I'll be back

"I'll be back" is a catchphrase associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which he first used in his role as the title character from the 1984 science fiction film The Terminator....21, 2005, it was chosen as #37 on the American Film Institute list, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes. Schwarzenegger uses the same line, or some variant of it, in many of his later films.

History

Schwarzenegger first used the line in The Terminator, after his android assassin character is refused entry to the police station where his target, Sarah Connor is being housed. He takes a few seconds to survey the partition which separates the counter into two. He then tells the police officer — who refused him entry — at the entrance desk window, "I'll be back", before returning moments later by driving a car through the doors and into the officer's counter, then commencing to massacre other police officers in the building.

In an October 1, 2012, interview on Good Morning America, Schwarzenegger revealed that he had difficulty pronouncing the word I'll properly and asked director James Cameron if it could be changed to "I will be back". Cameron refused but told him that the shot would be taken more than once and the best would be used in the final cut of the film, so Schwarzenegger could vary the line. He would later say the line in numerous subsequent films throughout his career.

I'll Be Back (song)

"I'll Be Back" is primarily a John Lennon composition credited to Lennon–McCartney, and recorded by the Beatles for the soundtrack LP to their film A Hard Day's Night but not used in the film. This song was not released in North America until Beatles '65 some five months later.

Structure

According to musicologist Ian MacDonald Lennon created the song based on the chords of Del Shannon's "Runaway" which had been a UK hit in April 1961. Author Bill Harry also wrote: "He just reworked the chords of the Shannon number and came up with a completely different song".

With its poignant lyric and flamenco style acoustic guitars "I'll Be Back" possesses a tragic air and is somewhat eccentric in structure. Unusually for a pop song it oscillates between major and minor keys; appears to have two different bridges and lacks a chorus. The fade-out ending also arrives unexpectedly, being a half stanza premature.

Producer George Martin preferred to open and close Beatles albums using dominant material stating: "Another principle of mine when assembling an album was always to go out on a side strongly, placing the weaker material towards the end but then going out with a bang".Ian MacDonald points out however: "Fading away in tonal ambiguity at the end of A Hard Day’s Night, it was a surprisingly downbeat farewell and a token of coming maturity". Music journalist Robert Sandall wrote in Mojo Magazine: "'I'll Be Back' was the early Beatles at their most prophetic. This grasp of how to colour arrangements in darker or more muted tones foreshadowed an inner journey they eventually undertook in three albums' time, on Rubber Soul".

I'll Be Back (disambiguation)

"I'll be back" is a catchphrase commonly associated with characters played by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I'll Be Back may also refer to one of several songs:

I'll Be

I'll Be may refer to:

I'll Be (album)

I'll Be is a compilation album by Reba McEntire, released in 2001 on MCA Nashville. The album is only available in Europe.The album peaked at #134 on the UK Albums Chart.

Track listing

I'll Be (Reba McEntire song)

"I'll Be" is a song written by Diane Warren, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire. It was released in January 2000 as the second single from her album So Good Together. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in July 2000.

Chart performance

Year-end charts

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