Does anyone know the quote…?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Prelude to a Kiss
Maremig67 — 19 years ago(February 26, 2007 04:05 AM)
I saw a piece of this once while flipping through channels, and sat through a speech given by the older gentleman to Alec Baldwin while they were sitting and playing a game [chess? poker?]. He basically monologues about the nature of life, how you're born and learn a variety of skills and lessons, then get older and have kids, etc etc. At the end of the speech I believe Baldwin's character sort of brushes him off as though the man is being too serious, or a bit morbid. I would LOVE if anyone could find/give me the text of this speech; I have yet to see the entire movie but I actually stopped my flipping, mesmerized by what the man was saying. I figured I'd be able to find the quote here, but no dice.
Thank you, if you can help! -
Daniel-31 — 18 years ago(August 13, 2007 11:29 AM)
For $8.95 you can buy the entire script of the original play on which the movie was based:
http://www.reacttheatre.org/shop.html#scripts
I didn't see the play so I don't knoww whether this speech was unchanged between the play and the movie. -
miesdebeste — 18 years ago(January 05, 2008 05:27 AM)
Hey. I rented the dvd recently and typed it out for you.
The movie is a little weird, especially when they try to speak Dutch (I'm Dutch myself)
But it's about Rita who changes bodies with this old guy. So it's actually Rita doing the speech.
Rita in old guy:
You know if you think how we're born and we go through all the struggle of growing up and learning the multipilication tables and the name for everything
The rules.
How not to get run over.
Braid your hair. Pig Latin.
Just all the effort.
Then getting a job.
Probably something you don't even like like doing, for not enough money, like tending bar.
And that's if you're lucky.
That's if you're not born in Calcutta.
Or the US without money.
Then there's your marriage, having your own kids if you know.
And they're going through the same struggle all over again.
Only worse, because somebody's trying to sell them crack in the first grade by now.
And all this time you're paying taxes, your hair starts to fall out, and you're wearing six pairs of glasses, which you can never find.
And you can't recognise yourself in the mirror.
And if you live long enough you finally get to watch everbody die.
All your loved ones. Your wife, your husband. Your kids maybe. And you're totally alone.
And as a final reward for all this, you disappear.
No one knows where.
Peter (Alex Baldwin):
I don't want you to die, Rita.
Rita in old guy:
I don't want me to die either. And I'm going to. So are you.
But we got to have this. I mean what a trip.
Meeting you and being in love. Falling.
It was bithcin' for a while.
And OK, so this isn't such a turn-on, I admit, but
Peter:
I adore you.
Rita in old guy:
What? My hearing. No, I'm serious.
Peter:
I said you would've hated Jamaica. Trust me.
Rita in old guy:
Come on. Call again. -
mmitsos-1 — 9 years ago(August 20, 2016 06:13 AM)
Thank you for typing this upespecially the Dutch part. I just saw the movie again last night, after not having seen it for years.ten, maybe, and forgot how much I loved it. And, I could pick up on the Dutch, and figured out which words had to be "white", "teeth", and "eat", just from hearing them, but, was really trying to see it all spelled all out in my mind. And then, you did it for us! Thank you!
