Famous movie misquotes

We all have our favourite movie moments, with many of them coming in the shape of classic one-liners. However, some of Hollywood's most famous catchphrases, which have become part of popular culture, are often - after years of Chinese whispers - quite inaccurate.

Showing our very pedantic side, here are some of the lines that people get wrong time and time again.

The Empire Strikes Back
Try talking to a diehard 'Star Wars' fan and then casually throw in that you love the bit in 'The Empire Strikes Back' when Darth Vader says “Luke, I am your father.”
Cue gnashing of the teeth and frustrated wailing that 'You've got it all wrong'.
The line Vader actually utters isn't the one we have all been saying for years. What he actually tells Luke is, "No, I am your father." Which, while making sense during the film, is nowhere near as catchy as the one we all say now.

Wall Street
In the new 'Wall Street' movie, ‘Money Never Sleeps’, Michael Douglas repeats his character's famous catchphrase, 'Greed is good'. A saying that has become so ingrained in popular culture, it's synonymous with financial avarice.
What Gordon Gekko actually says in the 1987 classic is, however, "The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works."

Dirty Harry

Ushering a new kind of cop on the big screen, Clint Eastwood's Harry was an angry, vicious police officer, with a mean line in goading those who crossed his path - case in point, the snarling one-liner that we all know and love, "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
The real quote comes at the end of a long, but awesome, monologue, "Ah, I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking, 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"
You can see why it was shortened.

The Silence of the LambsAnthony Hopkins’s iconic performance has since slipped into parody thanks to endless spoof performances and disappointing sequels.
However, the conversations between Hannibal Lecter and Jodie Foster's Clarice in 'The Silence of the Lambs' still chill. But one line in particular that gets repeated constantly, was never actually uttered. Instead of the now popular quote, "Hello Clarice”, what he actually says is “Good evening, Clarice”.
He may be a bonkers cannibal but he does have some well-polished manners.
Funnily enough, and like 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps', the film's sequel 'Hannibal' would include the often misquoted line thanks to its popularity.

Casablanca
Probably the most famous misquote in movie history, the line "Play it again, Sam” is never uttered in ‘Casablanca’.

The closest you get to it in the film comes from Ingrid Bergman telling the piano player, "Play it Sam, for old times”.
The world-weary Humphrey Bogart also says at one point, "You played it for her, you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"
However, the line has been used in several films - including the Marx Brothers’ 'A Night in Casablanca' - which led many to believe 'Play it again, Sam' originated from the movie.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
We all know the famous scene - and no doubt the narcissistic ones among us have said it to themselves in the mirror at one point. But the evil Queen doesn't strike up a conversation with her household furniture by saying, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"
What she really said was, "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?”.


Star Trek

One of 'Star Trek's most quoted lines was never spoken in either the TV series or the many films. Instead, the closest we ever got to hearing William Shatner's Captain Kirk saying, "Beam me up Scotty", was in 1987's 'Star Trek: The Voyage Home' - which had Kirk saying , "Scotty, beam us up".

Top 10 Conspiracy Theories

1 Dinosauroid-like Alien Reptiles are dominating the World

BBC reporter David Icke claims that humanity is actually under the control of dinosauroid-like alien reptiles who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

"Evidence" for his conspiracy theory goes from Sumerian tablets describing the "Anunnaki" (which he translates as "those who from heaven to earth came"), to the serpent in the Biblical Garden of Eden, to child abuse, fluoridation, and the genealogical connections between the Bush family and the House of Windsor.

Icke theorizes that the reptilians came here from the constellation Draco. Like most conspiracy theories, falsification of Icke's hypotheses is nearly impossible, but Icke continues to sell books and give speaking engagements based on concepts ranging from the New Age to his political opinions.

2. Apollo 11 Moon Landings were faked by NASA
A classic among conspiracy theories, proponents of the Apollo moon landing hoax accusations allege the moon landings never took place, and were faked by NASA with possible CIA support. Enthusiasts of this theory claim that:

The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation

The photos were altered: the Crosshairs on some photos appear to be behind objects, rather than in front of them where they should be

The quality of the photographs is implausibly high.

There are no stars in any of the photos, and astronauts never report seeing any stars from the capsule windows.

Identical backgrounds in photos that are listed as taken miles apart.

The moon's surface during the daytime is so hot that camera film would have melted.

No blast crater appeared from the landing

The launch rocket produced no visible flame.

