{"id":506,"date":"2014-05-15T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/05\/15\/were-here-to-analyze-dialogue-and-chew-bubblegum\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:52:00","slug":"were-here-to-analyze-dialogue-and-chew-bubblegum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/05\/15\/were-here-to-analyze-dialogue-and-chew-bubblegum\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re here to analyze dialogue and chew bubblegum…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let’s be honest: action movies do not have the most well-crafted dialogue. They usually just devolve into threats, quips, and heavy exposition, but no one has ever pretended to see a Schwarzenegger movie for the script. But there’s also something appealing about their simplicity. If acclaimed films can feel literary and obtuse, there’s a reassuring comfort in Murtaugh telling us that he does not have time for this shit.<\/p>\n

As an ode to these straightforward and sometimes Neanderthalic scripts, the culture infographic fans at Pop Chart Lab created a poster dissecting the structure of the best action one-liners.<\/a> You might remember sentence diagrams from middle school, and it should come as no surprise that many of these famous quotes (like “I’ll be back”<\/a> and “Welcome to Earth”<\/a>) break down easily. Some with terrible grammar<\/a> are harder to deconstruct, while others are just too long<\/a> for any useful analysis.<\/p>\n

This chart is a fun and somewhat ridiculous look at the best and worst dialogue from the action genre. Commando<\/i> might not have won an Oscar for its screenplay, but it sure does make a fun English exercise.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s be honest: action movies do not have the most well-crafted dialogue. They usually just devolve into threats, quips, and heavy exposition, but no one has ever pretended to see a Schwarzenegger movie for the script. But there’s also something appealing about their simplicity. If acclaimed films can feel literary and obtuse, there’s a reassuring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}