Apt Pupil - Confrontation of Power and Possibility
Edward French:
You can't do this, Todd.
Todd Bowden:
You have no idea what I can do.
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Apt Pupil - The Nature of Control and Power
Kurt Dussander:
To have someone in your control. To have them know that they are alive only because you have not decided to the contrary. Do you have that power? Ask yourself. It's not an easy question, I think you know that.
Todd Bowden:
You know this means we're through, don't you? You won't be seeing me around here anymore.
Kurt Dussander:
No. I suppose I won't.
Todd Bowden:
What are you doing?
Kurt Dussander:
This is the end. Here. A drink. To our lives together. The beginning and the end.
Todd Bowden:
I think you should fuck yourself.
Kurt Dussander:
Oh, my dear boy. Don't you see? We are fucking each other.
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Apt Pupil - Tension Between Mentor and Student
Todd Bowden:
Have you lost your mind? What the hell were you thinking, Grandpa'?
Kurt Dussander:
What are you so excited about?
Todd Bowden:
Oh, you've got some fucking balls! I could have screwed you up, anything could have happened!
Kurt Dussander:
You played it beautifully, boy. I knew you would.
Todd Bowden:
Are you fucking drunk? I could have busted you right there!
Kurt Dussander:
Yes, you could have, but you did not. Now, why was that? Your Edward French is not going to give you any more trouble, so now you are upset because the only way you can make things right is to work.
Todd Bowden:
I'm upset because you had that asshole thinking I can do something that can't be done!
Kurt Dussander:
Oh, but it can. And it will. You will simply have to work. No more stories. No more screwing around.
Todd Bowden:
I don't take orders from you.
Kurt Dussander: [sniggers]
You do now.
Todd Bowden:
Oh, you think so? Yeah, well, don't forget I could walk right in there and pick up that phone...
Kurt Dussander:
And do what? Do you really think that I would stand aside and let you turn me in without dragging you with me, do you? Your American self confidence is so bloated you've forgotten the reality of the situation. 90,000 died in Patin. To the whole world, I am a monster. And you have known about me all this time. If I'm caught, when those reporters stick their microphones in my face it will be your name that I will repeat over and over again. Todd Bowden, Todd Bowden... Todd Bowden, yes, that was his name. For how long, for months, almost a year, he wanted to know everything. That was how he put it, yes, everything.
Todd Bowden:
You're crazy. They'll never believe you.
Kurt Dussander:
It doesn't matter. Oh, you're going to be infamous, boy, take my word for it. And do you know what such a scandal can do? It never goes away. Not for you, not for your parents. And besides, lying to judges and reporters isn't as easy as you think. You'd have to be brilliant. Can you do that? I know I can.
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Apt Pupil - Expertise in Forging Documents Across Generations
Kurt Dussander:
You're messing things up with that carbon paper.
Todd Bowden:
Yeah, what do you know about it?
Kurt Dussander: [slaps his hand down on Todd's shoulder, Todd gets up and Dussander takes his place]
Here, out of the way. I was forging documents before your parents were born.
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Apt Pupil - A Clash of Expectations and Insults
Todd Bowden:
Well, try it on.
Kurt Dussander:
Have you completely lost your mind? What on Earth makes you think I'd put something like that on?
Todd Bowden:
I thought you would like it.
Kurt Dussander:
Like it? You are a bigger fool than I thought. Maybe I'll put it on and do a little shopping, is that what you thought? The indignities I've suffered with you, I should smash you.
Todd Bowden:
What you've suffered with me is nothing compared to what the Israelis would do to you. You forget that. And I'll admit that's my fault, but don't ever forget the file I have on you. I try to do things the nice way but you don't want it. So fine, we're going to do it the hard way. You'll put this on because I want to see you in it. Now, move!
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Apt Pupil - The Weight of Uncontrollable Actions
Todd Bowden: [about the killings at the death camps]
What did it feel like?
Kurt Dussander:
It was something that had to be done. A door had been opened and couldn't be shut. It was the end... You don't understand.
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Apt Pupil - A Desire for Dark Stories
Kurt Dussander:
What do you want? Tell me.
Todd Bowden:
I want to hear about it.
Kurt Dussander:
Hear about what?
Todd Bowden:
The stories. Everything.
Kurt Dussander:
What everything?
Todd Bowden:
Everything they're afraid to show us in school. You were there. You did those things. No one can tell it better than you can.
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Apt Pupil - A Conversation About a Newspaper Delivery
Kurt Dussander:
Yes? What do you want?
Todd Bowden:
I...
Kurt Dussander:
If you're selling something, I'm not interested.
Todd Bowden:
I have your newspaper.
Todd Bowden:
I'm not selling anything.
Kurt Dussander:
Then what do you want?
Todd Bowden:
If you could let me in for a minute, I just want to talk.
Kurt Dussander:
Talk? I don't have anything to say to you, boy. Good day to you.
Todd Bowden: [as he speaks, Dussander stops and slowly turns round]
Bergen-Belsen, January 43 to June 43. Auschwitz, June 43 to June 44. Then you went to Patin. After that you disappeared, but then in 1965 you were spotted in West Berlin.
Kurt Dussander:
Listen, boy... I don't have time for this game. Now get out of here before I call the police.
