The Americanization of Emily
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1:13:01
I signed them. They're in my purse.
1:13:04
I was going to give you them
this afternoon...

1:13:05
but you came prancing in
with this very funny joke...

1:13:08
you're playing on Bus, the Navy,
your country and the whole bloody world.

1:13:13
Look, I suppose I'm just a stupid romantic,
but I sort of feel the joke's on me, too.

1:13:17
I believe in honor, service,
courage, and fair play...

1:13:22
and cricket, and all the symbols
of the British character...

1:13:24
which have only civilized half the world.
1:13:26
You British plundered half the world
for your own profit.

1:13:29
- It's not the Age of Enlightenment.
- That's an American way of looking at it.

1:13:32
Don't get into
a "the trouble with you Yanks" thing.

1:13:35
- It has nothing to do with it.
- It has everything to do with it.

1:13:38
I'm British,
and you're a bloody fool American.

1:13:41
I don't want to see you again.
1:13:47
General Kitchener aside, Emily,
the only thing that's going on here...

1:13:50
is a woman trying to shake off her lover.
1:13:53
If you don't love me, say so.
1:13:55
Nobody gets moral unless they're trying
to get something or get out of something.

1:13:59
You're trying to get out of marrying me.
If you don't love me, just say so.

1:14:03
Otherwise, I'll figure
you're just frightened.

1:14:06
- Frightened of what?
- Frightened of getting married.

1:14:08
Don't be an ass.
1:14:10
The weekend passion is over.
1:14:12
Now it's down to signing applications,
babies, setting up house...

1:14:15
you have to commit yourself to life now.
1:14:18
I don't want to know
what's good or bad or true.

1:14:21
I let God worry about the truth.
1:14:22
I just want to know
the momentary fact of things.

1:14:25
Life isn't good or bad or true.
1:14:27
It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive.
1:14:31
My idea of living sensual facts
are you, a home, a country...

1:14:34
a world, a universe. In that order.
1:14:38
I want to know what I am,
not what I should be.

1:14:40
The fact is, I'm a coward.
I never met anyone who wasn't.

1:14:45
I'm not.
1:14:46
You're the most terrified woman
I've ever met.

1:14:49
You're even scared to get married.
1:14:51
I've already been married.
1:14:53
Sure. You married him three days before
he went to Africa.

1:14:56
Thank God he never came back.
1:14:58
You're forever falling in love with men
on their last nights of furlough.


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