Deep Red (1975)

David Hemmings: Marcus Daly

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• Gianna Brezzi : I think that a woman's gotta be independent so she can...

  Marcus Daly : Oh, don't start with me about all that woman's stuff. It is a fundamental fact... men are different from women. Women are... weaker; well, they're gentler.

  Gianna Brezzi : They're what? Weaker? Gentler?

  [she howls in laughter - stops laughing, stands, unbuttons jacket, moves to the table, determinedly clearing it] 

  Marcus Daly : What on earth are you doing?

  Gianna Brezzi : [sitting again and holding her arm up, wriggling her fingers]  Come on, Tarzan. Why don't you try me?

  Marcus Daly : What's that?

  Gianna Brezzi : Arm wrestling.

  [brusquely] 

  Gianna Brezzi : Come on. Then we'll see who's weaker!

  Marcus Daly : Oh, don't be ridiculous!

  Gianna Brezzi : You backing out?

• Marcus Daly : Gianna! Gianna! There's someone in the house... absolutely trying to kill me, ya'know?

• Carlo : Look, maybe you've seen something so important you can't realize it.

  Marcus Daly : But... I'm just trying to understand, because...

  Carlo : You know, sometimes what you actually see and what you imagine... get mixed up in your memory like a cocktail... from which you can no longer distinguish one flavor from another.

  Marcus Daly : But I'm telling you the truth!

  Carlo : No, Marc. You think you're telling the truth, but in fact... you're telling only your version of the truth. It happens to me all the time.

• [back at the car with Marc] 

  Marcus Daly : What'd you do?

  Olga : Nothing. Don't pay any attention; my father's just a little crazy.

  [at Rodi's feet, a lizard with a pin through it's head, squirming on the ground] 

• Marcus Daly : [playing a jazz piece, Marc abruptly stops and addresses the band]  Great! Really, that's good. Very good. Maybe a bit too good... Too clean. Yes, too precise. Too... formal. It should be more trashy. See what I mean? Remember that this sort of jazz came out of the brothels.

• Marcus Daly : It seems there are just some things you can't do seriously with liberated women.

• Calcabrini : What are you doing in Italy?

  Marcus Daly : I am a pianist. Jazz. I teach here at the conservatory. I teach jazz.

  Calcabrini : And you play the piano, right? So, in that case you don't have a job, right?

  Marcus Daly : I told you, I'm a pianist.

  Calcabrini : Yeah, sure.

• Marcus Daly : [Scream!]  What was that?

  Carlo : A scream.

  [pause] 

  Carlo : I'd say

  [longer pause] 

  Carlo : might somebody be getting raped.

  [Even longer pause, raises wineglass] 

  Carlo : Hail to the raped virgin.

• Marcus Daly : Well, so now what are you going to do?

  Carlo : Kill you... I'm sorry 'cause I like you, but I have to kill you.