I Have My Limits

WOLF HOWLS

Van Helsing :

Mother Superior, on no account

invite that creature in.

SNARLING

Mother Superior :

That is not a temptation

with which I was struggling.

What is happening? 

What is this?

Van Helsing :

We are under attack from 

The Forces of Darkness.

Mother Superior :

Why would The Forces of Darkness

wish to attack a convent?

Van Helsing :

Perhaps They are sensitive to Criticism.

LOW SNARL

SNARLS

Van Helsing :

I know Who You Are.

I've studied the legends. 

I am fully aware that 

I am addressing

Count Dracula.

The bats are a little noisy.

Would you mind?

HOWLS

SCREECHING FADES

SNARLS

Van Helsing :

The Sun is Down.

You don't need to hide any more.

Or are you too afraid

to step from The Shadows?

BARKS

SNARLS

GURGLING

GASPS

BONES CRUNCH

WHIMPERS

Mother Superior :

This is Devilry.

Van Helsing :

It's worse than that —

It is The Devil.

GRUNTS

MOTHER SUPERIOR GASPS

Dracula :

I don't know about you girls...

...but I do love a bit of fur.

GASPS

Suffer unto me.

LAUGHS

BELL RINGS OUT

I'm not sure what legends you've been reading, but bells don't have any effect on me.

Van Helsing :

This one will.

Dracula :

Ooh!

Mother Superior :

Sister Agatha, have you been up

to one of your secret projects

again?

Van Helsing :

You'd better hope so.

Dracula :

This is exciting.

This'll be the most nuns I've had

in one sitting.

Van Helsing :

Sisters, Present Arms —

DRACULA: 

Ooh! I see my arrival was anticipated.

Van Helsing :

I was aware of the possibility.

Mother Superior :

Sister Agatha, what have you

brought down upon us?

Cooee!

MOTHER SUPERIOR GASPS

Hello!

Hello, ladies.

I don't want to worry you,

but the army of the faithful

can't seem to look me in the eye.

Van Helsing :

You're naked, and they're nuns.

It isn't your eye they're not

looking at.

Well, isn't anyone going to invite

me in?

I've come a long way to see you.

Van Helsing :

Certainly not.

Sister Rosa, The Key!

MOTHER SUPERIOR:

You can't be serious.

Van Helsing :

I'm more than serious.

I'm completely confident.

Dracula :

How did you know that I was coming?

Van Helsing :

There's a man here you consider 

to be Your Property.

Dracula :

My Bride.

Van Helsing :

He's what drew you here, I think — 

Dracula :

A Bee can always find nectar.

Van Helsing :

And A Trap always needs honey.

Dracula :

I don't think this is 

much of A Trap.

Van Helsing :

Well, it wouldn't be a very 

good Trap if you DID.

Thank you, Sister.

BREATHES RASPINGLY

Count Dracula,

Please attend my words with Care.

CHAINS CLANG

This is St Mary's Convent of Budapest,

and you are not welcome here.

You are most specifically not invited in.

SNARLS AND HISSES

SNARLS

SNARLS

Van Helsing : 

Oh! So it's True, then.

That's interesting.

MOTHER SUPERIOR: 

What is?

Van Helsing :

'A Vampire may not enter any abode

unless invited in.'

I wasn't sure about that one.

MOTHER SUPERIOR :

A vampire?

You unlocked The Gate

and you weren't sure?

A vampire?!

Van Helsing :

Oh, The Iron wasn't keeping you out.

You could have torn it apart like

matchwood.

Dracula :

I could tear you apart.

Van Helsing :

Not from out there, you couldn't.

But what's stopping you?

A-a feeling?

A force?

Is it physical or mental?

Why do you need an invitation?

Dracula :

Do you expect me to tell you?

Van Helsing :

Oh, I don't even expect you to know.

A Beast can follow rules --

I don't expect it to understand them.

NUNS GASP

Dracula :

I am more than a beast.

Van Helsing :

In what way?

By your own account, you've been

on this Earth for hundreds of years,

and you can't even walk into a nunnery?

