Midnight in Paris - Courage and Fear in War Conversation
Gil:
Hi, Mr. Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway:
The assignment was to take the hill. There were four of us, five if you counted Vicente, but he had lost his hand when a grenade went off and couldn't fight as could when I first met him. And he was young and brave, and the hill was soggy from days of rain. And it sloped down toward a road and there were many German soldiers on the road. And the idea was to aim for the first group, and if our aim was true we could delay them.
Gil:
Were you scared?
Ernest Hemingway:
Of what?
Gil:
Of getting killed.
Ernest Hemingway:
You'll never write well if you fear dying. Do you?
Gil:
Yeah, I do. I'd say probably, might be my greatest fear, actually.
Ernest Hemingway:
It's something all men before you have done, all men will do.
Gil:
I know, I know.
Ernest Hemingway:
Have you ever made love to a truly great woman?
Gil:
Actually, my fiancé is pretty sexy.
Ernest Hemingway:
And when you make love to her you feel true and beautiful passion. And you for at least that moment lose your fear of death.
Gil:
No, that doesn't happen.
Ernest Hemingway:
I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino hunters I know, or Belmonte, who's truly brave. It is because they love with sufficient passion to push death out of their minds, until it returns as it does to all men. And then you must make really good love again. Think about it.
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Midnight in Paris - Writers Introduce Themselves in a Bar
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Greetings and salutations. You’ll forgive me, I’ve been mixing grain and grappa. Now this is a writer, Gil, yes?
Gil:
Gil Pender.
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Gil Pender.
Ernest Hemingway:
Hemingway.
Gil:
Hemingway?
Hemingway:
You like my book.
Gil:
Liked? I loved, all your work.
Hemingway:
Yes, it was a good book because it was an honest book, and that’s what war does to men. And there’s nothing fine and noble about dying in the mud unless you die gracefully, and then it’s not only noble but brave.
Zelda Fitzgerald:
Did you read my story? What’d you think?
Hemingway:
There was some fine writing in it, but it was unfulfilled.
Zelda Fitzgerald:
I might have known you’d hate it.
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Push - Misunderstandings About Family Relationships
Henry Carver:
Is there anything else she might have put in your head? I'm only asking because I don't want to get shot in the face for screwing some made-up sister you don't really have.
Agent Mack: [shocked]
I don't have a sister?
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Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire - Desire for Control and Power
Sindri: [looking up at warship in orbit]
What do you think they want?
Kora: [distraught whisper]
Everything.
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West Side Story - The Importance of Turf in Gang Identity
Lieutenant Schrank:
What's a gang without its terrain, its turf? You're a month or two away from finding out, one step ahead of the wrecking ball. And in this uncertain world, the only thing you can count on is me.
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