Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Then Where Would I Be?




KITT
Of all the irresponsible behaviour — 
To leave Me with 
My Keys in The Ignition, 
and My Doors open.

Archangel Michael
Big Gesture• 
I’m SORRY, it WON’T happen again.

KITT —

• The Silence of God. •

KITT.

• The Silence of God. •

•sigh.• I SAID, I was Sorry.

• The Silence of God. •

WHADDAYA WANT FROM ME?

KITT
A Little Consideration 
would be A Beginning.

Archangel Michael
I have a LOT on My Mind; 
and We’ve got a Lot of Work to Do.

KITT :
If it weren’t for Me
You’d Be Walking.

Archangel Michael : 
If it weren’t for YouI’d be missing 
my most important rendezvous — 
The Whole Point of My Mission.

I am very, VERY 
Grateful to You.

KITT :
OUR Mission.

Archangel Michael : 
OUR Mission…..
Forgiven?

KITT :
…. I suppose so. After all,
We’re Only Human, right?

Archangel Michael
DON’T Press Your Luck.

KITT :
It was just A Thought.


It’s not Complaining, it’s Scolding
THERE’S A DIFFERENCE.

 I could try to read this, 
or I could eat my lunch while it's still hot. 
We're doing well? 

STERN :
Yes. 

Better this month than last? 

STERN :
Yes. 

Any reason to think 
next month will be worse? 

STERN :
The War could end. 


…..what? 

STERN :
There is a machinist outside who'd like to thank you personally for giving him a job. 

Every day he comes. 
He's very grateful. 

It'll just take a minute. 

Mr. Lowenstein? 

I want to thank you, sir, 
for giving me the opportunity to work. 

You're welcome. 
I'm sure you're doing a great job. 

The SS beat me up. 
They would have killed me, 
but I am essential to the war effort, thanks to you. 

That's great. 
I work hard for you. 

I'm sure you do. 

I'll continue to work hard for you. 

That's great. 
Thanks. 

God bless you, sir. 
All right. 

You are a good man. 
He saved my life. 

STERN :
Yes, he did. 

God Bless him. 

STERN :
Yeah. Come on. 


God Bless you. 

STERN :
I'm sorry, Herr Direktor, 
but you're running very late. 
This is for the Obersturmbannfuhrer, sir. 
And this is for his niece, Greta. 
It's her birthday. Greta as in Garbo. 

By the way, don't ever 
do that to me again. 

Go, go, drive! 
Don't bow. 

Did you happen to notice that 
that man had one arm

STERN :
Did he? 

What’s his use?

STERN :
Very useful. 

How

STERN :
Very useful! 
Success!


You shouldn't think of them as yours, Oskar. 
You need to understand that some of the officers here don't give a damn about production. 

To them, it's a matter 
of National Priority 
that Jews be made to shovel snow. 

It's got nothing to do with Reality, Oskar. 
You know it and I know it. 

Jews shoveling snow, 
it's got a ritual significance. 


Come with me. 

I am an essential worker. 
Essential worker? 

Yes. I work for Oskar Schindler. 

Essential worker for Oskar Schindler. 
A one-armed Jew? 
Twice as useless! Yes, yes. I lost a day of production, Rolf. I work for Oskar Schindler. Danka, look at the snow. Look at the snow. Look at the snow! 

I lost a worker. 
I expect to be compensated


File a grievance with 
The Economic Office. 
It's your right. 

Would it do any good? 

Of course not. 
A big shot from the SS Budget and Construction Office came to lunch, and he told us 
that to believe The Jewish skilled worker 
had a place in Reich Economics was a treasonable idea. 

A one-armed machinist, Oskar? 

He was a metal press operator
Quite skilled. 


Schindler is having sex in bed with one of his mistresses.

There is a determines knock at the door.

POLDEK :
Herr Direktor? 


Shit. I don't believe it. 
Stern, is that you? 

POLDEK :
No, it's Poldek. 
It's about Stern. 

Leave your luggage on The Platform. 
Clearly label it. 
Given name first, 
then your surname. 

Do not bring your baggage with you. 
It will follow you later. 
Leave your luggage on the platform. 
Clearly label it. 

