Tarzan (1999)
Brian Blessed: Clayton
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Quotes
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[after being returned to camp by Tarzan]
Jane Porter : Oh, my goodness! Daddy, I was walking. There was... was a little baby, little baby monkey, and I drew a picture!
Professor Porter : Yes, go on.
Jane Porter : Suddenly, the monkey starts crying.
Professor Porter : Oh, poor thing.
Jane Porter : But, I turn around and there's a whole FLEET OF THEM. An ARMY of monkeys! A huge tree full of monkeys, screaming at me!
[imitates a monkey screaming at him]
Professor Porter : [laughing at her] That's theropithecus baboonus! She's very good at this!
Jane Porter : Terrified! I was terrified! Suddenly, I was swinging, on a vine, in the air! Swinging, in the air!
Professor Porter : With the monkeys!
Jane Porter : I was in the air! And then, I was all surrounded!
Professor Porter : What did you do?
Jane Porter : And, Daddy! They took my boot!
Professor Porter : Your boot - those are the ones I bought you.
Jane Porter : And I was SAVED. I was saved by a flying, wild man in a loincloth.
Professor Porter : Loincloth? Good Lord.
Clayton : What is she talking about?
Professor Porter : I haven't the foggiest idea. Takes after her mother, you know. She came up with stories like that. Not about men in loincloths, of course.
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Professor Porter : Moves like an ape but looks like a man. He could be the missing link!
Clayton : Or our link to the gorillas.
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Clayton : [Draws a crude gorilla on Jane's chalkboard and points to it with the chalk] Gorilla.
Tarzan : [Takes the chalk and examines it] Gor-illa.
Professor Porter : [Excited] Oh! Oh! He's got it!
Tarzan : Gor-illa!
[Proceeds to scribble wildly on the chalkboard]
Tarzan : Gorrrrr-illllla!
Professor Porter : Oh, perhaps not...
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Clayton : Even if you hadn't grown up a savage, you'd be lost. There are no trails through a woman's heart.
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Clayton : If I can teach a parrot to sing "God Save the Queen," I can certainly teach this savage a thing or two.
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Clayton : Hiding, are we? Good! I could use a challenge, because after I get rid of you, rounding up your little ape family will be all too easy!
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[repeated line]
Clayton : Have we met?
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Jane Porter : And there were gorillas.
Professor Porter , Clayton : Gorillas?
Clayton : You found the gorillas? Where, Jane? Where?
Jane Porter : He left with them.
Professor Porter : Who did? Who?
Jane Porter : Tarzan.
Clayton : Tarzan?
Jane Porter : The ape man.
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Jane Porter : [after Clayton fires in the air] Mr. Clayton, please. What if it's a gorilla?
Clayton : It's no gorilla.
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Jane Porter : [telling her father about Tarzan] The point is, think about what we could learn from him. We must find him.
Clayton : [frustrated] Professor! You're here to find gorillas. Not indulge some girlish fantasy!
Jane Porter : [also frustrated] Fantasy? I didn't imagine him! Tarzan is...
[Tarzan suddenly appears right between them. Clayton gasps in surprise and Jane smiles]
Jane Porter : Real.
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Clayton : Ah, yes. I remember you. I think this one would be better off stuffed.
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Clayton : Family groups? Excuse me, but these are wild beasts that would sooner tear your head off than look at you.
Jane Porter : On the contrary, Mr. Clayton, Daddy's theory is that these are social creatures, not monsters.