The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"Because she's got a great ass and you got your head all the way up it."
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- Instead of more lessons, a run of Pacino lines begins with the chop shop scene, called a favorite scene in the movie: 'Did you fall in love last night?' and 'Don't waste my motherfucking time'; Pacino is still in Scent of a Woman mode for the first hour, it feels improvised, and the two other actors seem to wonder what is going on.
- 'You can get killed. Walk it in your doggy.' (as transcribed) is aimed at one of two Black actors in the scene, one Tone Loke and the other identified as the comedian Ricky Harris; 'Shut up, Ralph. Sit down.' is added.
- From the end, when he thinks De Niro is gone, 'Bon voyage, motherfucker'; a run of scenes about the crew's exit plan seems to get the chronology wrong, since simply pursuing them would have caught them; 'All I am is all I'm going after.' (as transcribed) is called a really good line.
- The best one, for its pauses (likened to Pat Summerall doing Murder, She Wrote), is Pacino's line to Hank Azaria's character, the result, called the best 10 seconds of Pacino's career; whether it was scripted or ad-libbed is wondered, nobody in the scene seems to have known it was coming, and Azaria is judged either overmatched or playing an overwhelmed man.
- From the diner scene, 'There's a flip side to that coin,' then a seven-second pause before 'What if I got to take you down?' (as transcribed), called incredible.