Punctuated! For! Emphasis!/Film

Examples of Punctuated! For! Emphasis! in Film include:

• 300
  • The endlessly parodied former Trope Namer: "This! Is! SPARTA!".
  • "TONIGHT! WE DINE! IN HELL!"
  • "A new age has begun. An age! Of freedom! AND ALL WILL KNOW! THAT 300 SPARTANS! GAVE THEIR LAST! BREATH! TO DEFEND IT!"
  • "This! Is where! They! DIE!"
  • "THIS! IS! CAKETOWN!"
  • "THIS! IS! SCRUMPTIOUSSSS!!!"
    • "THIS! ISN'T! FUNNY!
  • "THIS! IS! SPART OF A BALANCED BREAKFAST!" (Riff Trax)
  • THIS! IS! MUSHROOM KINGDOM! (VG Cats)
  • THIS! IS! BILLY MAYS HERE FOR DC SNOWBOARD BOOTS!
  • THIS! IS! GARBAGE DAY!
  • THIS! IS! YOUTUBE POOP!
  • THIS! IS! DELICIOUS! (Street Fighter)
  • NO! THIS! IS! PATRICK! (SpongeBob SquarePants)
  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross got Gerard Butler to introduce each guest in this manner. "THIS! IS! MICHAEL! MCINTYRE!"
• Avatar: "They have sent us a message. That they can take whatever they want. Well, we will send them a message. That THIS! THIS! is OUR! LAND!"
• "I am ripper! Tearer! Slasher! Gouger! I am the teeth in the darkness! The talons in the night! Mine is STRENGTH! AND LUST! AND POWER! I! AM! BEOWULF!!!" from, well... Beowulf. Not actually a case of Follow the Leader, since filming was completed before 300 was anything more than a blip on the horizon, and even then, it's presented more as a satire on this sort of machoness than anything else. And arguably justified by the fact that he's got to pace his breathing while he cuts off Crispin Glover's arm with a wooden door.
  • Made more amusing because of the way he says "Beowulf"...very quickly and anticlimactically, when it's expected that he'll hold out the final word a la "SPARTAAAAAA!"
• "I! AM! OZ!" from, er, The Wizard of Oz.
  • Thus making it Older Than They Think.
• The Wizard (film): HE! TOUCHED! MY! BREAST!
  • "And so I give you...SUPER! MARIO BROS.! 3!!!
• The Princess Bride:
  • Westley: "As! You! Wiiiiiiiiiish!"
  • And the To the Pain speech ends with a nice quiet little "Drop. Your. Sword."
• Don't even try to escape! THIS! IS! A WARSHIP!
• Used to comic effect in Mirror Mask:

Giant: MANY... HAVE... ASKED... Valentine: Many have asked where the Charm is, yes? Giant: ... WHERE... Valentine: The? Giant: ... THE... Valentine: Charm is? Giant: ... CHARM... Valentine: Is? Giant: ... IS. BUT... WE... SADLY... Valentine: No! Not sadly! Happily! As in, "We're gladly going to give it you really quickly"? Giant: ... SOLEMNLY... Valentine: No adjectives! Giant: ... GUARD... THE... Valentine: Charm? Giant: ... BOX.

• • Valentine himself does this a few scenes later, but it's actually because he's struggling for the right word.

Valentine: STUPID... BUILDING!

