Orca (1977)

Charlotte Rampling: Rachel Bedford

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• Rachel : He deliberately left you your boat because he wants to fight you alone on the sea.

• Rachel : [while listening to Orca's sounds through a hydrophone]  What is he saying?

  Captain Nolan : You're me, he says... I'm you, he says... you're my... drunk driver... he says...

• Rachel : He followed you. He saw you on the deck of the boat.

• Rachel : The killer whale. He is a mammal with warm blood, found in every sea.

• Rachel : You're planning to capture and sell a fellow creature! He's like you - he has warm blood, he breathes air, he's a mammal, but with intelligence!

• Rachel : There's a word for you.

  Captain Nolan : And I've been called it. Many times.

• Rachel : Did I tell you that that animal has a right to be left alone?

  Captain Nolan : No, but I have a notion you're about to.

• Rachel : Their sonar is like X-ray vision. If we could see in each other if someone was happy or sad, indifferent or aroused, healthy or suffering from a tumor, it would be meaningless to say, How are you? What we call language they might call unnecessary, or retarded.

• Rachel : With the growing cold came a growing quiet. From the crew, from Nolan, everything.It was numbing like the chill, and palpable.

• Rachel : I'd insisted on leaving South Harbor with them. I told myself that somehow I was responsible for Nolan's state of mind. That I had filled his head with romantic notions about a whale capable not only of profound grief, which I believed, but also of calculated and vindictive actions, which I found hard to be believe, despite all that had happened.

• Captain Nolan : If you're so sure I can't catch a killer whale, why are you so upset?

  Rachel : Listen, you won't catch one, but you might butcher a couple dozen in the attempt!

  Captain Nolan : Oh, that's not my style at all.

• Rachel : [after Orca's mate washes ashore, dead with Nolan's harpoon in her, mockingly to Nolan]  You won't kill one. Its not your *style*.

• Captain Nolan : I won't fight him at all.

  Rachel : But you'll murder him - you'll sit here safe on the jetty, and shoot him through the eye? You're not a man, you're an animal! Its creatures like you science should be observing!