Gambit (I) (2012)

Alan Rickman: Lionel Shabandar

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Quotes 

• Lionel Shabandar : And where are you staying?

  PJ Puznowski : Er, well, one of them big hotels downtown. I can't remember the name of it. You remember, Harry?

  Harry Deane : Connaught.

  PJ Puznowski : Me neither.

• Lionel Shabandar : [Preparing to have dinner with Japanese businessmen]  As I said, these dinners can be difficult.

  PJ Puznowski : Oh, don't worry about it, these guys seem pretty harmless.

  Lionel Shabandar : They're evil little shits. Watch me crush them.

• Harry Deane : I see the painting. A reproduction though, sir, in my opinion.

  Lionel Shabandar : Bloody hell, based on what?

  Harry Deane : Based on the fact that it's hanging on a wall of a caravan, sir. In Texas.

• Lionel Shabandar : You may not realize it, Miss Puznowski, but Harry Deane knows Monet like I know... actually, I don't know anything quite like that.

• Lionel Shabandar : [Lionel greets Puznowski]  So... how do you find London?

  PJ Puznowski : Well, everybody knows the answer to that one! You turn right at Greenland!

  Lionel Shabandar : [Trying to digest it]  Ha Ha Ha! Indeed!

• [first lines] 

  The Major : [narrating]  This is the story of my brave, foolish friend Harry Deane. Mr. Deane's work as a art curator in London had gone, he felt, largely unappreciated. He told me of countless insults suffered at the hands of his employer, Lionel Shabandar, media tycoon, art collector, and an absolute brute of a fellow.

  Lionel Shabandar : [covered in mud]  Do not touch my person! You, idiot...

  Man : Yes, my lord.

  Lionel Shabandar : ...give me your boot.

  The Major : [narrating]  Forty years ago I'd have called this Shabandar a cad. Now the prevailing parlance for a fellow of this type is, I believe... shitbag.