• • • This is justified, in that the giants, being so big, are slower, so their speech is slower too.
• Gandalf: "YOU! SHALL NOT! PAAAAAAAASSSSSSS!"
  • LEAVE! NOW! AND NEVER...COME BACK!
• "NOBODY. MESSES. WITH THE DO!!!"
• "Punch -- that -- shit!" in Hot Fuzz. That coming from a model police officer on duty who has previously made a point of donating 50 pence to the swear box for every S-word used.
• "Remember me, Eddie?! When I killed your brother, I talked... JUST... LIKE... THIIIIS!": Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, only his voice gets higher, not louder.
  • He may not have gotten louder, but it still makes for Nightmare Fuel.
  • "I. DONT. WORK. FOR. TOONS!"
  • "Oh. My. God. It's. DIIIIIIPPPP!!!!!"
  • "...shave...and a hair..cut..." *crash* TWOOOOO!!! BITS!!!!
• The Jim Carrey version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas has him shouting (several years pre-300) "THIS! IS! NUTS!"
• From G.I. Jane: "SUCK... MY... DICK!" Made into a Crowning Moment of Awesome by the fact that a shorn-haired and yet STILL uber-beddable Demi Moore (yes, a woman) is shouting it—and into the face of a Badass, Super Soldier of a NAVY SEAL who's acting as The Obi-Wan (and just spent the last two minutes beating the shit out of her with her hands tied behind her back).
• There Will Be Blood: "I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE!"
• "Filthy! Slimy! Freaks!"
• The Matrix - "My Name... is NEO!"
  • - "I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines! I remember that for 100 years! they have sent their armies! to destroy us! and after a century of war I remember that which matters most... We are still here! ... .. THIS IS ZION! AND WE ARE NOT AFRAID!"
  • "THIS IS MY WORLD! MY WORLD!"
• E.T.: "I'll. Be. Right. Here."
  • It should be noted that's how E.T. talked all the time.
• Toy Story has the scene at the gas station with Woody shouting at Buzz, "You! Are! A! TOY!!!" (Toy Story 2 has Buzz saying the same thing to him.)
  • Parodied during the credits of Cars.
  • Done with the 300 line in the YouTube Poop "Toys Gone Wild".
    • Woody also does this when he rescues Buzz from Sid the toy-destroyer, completely freaking Sid out in the process.

"So. Play...Nice!"

