You’ll have to pardon us for a few minutes as we take a moment to toot our own horns.
For the past several weeks, we’ve attempted to find memorable movie lines from films made from 2000 onward. And we’ve struggled to find more than a handful.
Today, the New York Times affirms what we’ve been saying all along. There just aren’t as many one-liners being produced these days. Here’s an excerpt:
“I’m at a loss, because the lines for a while were coming fast and furious,” said Laurence Mark, who had us at “hello” as a producer of “Jerry Maguire,” and is a producer of “How Do You Know,” which is written and directed by James L. Brooks and scheduled to open just before Christmas. (In 1987 Mr. Brooks mapped the media future in seven words from “Broadcast News”: “Let’s never forget, we’re the real story.”)
If film lines don’t stick the way they used to, Mr. Mark said, it is not for lack of wit and wisdom in Hollywood. “What I don’t believe is that the writers are less talented,” he insisted. “I don’t think that’s true, I just don’t.”
Speaking by phone recently, however, Mr. Mark was hard-pressed to come up with a line that stuck with him in the last few years. “I will try my darnedest to think of one,” he promised.
You can read the entire article HERE.
Once again, Slice of SciFi and Farpoint Media are on the cutting edge….
If the NY Times starts talking about Merkins, then I will send you my firstborn.
I am expecting that the NY Times will start talking about the Spanish Inquisition -- (Monty Python style).
So I'm thinking Michael Cieply at the NY Times listens to Slice; and figured his editor didn't, so he could sell this little story as an original idea. Very clever idea if the Slice news department wasn't on the ball.