An ox could do it.

How are you more than A Beast?

Dracula :

Do you want me to show you?

Van Helsing :

Of course.

I'm waiting.

Dracula :

WHISPERS: 

Come here. Come here.

Come here. Come here a moment.

Come closer.

Look at them.

Look at your sisters.

Van Helsing :

Armed and ready.

Dracula :

You're not looking.

Van Helsing :

I don't need to.

Dracula :

One of Them - that's all I need.

If just one of your pretty little

army beckons me in...

..I will tear Your World to pieces

and I will drink my fill.

Van Helsing :

Why would they invite you in?

What do you have to offer?

Dracula :

Eternal Life.

Van Helsing :

Well, they have that already. Thanks.

Dracula :

Starting Tonight, because the first one 

to invite me in stays at my side.

The others I will tear apart,

and, ladies... I will take my time.

One should never rush a nun.

Van Helsing :

Your words are not welcome here.

Dracula :

Well, if you find you're not tempted

by my offer, ask yourself this :

Who is?

Who's weakest?

Who's the most afraid?

Who will break first?

And is there still time 

for it to be you?

Van Helsing :

LAUGHS

Dracula :

What's that?

What are you doing?

Van Helsing :

You wanted to know who's weakest?

I'm showing you.

(she slices open her own palm, letting The Blood drip..)

SNARLS

ROARS

Van Helsing :

Oh, go on, help yourself!

There's a dog comes past here most days.

We often give it scraps.

SNARLS

Van Helsing :

Go on. You've come so far.

I'm sure you could do with a drink.

SNARLS

Van Helsing :

Hmm. You see,

I'm not certain I see the appeal.

SNARLS

SNARLS

Van Helsing :

Each to his own, I suppose.

Dracula :

Do you think...

...provoking me is clever?

Van Helsing :

Yes. I do. I want to learn about you.

\

I want to see the limit

of your capability.

That's the point of this experiment.

You have no conception.

Not the first idea.

Hmm...

Here, boy!

This is contemptible.

You are without shame.

Be careful...

..what you say to me.

Don't speak with your mouth full.

She's earned the right to express

her contempt, you know. We all have.

Each of these women in front of you

has turned her back on earthly

pleasures.

Resisting all forms of temptation,

we have freed ourselves of appetite

and therefore of fear.

That is why you can't bear

the sight of this.

It speaks of a holy virtue

you do not possess.

It is goodness incarnate.

LAUGHS SOFTLY

For a moment there,

I thought you were clever.

But no.

No, that's not why I fear the cross.

Goodness has got nothing to do with

it.

So you say, but how can a mere beast

understand its own fear?

No-one will invite you in,

Count Dracula.

They'll just pity you right where

you are.

Who are you?

Finish your scraps. That's all

you'll be getting tonight.

Agatha...

..that's the name, isn't it?

Mother Superior used my name. You

heard her. You'll have to do better

than that.

You're from somewhere else, I think.

Um...

Holland, right?

Well, you can tell as much from my

accent, I think. I bid you

goodnight.

Helsing!

Van Helsing!

What is your interest in me,

Agatha Van Helsing?

Who are you?

Your every nightmare at once.

An educated woman in a crucifix.

Bouc

Monsieur Bouc | Silver Linings

Murder on the Orient Express | Boarding The Train (Full Scene)

Hercule Poirot Meeting Bouc and getting 

his ride on The Orient Express

Poirot :

Ah, My Holiday begins here. 

I can see the soul of The City 

in these humble breads. 

The World insists on 

Destruction, yet here, 

Masterpieces are baked 

to order every day. 

Mohammed The Baker :

Monsieur Poirot! 

Poirot :

Mohammed! Mohammed, My Friend... 

You are An Artist. 

Mohammed The Baker :

Ah! My Friend! 

Bouc :

Sorry. Here. Come, come. Don't mind us, 

we're just looking for a place 

to have a private argument. 

It should take some 20 minutes or so,

at which point we will both come 

to an agreement, or at least I will. 

