The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Gregory Peck: Dr. Josef Mengele
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Quotes
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Gertrud : [Mengele has just knocked Mundt to the floor] Get a doctor!
Dr. Josef Mengele : I *am* a doctor, idiot.
Gertrud : Don't you come near him!
Dr. Josef Mengele : Shut up, you ugly bitch.
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Ezra Lieberman : Did you kill Wheelock?
Dr. Josef Mengele : [sarcastically] No, he's in the kitchen mixing us some cocktails!
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Dr. Josef Mengele : Do you know what I saw on the television in my motel room at one o'clock this morning? Films of Hitler! They are showing films about the war! The movement! People are fascinated! The time is ripe! Adolf Hitler is alive!
[Takes photo album and places it on his lap]
Dr. Josef Mengele : This album is full of pictures of him. Bobby Wheelock and ninety-three other boys are exact genetic duplicates of him, bred entirely from his cells. He allowed me to take half a liter of his blood and a cutting of skin from his ribs.
[laughs]
Dr. Josef Mengele : We were in a Biblical frame of mind on the twenty-third of May 1943, at the Berghof. He had denied himself children because he knew that no son could flourish in the shadow of so godlike a father! But when he heard what was theoretically possible, that I could create one day not his son, not even a carbon-copy but another original, he was thrilled by the idea! The right Hitler for the right future! A Hitler tailor-made for the 1980s, the 1990s, 2000!
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Dr. Josef Mengele : He betrayed me, he betrayed you, he betrayed the Aryan race!
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Eduard Seibert : Your operation has been cancelled.
Dr. Josef Mengele : No, *your* operation has been cancelled! Mine continues.
[raising his hand]
Dr. Josef Mengele : Heil Hitler.
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Dr. Josef Mengele : Are you, my SD Chief of Security, telling me that a project twenty years and millions of dollars in the making will be dropped because of this insignificant impotent old Jew?
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Dr. Josef Mengele : You are born of the noblest blood in the world. You have it within you to fulfill ambitions one thousand times greater than those at which you presently dream, and you shall fulfill them, Bobby. You shall. You are the living duplicate of the greatest man in history.
[raising his hand in a heil motion]
Dr. Josef Mengele : Adolf Hitler.
Bobby Wheelock : Oh man, you're weird.
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Dr. Josef Mengele : You are a clever boy. Are you not? You do not well at school, but it's because you are too clever. Too busy, thinking your own thoughts. But you are much smarter than your teachers, hah?
Bobby Wheelock : My teachers are nowhere.
Dr. Josef Mengele : You are going to be the world's greatest photographer, are you not? Have you ever felt superior to those around you? Like a prince among peasants?
Bobby Wheelock : I feel different from everyone sometimes.
Dr. Josef Mengele : You are infinite different. Infinite superior. You are born of the noblest blood in the world.
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Eduard Seibert : [after discovery of Mengele's plan by Lieberman] The operation has been terminated.
Dr. Josef Mengele : Terminated... by whose authority?
Eduard Seibert : General Rausch... and the Colonel's.
Dr. Josef Mengele : [enraged] I told you... I told you from the beginning! Kill him! Kill him! It would have been so easy!
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Dr. Josef Mengele : Bobby!
Bobby Wheelock : [screaming] You freaked out maniac!
