Cloud Atlas (2012)

Tom Hanks: Dr. Henry Goose, Hotel Manager, Isaac Sachs, Dermot Hoggins, Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor, Zachry

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• Isaac Sachs : Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the Theory of Relativity and Principles of Uncertainty: phenomenon that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday I believed that I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. At each point of intersection, each encounter suggests a new potential direction.

• Isaac Sachs : Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish.

• Zachry : Who tripped the Fall, if not Old Georgie?

  Meronym : True-true? The Old Uns.

  Zachry : That's just a rope o'smoke. Old Uns got the Smart. They mastered sick and seeds, they make miracles and fly across the sky.

  Meronym : True. All true. But they got somethin' else. A hunger in their hearts, a hunger that's stronger than all their Smart.

  Zachry : Hunger? For what?

  Meronym : A hunger for more.

• [from trailer] 

  Isaac Sachs : Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet... I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey.

• Dr. Henry Goose : There is only one rule that binds all people. One governing principle that defines every relationship on God's green earth: The weak are meat, and the strong do eat.

• [last lines] 

  Miro : Do you still love Grammy?

  Zachry : Your grammy is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Meronym : Come on here, Grampy. Lemme warm them old bones.

• [first lines] 

  Zachry : [shivering beside the fire]  Oh, lonesome night. And babbits bawling, the wind biting the bone. Wind like this... full of voices. Ancestry howling at you, yibbering stories, all voices tied up into one. One voice differing. One voice, whispering out there, spying from the dark. The fangy devil, Old Georgie hisself. Mm. Now your ear up close, and I'll yarn you about the first time we met, eye to eye.

• Timothy Cavendish : Never forget Herman Melville, writes a ripping yarn about a big white whale which is summarily dismissed, and yet today it is lugged around in the backpacks of every serious student of literature in the world.

  Dermot Hoggins : I don't give a fuck what happens when I'm dead, I want people to buy me book now!

  Timothy Cavendish : Well, as your publisher, obviously nothing would make me happier. But sadly, for whatever reason, 'Knuckle Sandwich' has yet to connect to its audience.

  Dermot Hoggins : You want a reason? I'll give you a reason

  [points] 

  Dermot Hoggins : Right there!

  Timothy Cavendish : Aaaa, you mean Mr Finch?

  Dermot Hoggins : Felix fuckin' Finch! That cunt that shat all over me book in his poncy fuckin' magazine!

  Timothy Cavendish : It wasn't that bad.

  Dermot Hoggins : No?

  [quotes] 

  Dermot Hoggins : 'Mr Hoggins should apologize to the trees failed for the making of his bloated autobio novel. Four hundred vain-glorious pages expire in an ending that is flat and inane beyond belief'.

  Timothy Cavendish : Steady now, Dermot. What is a critic but one who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely.

• Luisa Rey : You seem nervous. Do I make you nervous, Isaac?

  Isaac Sachs : No. Actually, just the opposite.

• Cavendish Look-A-Like Actor : This is a violation of the ruddy Incarceration Act! I will not be subjugated to criminal abuse!

• Isaac Sachs : Proposition: I have fallen in love with Louisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet, I feel like something important has happened.

• Isaac Sachs : I had... a girlfriend once. She kept trying to get me to read... Carlos Castenada. You ever read any of *that* shit?

  Luisa Rey : Oh yeah.

  Isaac Sachs : But the relationship was doomed. Every time she brought up any of the karma, past life stuff, I-I couldn't stop myself from laughing. And yet... I can't explain it. But I knew when I opened that door...

  [trails off, becomes serious] 

  Isaac Sachs : They destroyed most of the copies of the report.

  Luisa Rey : Most?

  Isaac Sachs : There's no good choice here, is there? If I help you, I could lose my job, or worse. If I don't, a lot of people... yeah it'll be worse than worse.

  Luisa Rey : You have to do... whatever you can't *not* do.

• Dr. Henry Goose : Do you ever get the feeling that the Universe is against ya?

• Dermot Hoggins : [after throwing Felix Finch off of a tenth floor balcony to his death]  Now *that's* an ending that is flat and inane beyond belief!

• [Dr. Goose is tending to Adam] 

  Adam Ewing : I don't know what would have happened without you there.

  Dr. Henry Goose : Well, for starters, you would have died!

  [laughs] 

  Adam Ewing : I don't know how to repay you.

  Dr. Henry Goose : Adam, I am a doctor. A tiger cannot change his stripes.

• Dr. Henry Goose : Don't come between the beast and his meat.

• Dermot Hoggins : You're going to like this.

  [Throws the critic off the roof]