Life and Nothing But (1989)

Maurice Barrier: Mercadot

Quotes 

• Mercadot : Humanity's entered its final stage, the dance of life and death, the great apotheosis. We plug up the holes and screw to prepare for the next war.

• [Mercadot explains how the war's end has affected demand for statues] 

  Mercadot : The Golden Age, my friend. Nothing like it since the Greeks, since the cathedrals. Even shitty artists have their hands full. A monument per village. Three hundred sculptors for 35,000 towns. Everybody wants his doughboy, his widow, his pyramid, his marble, bas-reliefs, inscriptions. It's a factory. Better than the Renaissance. It's the resurrection.

  Major Dellaplane : Thanks to our dead.

  Mercadot : Thanks to our dead. Thanks to them.