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Thread #10718   Message #77509
Posted By: WyoWoman
11-May-99 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: WORST single lines
Subject: RE: WORST single lines
You favor the strangling before the drawing and quartering then? I wish someone would have thought of that in the execrable last scene from "Braveheart," so we wouldn't have had to watch Mel Gibson writhe handsomely and overact for 20 minutes!

I don't know if it's the WORST single line, but for sheer inexplicable, we might go to that famous old Mexican fold song made so famous by Ritchie Valens (YEARS before my time, of course) "La Bamba." The first verse is cute, "Para bailar la bamba..." ("To dance la bamba, you need a little grace and another little thing...") then we cut to the "Yo no soy marinero, soy capitan, soy capitan..." What does it mean, "I'm not a sailor, I'm the captain..." Huh? This, as far as I can tell, is it for that song.

(It may not matter anyway, since people only sing "Para bailar la bamba, la la la la la la la la...etc." anyway.

kc