The flag placed on the surface by the astronauts flapped despite there being no wind on the Moon.

 3. September 11 was orchestrated by the U. S. government

A number of urban myths, alternative hypotheses and conspiracy theories have been formulated to explain the events of September 11th:

The U.S., Israel or Iraq government orchestrated the attacks themselves.

The Twin Towers fell straight down, at close to free-fall speed. This is a similar characteristic of a controlled demolition. The dust cloud and its make up are considered un-characteristic of a gravity-driven collapse.

It is often pointed out that no steel building before or since the 9-11 attack has collapsed as the result of fire.

The rubble of the Twin Towers smoldered for weeks after the collapse. This claim is meant to point out that steel could only have smoldered as a result of pre-placed explosives.

Some consider photographic evidence of the plane lying on the grounds of the Pentagon to be ambiguous and unconvincing, citing a visual lack of burnt metal, human remains, passenger's luggage or seats.

The Pentagon was struck in a newly renovated, reinforced section. Some speculate this location, the west side of the complex, to be indicative of government involvement, noting it as an attempt to reduce casualties.

Flight 77 was able to fly in the direction of the DC and Pentagon area for approximately 40 minutes without interception. This is thought to be unusual given the Pentagon's close proximity to Andrews Air Force Base.

There are claims that anti-missile batteries at the Pentagon should have intercepted Flight 77.

The FBI confiscated a video, which may have captured the impact, from a nearby gas station attended by Jose Velasquez. This video has not yet been released.

 4. Barcodes are really intended to Control people

Some conspiracy theorists have proposed that barcodes are really intended to serve as means of control by a putative world government, or that they are Satanic in intent.

Mary Stewart Relfe claims in "The New Money System 666" that barcodes secretly encode the number 666 - the Biblical "Number of the Beast".

This theory has been adopted by other fringe figures such as the "oracle" Sollog, who refuses to label any of his books with barcodes on the grounds that "any type of computer numbering systems MANDATED by any government or business is part of the PROPHECY of the BEAST controlling you."

5. Charlemagne never existed, is a fictional character

Phantom time hypothesis is a theory developed by Heribert Illig which suggests that the Early Middle Ages (614–911 CE) never occurred, meaning that all artifacts attributed to this time period were from other times, and all historical figures were outright fabrications.

One consequence of Illig's hypothesis is that Charlemagne never existed but is a fictional character. The vast majority of historians believe this theory to be complete fiction, as all cited evidence can be considered circumstantial.

 6. The Truth is out there, on Area 51

The secretive nature of Area 51 and undoubted connection to classified aircraft research, together with reports of unusual phenomena, have led Area 51 to become a centerpiece of modern UFO and conspiracy theory folklore. Some of the unconventional activities claimed to be underway at Area 51 include:

The storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft (including material supposedly recovered at Roswell), the study of their occupants (living and dead), and the manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology.

Meetings or joint undertakings with extraterrestrials.

The development of exotic energy weapons (for SDI applications or otherwise) or means of weather control.

Activities related to a supposed shadowy world government.

 7.Microsoft sends messages on Wingdings Font

The Wingdings Font included with Windows has a history of controversy. In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character sequence "NYC" in Wingdings was rendered as Skull and crossbones symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture. This could be interpreted as a message of approval of killing Jews, especially those from New York City.

Microsoft strongly denied this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random. Various other combinations of Wingings characters are alleged to have special significance by conspiracy theorists, but these results are likely purely coincidental.

 8. U.S. military caused the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Popular Arab news services claim the U.S. and Indian militaries deliberately caused the Indian Ocean tsunamis with electromagnetic pulse technology.

Another type of theory bases its claims on oil and gas interests. Others also reason that the technology is at least feasible if not highly probable since research into such technology has been conducted by the military as far back as World War II.

9. The Nazis had a Moon Base

Esoteric Hitlerists and conspiracy theorists interested in Nazi mysticism and World War II have speculated that the Germans landed on the Moon as early as 1942.

According to other theories it is believed that the Nazis had made contact with 'half a dozen' alien races, including the malevolent Reptilians.

 10. Kentucky Fried Chicken makes black men impotent

It is sometimes claimed that the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise is owned by the Ku Klux Klan, and the chicken is laced with a drug that makes only black men impotent.

Ironically, the KFC franchise is actually owned by an African-American.