Greatest Exchange
The 'you can't handle the truth' exchange; the 'why the two orders' shouting match
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- Three choices: 'You want answers. I want the truth. You can't handle the truth'; 'Harold, you don't need to wear a patch in your arm to have honor' followed by 'Ten hut. There's an officer on deck'; and 'Did you order the code red?' answered 'you're goddamn right I did'.
- One panelist's favorite is the 'why the two orders' moment, when everyone gets up and shouts at once, staged so each voice is audible, ending with Cruise's 'you cut these guys loose' as the hosts quote it.
- Cruise was reportedly self-conscious about how high his voice got when yelling, audible in Risky Business, but by this film he had worked on it, joked to be with a German vocal scientist.
- 'You want answers. I want the truth. You can't handle the truth' is called unbelievable, recalled as raising the scene to another level when watched with a daughter for the first time.
- Asked for a favorite exchange, another says it is definitely 'you can't handle the truth', which exists outside the movie, memes before there were memes.