Why don't you write me something to recite at the funeral? Keep it short and direct, will you?
7 seconds sound clip from the The Loved One (1965) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:48:13 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Firm.
- Please do not. It leaves a Mark.
- What was it my old friend Sir James Barrie used to say?
- Will be a very great adventure.
- Barlow, didn't old Frank say you did a bit of ballad-mongering?
- Why don't you write me something to recite at the funeral? Keep it short and direct, will you?
- Well, I'll certainly try, Sir Ambrose.
- And make it legible. I don't want to have to wear my goggles.
- Yes. Do you know, I don't think I've ever seen old Frank looking better.
- Bury the great knight... With the studio's... Valediction. Let us bury the great knight...
- Valediction. Valediction, restriction, friction... Constriction.
[...]
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