The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
The panel cites the drugs-washed-streets line, Choose Life, football and shopping, and several distinctive line readings.
In the discussion (4)
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- The speech beginning “It’s shite being Scottish” is explicitly called one of the movie’s most quotable passages.
- Shirley Henderson’s “sex, but casual sex” line is explicitly identified as one of the movie’s more quotable lines.
- The line about streets washed with drugs and injecting vitamin C if it were illegal is a favorite.
- Choose Life, the football-and-shopping exchange, the rejection of Connery’s later work, and the Academy Award pronunciation remain memorable.
