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Article: What's my line? Here are some of our favorite parting shots.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- December 28, 2001
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There's an art to it, really, wrapping up a movie with that one crucial closing line.
It's gotta be clever. It's gotta be catchy. And above all, it's gotta capture the spirit of everything that's preceded it.
Many screenwriters have struggled to come up with a key phrase that either surprises us or manages to complete the tone of a cinematic experience. Few have succeeded, but when they do _ presto _ it's pure movie magic. For example:
"There's no place like home."
That's an easy one, a $2,000 question on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," to which the answer, of course, is: "The Wizard of Oz."
But where do you go from there?