The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
Monica Vitti: Assunta Patanè
Quotes
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Assunta Patanè : No! Where are you taking me? Where are we going? No! No, not the bed! I feel nothing. I'm like a piece of ice! Then, yes! Ruin me! My Vincenzo, all the nights I dreamt of you. All the nights!
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Assunta Patanè : First be a spouse, and then the rest.
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Assunta Patanè : I was ravished by force. But when it was happening I was as cold as marble.
Salvatore : Cold or warm, how must I behave?
Assunta Patanè : You are my fiancé, take the knife and stab him.
Salvatore : The males of your family must clear the offense. Then, perhaps, I can marry you. We'll see.
Assunta Patanè : Salvatore, there are no men. There are only women in my family!
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Assunta Patanè : It's useless. You look at me with dead fish eyes. I'm an honest woman! It's useless don't do that. I'm like a piece of marble! You're kissing the dead!
Vincenzo Macaluso : What was that?
Assunta Patanè : I dropped the knife.
Vincenzo Macaluso : What do you feel?
Assunta Patanè : A thing.
Vincenzo Macaluso : What thing?
Assunta Patanè : I don't know.
Vincenzo Macaluso : Hold me.
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Assunta Patanè : Signora, there's a man dressed as a woman.
Ada Mcintosh : It's a kilt, Susie. It's a national costume. Let him in.
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Assunta Patanè : Teach him a lesson. Please, punish him!
John : But, what did he do?
Assunta Patanè : Touched me, like this! And insulted me.
John : No, not him love. Compliment.
Assunta Patanè : No compliment. Insult. To me and you.
John : Me?
Assunta Patanè : Yes, you. If Vincenzo were here and he saw, he'd take a knife and attack him. Vincenzo is a man. A real man!
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John : Listen, darling, I'm tired. I'm tired. In my house there are two rooms: one for me and one for you. If you want to sleep with me, I'd be very happy. If not, I won't touch.
Assunta Patanè : Swear.
John : What?
Assunta Patanè : Swear.
John : Okay. Swear.
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John : Let's dance a little. Come on. Look, why do you dance like steel? Hard?
Assunta Patanè : Would you believe it? I'm not used to dancing with a man!
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Assunta Patanè : You were the first. Understand? The first! The only one! Your mine and no one else's. Understand?
Vincenzo Macaluso : And if I don't agree?
Assunta Patanè : I'll put a bullet in between your eyes that goes through your head!
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Assunta Patanè : You man. I woman. No one in the house and you look at the TV?
John : Oh, you're a little love.
[moves in for an embrace]
Assunta Patanè : No! No! Let go! How do you allow yourself? Saint Giovanni!
John : What's the matter with you?
Assunta Patanè : Holy Mary! The pistol! The pistol! I kill you! Kill you! Kill you! Watch yourself or you get this in the eye!
John : I don't understand? I don't understand? You provoked me!
Assunta Patanè : The true man must show and the true woman must defend.
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Assunta Patanè : Blessed virgin, the bedroom! Traitor! You're all the same! Right away, right in the bedroom? Do you only have one thing on your mind? Like the miner with his lamp!
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Frank Hogan : Don't go away!
Assunta Patanè : But I must.
Frank Hogan : Since I have known you, I have dreamt strange things. It's because I like you. Assunta, you are so strong, so full of fire!
Assunta Patanè : What are you saying? I am a woman! Idiot! I am - a woman.
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Assunta Patanè : One can see my fate is to end up in Sicily as a criminal.
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Assunta Patanè : She cheated only once?
Frank Hogan : No, no. Maybe with another! With many others.
Assunta Patanè : With many? Often?
Frank Hogan : Yes, even with the butcher. Still, with everyone.
Assunta Patanè : So why haven't you stabbed her?
Frank Hogan : I took a knife.
Assunta Patanè : But you have to kill her. Not yourself!
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Assunta Patanè : I didn't want to shoot him, but, when I saw him, the red mist fell and I couldn't see anymore!
Dr. Tom Osborne : You need to learn to master your instincts better than a wild animal!
Assunta Patanè : I have blood in my veins, not like him who doesn't love anybody.
Dr. Tom Osborne : Ah, well, if you love somebody, shoot!
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Dr. Tom Osborne : You shot at an innocent!
Assunta Patanè : Innocent? Who's innocent? He's a traitor.
Dr. Tom Osborne : Cretin! You hit her, not him!
Assunta Patanè : Her? Missed - the aim? A whore, nonetheless.
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Assunta Patanè : I'm afraid of flying!
Nurse : Ah, yes. You have no fear of shooting someone, but you're scared of flying!
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Assunta Patanè : Don't be angry. I promise to do exactly what you told me. And if someone finds fault, I will cry and stab myself in the heart.
Dr. Tom Osborne : Bravo. We're getting better!
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Vincenzo Macaluso : You must waiver your freedom forever.
Assunta Patanè : What do I want my freedom for? I want to be chained to you forever!
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Vincenzo Macaluso : I once lived with a girl for two months. As husband and wife. Concubine. She wanted me, but sometimes she said, "Tonight, I go out with friends." I said, "But if you love me so much, why do you go out with your friends?" You know what she said? "Friendship is as important as love!"
Assunta Patanè : Eh, well, what can you do?
Vincenzo Macaluso : I said, "You must choose me or your friends."
Assunta Patanè : What did she do?
Vincenzo Macaluso : She choose her friends.
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Assunta Patanè : What did you want from her? What do you look for?
Vincenzo Macaluso : Assunta, I want a woman who is mine.
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Assunta Patanè : To think all this success because of that nonsense when we spent a night together.
Vincenzo Macaluso : Why call it nonsense?
Assunta Patanè : I'm just saying it was without importance.
Vincenzo Macaluso : No, Assunta. Unimportant, perhaps for the people of this country. But not for me.
Assunta Patanè : What are you saying?
Vincenzo Macaluso : What I mean is that according to our sacred principles, I still have some claim over you because of that night.
Assunta Patanè : I don't understand what you mean?
Vincenzo Macaluso : Assunta, you are like me, Sicilian. And you understand very well what I mean.
Assunta Patanè : It's useless to look at me like that. I have changed profoundly.
Vincenzo Macaluso : Want to dance?