• From the Harry Potter series: "Life. Isn't. Fair."
  • "Don't. Lie. To me."
  • "You. Don't. Know."
  • "Don't. Call. Me. A. Coward!"
  • "Mr. Potter... Our. New. Celebrity."
  • "Pity. Clearly fame... isn't... everything. Is it... Mr. Potter?"
  • "You were seen by No. Less. Than. SEVEN. Muggles."
    • In case you haven't noticed, virtually every line by Alan Rickman as Severus Snape is done in this style of diction. No one's complaining.
  • EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!!!
  • SHUT UP!!!!! SHUT! UP!
  • "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!"
  • "TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!"
  • NYAAAA AAAAH!
    • As much of Harry's dialogue in Order of the Phoenix. There is a reason fans called him CAPSLOCK!Harry. (Granted, Harry is known to have a bit of a temper, and he was going through a LOT of crap that year.)
• "WHERE! IS! MY! SUPER! SUIT?!?"
  • Don't! Hurt! My! SISTER!!!
  • THIS! IS NOT! ABOUT! YOU!
• The Incredible Hulk -- HULK!! SMAAAAASH!!
• "IT! COULD! WORK!"
  • "IS -- THAT -- WHAT -- YOU'RE -- TELLING -- ME!?"
  • "PUT! THE CANDLE! BACK!"
  • and "DO! NOT! OPEN! THE! DOOR-UH!"
  • "MY! NAME! IS! FRANKENSTEIN!"
  • "Life! Life! GIVE MY CREATION! LIFE!"
• "Why... so... serious?"
  • "He doesn't like that... Not. One. Bit."
  • "And here... we... go."
• "Then every! Son of Troy! Shall DIIEEE!"
  • But THE GODS... (slams scepter on map) Favor ONLY!! THE STRONG!!!
  • Do you know what's THERE?! WAITING? Beyond that beach!?^[1] IMMORTALITY! TAKE IT! IT'S YOURS!!!
• "GET THEM... INSIDE... THE VAULT!"
  • From the R. Tam Sessions: "I. Am trying. To. Protect. MY. SPINE."
    • "This program. Isn't. Right. For...."
  • "We're making better worlds. All of them. Better. Worlds."
• "Damn -- YOU, -- Jack -- SPARROOOOOOOOWWWWW!" (Also a Skyward Scream.)
  • Another quiet one from the first film; "Wait to lift the curse [until] you've killed Norrington's men. Every. Last. One." (on each pause, he drops a coin)
• Mola Ram!! Prepare to meet Kali. IN HELL!!
  • "Willie. We -- are going -- to die!"
    • =(
  • "Don't...Call...Me...JUNIOR!!
  • "You vill. Help us. Find it."
  • "Any last words?" "I. Like. Ike."
• The Wicker Man (Good version). "THEY! WILL! NOT! FAIL!" Spoken by Christopher freakin' Lee.
  • "I! believe! In the Life! Eternal! As promised to us! By our Lord! JESUS! CHRIST!"
• Ed Singer (Jeffrey Tambor) in Muppets from Space: "DON'T! LAUGH! AT! MEEEE!"
• "I! AM NOT! AN ELEPHANT! I AM NOT! AN ANIMAL! I! AM A HUMAN! BEING! I! AM! ... a man."
  • "Where -- is -- he?"
• Tony Jaa's Tom-Yum-Goong (The Protector): "WHERE! IS! MY! ELEPHAAAAAAANT!?"
  • Reminds me of elephants...
• I'm CHARLES! FOSTER! KANE! I'm no cheap, crooked politician, trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes! GETTYS! I'M GOING TO SEND YOU... TO SING SING! SING SING, GETTYS! SIIIIING! SIIIIING!"
• REVOK! DARRYL! REVOK!
• History of the World Part One:
  • "SEE!"
  • "JEWS..."
  • "IN! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!"
• Manhunter and its remake, Red Dragon: "You. Owe. Me. Awe, Mr. Lounds."
  • "EFF. BEE. EYE."
• ONE! OF US! IS WEARING! A PUSH-UP BRA!
  • "It's Frilly! And Pink! With Lace!
  • "Our! Sexual! Preferences! Are! Our! Own! Business!"
  • "I won't! Be stopped! By a TINY NET!"
  • "OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH!!!"
• There. Isn't. Any. WIND."
  • Draft, yes.
• Mike Enslin in 1408, after losing a fistfight with a minibar: "I WANT! My DRINK!!!"
• The film version of The Odyssey has Armand Assante shouting "PO-SEI-DON!"
• Monty Python's Meaning of Life: "I - AM - DEATH!"
• Mommie Dearest: NO. WIRE. HANGERS. EVEEEEEER!!!
  • Also, "I AM NOT! ONE OF YOUR FAAAAAAAAAAAANS!!!"
    • "Oh Joan, stop 'acting'." "IIIIII'MM! NOOT! ACTINNNNNNNGGGG!!!"
• Eight Legged Freaks: GET BACK... YOU EIGHT-LEGGED... FRRRRRREEEEEEEEAAAAAKKKKKSSSS!!!!!!!!
• In Bruges: "The. Tow-er. Is. Closed. This. Ev-en-ing. Understand? English-Man.
• Network: "And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! AND YOU. WILL. ATONE!"
• In the Heat of the Night: "THEY. CALL ME. MISTER. TIBBS!"
• Mulholland Drive: NO. HAY. BANDA! THERE IS. NO. BAND!"
• Probably the most famous example ever: "GIVE! MY CREATION! LIFE!"
• In the movie Matilda, Ms. Trunchbull says "In this school, I! AM! GOD!" Of course right after that audacious statement she pretty much flips inside out when the heroine tips a glass with a newt in it via telekinesis allowing the creature to artfully land on the Trunchbull's chest. Hilarity Ensues.
• "I'm gonna ask you one more time. Where's... the... shit?"
  • "You know I can't let you go. Not without tappin' that ass. One... MORE... TIME!"
• The Fifth Element: "I. AM. VERY. DISAPPOINTED!"
• "I. Killed. Mufasa!"
  • "Long. Live. The King."
• Call me an Asshole One...more...time
• DOES. HE. LOOK. LIKE. A BITCH?!
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance: "Look, if you have to shoot me, then you go ahead and you shoot me! But I have! To answer! THIS! PHONE!"
• Men in Black: "You see this? Huh?! N-Y-P-D! That means I will KNOCK! YOUR! PUNKASS! DOWN!"
  • "The only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO! NOT! KNOW ABOUT IT!"
• American Beauty has a few examples by Lester. One where he's doing bench presses and when Carolyn threatens to put him on ice somehow, he says, "That's... What... You... Think!"
  • Another is after he throws a platter against the wall at dinner:

"Don't. Interrupt. Me. Honey."

• • The third time is when he's flirting with Carolyn on the couch in the following dialogue:

Carolyn: You're gonna spill beer on the couch. Lestor: (Gets up) So what? It's just a couch. Carolyn: This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. It is not just a couch. Lestor: (Whacking couch with a pillow) IT'S! JUST! A! COUCH! This isn't life! This is just stuff! And it's become more important to you than living! And honey, that's just nuts. (Carolyn walks away) I'm trying to help you!