Poirot :

Monsieur Bouc! 

Bouc :

Poirot! In The Kitchen? Well, of course, 

this man will sniff out a perfect pastry 

faster than he catches... a jewel thief. 

Poirot :

Mon ami! Now, I am no longer A Policeman. 

I cannot bail you out when this goes badly, eh? 

Bouc :

This is My Dear, old friend, the esteemed 

Poirot, who I knew before the esteem. 

Hercule Poirot, this is... 

Poirot :

A Prostitute. 

Bouc :

She is. 

A Prostitute :

I am! Bouc, you did not tell me 

you had famous friends. 

Bouc :

We're friends because 

I'm the only person 

who never asks him any questions 

about his cases, because I don't care. 

And he never judges me for 

being a terrible person. 

Poirot :

Indeed you are. 

Poirot :

Madame, Bouc, please 

join me for a drink, yes? 

Bouc :

You only have me for an hour. 

I ride on the Orient Express at seven, 

Official Director business. 

Uncle pays me absurdly 

to stay onboard his gorgeous train 

and far away from him 

at the home office, consigned to 

wine and dine handsome officials for all eternity. 

Poirot :

There is an Art to Nepotism. 

And you are its Michelangelo! 

British Diplomat :

Mr. Poirot. 

Poirot :

Are you a prostitute as well? 

British Diplomat :

Certainly not. 

Bouc :

Is this man bothering you? 

Poirot :

He is about to. 

You are from 

The British consulate. 

British Diplomat :

I am, sir. 

Poirot :

It is The Kassner Case. 

British Diplomat :

Why, yes. 

Poirot :

I was correct in certain predictions? 

British Diplomat :

Quite. 

Poirot :

I do not need to read the telegram. 

Bouc :

Oh, how fun. Did someone 

Cheat, or Die? 

Poirot :

Unfortunately, both. Someone has 

interrupted my longing for rest. 

It appears that I must travel 

with you tonight, Bouc. 

Can you find me a cabin 

on the Orient Express? 

Bouc :

My Friend... I may not be good for much, 

but I sure as hell can get you 

a bed on My Train 

in the dead of Winter. 

Three days free of Care, 

Concern or Crime. 

You will love it. 

Poirot :

Mademoiselle, it has been a pleasure. 

British Diplomat :

Sir. Your Luggage has been collected 

and your expenses paid. 

You will be met at Calais 

and then escorted to Dover, 

and then by rail to London Victoria. 

I would like to formally express gratitude...

Poirot :

Please, don't speak. 

You make it worse.

It's More Difficult To Rule Yourself Than To Rule A City

Midnight

Midnight 

With The Stars and You --

Midnight 

and a rendezvous

Your Eyes 

Held a message tender

Saying "I surrender --

All my love to you"

Midnight 

Brought us sweet romance

I know 

All my whole life through

I'll be remembering you, 

Whatever else I do

Midnight,

With The Stars and You

Faust has found a book of Dark Arts which contains a ritual for the evocation of Mephistopheles, The Demon. 

In The Middle of a Crossroad, 

under The Moonlight, 

Faust performs The Ritual in hope 

of curing his beloved village 

of a terrible disease.

In Japan, The Son of God Rises Daily.

Liam Neeson :

 I have laboured in This Country for

15 years, I know it better than you.

Our religion does not take root 

in This Country.

The Priest :

Because The Roots have been torn up.

Liam Neeson :

No. Because This Country is A Swamp.

Nothing grows here.

Plant a sapling here and the roots rot.

The Priest :

There was a time when Christianity

here grew and flourished here.

Liam Neeson :

When?

The Priest :

When? In Your Time, Father.

In Your Time, before you became like...

Liam Neeson :

Like who, like them?

Rodriguez, please listen. 

The Japanese only believe in 

their distortion of Our Gospel. 

So they did not believe at all. 

They never believed.

The Priest :

How can you say that? 

From the time of St. Francis Xavier 

through your own time, 

there were hundreds of thousands 

of converts here.

Liam Neeson :

Hundreds?

