Barcelona (1994) · 24 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Barcelona (1994): in 15 of its 24 quotes
Most scenes with: Fred Boynton (12), Ted Boynton (8)
I don't go to bed with just anyone anymore. I have to be attracted to them sexually.
Marta Ferrer Ramon is very persuasive, and he painted a terrible picture of what it would be like for her to live the rest of her life in America, with all of its crime, consumerism, and vulgarity. All those loud, badly dressed, fat people watching their eighty channels of television and visiting shopping malls. The plastic throw-everything-away society with its notorious violence and racism. And finally, the total lack of culture.
Marta You seem very intelligent for an American.
Well, I'm not.
Spanish girls tend to be really promiscuous.
You're such a prig.
No, I wasn't using "promiscuous" pejoratively. It's just a fact. They have completely different attitudes toward sex.
Well, I wasn't using "prig" pejoratively.
Here in Barcelona, everything was swept aside. The world was turned upside down and stayed there.
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the world was upside down before, and now it's right side up?
You're very perceptive.
Montserrat What?
You're very perceptive.
Montserrat What?
You are very perceptive.
Montserrat Oh. Thank you.
You can't say Americans are not more violent than other people.
No.
All those people killed in shootings in America?
Oh, shootings, yes. But that doesn't mean Americans are more violent than other people. We're just better shots.
Montserrat I think you are too sensitive.
Oh great, now we're too sensitive. I think it's well-known that anti-Americanism has its roots in sexual impotence, at least in Europe.
Maybe you'd like an analogy. Well, take... take these ants. In the U.S. view, a small group, or cadre, of fierce red ants have taken power and are oppressing the black ant majority. Now the stated U.S. policy is to aid those black ants opposing the red ants in hopes of restoring democracy, and to impede the red ants from assisting their red ant comrades in neighboring ant colonies.
Ramon That is clearly the most disgusting description of U.S. policy I have ever heard. The Third World is just a lot of ants to you.
Those are people dying, not ants.
No, I... I don't think you understand. I was reducing everything to ant scale, the... the U.S. included. An ant White House, an ant CIA, an ant Congress, an ant Pentagon...
Ramon Secret ant landing strips, illegally established on foreign soil.
Where are the red ants?
Maybe you can clarify something for me. Since I've been, you know, waiting for the fleet to show up, I've read a lot, and...
Really?
And one of the things that keeps popping up is about "subtext." Plays, novels, songs - they all have a "subtext," which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?
The text.
OK, that's right, but they never talk about that.
Marta I think there is something fascist about a boy who immediately talks of marrying a woman he likes.
I don't think Ted is a fascist of the marrying kind.
You think wedding vows are going to change everything? God, your naivete is astounding! Didn't you see The Graduate?
You can remember The Graduate?
Yeah, I can remember a few things. Apparently you don't. The end? Katharine Ross has just married this really cool guy - tall, blond, incredibly popular, the make-out king of his fraternity in Berkeley - when this obnoxious Dustin Hoffman character shows up at the back of the church, acting like a total asshole. "Elaine! Elaine!" Does Katharine Ross tell Dustin Hoffman, "Get lost, creep. I'm a married woman"? No. She runs off with him - on a bus. That is the reality.
Are you sure you don't want to go?
No.
Good.
Who am I?
The kid with the kayak, but older and fatter, leave me alone!
This is amazing, he is going to have a complete recovery!
Tonight while I was shaving - I always shave against the direction of the beard because I understood you got a closer shave that way - I started thinking about this razor commercial on TV which shows the hair follicles like this, going this way. The first of the twin blades cuts them here, then the hair snaps back, and the second blade catches them down here, giving you a closer, cleaner, possibly smoother shave, that we know. But what struck me was if the hair follicles are going in this direction and the razor is too, then they're shaving in the direction of the beard, not against it, which would mean that I've been shaving the wrong way all my life. I mean, maybe that's not so, maybe I misremembered the ad, but the point is, I could have shaved the wrong way all my life and never have known it. And then I could have taught my son to shave the wrong way without him ever knowing it either.
Marta You have a son?
No... But I might someday. And then maybe I'll teach him to shave the wrong way.
Marta I think maybe my English is not so good.
