KATE & LEOPOLD [2001]

If They Lived In The Same Century 

They'd Be Perfect For Each Other

Time. Time, it has been proposed, is the fourth dimension. 

And yet, for mortal man, time has no dimension at all. 

We are like horses with blinders, seeing only what lies before us. 

Forever guessing the future and fabricating the past.

[Roebling]

I don't want it to be Sunday. I want more of this, more 1876. 

[Kate] 

Sunday is the day before the day I work, so it gets poisoned. 

[Kate]

The brave are simply those with the clearest vision of what is before them - glory and danger alike - and, notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

[Leopold, quoting Thucydides]

Marriage is the promise of eternal love. 

As a man of honor I cannot promise eternally what I've never felt momentarily. 

[Leopold]

Otis always told me love is a leap. Lamentably, I was never inspired to jump. 

[Leopold]

What has happened to the world? 

You have every convenience and comfort, yet no time for integrity. 

[Leopold]

Where I come from the meal is the result of reflection and study. 

Menus are prepared in advance, timed to perfection. 

It is said that without the culinary arts, the crudeness of reality would be unbearable. 

[Leopold]

[Stuart]: I found it. 

[Kate]: What did you find?

[Stuart]: The portal. A crack in the fabric of time. 

It was over the East River, Kate, just where I said it would be.

[Kate]: You found the portal?

[Stuart]: A portal into April 28th, 1876. 

I jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and took a walk in 1876 today. 

I followed the Duke of Albany around old New York. 

Are you listening? 

[Kate]: Avidly. 

[Stuart]: This here's the twist, Kate. Here's the kicker. 

[Kate]: What's the kicker?

[Stuart, whispering]: He followed me home.

[Charlie]: Don't you think it's time you told me who you are. 

I mean, don't get me wrong, doing the Duke thing with you 24/7 is a blast, but really. 

Who are you?

[Leopold, after a pause]: I'm the man that loves your sister. 

[Kate]: Why are you standing? 

[Leopold]: I am accustomed to stand when a lady leaves the table. 

[so Charlie gets up]

[Kate]: I'm not very good with men. 

[Leopold]: Perhaps you haven't found the right one. 

[Kate]: Maybe. 

Or, uh... maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; 
just a myth we've been fed since childhood. 

So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney. 

[Kate]: Are you for real? 

[Leopold]: I believe so. 

[Stuart]: It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. 

Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don't see colour. 

Just like we don't see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can't see it. 

It's just like a blur. 

It's like we're riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, 
but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? 

Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? 

A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you're sitting in. 

Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. 

And that's it; it's that simple. 

That's all I discovered. 

I'm just a... a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. 

I'm that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me. 

[Gretchen]: I believe you. 

*****

CITY OF ANGELS [1998]

What If Angels Walked Among Us, 

And One of Them Fell in Love With Us?

I came to take Mr. Balford... and I saw you. 

I couldn't take my eyes off you. How you fought for him. 

And you looked right at me... like I was a man.

[Seth]

I always asked the dying what they liked best about living. 

Wrote it down in my book. 

This is it. This is what I like best.

[Seth]

 I'm not afraid. 

When they ask me what I liked the best, I'll tell them, it was you.

[Maggie Rice]

[Cassiel]: To smell the air.

[Seth]: Taste water.

[Cassiel]: Read a newspaper.

[Seth]: To lie.

[Cassiel]: Through your teeth. To feed the dog.

[Seth]: Touch her hair.

[Cassiel]: What are you waiting for?

[Seth]: The little girl asked me if she could be an angel.

[Cassiel]: They all want wings.

[Seth]: I never know what to say.

[Cassiel]: Tell them the truth. Angels aren't human. We were never human.

[Seth]: What if I just make her a little pair of wings out of paper? 

[Seth]: I fell.

[Ann]: Evidently. Off a train?

[Seth]: I fell in love. Ann, please help me find her.

[Seth]: You're an excellent doctor.

[Maggie]: How do you know?

[Seth]: I have a feeling.

[Maggie]: That's pretty flimsy evidence.

[Seth]: Close your eyes. It's just for a moment. [touches her hand] What am I doing?

[Maggie]: You're... touching me.