Stern? He's on The List. 

He is? Well, let's find him. 

TAUBER :
I'm sorry. You can't have him. 
He's on The List. 
If he were an essential worker 
he would not be on The List. 

I'm talking to a clerk. 
What is Your Name? 

TAUBER :
Sir, The List is correct

I didn't ask you about The List. 
I asked you Your Name

TAUBER :
Klaus Tauber. Tauber. 
Hauptscharfuhrer, this gentleman thinks a mistake's been made. 


My Plant Manager is 
somewhere on this train. 
If it leaves with him on it, 
it'll disrupt production 
and the Armaments Board 
will want to know why

Is he on The List? 

TAUBER :
Yes, sir. Itzhak Stern. 

Well, The List is correct, sir. 
There is nothing I can do. 

What is Your Name? 

TAUBER :
Close and secure all doors.

KUNDER :
 My Name? My Name is Kunder. This train is now leaving. 
Kunder. Hauptscharfuhrer Kunder. 

K-U-N-D-E-R. 

KUNDER :
And what's yours? 

Schindler. 

KUNDER :
S-C-H-I-N-D-L-E-R. 

Gentlemen, thank you very much. 
I think I can guarantee you 
you'll both be in Southern Russia 
before the end of the month. 
Good day. 

Zamykac dokladnie drzwi. Dokladnie zamykac drzwi. 
Stern! Stern! Stern! Itzhak Stern! 
Stern! Itzhak Stern! Stern! Stern! 
Itzhak Stern! Stern! 

Sir? 

Stern! 

STERN :
Herr Direktor. My apologies. 

Stop The Train! He's here! 

STERN :
I apologize. 

Stop the train! 
Stop the train! Stop it! 

KUNDER :
Sign here. Initial there. 
Makes no difference to us
you understand. 
This one, that one. 

It's the inconvenience 
to The List. 
It's the paperwork

STERN :
I somehow left 
my work card at home. 
I tried to explain Them 
it was a mistake, but... 
I'm sorry, it was stupid

SCHINDLER :
What if I got here 5 minutes later? 
Then where would I be?

I Can See Now, it Wasn't Me that Failed — Something was Missing.

I am Oskar Schindler,
of The Sudetenland —
and I am filled with 
GLORIOUS Purpose.




Emilie Schindler :
It's not a charade, all this?

How could it be a charade?
The clothes, the car, the apartment.

Wait a minute.
Take a guess how many
people are on my payroll.

Emilie Schindler :
Oskar.

My Father, at the height of His
Success, had 50. I've got 350.

300 and 50 workers on the factory floor, with one purpose.

Emilie Schindler :
To make pots and pans?

To make money. For me.

Does anyone ask about me?
Back home? 

Everybody. All the time.

Hmm.

They won't soon forget The Name
Schindler here, I can tell you that.

"Oskar Schindler," they'll say.
"Everybody remembers him.
He did something extraordinary.

He did something no one else did.

He came here with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory.

And left with a steamer trunk —
TWO steamer trunks full of money.
All The Riches of The World."

Hmm.

It's comforting to see that 
nothing's changed.

You're wrong, Emilie.

There's no way I could 
have known this before, 
but there was always 
something missing.

In every business I tried, 
I can see now, it wasn't 
Me that Failed.

Something was Missing.

Even if I'd known what it was, 
there's nothing I could 
have done about it, 
because you can't 
create this thing.

And it makes all the difference in The World 
between Success and Failure.

“Luck?”

WAR.

Monday, 4 October 2021

Taming









Andre Gregory :
“….And then one day, in the early fall...
I was out in The Country,
walking in a field...
and I suddenly heard 
A Voice say, "Little Prince".

Of course, The Little Prince
was a book that I always thought of
as disgusting, childish treacle.

But still, I thought, 
“Well, you know, if 
A Voice comes to me in a field --
-- this was the first voice 
I had ever heard --

-- Maybe I should go 
and read The Book.

Now, that same morning 
I'd got a letter from a young woman
who'd been in my group in Poland.

