A scene from The Iron Giant 1999
Hogarth

[Hogarth and Giant are in the woods. Giant sighs happily at the beauty of the vast forest.]

It's beautiful, huh? [sees a deer] Hey, look. [quietly] It's a deer.

Giant

Deer?

Hogarth

Shh! Let's get closer. [The Giant walks quietly to the deer. The deer sees the Giant and Hogarth. The Giant kneels down holding out his finger Hogarth and Giant smiles as the deer curiously sniffs Giant's finger. Then the deer hears a twig snap and it leaves.] Hmm, well I guess he decided to-- [suddenly, a gunshot is heard and birds fly past them, the Giant is shocked, and sees hunters kneeling over the deer they just shot as they turn to see the Giant.]

Hunter

[alarmed]

It's the monster! [they both drop their guns and run into the woods]

Hogarth

[shocked]

Oh, no. [Giant sees the deer is dead, and slowly reaches his finger down touching it, to no avail] It's dead.

Giant

[sadly]

Dead? [he tries to pick up the dead deer]

Hogarth

Don't do that!

Giant

[lets go of the dead deer; to Hogarth, confused]

W-- Why?

Hogarth

It's dead. Understand? They... shot it, with that gun. [Giant sees the gun his eyes narrow and turn red] Hey, what's wrong?

Giant

[snaps out of it]

Gun.

Hogarth

Yes. Guns kill.

Giant

Guns kill.

Hogarth

[Later that night, Giant and Hogarth are at the junkyard. Giant feels very sad about the deer. Hogarth walks up to him.]

I know you feel bad about the deer. But's it not your fault. Things die. It's part of life. It's bad to kill. But it's not bad to die.

Giant

You die?

Hogarth

Well... yes, someday.

Giant

I die?

Hogarth

I don't know, You're made of metal...but you have feelings. And you think about things. And that means you have a soul. And souls don't die.

Giant

Soul?

Hogarth

Mom says it's something inside of all good things... and that it goes on forever and ever. [pats Giant's face and walks away. Giant lies on the scraps and he looks up at the night sky.]

Giant

Souls don't die.

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