I left it in, and on the night of filming - it was 4 a.m., on a Friday, and everybody was dropping from exhaustion - Tom says the line. "When I first gave the script to Tom Cruise, and we were reading through it, I said, 'I'm going to change that line.' He said, 'Uh, I love that line. "It was one of those lines that came so easily, it felt almost too easy," remembers writer-director Cameron Crowe.
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True to his word, Liam Neeson kills 35 men in 93 minutes in the first film, scores more in the second and third, and who knows how many in the planned TV prequel. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. "If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it.So when it came time to film the revised happy ending, Billy Crystal ad-libbed much of his dialogue with Meg Ryan, including this most remembered line of the picture. Writer Nora Ephron’s first draft didn’t have Sally and Harry ending up together because she considered a breakup to be a more realistic ending.
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Filmmakers even changed the name of the fictional Mississippi town in the movie to Sparta so they wouldn’t have to pay to have the town’s water tower repainted. Poitier did not want to shoot the film in Mississippi because he had been harassed by the Ku Klux Klan when he had visited there with Harry Belafonte at the height of the civil rights movement in 1964, so most of it was filmed in Sparta, Illinois. The only way Paramount pictures would fund Mel Gibson's passion project about the 13th century Scottish noble was if he agreed to star in it as well as direct. "They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!".When Barbra Streisand quotes it, he retorts, "That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard." One of the most parodied movie lines in cinema - even Ryan O’Neal himself poked fun at it in Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?. "Love means never having to say you're sorry.".
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