Editing Cool Hand Luke (section)

==="Failure to communicate"===
{{quote box|What we've got here is failure to communicate. <br> 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. <br> And I don't like it any more than you men.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.destgulch.com/movies/luke/luke18.wav |title=listen |access-date=May 1, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120104102551/http://www.destgulch.com/movies/luke/luke18.wav |archive-date=January 4, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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}}[[File:Failure to Communicate - 'Cool Hand Luke'.jpg|thumb|After beating Luke to the ground, the Captain delivers the statement. Towards the end of the movie, Luke repeats the first part of the speech.]]After writing the line, Pierson worried that the phrase was too complex for the warden. To explain its origin, he created a backstory that was included in the stage directions. Pierson explained that in order to advance in the Florida prison system, officers had to take criminology and penology courses at the state university, showing how the warden might know such words.{{sfn|Charlotte, Susan|p=308|1993}} Strother Martin later clarified that he felt the line was the kind that his character would very likely have heard or read from some "pointy-headed intellectuals" who had begun to infiltrate his character's world under the general rubric of a new, enlightened approach to incarceration.{{sfn|Brode, Douglas|1990|p=195}} Some authors believe that the quotation was a metaphor for the ongoing Vietnam War, which was taking place during the filming;{{sfn|Nolte|2003|p=285}} others have applied it to corporations and even teenagers.{{sfn|DeMar|p=87}} The quotation was listed at number 11 on the [[American Film Institute]]'s [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes|list of the 100 most memorable movie lines]].{{sfn|AFI|2005}}

A sample of the line is included in the [[Guns N' Roses]] songs "[[Civil War (song)|Civil War]]" and "[[Madagascar (song)|Madagascar]]".{{sfn|Rasmussen, Eric|1991|p=74}} [[Zero Mostel]] paraphrases the line in ''[[The Great Bank Robbery (1969 film)|The Great Bank Robbery]]'' (1969). When [[Strother Martin]] hosted ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' on April 19, 1980, he played the strict owner of a language camp for children, parodying his ''Cool Hand Luke'' role. He paraphrased his line from the movie as, "What we have here is failure to communicate BILINGUALLY!"

In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s fantasy humor novel ''[[The Truth (novel)|The Truth]]'', hired thug Mr Pin says to Charlie, a kidnapped (and not very bright) shopkeeper he is somewhat unsuccessfully training to impersonate [[Lord Vetinari]], the chief ruler of the city-state of [[Ankh-Morpork]], "I think what we have here is a failure to communicate."