The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"I am a dangerous criminal person. I do bad things to honest people"; "it's so against God's plan"; "You're never gonna be Jell-O"; "Choose me, marry me"
In the discussion (3)
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- The first nominees are 'I am a dangerous criminal person. I do bad things to honest people' and Rupert Everett's excited 'it's so against God's plan' when everyone thinks he is her fiance; he is really good in this.
- At the brunch Julia Roberts plays go-between with the creme brulee metaphor: he wants Jell-O, Cameron Diaz's character offers to be Jell-O, and Julia's reply that she is never going to be Jell-O is a line one host thinks about a lot.
- The 'choose me, marry me' speech is defended as great and quite emotional, even though the later 'just a girl standing in front of a boy' line became the iconic Julia Roberts speech; Meredith Gray (as transcribed) says almost exactly this to Derek and perfects it.