February 4th, 2008 -- Written by John Campea
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.
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I want a milkshake shirt SO bad!
And I’m glad that Anderson is taking the milkshake craze in good humor. I heard somewhere that he was pissed off, claiming that it was undermining the film., and I was pissed at him for not recognizing the potential for free advertising this craze is creating. Glad to hear that rumor was unfounded. People will go see the movie just to hear that line and see what the fuss is about.
ok, this is the first time I’ve heard the fraise. What does it mean?
I guess from the movie it can mean a few things: “I put up with your bullshit” “There’s nothing you can offer me anymore” and I guess milkshake can mean oil as well. When he says I drink your milkshake until there’s nothing left.
Well the film finally comes out in the UK this Friday so I can find out for myself what all the bloody fuss is about.
@Pman67
It’s a cooler way of saying “I pwn you!”
First of all, see the movie. But he’s explaining the concept of drainage: If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have straw, and it goes aaaaaaaallll the way across the room and into your milkshake, I drink your milkshake. In other words, I can actually suck up all your oil even if I am not directly above the source. I just need a big-ass straw.
I watched a clip on youtube of just to hear the saying. I could not stop laughing at it; so amusing. I can’t wait to see it on the big screen.