• The Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy, of all movies. The climactic scene where Sherman Klump and Buddy Love battle for control of the same body. Buddy Love: "You can't beat me!" Sherman Klump: "YES. I. CAN!"
• The infamous Mortal Kombat: Annihilation has Shao Khan saying, "Earth is under attack, and It! Is! GLORIOUS!"
• From Star Trek III: "I! HAVE...HAD! ENOUGH OF...YOU!" spoken by (oh, just guess) while kicking the Klingon Big Bad off a cliff.
• Blue Velvet: Heineken?! Fuck that shit! PABST! BLUE! RIBBON!
• Slap Shot: "Serious? Serious? THIS. IS. HOCKEY!"
• "And the winner is... THERE'S! NO! VACANCY!"
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back:

Silent Bob (oddly enough): THE SIGN! ON THE BACK OF THE CAR! SAID CRITTERS! OF HOLLYWOOD! YOU DUMB FUCK!!

• BENJAMIN! BARKER!!!!
• From the 1986 animated Transformers: The Movie we have Orson Welles providing the voice for Unicron.

"For a time... I considered sparing your wretched little planet, Cybertron. But now. You shall witness... Its DISMEMBERMENT."

• The Fallen from Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen conveniently hammers the film's title into our heads on arrival to Earth. "REVENGE. IS. MINE."
  • Also from ROTF:

Mudflap: I'm gonna bust...yo...face up!

• • It's inherent in the Decepticon command structure, apparently, as Megatron announced himself similarly upon thawing out in the first film. "I! AM! MEGATRON!!"
    • Well they have been calling him NBE 01 for decades.
• Done deliberately badly in Snatch by a pawnbroker in a mask trying to tough-talk someone tough.
  • Also done back to the pawnbroker in the mask by the person they're trying to tough-talk. (complete with pointing to where it's written: "All. Bets. Are. Off.")
• Hellraiser: WE'll TEAR! YOUR SOUL! APAART!
  • "Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you. Gentlemen, I. Am. Pain.
• KING KONG! AIN'T GOT SHIT! ON! ME!
• From Orphan: I'm not! Your fucking! Mommy!
• WHAT FUCKING IAN GUY?!!?
• I WANT! ROOOOM SERRRRRRVICE!!!!!
• From 1941: "OH!" "MY!" "...god..."
• Shrek: Ogres. Are not. Like cakes.
  • What about onions?
• Back to The Future Part II: Grays... Sports... Almanac.
  • "Nobody. Calls me. Chicken."
• Jarhead: "The Bible says, Thou Shalt Not Kill. Now hear this: FUCK! THAT! SHIT!"
• White Chicks: I'm so...frickin'...pissed!
• Beetlejuice: "My whole life is a dark room. One. Big. Dark. Room."
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?: "My name is GEORGE! NELSON! NOT! BABYFACE!"
• The Brave Little Toaster: "So...it's back to that stupid static again. You think I don't know what's going on here? I knows what goes on in this cottage. It's a conspiracy, and everyone of you low-watts is in on it! Just because you can move around, you think you're better than I am! I'm not an invalid! I was designed to stick in the wall! I like being stuck in this STUPID wall! I can't help it if the kid was too short to reach my dials! IT'S MY! FUNCTION!!!!!!!!"
• History of the World, Part I: "DEATH! TO KING! LOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUWWWWWWIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSS!"
• Narnia: "I can drink a river of blood, and not burst. SHOW! ME! YOUR! ENEMIEEES!"'
• Superbad: WHAT!? THE!? FUCK!?
• One of Dutch Schultz's goons in Hoodlum: "YOU DON'T. WRITE. A GODDAMN THING. IN HAAA-ARLEM!"
• Knocked Up:

Ben: (to Debbie) Look, Debbie. You are high off your ass if you think you're coming into that room. If you take one step towards that door, I will tell security there's a crazy chick in a pink dress snatching up babies, ok? So don't even try to come into that room, that's my room now. That little area with the Pepsi machine, that's your area. My room, your area, stay in your area, stay out of my room, back... the... fuck... off.

