The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"I am the scales of justice"; "Conductor of the Choir of Death"; "Do not, my friends, become addicted to water"; "Oh, what a day. What a lovely day"; "I live, I die, I live again"; "That's bait"; "I am awaited in Valhalla"; "Who killed the world"; "Out here everything hurts"
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- The Bullet Farmer's lines open the category: 'I am the scales of justice', 'Sing, brother' and 'Conductor of the Choir of Death', called good writing; almost every Immortan Joe line is biblical phraseology, such as 'Do not, my friends, become addicted to water, it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence'.
- The money line is Nux's 'Oh, what a day', the one everybody started saying after the trailer, and 'I live, I die, I live again' is his other signature phrase.
- A subversive pick is Max's 'that's bait' as they roll toward the supposed Green Place and see the naked woman on 'the thing', with the wish that Max were jokier throughout; the Nux and Slit exchange on first seeing Immortan Joe, Nux insisting 'he looked at me' and 'he looked me straight in the eye', Slit answering 'he looked at your blood bag' and 'he was scanning the horizon', and Nux concluding 'I am awaited in Valhalla', is praised as good character building for the weird obsessive cult Joe has created.
- Another favourite is not an Aaron Sorkin line: with four bullets left, Max fires a couple, then Furiosa takes the rifle, braces on his shoulder and says 'don't breathe', and the look he gives back is loved; 'Who killed the world' is a hammer line underlining the film's theme, and Furiosa's 'out here everything hurts' is one of several apocalyptic lines.