{"id":1667,"date":"2007-08-18T01:05:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T01:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/18\/best-movie-line-ever\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T01:05:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T01:05:30","slug":"best-movie-line-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/18\/best-movie-line-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best. Movie. Line. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href = \"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/\">Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s<\/a> place, he&#8217;s been presenting candidates for best movie line ever. Since I seem to have control of a blog of my very own, I&#8217;d like to present my nomination:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHolly Gennero McClane: After all your posturing, all your speeches, you&#8217;re nothing but a common thief. <\/p>\n<p>Hans Gruber: I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I&#8217;m moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(transcription from <a href = \"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0095016\/quotes\">IMDB<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently my affection for this line is not widely shared, however, as finding the clip online has proven to be beyond my google skills. On the other hand, I did discover a phenomenon wherein people present montages of clips and photos of Alan Rickman with a musical background. I&#8217;m not sure whether to be disturbed or not.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan&#8217;s nominations can be found <a href = \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ls=en&#038;q=site%3Atheatlantic.com+%22best+movie+line+ever%22&#038;btnG=Search\">here<\/a>. Other suggestions are encouraged in the comments. No points for anything from Monty Python or The Princess Bride, though &#8212; too obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s place, he&#8217;s been presenting candidates for best movie line ever. Since I seem to have control of a blog of my very own, I&#8217;d like to present my nomination: Holly Gennero McClane: After all your posturing, all your speeches, you&#8217;re nothing but a common thief. Hans Gruber: I am an exceptional&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/18\/best-movie-line-ever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best. Movie. Line. Ever.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,64,35,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aaron","category-guest_bloggers","category-movies","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}