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Favorite line..... Just passin' through.


In the beginning when the girl asks: "You guys aren't the zodiac killers or anything like that are you"?

The Mechanic turns, smiles and says: "Just passin' through"
(Aren't we all?)

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GTO: Everything fell apart on me. My job, my family. Everything. I had this job as a television producer and I walked into the office one day...
The Driver: I don't wanna hear about it.
GTO: What do you mean you don't wanna hear about it?
The Driver: It's not my problem.

That floored me! Just when you start thinking 'here comes the inevitable monologue which will serve as essential character background' he gets cut off.

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Yes,
I definitely believe that was first time GTO was telling the truth.
In all his other "tales" he was the hero, but not this time...

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I felt the guy was a BS artist. Everytime someone asked him where he got the car, he had a different story. Obviously he had money from SOMEWHERE. A different cashmere sweater in every scene, and '70 GTO's (I dont remember if it was a Judge or not, but he did say it had the Ram-Air IV) went for around 4-5 grand. That was a lot of money at the time. Eventually I got the impression you couldnt believe anything he said.

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My favorite is

"Make it 3 yards *beep* and you got yourself a race."

awesome

You people voted for Hubert Humphrey,and you killed Jesus!

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'Make it three hundred, mother****er, and we'll have us an autoMObeel race...'
I love the emphasis he put on the line...



'We all dream of being a child again - even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all...'

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That IS the most remarkable line in the picture. It is perhaps the first time the phrase was used as dialogue in a film and the ironic thing about it is that is wasn't spoken by an African-American. Political correctness had not been invented in the late Sixties and the amount of and the artfully articulated profanity used by the average denizen of the counter-culture would make a 21st century sailor blush.

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Everything so far, plus:

The Driver yelling "C'mon Sweetheart!" to get the Girl back into the car.

GTO's line about going into orbit if he doesn't settle down soon.

Harry Dean's "can't we be friends?" when he's being kicked out in the rain.

"Sure did talk to you." "Sure did see you." ... naturally.

The Girl always cracks me up when she's looking at GTO's cassettes and says "these sure are some groovy records".

For a movie without a lot of dialogue, there's sure a lot of memorable lines. Then again, maybe they just sound better because they're not surrounded by a lot of yakking.

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"Well, here we are, on the road"
"Yup, that's where we are".

It reminded me of Groucho Marx - can't remember which Marx Bros film - "Well, here we are, up in the air! What a dumb remark that was..."

Precisely.

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"You bore me."

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Two by GTO: "Champagne. Caviar. Chicken sandwiches under glass…."

"I'll have a hamburger…and an alka seltzer",..


'Discretion is the better part of valor'.

Also known as Laoshi77

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"all this speed is going to run out on you one day. you can't be a nomad forever unless you flow with it like me."

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GTO remarking when he's riding in the chevy racing against his GTO,
"What are you trying to do? Blow my mind!"

and "just passin' through" is great too

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I like it when they're in the car early on and the Driver and the Mechanic are saying something about the car's rear end. They're pretty much ignoring the Girl, and finally she says, "I don't see anybody paying attention to *my* rear end."

: D

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Another vote for "You bore me."

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here's to your destruction...

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Several..I liked the scene where Driver is trying to teach the girl how to drive and hes showing her the shift pattern. "Close your eyes." He puts his hand over hers on the shifter. "Here's first, straight back to second, up and to the right, third, and back to fourth..Not that you'll ever use it." She starts the engine, clutch in, shifter in first, lets the clutch out...and stalls *beep* it, I can't do it!"

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Old woman, "City car..."
GTO, "Well, it could be a city car or a country car...folks all over have them."
Old woman, "City car is what killed them..."
GTO, "Oh..."

Guy at roadhouse, "Say...you all wouldn't be...HIPPIES, would you?"

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Over five hundred foot pounds of torque.....whatever that is,its all there in the glove compartment if you wanna take a look at it
Its a mighty fancy autoMObeel !!

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G.T.O.: If I wanted to bother, I could suck you right up my tail pipe.
The Driver: Sure you could

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Old woman, "City car..."
GTO, "Well, it could be a city car or a country car...folks all over have them."
Old woman, "City car is what killed them..."
GTO, "Oh..."
Fantastic scene, made me lol
Keep silent unless what you are going to say is more important than silence.

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