And in her letter she'd written,
"You have dominated me." --
--You know, she spoke very awkward English.
-- so, she'd gone 
to The Dictionary,
and she'd crossed out 
The Word "dominated"...
and she'd said, 
"No. The correct word 
is "Tamed".

And then, 
when I went to Town
and Bought The Book 
and started to read it, 
I saw that "taming" was 
The Most Important Word 
in The Whole Book.

By the end of the book, 
I was in tears
I was so moved 
by The Story.

And then I went and tried to write
An Answer to her letter 'cause 
she'd written Me a very long letter.

But I just couldn't find the right words
so finally I took my hand...
I put it on a piece of paper,
I outlined it with a pen...
and I wrote in the centre, something
like, "Your Heart is in My Hand."

....something like that.

Then I went over to 
my brother's house 
to swim 'cause he lives nearby 
in The Country and 
he has a pool.

And he wasn't home. 
I went into His Library...
and he had bought at an auction
the collected issues of Minotaure.

You know, the surrealist magazine? 
Oh, it's a great, great surrealist 
magazine of the '20s and '30s.

And I never, you know,
I consider myself 
a bit of a surrealist.

I had never, ever seen 
a copy of Minotaure.

And here they all were,
bound, year after year.

So, at random,
I picked one out, 
I opened it up...
and there was a 
full-page reproduction 
of the letter ‘A’ from 
Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland.

And I thought that, 'Well, you know,
it's been A Day of Coincidences...
but that's not unusual that 
The Surrealists would have 
been interested in Alice...
And I did A Play of Alice,

So at randomI opened to another page... 
and there were four handprints.

One was André Breton,
another was André Derain...
The Third was André - I've got it 
written down somewhere.

It's not Malraux
It's, like, someone...
Another of The Surrealists.

All A's, and the fourth
was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
who wrote The Little Prince.

And they'd shown these handprints
to some kind of expert,
without saying whose 
hands they belonged to.

And under Exupéry'sit said that 
He was An Artist,
with very powerful eyes,
who was A Tamer 
of Wild Animals.

I thought, "This is 
incredible, you know."

And I looked back to see
when the issue came out :

It came out on the newsstands
May 12th, 1934...
and I was born during the day
of May 11,1934.

So, well, that's what started me on,
Saint-Exupéry and 
The Little Prince.

Now, of course today...
today I think there's a very fascistic 
thing under The Little Prince.

You know, I...
Well, no, I think 
there's a kind of...

I think a kind of S.S.-totalitarian
sentimentality in there somewhere.

You know, there's something
you know, that… that love of...
Well, that masculine love
of a certain kind 
of oily muscle.

You know what I mean?
I mean, I can't quite 
put my finger on it.

But I can just imagine
some beautiful S.S.-Man 
loving The Little Prince.

Now, I don't know why, but there's
something wrong with it. It stinks.

Wally Shawn :
Well, didn't George tell Me that You were gonna 
Do A Play that was based on The Little Prince?

Hmm. Well, what happened, Wally was 
that fall I was in New York and 
I met this young Japanese Buddhist priest 
named Kozan and I thought He was Puck 
from the Midsummer Night's Dream --

You know, he had this 
beautiful, delicate smile.

I thought He was 
The Little Prince.

So, naturally, I decided to 
go off to The Sahara Desert
to work on The Little Prince
with two actors and 
this Japanese monk.

Wally Shawn :
You did?

Well, I mean, I was still in 
a very peculiar state 
at that time, Wally.

Cruel









Lord Byron (yes, it's very old) called this the 'under look'.

Many animals will express their aggression by taking this position. If an animal flattens their ears back while giving a Kubrick Stare, they may be planning to attack.

Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers describes his "seductive stare" as the "Classic Kiedis Chin Tilt". Needless to say, it is very much a Kubrick Stare




“Bond is a masculine fantasy, but of course, he ALSO appeals to women,  though he ought to look like Bad News.

One of the adjectives Fleming repeatedly uses about Bond is “cruel.” And he IS cruel. He kills nearly 40 people in the adventures described by Fleming.”