The Priest :

Converts, yes!

Liam Neeson :

Francis Xavier came here to teach

The Japanese about The Son of God,

but first he had to ask how to refer

to God. Dai Ni Chi, he was told.

Shall I show you their Dai Ni Chi?

Behold. There is The Son of God.

God's only begotten son.

In the scriptures, Jesus rose 

on the third day. 

In Japan, The Son of God rises daily.

The Japanese cannot think of an existence 

beyond the realm of nature.

For them, nothing transcends to Human.

The Priest :

No!

Liam Neeson :

They can't conceive of our

idea of the Christian God!

The Priest :

No, you're wrong.

You're wrong.

They worship God! God! Our Lord!

They praise The Name of Deus!

Liam Neeson :

That's just another name for 

a God, they never knew.

The Priest :

I saw men die!

Liam Neeson :

I did too.

The Priest :

For Deus! On fire with their faith.

Liam Neeson :

Your martyrs might have been on fire, Father.

But it was not of the Christian faith.

The Priest :

I saw them die. I saw them die.

They did not die for nothing.

Liam Neeson :

They did not. They're dying for you, Rodriguez.

The Priest :

How many did you save? 

When you trampled on the face of Our Lord?

How many beside yourself?

Liam Neeson :

I don't know.

Certainly not as many as you may help.

The Priest :

You're trying to justify your own weakness.

God have mercy on you!

Liam Neeson :

Which God? Which one?

We say -- I'm sorry, you haven't learned

the language though really, have you?

There is a saying here,

mountains and rivers can be moved.

But man's nature can not be moved.

It's very wise, like so much here.

We find our original nature in Japan, Rodriguez.

Perhaps this was meant by finding God.

The Driver :

You're a disgrace.

You're a disgrace, Father.

I can't. I can't even call you that anymore.

Liam Neeson :

Good. I have a Japanese name now.

A wife and children.

I inherited them all

from an executed man.

How do you feel?

He has shown you the path of mercy.

I hope you take it.

Silence — It’s Not Indifference

I can Hear You.

He can Hear You.

There is an Iron Law of The Universe at play, here — 

In the midst of The Long Dark Night of any Soul, 

when forced to confront The Challenge of The Silence of God, 

in the moment of direst strife and utmost struggle in the face of the immense solitude of Cosmic Midnight, when God seems farthest from us, utterly remote and distant and we stand in The Deepest Pit, knowing in our hearts that, but for Him, 

we are Absolutely Alone —

If you find that you pray and you pray with all your heart, and your prayers never seem to have an answer, that the purity and zeal your Faith seems never to find any reward —

If you appeal to God and cry out in your heart for Him to come to your aid, swoop in and rescue you, only to have your prayers met with Silence on the part of God….

It’s Probably because He is Waiting 

for You to Do Something.

Now, You're Going to Need a Name.....

 

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1933

I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. 

This is preeminently the time to Speak The Truth, The Whole Truth, Frankly and Boldly. 

Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. 

This Great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. 

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is : Fear, itself -- 

Nameless, Unreasoning, Unjustified Terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. 

In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.

In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.

Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now.

Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.

Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.

Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.

There are the lines of attack. I shall presently urge upon a new Congress in special session detailed measures for their fulfillment, and I shall seek the immediate assistance of the several States.

Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order and making income balance outgo. Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time and necessity secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy. I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first. I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustment, but the emergency at home cannot wait on that accomplishment.

The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic. It is the insistence, as a first consideration, upon the interdependence of the various elements in all parts of the United States--a recognition of the old and permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer. It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurance that the recovery will endure.

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor--the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others-- the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we can not merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.

With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.

Action in this image and to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors. Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has produced. It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.

It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require. These measures, or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption.

But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, and in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis--broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.

For the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time. I can do no less.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of the national unity; with the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfaction that comes from the stem performance of duty by old and young alike. We aim at the assurance of a rounded and permanent national life.

We do not distrust the future of essential democracy. The people of the United States have not failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action. They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it.

In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.