Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The phrase "What we've got here is failure to communicate" is a quotation from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, spoken at different points in the movie first by Strother Martin (as the Captain, a prison warden) and later Paul Newman (as Luke, a young prisoner).The context of the delivery of the line is:Captain: You gonna get used to wearing them chains after a while, Luke. Don't you never stop listening to them clinking, 'cause they gonna remind you what I been saying for your own good.Luke: I wish you'd stop being so good to me, Cap'n.Captain: Don't you ever talk that way to me. (pause, then hitting him) NEVER! NEVER! (Luke rolls down hill; to other prisoners) What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.The Captain's line is often misquoted as What we have here is a failure to communicateThe phrase is #11 on the American Film Institute list, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes.. }
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- What_we've_got_here_is_failure_to_communicate abstract "The phrase "What we've got here is failure to communicate" is a quotation from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, spoken at different points in the movie first by Strother Martin (as the Captain, a prison warden) and later Paul Newman (as Luke, a young prisoner).The context of the delivery of the line is:Captain: You gonna get used to wearing them chains after a while, Luke. Don't you never stop listening to them clinking, 'cause they gonna remind you what I been saying for your own good.Luke: I wish you'd stop being so good to me, Cap'n.Captain: Don't you ever talk that way to me. (pause, then hitting him) NEVER! NEVER! (Luke rolls down hill; to other prisoners) What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.The Captain's line is often misquoted as What we have here is a failure to communicateThe phrase is #11 on the American Film Institute list, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes.".