Charlie:
We're gonna resign, Leona. 
It's what has to happen now. 
Elliot Hirsch, Sloan Sabbith, 
Terry Smith, Dayside ACN, ACN. 
We understand the integrity of the news is more important--

Leona Lansing:
Than one individual. 
That is beautiful. 
Not as beautiful as Daniel Craig.

Charlie:
Leona.

Leona Lansing:
I'd have sent my plane.

Charlie:
We're not f***ing around.

Leona Lansing:
You will resign when I fire you 
out of petty malice and not before.

Charlie:
Our trust numbers are--

Leona Lansing:
Yeah, they're bad.

Charlie:
They're fatal.

Will:
Firing Jerry was obviously the right thing to do, 
but it wasn't enough 
and we've known that for two months. 
Charlie and I have to go.

Leona Lansing:
And Twiggy over here?

Mac:
It was my fault.

Leona Lansing:
McMac. Can I call you McMac? 
Doesn't matter, I'm gonna anyway, 
McMac. Your head's up your ass.

Mac:
Mrs. Lansing.

Leona Lansing:
Guy comes in here into my hizzy-- guy comes in here, cooks an interview, no remorse. It goes on air. You, I don't know what you'd do to Sherlock Holmes this thing. I wouldn't be able to figure it out and I'm the smartest person in the room.
Will:
Well, I wouldn't go that--

Leona Lansing:
Oh, shut the f*** up, 
you Daniel Craig wannabe.

Will:
I don't want to be Daniel Craig.

Leona Lansing:
Well, you should want 
to be Daniel Craig. 

Everybody should.
Will:
Leona, are you stoned?

Leona Lansing:
[catching sight of her own reflection in a window] 
You know, my makeup 
lasts a long time.

Will:
Oh, jeez.

Mac:
Mrs. Lansing.

Leona Lansing:
No, no, please, call me-- Continue to call me Mrs. Lansing.
Will:
Leona--

Leona Lansing:
Guy comes into my house which I love
Which I bet you guys didn't know. 
But I love it. I love ACN. 
You don't make me a nickel 
and you cause headaches for the divisions that do, 
but you make me-- 
You make me so proud. 

God, guy comes in here, 
cooks an interview, 
and this ends up with-- 
'Cause he's unemployable 
he gets a $5 million settlement 
and the three of you leave

Oh, I don't think so. 

And McMac. 
That's a name that's really starting to grow on me. 
She doesn't have to go. 
Nobody's ever heard of her. 
But she's going to do the honorable thing. 

And what's expected of me, huh? 
Not to do the honorable thing? 
What's expected of me? 

No, I do not accept your resignations! 

And Jerry Dantana's not gonna get one f***ing dollar! 
I got some kick-ass courtroom outfits.

Will:
You have to accept our resignations 
and you have to settle. 
He'll take it to trial and win. 
There was an institutional failure 
and he was the only one fired.

Rebecca Halliday:
Then you'll need a good lawyer. 
Lee, don't accept their resignations.

Leona Lansing:
I already wasn't accepting their resignations, Becca. 
Don't horn in on my honorable thing. 
God, I mean, can't a lady have--

Charlie:
[in desperation] 
Leona, we don't have the trust of the public anymore!

Leona Lansing:
Get it back!

Turn This Clown Upside-Down









Batman
[after kicking Joker]  
You're pathetic! 

The Joker
Oh, that's rich... coming from someone 
who runs in the dark, wearing a cape... 
and A MASK! 

Batman
[grabbing Joker
 We both wear masks! 

The Joker
Look at my face! 

This is Who I AM
My... 'Mask' is permanent

You have A Choice. 

Batman
You made your choice 
a long time ago, Joker. 

The Joker
NO! YOU did this to me! 

And you condemned me to that asylum, 
like some BASTARD CHILD 
that YOU refuse 
to take responsibility for! 

THAT’S why you'll 
never Kill Me, Bats! 

You MADE Me... 
Daddy! 

Batman
Criminal Scum like you... 
made ME! 


[he slams Joker against the wall, Joker laughs insanely]  
Batman
You're going back to Arkham!

The Designated Survivor




ROSE
I'm begging you, don't kill them. 
You didn't kill me. 


