Collateral Beauty (2016)

Will Smith: Howard

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• Howard : [to Brigitte, personification of Death]  I've heard all of your platitudes. I got them, I know. "She's in a better place." And, "This is all a part of a master plan." Heard that one, too. Here's my favorite. "God looked down and saw the most beautiful rose, so beautiful that he picked it to have it in Heaven all for Himself." Then there's the science, biocentrism, and we're all living and dying in infinite universes all at the same time. And then the religion, the Christians and their salvation, and the Buddhists and their Samsara, and the Hindus and their 41st sacrament. And can't forget the poetry. Oh, the poetry. "To die is different from what anyone supposed and luckier." Whitman. And, "Rage... Rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right." Thomas. And then...

  Howard : [singing]  Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream Merrily, merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream! I got it. I got it! It all basically says that you're a natural part of life, we shouldn't hate you, we shouldn't fear you. I guess we should just accept you, right? That's it? I get it. Here's the thing. It's all a bunch of intellectual bullshit because she's not here holding my fucking hand.

• Amy : [as the personification of Love]  I know you don't believe me, but you have to trust me.

  Howard : Trust you? Trust you?

  Amy : Yes!

  Howard : I *did* trust you! And you betrayed me! I saw you every day in her eyes, and I heard you in her voice when she laughed, and I felt you inside of me when she called me "Daddy." And you betrayed me! You broke my heart.

  Amy : No. I'm in all of it. I'm the darkness and the light, I'm the sunshine and the storm. Yes, you're right, I was there in her laugh, but I'm also here now in your pain. I'm the reason for everything. I am the only "why." Don't try and live without me, Howard. Please don't.

• Howard : Death came first. She met me in the dog park.

  Madeline : Oh, so Death is a "her?"

  Howard : Uh, yeah. It turns out Death is an elderly white woman.

• Howard : [arguing with Raffi the personification of Time]  No, this is hell: being without her.

• Howard : [from the trailer] 

  [Brigitte shows up beside him in the subway] 

  Howard : You're not going to take me, are you?

  Brigitte : [as the personification of Death]  No, Howard.

  [holds up a train card] 

  Brigitte : I'm here to ride the F Train.

• Raffi : [as a personification of Time]  You got something to say?

  Howard : [Dismissive]  Oh yeah I've got a lot of things I'd like to say to you

  Raffi : Well say it... Say It

  [scoffs] 

  Raffi : You see... You See you just waste time... I give you a gift... and you just Waste It

  Howard : [losing his patience]  I... Don't... Care... About... Time! This Is A Prison Sentence!

  [Throws Time's skateboard away] 

  Howard : I Don't Want Your Gift!

  [Points at Time] 

  Howard : Because You *Took* Hers!

• Howard : I'm not gonna be in the meeting.

  Claire : Uh-huh.