The line comes from The Godfather, released in 1972 and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Marlon Brando, as Don Vito Corleone, says it while looking at the body of his murdered son Sonny at a funeral home, asking the undertaker to repair the damage. Decades later the quote resurfaced as a reaction meme on social media, where a shortened version is captioned onto ruined objects, failed makeovers and damaged favourites. Its lasting appeal is the serious delivery applied to trivial losses.