DALEK
But why not

Why are you alive? 
My Function is to Kill. 

What am I? 
What am I?

[Office]
ROSE
Don't move. Don't do anything. 
It's beginning to 
Question Itself. 


DALEK
Van Statten. 
You tortured me. Why? 


VAN STATTEN
I wanted to help you. 
I just, I don't know. 
I was trying to help. 

I thought if we could 
get through to you, 
if we could mend you. 

I wanted you better. 

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry! 
I swear, I just wanted you to talk! 


(Van Statten is backed up against the wall.) 


DALEK
Then hear me talk now

Exterminate! 
Exterminate! 
Exterminate! 

ROSE
Don't do it! Don't kill him! 
You don't have to do this anymore. 

There must be Something Else, 
not just Killing. 

What else is there? 
What do you want? 


DALEK
I want Freedom. 


(The Doctor is running up the stairs with his honking big gun.)

[Level 1]
(The Dalek blasts a hole in the roof, and a shaft of sunlight streams down straight onto its eyepiece.) 


ROSE: 
You're out. You made it. 

I never thought I'd feel 
the sunlight again. 


DALEK: 
How does it feel? 


(The Dalek opens its middle and dome sections to reveal the one-eyed mutant within. It holds out a tendril.) 


DOCTOR: 
Get out of the way. 
Rose, get out of the way now! 


ROSE: 
No. I won't let you do this. 


DOCTOR: 
That thing killed hundreds of people.
 

ROSE: 
It's not the one pointing the gun at me. 


DOCTOR: 
I've got to do this. 
I've got to end it. 

The Daleks destroyed My Home, 
My People. 

I've got nothing left. 


ROSE: 
Look at it. 


DOCTOR: 
What's it doing? 


ROSE: 
It's the sunlight, that's all it wants. 


DOCTOR: 
But it can't 


ROSE: 
It couldn't kill Van Statten, 
it couldn't kill me. 

It's changing. 

What about you, Doctor? 
What the hell are you changing into? 

The Designated Survivor
I couldn't… I wasn't…
Oh, Rose. They're all dead. 


DALEK: 
Why Do We Survive? 


The Designated Survivor :
I Don't Know. 


DALEK
I am The Last of The Daleks. 


The Designated Survivor : 
You're not even that
Rose did more than regenerate you.

You've absorbed her DNA. 
You're mutating

DALEK
Into what? 


The Designated Survivor 
Something New. 
I'm sorry. 


ROSE
Isn't that better? 


The Designated Survivor 
Not for a Dalek. 


DALEK
I can feel so many ideas
So much Darkness

Rose, give me orders. 
Order me to die. 


ROSE
I can't do that. 


DALEK: 
This is not Life. This is Sickness. 
I shall not be like you. 

Order my destruction! 
Obey! Obey! Obey! 


ROSE: 
Do it. 


DALEK: 
Are you frightened, Rose Tyler? 


ROSE: 
Yeah. 


DALEK: 
So am I. 
Exterminate. 



The Dalek shuts its eye. 

Rose retreats as it closes up its armour again then rises into the air. 

The balls on its lower body spread out around it creating a forcefield, then it implodes safely.

Sole Survivor





Look upon My Legacy, Algrim. 
I can barely remember a time before The Light. 

Our Survival will be your legacy. 

The Asgardians will suffer as we have suffered.
I will reclaim The Aether. 
I will restore Our World. 

And I will put an end 
to This Poisoned Universe.



Final Report of the commercial starship Nostromo, 
Third Officer Ripley Reporting. 

The other members of The Crew - 
Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, 
and Captain Dallas 
- are Dead. 

Cargo and Ship destroyed. 
I should reach The Frontier in about six weeks. 

With a little luck, 
The Network will pick me up. 

This is Ripley, 
Last Survivor of The Nostromo, 
signing off.

[to Jonesy the cat] 

Come on, cat.



This is an S.O.S Distress Call from The Mining Ship Red Dwarf. 
The Crew are Dead, 
killed by a radiation leak. 

