As much as I LOVED “There Will Be Blood“, I’ve never really understood the huge popularity of the phrase “I drink your milshake”. I mean, it was a POWERFUL scene, and the line is great… but holy crap that phrase has taken off. As a matter of fact, the USA Today just named it the “movie chatchphrase of the year”.
If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, then you have Hollywood’s hottest catchphrase. Every year, we seem to get at least one. “I see dead people.” “I wish I knew how to quit you.” Anything from Napoleon Dynamite. This year’s latest cinematic must-say comes from There Will Be Blood, the oil drama in which Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a crushing insult to a nemesis with the punch line “I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!” Relatively few people have seen the movie — this past weekend, it expanded to about 1,500 theaters and its gross so far is $21.1 million — but the dialogue has taken off nonetheless.
I’ve already seen people walking up and down the streets wearing “I drink your milkshake” T-Shirts, coffee mugs and other stuff. I’ve even heard sports commentators use the phrase in the highlights: “Sundin makes Harris drink his milkshake”. It’s nuts.
