8½ - The Struggle for Meaning and Commitment
Guido:
Could you walk out on everything and start all over again? Could you choose one single thing, and be faithful to it? Could you make it the one thing that gives your life meaning... just because you believe in it? Could you do that?
Claudia:
I don't know... could you?
Guido:
No, the character I'm thinking of couldn't. He wants to possess and devour everything. He can't pass anything up. He's afraid he'll miss something. He's drained.
Claudia:
That's how the film ends?
Guido:
No, that's how it begins. Then he meets a girl at the springs. She gives him water to heal him. She's beautiful... young, yet ancient... child, yet already a woman... authentic, complete. It's obvious that she could be his salvation.
Guido:
You'll wear white... with long hair, just as you do now.
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8½ - The Complexity of Love and Change
Claudia:
I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?
Guido:
Because he no longer believes in it.
Claudia:
Because he doesn't know how to love.
Guido:
Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.
Claudia:
Because he doesn't know how to love.
Guido:
And above all because I don't feel like telling another pile of lies.
Claudia:
Because he doesn't know how to love.
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Once Upon a Time in the West - Longing for a Future Reunion
Jill:
I wish you'll come back someday.
Harmonica:
Someday.
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Once Upon a Time in the West - Betrayal and Loyalty in a Changing Landscape
Jill:
But... but those were his men.
Harmonica:
Yeah.
Jill:
And they tried to kill him.
Harmonica:
They must've found someone who pays better.
Jill:
And you! You saved his life.
Harmonica:
I didn't let them kill him. That's not the same thing.
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Once Upon a Time in the West - A Woman's Strength and Resilience
Jill:
Mrs. McBain goes back to civilization. Minus a husband and plus a great future.
Cheyenne:
You deserve better.
Jill:
The last man who told me that is buried out there.
Cheyenne:
You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was for an hour or for a month... he must have been a happy man.
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Once Upon a Time in the West - Anticipation in the Silence of Whittling
Jill:
What's he waiting for out there? What's he doing?
Cheyenne:
He's whittlin on a piece of wood. I've got a feeling when he stops whittlin'... Somethin's gonna happen.
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Once Upon a Time in the West - A Conversation About Power and Memory
Jill:
If you want to, you can lay me over the table and amuse yourself. And even call in your men. Well. No woman ever died from that. When you're finished, all I'll need will be a tub of boiling water, and I'll be exactly what I was before - with just another filthy memory.
Cheyenne: [sighs]
You make good coffee, at least?
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