The Boys from Brazil - Debating the Ethics of Cloning
Professor Bruckner:
Cloning. What if I were to tell you that I could take a scraping of skin from your finger and create another Ezra Lieberman?
Ezra Lieberman:
I would tell you not to waste your time on my finger.
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The Manchurian Candidate - Unexpected Discoveries in Conversation
Delp:
I thought you said you lost this.
Ben:
I bit a guy. I found another one.
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Wings of Desire - The Journey of Self-Discovery
Damiel: [as Falk is led away]
Wait! I want to know everything.
Peter Falk:
You need to figure that out for yourself. That's the fun of it.
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Wings of Desire - Reflections on Life and Death
The Dying Man: [thinking to himself while lying on the side of a road after a motorcycle accident]
You never saw anyone die? I stink of gasoline. I saw it all clearly - the Mercedes, the pool of oil. Karin, I should have told you. It can't be that simple. I've still so much to do.
Damiel: [placing his hands on the Dying Man's head]
As I came up the mountain, out of the misty valley into the sun. The fire on the cattle range, the potatoes in the ashes, the boathouse floating in the lake. The Southern Cross.
The Dying Man:
The Far East. The Great North. The Wild West. The Great Bear Lake. Tristan da Cunha. The Mississippi Delta. Stromboli. The old houses of Charlottenburg. Albert Camus. The morning light. The child's eyes. The swim in the waterfall. The spots of the first drops of rain. The sun. The bread and wine. Hopping. Easter. The veins of leaves. The blowing grass. The color of stones. The pebbles on the stream's bed. The white tablecloth outdoors. The dream of the house in the house. The dear one asleep in the next room. The peaceful Sundays. The horizon. The light from the room in the garden. The night flight. Riding a bicycle with no hands. The beautiful stranger. My father. My mother. My wife. My child.
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Wings of Desire - Desire for Physical Existence Over Spirituality
Damiel:
It's great to live by the spirit, to testify day by day for eternity, only what's spiritual in people's minds. But sometimes I'm fed up with my spiritual existence. Instead of forever hovering above I'd like to feel a weight grow in me to end the infinity and to tie me to earth. I'd like, at each step, each gust of wind, to be able to say "Now." Now and now" and no longer "forever" and "for eternity." To sit at an empty place at a card table and be greeted, even by a nod. Every time we participated, it was a pretense. Wrestling with one, allowing a hip to be put out in pretense, catching a fish in pretense, in pretense sitting at tables, drinking and eating in pretense. Having lambs roasted and wine served in the tents out there in the desert, only in pretense. No, I don't have to beget a child or plant a tree but it would be rather nice coming home after a long day to feed the cat, like Philip Marlowe, to have a fever and blackended fingers from the newspaper, to be excited not only by the mind but, at last, by a meal, by the line of a neck by an ear. To lie! Through one's teeth. As you're walking, to feel your bones moving along. At last to guess, instead of always knowing. To be able to say "ah" and "oh" and "hey" instead of "yea" and "amen.
Cassiel:
Yeah, to be able, once in a while, to enthuse for evil. To draw all the demons of the earth from passers-by and to chase them out into the world. To be a savage.
Damiel:
Or at last to feel how it is to take off shoes under a table and wriggle your toes barefoot, like that.
Cassiel:
Stay alone! Let things happen! Keep serious! We can only be savages in as much as we keep serious. Do no more than look! Assemble, testify, preserve! Remain spirit! Keep your distance. Keep your word.
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Wings of Desire - A Vision of a New Life
Damiel:
First, I'll have a bath. Then I'll be shaved by a Turkish barber who will massage me down to the fingertips. Then I'll buy a newspaper and read it from headlines to horoscope. On the first day, I'll be waited upon... For requests, ask the neighbor. If someone stumbles over my legs, he'll have to apologize. I'll be pushed around, and I'll push back. In the crowded bar, the bartender will find me a table. A service car will stop, and the mayor will take me aboard. I'll be known to everyone, and suspect to no one. I won't say a word, and will understand every language. That will be my first day.
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Wings of Desire - Reflections on Childhood and Innocence
Damiel:
* Lied Vom Kindsein (Song of Childhood) – Peter Handke.
