One of the least understood but most famous lines in cinema history. Story is as follows:
Origin of I’m Your Huckleberry
The original phrase originated in the 1800s. If you ever look at the side of a coffin you may notice small handles. These handles help people to carry the box and dead body from one place to the next. The handles are called huckles, and those tasked with carrying the coffin were called hucklebearers. In modern times the term for those who carry a casket is pallbearers, however, their position is one and the same. The original phrase, I’m your huckleberry was actually, I’m your hucklebearer. Saying this phrase to someone was of course offensive and meant to be a threat.
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Huh
Pretty sure that “huckleberry” etymology is bullshit.
A huckleberry is a small berry. They are sometimes hard to see in the bush. The phrase simply means “I’m what you are looking for”.
Not a movie quote, but a popular quote.
“Blood is thicker than water” — which means that familial ties are the strongest ties.
However, this is the opposite of the saying’s origin. The real quote is: “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”— meaning the non kinship ties we create(those we shed blood with) are stronger than familial ties (water of the womb).
He’s a real mover n shaker.. cool hand luke
Rosebud
Not a movie but misinterpreted still the same. Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” is NOT a patriotic song. It’s about how America used and abused it’s military men and women in the Vietnam war and then forgot all about them. People who play it in and around patriotic holidays have never sat down and listened to the song. And the great ironies of ironies: Reagan used the song as one of his 1984 campaign rally songs. I mean, the chorus has a great hook for political campaign, right? Obviously neither he nor his handlers actually listened to the song.
Got in a little hometown jam , So they put a rifle in my hand ,Sent me off to a foreign land ,To go and kill the yellow man,…..Down in the shadow of the penitentiary, Out by the gas fires of the refinery, I’m ten years burning down the road, Nowhere to run ain’t got nowhere to go
Robert DeNiro’s “You talkin’ to me?!” is almost always quoted out of its proper context.
The rest of the line is “Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talking to me? Well, I’m the only one here.”
And he’s saying it to himself as he’s looking in the mirror.
It’s not a “tough guy” line, it’s a “lonely, broken man losing his tenuous grip on his own identity” line.