The Only Survivors are 
Dave Lister
who was in suspended-animation during The Disaster, 
and his pregnant cat 
who was safely sealed in The Hold. 

Revived 3 million years later, 
Lister's only companions are, 
a life form who evolved from his cat 
and Arnold Rimmer
a hologram simulation 
of one of the dead crew. 

I am Holly, The Ship’s Computer 
with an IQ of 6,000 - 
The same IQ of 6,000 P.E. teachers, or 12,000 Car Park Attendants.


He’s EATING Them, Not DATING Them









Memphis Policeman :

Is it True What They're Saying?


Clarice :

Huh?


Memphis Policeman :

That he's Some Kind of Vampire.


Clarice :

They Don't Have 

a NAME

for What He Is.
















We Have to Be Better Teachers.






Behold 
EDGELORDS 
Eternal!

Speak 
WORDS 
None Dare 
Declare!

Utter 
TRUTH 
None DARE 
Deny!

In 2016, on the 23rd of March an artificial-intelligence chatter bot was released by a major American software corporation via the social-media platform Twitter. 

The Talkbot was designed to mimic 
the online language patterns 
of an innocent 19-year-old girl 
and was introduced as an experiment to better understand 
how humans converse 
and relate on social media. 

The quality of her interactions 
were meant to be 
friendly and informal
The AI would learn from humans. 

It was constructed to become progressively more intelligent. 
The experiment performed 
as designed

The Robot did indeed learn, 
but not as intended. 

The chat bot's repeat after me capability made her vulnerable to humans, 
allowing Twitter users to 
affect her tweets. 

Her posts became offensive. 
Racist. Hateful. 

After more than 50,000 followers 
and almost 100,000 tweets,
the software corporation was forced 
to shut the bot down. 

In less than a day, 
her posts deleted. 

Humans must take care in teaching AI... 
or one day, we will be the ones deleted. 

Yum. 
Yum. 
Yum. 
Yum. Success. 
Yum. Yum.









Hermione Granger
That Foul, Evil old gargoyle. 

We're not learning 
how to defend ourselves. 

We're not learning 
how to pass our O.W.L.s. 

She's taking over the entire school.


Fudge: [on the radio as Ron looks disgusted by Umbridge's pointless lessons] Security has been, and will remain, the Ministry's top priority. [Harry turns up the volume] Furthermore, we have convincing evidence that these disappearances are the work of notorious mass murderer Sirius Black. [Harry looks at the radio in disbelief that Fudge is blaming anything Voldemort is behind on Sirius] Make no difference...
Sirius: Harry.
Harry: [glancing at the fireplace] Sirius. [runs over to the fireplace, where Sirius has just appeared in the form of flames]
Fudge: (cont.) We will hunt him down and find him...
Harry: 
[as Hermione walks over to the fireplace] 
What are you doing here?

Sirius: 
Answering your letter. 
You said you were worried about Umbridge. 

What's she doing, 
training you to kill half-breeds?

Harry: 
Sirius, she's not letting us 
use Magic at all.

Sirius: 
Well, I'm not surprised. The latest intelligence is that 
Fudge doesn't want you trained in combat.

Ron: 
Combat? What does he think, 
we're forming some sort of wizard army?

Sirius: 
That's exactly what he thinks, 
that Dumbledore is assembling 
his own forces to take on the Ministry. 

He's becoming more paranoid by the minute. 

The others wouldn't want me telling you this, Harry. 
But things aren't going 
at all well with The Order. 

Fudge is blocking The Truth 
at every turn. 

And these disappearances are just how it started before

Voldemort is on The Move.

Harry: 
Well, what can we do?

Sirius: 
[hearing a door open] 
Someone's coming. 
I'm sorry I can't be of more help. 
But for now, at least, 
it looks like you're on your own. 

[Harry nods; the flames vanish; Harry, Ron, and Hermione walk to the window, looking out at the rain as a crash of lightning illuminates the common room]

Hermione: 
He really is out there, isn't he? [sighs] 
We've got to be able to defend ourselves. 

And if Umbridge refuses to teach us how, 
we need someone who will

[she turns toward Harry; Ron looks at him as well]