The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"Make It Count"; "You Jump, I Jump"
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- Billed as the most important category of the day, the nominees are 'I'm the king of the world', 'I'll never let go', 'You jump, I jump', and the French girls line.
- A host adds 'Iceberg, right ahead!' as 'one of my favorites', not really acknowledged, a line said a lot with a college roommate.
- Other lines added are 'Women and children' and the 'ship of dreams' line that bridges the underwater footage to 1912.
- One host's favorite is 'Make It Count', from a favorite scene, and Jack also writes it in the note.
- 'You Jump, I Jump' is a favorite; it has been displaced in the culture by 'If you're a bird, I'm a bird' from The Notebook, which may itself have been replaced for teens by The Fault in Our Stars, though that lacks a line, so the hosts stick with 'you jump, I jump'.
- 'I'll never let go, Jack' is yelled all the time, including to coworkers in inappropriate moments to convey camaraderie; it had a second life in Gilmore Girls, spoken by Rory.