“You can’t just take it and understand it!”: the history of famous movie memes (2 photos + 12 videos)

Most often, popular memes come from movies. However, do you know what happened before the famous shot appeared on the screen? Believe me, many memes will surprise you!





The best films give not only emotions, but also memes. These memes that we have collected in this collection have long become classics and are relevant to this day.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Dialogue on the ship with Mark Ruffalo

DiCaprio gave us a lot of memes. One of the most popular is the moment when Leo looks into the distance with a very displeased face. This frame became the reason for memes, where Mark Ruffalo asked some awkward question, and there was no answer from Leo.

This meme appeared thanks to Martin Scorsese's film Shutter Island. There, Leonardo investigates the disappearance of a patient in a clinic for the criminally insane.

“You can’t just take it and...”

"The Lord of the Rings" is a real treasure trove of memes. One of the most famous was Boromir, who explains that you can’t just go to Mordor and throw a ring into the Mount Doom volcano. He's right, of course. His facial expression and the phrase “You can’t just take it like that...” gave birth to this meme.

Interestingly, during the filming of the film, Sean Bean did not have time to learn the text and had to look at the printout that was lying on his knee.

Surprised Joe

The Surprised Joe meme was one of the first hundred memes that appeared on the Internet. In the story, friends are trying to find out who got Rachel pregnant. The child's father left behind only a sweater and suddenly the friends realized that the child's father was Ross. This is what surprised Joe!

Leonardo DiCaprio with a glass

Another meme with Leo, which appeared thanks to the film “The Great Gatsby”. In the famous scene, the mysterious hero DiCaprio, during a chic party, admits to a friend that he is the same Gatsby, raising his glass. Nowadays the meme is used to congratulate or praise someone.



"Charles!"

Funny meme with the phrase “Carl!” came from a very sad scene in The Walking Dead. At this moment, the hero Rick Grimes lost his wife, and tells his son Carl about it.

 

"What if?.."

A meme from the late 80s movie “Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure” appeared in 2008. Shocked Keanu Reeves first appeared on New York Magazine's website, where journalists decided to explore all of Keanu's emotions. After that, a frame from the film began to be used in memes where they want to show some shocking situation.



Robert Downey Jr. rolls his eyes

Every Marvel movie becomes a real treasure trove of memes. There's a scene in The Avengers where Tony Stark rolls his eyes at Captain America's boring lines. Tony's facial expression describes his dissatisfaction to such an extent that it simply could not help but become a meme.



"Rukalitsa" from "Star Trek"

The Star Trek series became famous among the younger generation thanks to this famous meme. Captain Jean-Luc Picard makes the famous facepalm gesture in episode 13 of the third season of the series. The date of birth of this meme is considered to be February 2004.



Matthew McConaughey under interrogation

The famous meme with Matthew McConaughey, where he throws up his hands, appeared from the TV series “True Detective”, where the hero is investigating a murder. A meme with an actor sitting at a table shows your interlocutor your indifference to what is happening outside.



Don Corleone is unhappy

The 1972 film The Godfather is considered one of the best films of our time. At the very beginning of the film, where Don Corleone responds to the request of the undertaker, who asks to punish his daughter’s offenders, the godfather complains that he is treated without due respect.

This phrase became a meme in 2006.

 

Gene Wilder, "Come Tell Me"

Willy Wonka's famous expression from the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has become a meme. At this point, actor Gene Wilder utters the phrase: “Come on, tell me.” In fact, he knows what the child wants to tell.

 

Nicolas Cage, "Come On"

Oddly enough, this particular meme became one of the first. At first it was just drawn.



But then people decided to take a screenshot of this frame as well. Nicolas Cage in the movie "Vampire's Kiss" with such a face asks his secretary to rummage through old contracts. He doesn’t say the famous phrase “Come on” in the film; it was already invented by the authors of the drawn meme.