How to Write HIGHLY QUOTABLE Dialogue (A DUMB TRICK)

#jacksparrow #pirates #johnnydepp

“Guidelines”, “parley”, “poppet”, “acquiesce to your request”, “savvy”, “best/worst pirate”... it goes on and on with this movie. The dialogue is so memorable, but really so QUOTABLE. Most quotable dialogue (think “Luke I am your father”) comes from iconic scenes, but Pirates of the Caribbean uses a cheat code. Jack, Elizabeth, Will, even Gibbs and Norrington are constantly quoting each other, fostering a movie-specific social culture of quotability. This is fun and witty and silly and it makes the audience want to join in as well.

-- MORE VIDEOS --

Support the channel on Patreon:

Read my comic Minor Champion!

Follow me on Twitter!

Business email:

[schnee]

What's your all time favorite movie/tv quote?

[maderaartstudios]

Step 1: Write dialogue
Step 2: Get it made into a meme

[aychazyt]

"Somehow palpatine returned"
Truly one of the quotes of all time

[alexandersuperapple]

They're taking the hobbits to Isengard. They're taking the hobbits to Isengard. Gard. Gard. Gard. Gard. The hobbits. The hobbits. The hobbits. The hobbits. To Isengard. To Isengard.

[rkramer]

Writing quotable dialogue is super easy, barely an inconvenience

[yzracasilang]

“The problem isn’t the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem”
- Captain Jack sparrow

[alexclarke]

I also think this works so well because it shows the effects the characters have on one another - they're interacting, learning new phrases, remembering what each other has said. I think it helps the characters feel so much more fun and alive.

[MsColorada]

What I love about PoC is how dinamic the movies feel. Even the lines "change sides" each time the characters quote each other!

[elinederpelt]

“A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.” Sometimes I try to use this one. Doesn’t always work.

[SeyhawksNow]

"I got a bad feeling about this."
The quote that keeps on quoting

[jeremy]

I'm still amazed that Curse of the Black Pearl exists. A genre that nobody thought would make a comeback winding up as one o the best movies Disney ever gave us 😊

[JenksAnro]

My favourite one of these is, when Elizabeth first see's will's medallion she says "you're a pirate!" And then the last line she says in the first movie is "no, he's a pirate." Kinda bookends the whole thing but I think flies under most people's radars as her quoting herself.

[thechugg]

Best part about quotable dialogue like in Pirates? It shows character development from the character learning from each other, like a group of friends slowly getting to know each other's private jokes.

[lambertbrother]

Why is ‘I got a jar of dirt’ so quotable then?

[ser_saffron]

My favorite quotable line that can be applicable in a wide variety of situations is "I will kill your infant daughter." Bravo Vince!

[digitaldevil]

One more thing: when the characters are doing it between each other, it also helps to build and strengthen the connection between them, and between a character and the world, it grounds us, the viewers, in the reality of the language they speak

[evgenykungurov]

1st episode - Ekko: He paid in gold and didn't even haggle
Last episode - Silco: The boy didn't even haggle

[B-MC]

This is why callbacks are one of my favourite things. Whether its nostalgia, repetition, or a quote recontextualise, it's often the cause behind every organic payoff because it inherently demands a setup. But I've found what usually makes it good or bad depends on whether the thing is just reused (iconography without context, repetition to the point of annoyance) or actually advancing on what its bringing back. But it means when you remember a story, instead of trying to remember 20 random messy moments, you remember 25 moments with ease because they're really 5 moments that are creatively done differently every time.

[cattail]

I like the remark at the end that quotability is often a natural extension of an already good show. I don’t think Arcane was really meant at all to be quotable, but I still find myself saying things like Viktor’s “crank it” or Jinx’s “That’s me!” all the time 😭

[Abegilr_Dragonrider]

"What arr you doing?"
"What are you doing?"
"No, what arrr you doing?"