[Seth]: Touch. How do you know?

[Maggie]: Because, I feel it.

[Seth]: You should trust that. You don't trust it enough.

[Seth]: Why do people cry?

[Maggie]: What do you mean?

[Seth]: I mean, what happens physically?

[Maggie]: Well... umm... tear ducts operate on a normal basis to lubricate and protect the eye and when you have an emotion they overact and create tears.

[Seth]: Why? Why do they overact?

[Maggie]: I don't know.

[Seth]: Maybe... maybe emotion becomes so intense your body just can't contain it. 
Your mind and your feelings become too powerful, and your body weeps.


Some things are true whether you believe 'em or not.

[Nathaniel Messinger]

[Nathaniel Messinger]: Seth knows no fear, no pain, no hunger, he hears music in the sunrise. 
But he'd give it all up, he loves you that much.

[Maggie Rice]: I don't understand.

[Nathaniel Messinger]: He can fall, he can give up his existence as he knows it, he can give up eternity and become... one of us.

[Maggie Rice]: We fight for people's lives in here, right?

[Jordan Ferris]: Uh-huh.

[Maggie Rice]: Don't you ever wonder who it is we're fighting with?

*****

ANASTASIA [1997]

Discover The Adventure Behind The Greatest Mystery Of Our Time

 Saint Petersburg is gloomy.
Saint Petersburg is bleak.
My underwear got frozen standing here all weak.
Since the revolution out lives have been so gray.
Thank goodness for the gossip that gets us through the day.
Have you heard there's a rumour in Saint Petersburg?
Have you hear what they're saying on the street?
Although The Czar did not survive, one daughter may be still alive.
The Princess Anastasia.
It's a rumour, a legend, a mystery.
Something whispered in an alleyway or through a crack.
It's a rumour, that's part of our history.
They say her royal grandmamma will pay a royal sum.
To someone who can bring the princess back.

Everything's going according to plan.
All we need is a girl.
Just think, Vlad, no more forging papers, no more stolen goods.
We'll have 3 tickets out of here,
one for you, one for me, and one for Anastasia.
~Dmitri

I am grateful, grateful to get away.
"Go left," she says.
Well, I know what's to the left.
I'll be 'Anya the orphan' forever.
But if I go right, maybe I could find... whoever gave me this necklace must have loved me.
~Anya

Heart don't fail me now, courage don't desert me,
don't turn back now that we're here.
People always say, life is full of choices, no one ever mentions fear,
or how the world can seem so vast, on the journey to the past.
Somewhere down this road I know someone's waiting,
years of dreams just can't be wrong.
Arms will open wide, I'll be safe and wanted, finally home where I belong.
Well starting now I'm learning fast, 
on this journey to the past.
Home, love, family, there was once a time I must have had them, too.
One hope then another, who knows where this road may go?
Back to who I was, on to find my future, things my heart still needs to know.
Yes, let this be a sign, let this road be mine, let it lead me to my past,
and bring home at last.
~Anya

Dmitri: Do you ever think about the posibillity?
Anya: That I could be royalty? [Dmitri & Vladimir shook their head]
Well, I don't know, 
it's kind of hard to think of yourself as a duchess when you're sleeping on a damp floor.
But sure, every lonely girl would hope she's a princess.

Take it easy there, sir, really, you should watch your blood pressure.
My nephew, Izzie, just keeled over one day, mid-mango.
Stress, it's a killer, sir.
And he's a fruit bat. 
No meat, no blood even.
~Bartok

Just wishing I could do the job for you, sir.
I'd give her a ahhh,
and a haiyyaaaa,
and then whoo-ahhhh,
and I'd kick her, sir.
~Bartok

Look at me, Dmitri.
I am not exactly grand duchess material here.
~Anya

There is nothing left for you back there, my dear.
Everything is in Paris.
~Vladimir

I should never let them dance.
~Vladimir

Three days ago I didn't have any past at all
and now I'm trying to remember an entire lifetime.
~Anya

Sophie: Finally, you'll most likely find this an impertinent question, but indulge me.
How did you escape during the siege of the palace?
Anya: There was a boy... a boy who worked in the palace.
He opened a wall. [giggles]
I'm sorry, that's crazy... walls opening...