• From the finals in The Wizard (film): "SO I GIVE YOU!... SUPER! MARIO BROTHERS! THREE!!!!
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: "KHAAAAAANNNNNN!!!"
• "9: You. Awakened. WHAT!?"
• YOU! ARE GOING! TO LIVE!
• From Toys: "I! WILL! NOT! LET! YOU! DE-STROY! DAD'S! DREAM!"
• Ever After: "I would rather die a thousand deaths than see my MOTHERS! DRESS! ON THAT! SPOILED! SELFISH! COW!"
• "YOU! MURDERED! MY! MISERY!!!!"
  • "Here! You want it?! You want it?! EAT! IT! EAT IT TILL YA CHOKE, YOU! SICK! TWISTED! FUCK!!!!"
  • "HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF THE COCK - A - DOODIE CAR!"
• "Apologize. AT! ONCE! Coraline!"
  • "I'll give you to the count of three. One. Two. THREEEE!!!!"
    • You. Aren't. My mother.
• Star Wars: "THE FIIRST!!! GALACTIC!! EMPIAH!!!"
  • "Let her go, Anakin! Let. Her. Go."
• Event Horizon: YOU! WON'T! TAKE! MY! CREW!!!
• THIS! IS MY! BOOMSTICK!
  • SHOP SMART! SHOP S-MART!! YA GOT THAT?!!!
• And you can't piss on hospitality! I! WON'T! ALLOW! IT!!!!
• I said, "Put. The bunny. Back. In the box."
• Full Metal Jacket: "Seven-six-two millimeter. Full. Metal. Jacket." Followed shortly later by "I AM ... in a world... of shit!"
• Glengarry Glen Ross: "Always. Be. Closing!"
  • Put. That coffee. Down!
• The bad guy from |Mission Impossible II has two in a row: "Get! Down! On! Your! knees!" and "This - is - what's known as getting your gun off."
• THEY! DIDN'T! LIKE! MEEEE! THEY! NEVER! LIKED! ME!
  • And step up the reactor power input. . . THREE! MORE! POINTS!
• I - can't - lie!
• "I AM... THE LAW! DROP. YOUR WEAPONS. THESE BLOCKS. ARE UNDER. ARREST!"
• Daddy Day Care: "THIS STUFF! IS NOT FOR SALE!!!"
• That! Hockey! PUNK!
• NO! I DID (slam) NOT (slam) SLEEP (slam) WITH HIM!!! (slam slam)
• The Secret of Moonacre: "There is only one thing that can save us now. Classical. French. Needlepoint!"
• "I want you (sob) to punish... the person... responsible... for killing... this poor... defenseless... rabbit!"
• NO! MORE! MONKEY! BUSINESS!!!
• ...But you can't. cheat. death!
• Saw VI "When you're killing me you LOOK. AT. ME!!"
• The first Sesame Street movie (at the very end of the "grouch café" scene): "WHERE'S...MY...JELL-OOOOOOOOOOO?????!!!"
• WHO! DOES! NUMBER! TWO! WORK! FOR? (and in the original cut, "DO! YOU! WORK! FOR! NUMBER! TWO!??")
• Lawrence of Arabia: "I. Don't. Want. To be. Part. Of your. BIG. PUSH!"
• The last lyric of "Hellfire" from Hunchback of Notre Dame: "...But she will be mine... ...or she! WILL! BURN!!!"
• Life of Brian: "Sit down. Have a scone, make yourself at home. YOU! KLUTZ!"
• Immortals: "I have faith in you. Prove. Me. Right".
• Galaxy Quest: Dane, to Tommy, in the Tothian minefield. "Could you possibly try Not. To Hit. Every. Single. One?"
• Iron Man 2: SIDE! KICK! THIS!!
  • I don't know if you noticed, but I DON'T! SPEAK! RUSSIAN!!
• The Usual Suspects: There. Is. No. FUCKING! COKE!
• Swimming with Sharks: Shut up, listen, and learn.
• The Lawnmower Man: Yeah, this is like Cyberjobe's only way of speaking.

"YOU! DID! THIS!!!" "YOUR NAIVE IDIOCY MAKES ME! VERY!! ANGRY!!! GO AWAY!!!" "This universe is mine. I! AM! GOD! HERE!" "So you've given me one final game to play... I find a way out OR I DIE! IN THIS! DISEASED! MAIN!! FRAME!!!" "YOU! WILL! DIE! IN THE EXPLOSION!" "Maintenance Line Access Granted." "A! BACK!! DOOR!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

• This conversation from The Jungle Book 2:

Shere Khan: (to Kaa) "Now tell me where! HE! IS!!!"

• In Ice Age, as Sid shoves a saber-toothed tiger into a tiny hole after saving the baby from him: "SURVIVAL! OF THE! FITTEST! I don't think so!"
• Apollo 13 "FAILURE. IS NOT. AN OPTION!!!"
  • KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!^[context?]