Charly (1968)
Claire Bloom: Alice Kinian
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Quotes
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Alice Kinnian : They say, Charly, that true love is letting go.
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Charly Gordon : What's enough love?
Alice Kinnian : Always a little more than anyone ever gets.
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Alice Kinnian : [writes a sentence on the blackboard for Charly to punctuate] Punctuate it. Go ahead, punctuate it.
[Charly does, and does it correctly]
Alice Kinnian : That's very good!
Charly Gordon : Now I have something for you to punctuate!
[Turns over blackboard where he has written a sentence]
Alice Kinnian : That does not make sense!
Charly Gordon : [Starts to punctuate it] 'That that is
[adds a comma]
Charly Gordon : , is
[adds a period]
Charly Gordon : . That that is not
[adds a comma]
Charly Gordon : , is not
[adds a period]
Charly Gordon : .'
Alice Kinnian : [Figures it out] 'Is that it?'
Charly Gordon : 'It is!'
Alice Kinnian : So. Student surpasses the teacher!
[Charly nods eagerly]
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Alice Kinnian : Any questions?
Charly Gordon : [upset about getting fired from his job] Yeah, I was wonder why people that would never dream of laughing at a blind or a crippled man would laugh at a moron.
Alice Kinnian : What happened?
Charly Gordon : My friends at the bakery got up a petition and then I got fired.
Alice Kinnian : Oh...
Charly Gordon : Is that an automatic law, something like gravity? Increased intelligence equals lost friends?
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[sometime after Algernon's death, Alice comes in slamming the door getting Nemur and Strauss' attention]
Dr. Richard Nemur : [about Charly] Did you find him?
Alice Kinnian : [furiously] Why didn't you tell me? Why did you have to hide it?
Dr. Anna Strauss : But we only discovered an indication of this condition last week, Mrs. Kinnian, and only in a few of the Phase 5 mice. I assumed it was simply erratic behavior or individual behavior. There was NO NEED to alarm Charly!
Alice Kinnian : Oh, it's not? With the convention coming up, why should you both miss your moments of glory?
Dr. Anna Strauss : [offended] Now Mrs. Kinnian!
Dr. Richard Nemur : Before we had a chance to run further checks, he had no right to make it public!
Alice Kinnian : [incredulously] NO RIGHT?
Dr. Richard Nemur : Have you any idea what he has done to our standing in the scientific community?
Alice Kinnian : Your standing nothing!
Dr. Anna Strauss : Now, let us calmly--dispassionately--try to decide what we are going to do about this situation!
Alice Kinnian : Which situation, your standing in the scientific community or Charly?
Dr. Richard Nemur : They're related, you know!
Alice Kinnian : [scoffs] Is that all this means to you?
Dr. Anna Strauss : But don't you understand, Mrs. Kinnian? Algernon's regression doesn't prove it will happen to Charly! Charly's a human being, not a laboratory animal.
Dr. Richard Nemur : This regressive syndrome may be limited to the mice. Now I will thank you, Mrs. Kinnian, if you...
Alice Kinnian : Have you been close to something, but not close enough?
Dr. Richard Nemur : Let me go...
Alice Kinnian : [cuts him, slams her hand on the table, angrily] IS there a second operation you can give him, is there some corrective surgery!
Dr. Richard Nemur : No.
Alice Kinnian : I see! Well, tell me. What do you do around here with the specimens that fail, the freezer first then the incinerator?
Dr. Anna Strauss : [gasps] Uh...
[Alice, Nemur and Strauss see that Charly has arrive]
Charly Gordon : [after a long pause] How can I help?
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Charly Gordon : Marry me, pretty girl, marry me.
Alice Kinnian : We will marry at... quarter past Wednesday on the 74th of November, and our anniversary will happily be... on those days where we both remember.
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Charly Gordon : Say, Miss Kinnian... where's Mr. Kinnian?
Alice Kinnian : He died, Charly.
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[Charly finds Alice waiting for him in his room]
Alice Kinnian : Saw your cycle outside.
Charly Gordon : It's for sale.
Alice Kinnian : What did you learn?
Charly Gordon : I'm back. What did you learn?
Alice Kinnian : I'm here.
[Alice walks to him in a smile]
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[last lines]
Alice Kinnian : Marry me?
[Charly goes silent by refusing]
Alice Kinnian : [sits down] All right, don't marry me.
Charly Gordon : [smiles] Motion carried.
Alice Kinnian : But I'm going to stay right here. Whenever you feel like telling me to go, just let me know - just tell me so. I'll go, I'll leave.
Charly Gordon : Leave.
[Alice goes stunned]
Charly Gordon : Please, leave.
Alice Kinnian : [solemnly] All right...
[Alice hesitates then slowly heads to the door]
Alice Kinnian : Good night.
Charly Gordon : [without looking at her] Good night.
[Alice leaves]
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Alice Kinnian : Doctor, isn't it true that the average retardate is overly sensitive and sometimes hostile?
Dr. Richard Nemur : [nods] Mm-hmm.
Alice Kinnian : Well, in Charly's working environment, he is the butt of all kinds of jokes, some of them cruel, yet he always remains cheerful and pleasant.
Dr. Richard Nemur : The fact remains, he is a grown man.
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[Alice slaps Charly on the face after been hardly kissed by him]
Alice Kinnian : You - you think anyone would ever want you, you stupid moron!
[Charly leaves Alice crying]