“You People Don’t Understand…”

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Jon Austin

rorschachWhile not the greatest movie I’ve ever seen, Watchmen was certainly…watchable…and it did provide an addition to my collection of great movie dialogue.  The scene comes when Rorshach, one of the Watchmen, is falsely imprisoned with many of the criminals he’d helped capture and is jumped by one of them.  After dispatching his attacker in a particularly vicious manner, Rorshach turns to the assesmbled crowd and says:

“You people don’t understand. I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me.”

When somebody asks you for an example of  “recontextualization” or “reframing the issue” I submit this is a pretty good one.

- Austin

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7 Responses

  1. Mike Keliher, on March 9th, 2009 at 2:43 pm Said:

    That’s fairly badass. And anything we can do to make PR proposals more badass is good in my book.

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  2. fullbodytransplant, on March 9th, 2009 at 3:22 pm Said:

    The comic book has a very different ending, including some seriously trippy tentacles:

    http://fullbodytransplant.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/watchmen-squid-the-real-ending/

    Enjoy.

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  3. Bruce Benidt, on March 11th, 2009 at 2:39 am Said:

    Austin is a god partly because he’s making a very good living in communications using, almost exclusively, stuff he’s learned from comic books.

    You go, Silver Surfer.

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  4. Jon Austin, on March 11th, 2009 at 7:58 am Said:

    Movies, books, television, comics, song lyrics. Almost all my of philosophy, and all of my one-liners, are stolen from the classics.

    - Austin

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  5. Frank Parisi, on March 11th, 2009 at 4:32 pm Said:

    Another favorite phrase: “The poor bastards have us surrounded…”

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  6. Jon Austin, on March 11th, 2009 at 11:39 pm Said:

    McCain tried this trick in the closing days of the campaign to turn his dog of a campaign into a scrappy underdog of a campaign – “Our opponents are leading in the polls and the media is already planning the inaugural coverage; my friends, we’ve got ‘em just where want them.”

    Didn’t work out too well in that instance, but the tactic is valid!

    - Austin

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