Grumpy Old Man here again, after a week of being off somewhere else being Grumpy!!!
What is the best insult or comeback you've ever seen in a film? As written I would have to say:
1 - "You’re a child. You think you’re tough because you read books about it?" - David Mamet
2 - "You’re an idiot. You know what you’d find if you looked up the word ‘idiot’ in the dictionary?"
"A picture of me?"
"No! the definition of idiot, which you fucking are!" - Shane Black
3 - "You’re pretty, but you’re not smart." - Billy Wilder
Please let me know yours!
I like writing insults and comebacks in scripts, Aaron Lumley! I'll keep rewriting a line until I come up with a great one.
One of my favorite comeback lines in a movie is "You can't handle the truth!" (Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men)
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I know it started as a play, but Angels in America:
"You are so full of piping hot shit, that the mere mention of your name draws flies."
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It doesn't count, but it was such a weird phrase --- it comes from an interview that comedian Jim Norton was doing. I don't remember the specifics, but he called somebody "a blithering ninny."
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"You used to be big."
"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."
(I think of this quote a lot when I think of the last 10 years of Best Picture winners!)
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"Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy nerf herder!"
— Leia to Solo; "The Empire Strikes Back"
"I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"
— French Castle Parapet Guard to King Arthur and entourage; "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
"Hey, Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No. Have you?"
— Hudson to Vasquez, "Aliens"
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We don't know which movie it came from, but my best friend and I still get a good laugh from "you c--k-juggling THUNDERC--T!" xD
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I'm cheating a little here, but... Okay to quote the best insult I've ever written? It hasn't been produced yet... Maybe one day!
"Listen to me, Andrey, you garlic-smelling, gaslighting roach-whisperer in an ugly clearance rack tracksuit and the world's tiniest dick. We're moving out, fucker. To a place you can only dream of."
[From my Palette Theory screenplay]
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Nathaniel Watkins definitely one of my favorites!