The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
The job/other-guy exchange and other insults are nominated; Two weeks with pay receives explicit favorite status, and the prescription/scotch retort is the separate answer.
In the discussion (6)
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- The cranberry-juice exchange is nominated.
- The guy who does his job / the other guy exchange is nominated without adding a character attribution absent from the cited segment.
- Dignam’s “maybe, maybe not, maybe fuck yourself” and dead-phone lines are nominated.
- Costello’s environment line and other aphorisms are nominated.
- The world needs plenty of bartenders is nominated; the immediately following Two weeks with pay receives the explicit favorite status.
- Costigan’s request for two pills and joke about scotch and a handgun is another favorite.