Vlad: WEEEE DID IT!!!
We're going to see The Imperial Highness tonight.
We're going to get the 10 million roubles.
We're going to be...
Dmitri: Vlad... Vlad... She is the princess.
Vlad, ignoring him: Anya was extraordinary! I almost believed her!

Dmitri: We don't have anything to be nervous about.
She's the princess.
Vlad: I know, I know, but...
Dmitri: No, no, you don't know.
I was the boy in the palace, the one who opened the wall.
She's the real thing, Vlad.
Vlad: That means our Anya has found her family.
We have found the heir to the Russian throne.
And you...
Dmitri: Will walk out of her life forever.
Vlad: But...
Dmitri: Princesses don't marry kitchen boys.

Tell that impertinent young man that I have seen enough Grand Duchess Anastasias
to last me a lifetime.
~Dowager Empress Marie

Dowager Empress Marie: I know what you're after.
I've seen it before.
Man who trained young women in the royal ways.
Dmitri: But Your Highness, will you just listen?
Dowager Empress Marie: Haven't you been listening? I've had enough!
I don't care how mush you have fashioned this girl to look like her,
sound like her or act like her.
In the end, it is never her!
Dmitri: This time it is her.

Sir, I'm begging you.
Please, please, forget the girl and get a life.
~Bartok

Dowager Empress Marie: Young man, where did you get that music box?
You were the boy, weren't you?
The servant boy who got us out.
You saved her life, and mine, then you restored her to me.
Yet, you want no reward?
Dmitri: Not anymore.
Dowager Empress Marie: Why the change of mind?
Dmitri: It was more a change of heart.

Dowager Empress Marie: He's not there.
Anya: Oh, I know he's not here...
Who's not there, Grandmamma?
Dowager Empress Marie: A remarkable young man who found a music box.
Anya: Well, he's probably too busy spending his reward money as fast as he can.
Dowager Empress Marie: Look at them dance.
You were born into this world of glittering jewels and fine titles.
But I wonder if this is what you really want.
Anya: Of course, of course it is.
I found what I was looking for.
I found out who I am.
I found you.
Dowager Empress Marie: Yes, you did find me.
And you'll always have me.
But is it enough? [hug her]
My darling, he didn't take the money.
Anya: He didn't?
Dowager Empress Marie: Knowing that you are alive, 
seeing the woman you have become, bring me joy I never thought I could feel again.
Whatever you choose, we will always have each other.

Rasputin!!!
Destroyed by your despicable family.
But what goes around, comes around.
~Rasputin

Sophie: They've eloped. Isn't it romantic?
It's a perfect ending.
Dowager Empress Marie: No, it's a perfect beginning.


*****

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE [1993]

What If Someone You Never Met, 

Someone You Never Saw, 

Someone You Never Knew 
Was The Only Someone For You?

Destiny is something we've invented 

because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental. 

[Annie Reed]

When a man is a widower why do we say he was widowed? 

Why don't we say he was widowered?

[Annie Reed] 

Your destiny can be your doom. Look at me and my Rick.

[Becky]

[Annie Reed]: Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! 

Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. 

It was right. It was real. It was... 

[Becky]: A movie! That's your problem! 

You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Look, Annie... I love you. 

But let's leave that out of this. 

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. 

I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. 

Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it? 

[Walter]

[Doctor Marcia Fieldstone]: People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. 

Sam, do you think there's someone out there you could love as much as your wife?

[Sam Baldwin]: Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that's hard to imagine.

[Doctor Marcia Fieldstone]: What are you going to do? 

[Sam Baldwin]: Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... 

breathe in and out all day long. 

Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning 

and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.

[Doctor Marcia Fieldstone]: Tell me what was so special about your wife?

[Sam Baldwin]: Well, how long is your program? 

Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, 

they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. 

I knew it the very first time I touched her. 

It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... 

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. 

It was like... magic.

[Taxi Driver, after takes Jonah to Empire State Building]: There it is. 

What are you gonna do when you get up there? Spit off the top?

[Jonah Baldwin]: No, I'm gonna meet my new mother.

Annie, when you're attracted to someone, 

it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. 

So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. 

[Dennis Reed]

*****