Todd Bowden:
Call them if you want. I'm sure they'd love to meet you.
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Apt Pupil - The Responsibility of Our Gifts and Choices
Todd Bowden:
All great achievements arose from dissatisfaction. It is the desire to do better, to dig deeper that propels a civilization to greatness. All of us have heard the story of Icarus, the young boy who took the wings his father built for him. Wings that were meant to carry him over the ocean to freedom and used them instead for a joyride. For a brief moment Icarus felt what it was like to live like a god, to touch the sun, to soar above the common man. And for doing so he payed the ultimate price. Like Icarus we too have been given gifts: knowledge, education, experience. And with these gifts comes the responsibility of choice. We alone decide how our talents are bestowed upon the world. This is our destiny and we hold it in the palm of our hands.
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Ghost World - Misunderstanding a Milkshake for Milk
Enid: [spying on Seymour from across the diner]
Oh, my God. He just ordered a giant glass of milk.
Josh:
That's a vanilla milkshake.
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Ghost World - The Quintessential 50s Diner Experience
Josh: [at Wowsville]
Aren't there a million places like this?
Enid: [[w:Taj Mahal|Taj Mahal]
No. This is the ultimate. It's, like, the ] of fake 50s diners.
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The Cure - A Request for Private Conversation
Linda:
Now hold on just a minute. Can I talk to you inside, please?
Erik: [Linda interrupts]
We were just...
Linda: [to Gail]
Erik, shut up. Just for a minute.
Gail:
What?
Linda:
I have two things I want to say to you.
Linda:
The first is, Erik’s best friend died today and he is going to the funeral. And the second is, if you lay a hand on that boy again, I will kill you. Do you understand?
Gail: [To Erik, in a calm voice]
Let's go.
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The Cure - Taste Test of Unusual Ingredients
Erik:
Go ahead.
Dexter: [Drinks and feeling disgusted]
Hmm. Oh. Tastes like crap.
Erik: [Puts in several sugar cubes and gives back]
No shit. Don't you know where bugs go the bathroom?
Dexter:
Sweet and crap.
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The Cure - Bugs and Their Bathroom Habits
Dexter:
I've been wondering about something. Where do bugs go to the bathroom?
Erik:
Not on leaves.
Dexter:
How can you be sure?
Erik:
...because bugs eat leaves. Not even bugs are stupid enough to shoot on their own food.
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The Cure - Discussion of Childhood Injuries and Risks
Erik:
Hey, what about your little brother, huh?
Tyler:
What about him?
Erik:
When he fell off the jungle gym at school, they had to take him to the hospital; he could of caught something in.
Tyler:
Yeah, but he didn't.
Erik:
...but he could've. Then everybody would be calling him faggot and queer, and he'd get sick and die...and they'd write "homo" on his headstone. Then, when your mother went to bring him flowers, she'd see Little Eddie Horner Homo, and you know what the worst part about it would be? Probably before he died, a bunch of assholes like you who ain't sick thought it might be fun to beat the shit out him!
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The Cure - Confrontation in a Hostile Environment
Tyler:
Hey, how much you pay for that faggot? Hey...you guys took a wrong turn - this is a "no homo" zone.
Erik:
I ain't a homo - and neither is he. He got it from a blood transfusion.
Tyler:
Well then, what's that awful smell?
Erik:
Well see, we was walking across the grass when we accidentally stepped in your mother.
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The Cure - Determining the Advantage in a Contest
Dexter:
It seems to me that the depth of the water would be the key. Obviously in the middle of the ocean the shark would win and on dry land the lion would win. So, how much water are we talking about?
Erik:
Two and a half feet.
Dexter:
...and how big is the shark?
Erik:
Eleven feet.
Dexter:
I still say that the lion would win.
Erik:
Wrong.
Dexter:
How can you be sure?
Erik:
...because I did research on it at Stanford University; shark won easily.
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The Cure - Perceptions of Height and Normalcy in Youth
Erik:
How old are you?
Dexter:
11.
Erik:
Jesus, you're a midget.
Dexter:
Well, if you look at the lower limit at what's considered normal for my age - I'm only 4 inches shorter.
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The Cure - Debate on Afterlife Beliefs and Intelligence
Erik:
My grandmother says you're going to hell. She says you'll suffer external torture from a billion flames, hotter than the center of the sun.
Dexter:
Hmm. She must be some kind of genius.
Erik:
What?
Dexter:
Well, my doctor's really smart - he says he has no idea what happens to people after they die. If your grandmother knows she must be a genius.
Erik:
She's a clerk at K-Mart.
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The Cure - A Playful Exchange About Confrontation
Erik:
Hey! What would you do if I come over there and whooped your ass?
Dexter:
How long would that take?
Erik:
About ten seconds.
Dexter:
I'd wait until you're finished and then I'd continue working on my mud fort.
Erik:
You mean you'd just let me beat you up?
Dexter:
I'd try to stop you but I'd probably wouldn't be able to. I'm not very big.
Erik:
Well, in that case it'll only take five seconds.
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The Cure - A Conversation About Privacy and Distraction
Erik:
Who's there?
Dexter:
Are you asking me?
Erik:
Are you spying on me?
Dexter:
No, I'm working on my mud fort. What are you doing?
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