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Wings of Desire - Existential Questions of Childhood and Identity
Damiel:
* When the child was a child,It was the time for these questions:Why am I me, and why not you?Why am I here, and why not there?When did time begin, and where does space end?Is life under the sun not just a dream?Is what I see and hear and smellnot just the reflection of a world before the world?Is there really such a thing as evil, and peoplewho really are the Bad Guys?
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Wings of Desire - Existential Questions of Identity and Reality
Damiel:
Als das Kind Kind war,war es die Zeit der folgenden Fragen:Warum bin ich ich und warum nicht du?Warum bin ich hier und warum nicht dort?Wann begann die Zeit und wo endet der Raum?Ist das Leben unter der Sonne nicht bloß ein Traum?Ist was ich sehe und höre und riechenicht bloß der Schein einer Welt vor der Welt?Gibt es tatsächlich das Böse und Leute,die wirklich die Bösen sind?Wie kann es sein, daß ich, der ich bin,bevor ich wurde, nicht war,und daß einmal ich, der ich bin,nicht mehr der ich bin, sein werde?
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Wings of Desire - Reflections on Innocence and Childhood
Damiel:
* Lied Vom Kindsein (Song of Childhood) – Peter Handke.
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Wings of Desire - The Innocence of Childhood and Connection
Damiel:
* When the child was a childit walked with its arms swinging,wanted the brook to be a river,the river to be a torrent,and this puddle to be the sea.When the child was a child,it didn’t know that it was a child,to it, everything had a soul,and all souls were one.
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Wings of Desire - Reflections on Childhood Innocence and Unity
Damiel:
Als das Kind Kind war,ging es mit hängenden Armen,wollte der Bach sei ein Fluß,der Fluß sei ein Strom,und diese Pfütze das Meer.Als das Kind Kind war,wußte es nicht, daß es Kind war,alles war ihm beseelt,und alle Seelen waren eins.Als das Kind Kind war,hatte es von nichts eine Meinung,hatte keine Gewohnheit,saß oft im Schneidersitz,lief aus dem Stand,hatte einen Wirbel im Haarund machte kein Gesicht beim fotografieren.
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Downfall - Choices in the Face of Desperation
Adolf Hitler:
Frau Junge, Frau Christian, get changed. In one hour, a plane will take you south. Everything is lost, completely lost.
Eva Braun:
You know I'll stay with you. You can't send me away.
Traudl Junge:
I'm staying too, my Führer.
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Downfall - Demand for Accountability in Crisis
Otto Günsche:
We cannot find Group Leader Fegelein anywhere. He is not in the bunker complex.
Adolf Hitler: [Furiously pounding the table]
What do you mean, you "can't find Fegelein"? Then look for him! I want to see Fegelein at once! If he's left without orders, that's desertion! Treason! Bring me Fegelein! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!
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Downfall - Strategic Failures Amidst Enemy Advancements
Hans Krebs:
The enemy made a breakthrough. In the south, they took Zossen and are advancing towards Stahnsdorf. They're at the northern city border, between Frohnau and Pankow. In the east, they reached Lichtenberg, Mahlsdorf and Karlshorst.
Adolf Hitler:
With Steiner's attack, that will be all right.
Krebs: [stutters]
My Führer, Steiner...
Alfred Jodl:
Steiner couldn't gather enough forces for an attack. Steiner's attack didn't proceed.
Hitler:
The following will stay in the room: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf.
Hitler: [exploding; Hitler's ranting is clearly audible outside the room]
That was an ORDER! Steiner's attack was an ORDER! Who are you that you dare to disobey my order?! So, this is what it's come to? The military lied to me! Everybody lied to me, even the SS! The generals are nothing but a bunch of vile, faithless cowards!
Wilhelm Burgdorf:
My Führer, I can't accept that the soldiers who bled for you—
Hitler:
They're cowards! Traitors! Failures!
Burgdorf:
My Führer, what you're saying is outrageous!
