A scene from Cool Hand Luke 1967
Captain Strother Martin

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 anymore than you men.
Note: bolded portion ranked #11 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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