What we've got here is failure to communicate ... "
Donald Trump on departure of Sean Spicer
Liliputins. What, the heck, is this ?
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What we've got here is failure to communicate
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"What we've got here is failure to communicate"
Failure to Communicate - 'Cool Hand Luke'.jpg
The Captain (Strother Martin) delivers the quote.
Character
The Captain
Luke
Actor
Strother Martin
Paul Newman
First used in
Cool Hand Luke
Voted No. 11 in AFI's 100 Movie Quotes poll
The phrase "What we've got here is failure to communicate" is a quotation from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, spoken in the movie first by Strother Martin (as the Captain, a prison warden) and later, abridged, by Paul Newman (as Luke, a stubborn prisoner).
The context of the first 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: (sarcastically) 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 communicate".
Towards the end of the movie, Luke takes a final stab at freedom – stealing a dump truck and taking flight. After his dramatic escape from the Florida chain gang prison, Luke abandons the truck and enters a church, only to be surrounded by police moments later. Feeling that his life is no longer worth living, walks to a window facing the police and mocks the Captain by repeating the first part of his speech ("What we've got here is a failure to communicate."). He is immediately shot in the neck by Boss Godfrey.
The phrase ranks at No. 11 on the American Film Institute list, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes.
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Sean Michael Spicer (born September 23, 1971) is an American political aide who serves as White House Press Secretary and served as acting White House Communications Director under President Donald Trump in 2017. Spicer was communications director of the Republican National Committee from 2011 to 2017, and its chief strategist from 2015 to 2017.
During his tenure as White House press secretary, Spicer made a number of public statements that were controversial or false. He had a contentious relationship with the White House press corps. The first such instance occurred on the day following Trump's inauguration. Spicer repeated the claim that crowds at the ceremony were the largest ever at such an event and that the press had deliberately under-estimated the number of spectators. After this statement was widely criticized, Trump aide Kellyanne Conway said that Spicer had presented what she called "alternative facts" regarding the inauguration's attendance numbers. On July 21, 2017, Spicer announced his intention to resign as White House Press Secretary, and will formally step down from the role in August 2017.