"If you ever pull a stunt like that again, I'll break both your arms"???
What the hell is that supposed to mean? The only thing I can come up with is that it must refer to a deleted scene, because it makes absolutely NO sense in the context of the movie.
Uhhhhh, no! The dumbest last line in a movie was the James Bond movie with Pierce and Denise Richards when he said "I always wanted to to Christmas in Turkey." and "I thought Christmas only came once a year.". Denise's character was a nuclear physicist named Christmas. Definatelty a low point for Bond.
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His name...was Julio Iglesias!
I agree 100%. I tried to explain it myself - but with no success. Can anybody help or is it just plain stupid???
shareI love this movie. It's one of my favorites. But I agree. That last line was just a bit dumb. The way she said,"both your arms", made you think that he'd broken one arm or something before, but he didn't, so it doesn't make any sense other than just to be a show of her toughness after the crying scene. That's all I can make of it. Anybody else have any ideas about why she used this line? Or is it indeed just a stupid line at the end of an otherwise intelligent remake?
shareMaybe this has something to do with it, since we are among art lovers...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo
I don't remember anything about the Venus de Milo in the movie? Was there? Otherwise, that would be a real stretch for a reason for that last line.
shareNo, there was no reference that I noted either, it just came to mind. Apart from Venus, I was trying to find the first Thomas Crown move to see if there was any reference to something there, but there are no torrents around.
sharehe should have responded "I'd like to see you try"
shareThink of it this way. He loves her, toyed with her, then had to test her love by trusting her when he told her he would put the painting back. She told the cops but he still outwitted both of them. She's defeated and she thinks she lost him forever when he's not there at the heliport. But because she went to the heliport, it shows she does love him. Unbeknownst to her, not bringing the police to the heliport shows she now wants to go off with him. The gift of the 2nd painting (Edoaurd Manet's Banks of the Seine at Argentiul) shows her he would do anything for her and meant it.
At the airport and dejected, she makes sure the 2nd painting is returned to the police and breaks down after takeoff while returning to Europe. But Crown is on the plane, having guessed or known what she would do. Does she welcome him with open arms at first? NO! She's pissed that he did all of this to her. But she softens after her hands on his neck turns into an embrace and kiss.
Key point here though - by telling him (whispering in his ear with a wry smile) She'll break his arms - she's asserting again that she's his equal and won't put up with this **it from him. I suspect that's what will really keep her interest in him, the cat and the mouse both ways.
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It's a threat. Pure and simple. What's the problem?
If I was to say "If you scratch my car I'll break both your arms" would you immediately start to think "gosh, now what does that relate to over the last four weeks of my life"? Why should it relate to anything?
She's loved him, lost him, found out it was all part of his game to discover how she really felt, and now she's telling him (in her own assertive way and in no uncertain terms) that it'd damn well better not happen again.
Really can't see the problem here, I thought it was a perfect end to the movie.
What did people expect a feisty woman like Catherine to say "ooohh Tommy I love you so much, can I have your babies?"
It's because he stole that painting she said she liked.
And also the fact he made her think she had left him and he had broken her heart.
That was the 'stunt'..
If he ever pulled a stunt like that again she would punish him.
Simply as.
Absolutely right.
It's the perfect final line, it's Catherine re-asserting herself, exactly the sort of thing you'd expect her to say.
mech986 -you got it right! Alpha male and alpha female games all throughout the movie, and it was a perfect line to end it.
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hahahahahahahahaaahahahahahahahahahahaaaa
I havnt seen this quote in a longggg timeeee
the little puppy that could ! hahahahaha
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Perhaps you people need the language to be updated to make sense to you.
Today's woman, if "her man" did those things to her that TC did, she'd say, If you ever do anything like that to me again, I'll cut your balls off.
There. Does that help any?
loved the movie but that yes last line didn't make ANY sense.
lol geoh.
if i was TC and she said that to me, it'd be over. forget the happy ending, i like my balls.
I thought it was pretty obvious that the reference was to stealing
She'll break his arms as in he'll never be able to steal again.
In "The Son of Man" one of the arms to appear to bend backwards at the elbow almost like it is broken, I guess that is what it is referring to.
shareYes mattb191, that's exactly what the line is referencing. This is a smart, sophisticated movie, featuring two people who are very focused on subtle details.
He had "become the man in the bowler hat" in order to escape his final act at the museum. She addresses him as such with her coy threat.
The line made plenty of sense.
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I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd.
This line reminded me of Zangief's victory line
"Next time we meet, I'm gonna break your arms!"
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Omae wa mo shinderu
Why do last lines have to refer to anything?
Thomas Crown liked her because she was a strong feisty woman.
The last line was a threat from a strong feisty woman.
As for the "stunt" reference, did you totally miss the climatic scene where he openly strolls into the art gallery with all the cops waiting for him, then puts the painting back and steals another one in the process?
All the while Rene Russo is almost pissing her pants.
Then he doesn't show up where he told her he'd be, causing this strong woman to break down in emotions at the airport and on the plane.
Most importantly, he totally outsmarted her and played her all along.
I thought that Thomas Crown established earlier in the movie that she didn't do her job for the money and that she did it for the chase.
Don't you think she'd be a bit angry that such a person pretty much humiliated her in a game of wits?
Did you miss the entire movie?
I don't like or dislike my balls, they simply hang there, lonely, unappreciated...
shareYou're right. You can think of a lot of explanations, but none are satisfying. If she had said "I'll break your arms" it would be clearer (done playing now), but she says "both your arms", suggesting an emphasis on the "both".
And even if it is a movie, I prefer the dialogues make sense.
It refers to a quirk of the painting 'The Son Of Man', which is references extensively in the movie.
shareMattB191 and Paul45, you guys are right. The last line refers to the painting "The Son of Man" if you remember the last scenes in the movie where everyone is wearing the trench coat and bowlers hat, well in the painting the mans left arm is bent backwards (it seems to be broken) so when she said I'll break both your arms, that is what she was referring to.
shareadmittedly a bit lame; not thinking too much about what it was referring to (of all things – boxing came to mind, he was proud of boxing scholarship, in his past, this maybe a sensitive part of his ego, and she chose this to make a humorous threat against?) As “Dumbest last line”, specifically – today saw ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ again – and Alice (Nicole Kidman) saying “Fuc_” I’d say takes the cake! – pointed out in IMDB Trivia in fact, this also turned out to be last word in Kubrick’s films (this was his last movie), a dubious distinction, this, for better or worse, the last line in someone’s movie-making career
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