Hitler: [furiously flings his pencil onto the table]
The generals are the scum of the German people! They're without honour! They call themselves generals because they've spent years at a military academy, only to learn how to hold a knife and fork! For years the military has hindered my actions! It has put every conceivable obstacle in my way! I would have done well to have all the senior officers liquidated years ago like Stalin! I never went to an academy. And yet alone — all by myself — I conquered all of Europe. Traitors! From the very beginning I've been so betrayed and deceived! Such a monstrous betrayal of the German people! But all these traitors will pay! With their own blood they will pay! THEY WILL DROWN IN THEIR OWN BLOOD!
Traudl Junge:
Please Gerda, calm yourself.
Hitler:
My orders were spoken into the wind. It is impossible to lead under these circumstances. It's over. The war is lost. But gentlemen, if you think that I'm leaving Berlin, you'd be mistaken. I'd rather shoot a bullet through my head. Do what you will.
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Downfall - Defiance in the Face of Defeat
Wilhelm Keitel:
I know I'm repeating myself, but the 9th Army must retreat! Otherwise it will be surrounded and wiped out! We must—
Adolf Hitler:
The 9th Army will not retreat! Tell Busse to fight where he stands!
Alfred Jodl:
My Führer, then the 9th Army is lost.
Hitler:
We'll push back the Soviet armies in the north and east with a ruthless, almighty attack.
Jodl:
Using which units?
Hitler: [[w:Felix Steiner|Steiner]
] will attack from the north and join the 9th Army.
Hans Krebs:
The 9th Army is unable to move north. The enemy outnumbers us by ten to one!
Hitler: [[w:Walther Wenck|Wenck]
]! He'll support them with the 12th Army.
Jodl:
But my Führer, the 12th Army is moving west to the Elbe!
Hitler:
Then tell them to turn around!
Jodl:
Then the Western Front will be open!
Hitler:
Do you doubt my orders? It's final! I think I've been clear enough!
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Downfall - Communication Breakdown Amidst Crisis
Adolf Hitler:
Koller, do you know that Berlin is under artillery fire?
Karl Koller:
No.
Hitler:
Can't you hear the shelling?
Koller:
No, I'm in Wildpark Werder.
Hitler:
Berlin is chaotic. Apparently, the Russians have captured a railway bridge over the Oder.
Koller: [Looks at a notice]
The enemy has no railway artillery near the Oder. That's not long range artillery. The Flak and Zoobunkers say the shells are only 10 and 12 cm in caliber, meaning the Russians are closer. The Russians have positions near Marzahn.
Hitler: [hangs up]
That's only 12 kilometers from the city center! Are the Russians that close? They should hang the entire Luftwaffe leadership! This is unheard of, unheard of! The Russians are 12 KILOMETERS from the city center. Nobody told me anything. I had to ask.
Hans Krebs:
Maybe it is long-range artillery after all. You mentioned that railway bridge over the Oder.
Hitler:
Nonsense!
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Downfall - Acceptance of Fate and Consequences
Adolf Hitler:
Tomorrow millions of people will curse me, but fate has taken its course.
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Downfall - Betrayal and Madness in Leadership
Adolf Hitler: [upon discovering that [[w:Heinrich Himmler|Himmler; [w:Herman Goering|Goering; [w:Albert Speer|Speer]
] has been negotiating with the Western Allies behind his back] Out of all people, Himmler? The truest of the true? This is the worst betrayal of all! ], of course, he was always corrupt. ], a genius, unpredictable artist. All the others, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! But Himmler, no. Has he gone insane? He claimed authority by saying I was sick, or maybe even dead!
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Downfall - Hitler's Anger at Betrayal and Incompetence
Adolf Hitler: [Believing Goering's offer to take power is a coup; ...]
The loser, the sponge. A parvenu, a lazy bones! How dare he say I'm incapacitated? Tomorrow, he might declare me dead! The Luftwaffe, what did he turn that into? For that alone, he should be executed! This morphine addict corrupted the country! And now this, he's betraying me — me of all people!
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Downfall - The Absence of Civilians in War
Adolf Hitler:
In a war as such this, there are no civilians.
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Downfall - Victory or Defeat in Berlin
Adolf Hitler:
I will win in Berlin, or face my downfall.
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