Tuesday 19 November 2019

Men Also Bleed



“If it bleeds, We can Kill it.”

 
Laurence Fishburne suggested that his character remove his sunglasses for the fight with the agent on board the tractor-trailer, to remind the audience of Morpheus' fight with Agent Smith in The Matrix (1999) (during which he wears no sunglasses), and to better express his character's vulnerability.

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Rodney :
What are you doing, 
winding him up? 

Del-Boy :
Yeah, yeah, I'm winding him up aren't I.
I'm winding him up! 

Rodney :
Del, he only wants to stay for a couple of nights, and get himself sorted out!

Del-Boy :
He's a Trotter Rodney.


Rodney :
We're Trotters! 

Del-Boy :
Yes I know, but we 
take after Mum in Nature.
He's from Dad's Side of The Family! 
You know what they're like.
You offer 'em a cup of tea and they think you've adopted 'em.

Look at that time when 
Dad came round here 
he wanted to stay 'one' night! 
Took us nigh on a fortnight 
to get rid of him! 

Rodney :
Uncle Albert might not be like that! 

Del-Boy :
Oh leave it out Rodney! 
You've heard him yourself when he was telling us about that time he came round the Cape of Good Hope, he was three months on the same wave! 

Rodney :
I don't believe you Del, 
I do not believe that you of all people, could! 

Del-Boy :
Where do you think you're going? 

Rodney :
I'm going down the caff, I'm gonna get some grub 
and some better company! 
....I'm gonna put some clothes on first! 
You've changed Del! 

Del-Boy :
Yeah, well it's about time you did, 
come on, we've got to 
go down the market later on.

Rodney :
No, I mean your personality has changed! 
I've seen a side of you I never knew existed

Del-Boy :
You don't understand Rodney! 

Rodney :
You're right about that Del! 
I mean, look at you last night, you was laughing you was drinking, I mean, why didn't you just put yer Boney M record on Del, we could have had a good old knees up! 
It was Grandad's—
How could you get over it so easily? 

Del-Boy :
Get over it? 
What a plonker you •really• are Rodney!
Get over it...!!
I ain't even started yet!!! 
Ain't even started bruv! 

And d'you know why
Because I don't know how to!!! 

That's why I've survived all 
my life with a smile and a prayer! 
I'm Del Boy ain't I! 

Good old Del Boy - he's got more bounce than Zebedee! 

'Ere you are pal, what you drinking? 
Go on! Hello darling, 
you have one for luck!!' 
That's me, that's Del Boy innit? 

Nothing ever upsets Del Boy.

I've always played the tough guy! 
I didn't want to, but I had to —

And I've played it for so long now, 
I don't know how to be anything else! 
I don't even know how to—

Oh it don't matter! 
Bloody families! 
I've finished with 'em! 

What Do They Do to You, eh? 

They hold you back, drag you down...... 
and then they break yer bloody heart... 
I'm sorry.




Del-Boy :
Listen to me, Raquel —

Raquel :
No.
You listen to me.
You've got to make contact with reality.
Everything with you is image.
I saw you in the pub.
We're broke and you threw money around like Elton John.
And instead of finding work, you sit in this flat pretending to be Quentin Tarantino.
When we're in the Capri, you have the windows up, even in a heatwave, to make it look like you've got air conditioning! 

Del-Boy :
I know I'm not perfect....

Raquel :
That is the understatement of the year! 
Unless a miracle happens, in ten days' time, my son and I are going to be living in some bed and breakfast in Sodoffsville! 

Del-Boy :
If it's a miracle you want, then I'm your man.
I'm chairman of Miracles R Us.

Raquel :
You're a Man, Del! 
You'll never understand.
Just remember, only women bleed.

Del-Boy :
Cor blimey! Only women bleed! Gordon Bennett! 

I am not a Control Freak.
It's just that I have had no choice.

Do you realise that when I was 16, my old man walked out 
and left me and Rodney with our daft old granddad? 

He tried his best, but he wasn't up to it.

So I had to take over and I've been doing it ever since 
and I can't get out of the habit.

Raquel :
I'm gonna have a lie-down.
All right? 

Del-Boy :
Yeah.
Fine.

Raquel and I have had a quiet little chat.

Rodney :
Yeah, I heard.
You got somewhere to stay after the auction? 

Del-Boy :
Trigger said I could doss down at his place.
There's not much room, what with all those "X-File" videos and chopsticks.

Oh, dear.
Women.

Do you know what Raquel said? 
Only women bleed.

Blimey! She ought to be outside the Nag's Head 
on a Saturday night.

They reckon they suffer.
They don't know what it's like to be a bloke.

They worry about their PMT.
Us men worry about —

Rodney :
Our MOT? 

Del-Boy :
Yes.
Do they listen to us? 

Rodney :
No, they don't.


Del-Boy :
No, they don't.
She'll never meet another bloke like me, will she? 

Rodney :
No, she won't.

Del-Boy :
That's it, Rodney.
Once the flat is auctioned we'll go our separate ways.
I won't see her again.

Rodney :
Del, don't say that.

Del-Boy :
No.
That's it.
She won't be able to get round me.
When my mind is made up, 
my mind is made up! 

Raquel :
Del? 

Del-Boy :
Yes.

Raquel :
I just said I'm going for a lie-down.

Del-Boy :
She's — She's all right really.
She's lovely, isn't she, eh? 

Rodney :
Yeah.
She's lovely.

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