My example is in Good Will Hunting, in the Harvard bar scene when Will argues with the Michael Bolton clone. It's my favorite movie and so much of it is just perfect, and even most of that scene is great. But... the line "yeah, but at least I won't be unoriginal." For some reason that line is like a pianist hitting a wrong note to me.
I don't think it quite gets across what Will meant, and it's a weak ending to a big buildup, and it's just not a great comeback.
Sometimes I can convince myself that it's meant to convey that Will himself hasn't figured out what would be a fulfilling life, and that all he knows how to do so far is tear apart other people's visions - just like he does to Sean, the NSA, and Lambeau before his breakthrough. In that context, it's a negation of something he doesn't want, and it doesn't say what he does want because he doesn't know himself.
I don't think it quite gets across what Will meant, and it's a weak ending to a big buildup, and it's just not a great comeback.
Sometimes I can convince myself that it's meant to convey that Will himself hasn't figured out what would be a fulfilling life, and that all he knows how to do so far is tear apart other people's visions - just like he does to Sean, the NSA, and Lambeau before his breakthrough. In that context, it's a negation of something he doesn't want, and it doesn't say what he does want because he doesn't know himself.