Words Speak Louder Than Actions
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UPDATE: We just got back from the campiest film of all-time. A few memorable quotes (all Sam Jackson):
“Great, snakes on crack.”
“I’m sick and tired of mothafuckin’ snakes on mothafuckin’ planes!”
“After surviving that, how’d you like me to buy you dinner?”
A must see!
UPDATE II: David Weinberger has a great perspective on why the SoaP phenomenon is so cool. Here’s an outtake:
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With Snakes on a Plane, we’re flexing our muscles in a new way. We’re not insisting that JarJar be killed in the sequel, although we did write the movie’s most quotable line. But that’s cool only because it means with SoaP we’re messing with the audience’s relationship to the movie, and not just - as with Rocky Horror - during the time when the movie unspools in the theater. Rather, with SoaP the audience has taken over the meaning of the movie. This is very different from being asked to design Indiana Jones’ new outfit or write witticisms for the next James Bond movie. We, without being asked, have insisted on what this movie means to us.
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