Moonraker (1979)
Michael Lonsdale: Hugo Drax
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Quotes
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[Bond and Drax are shooting pheasants]
Hugo Drax : You missed, Mr. Bond.
[a sniper falls from a tree]
James Bond : Did I?
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Hugo Drax : Mr. Bond, you defy all my attempts to plan an amusing death for you. You're hardly a sportsman, so why did you break off the encounter with my pet python?
James Bond : I discovered she had a crush on me.
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Hugo Drax : James Bond. You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season.
James Bond : I didn't think there WERE any seasons in space.
Hugo Drax : So far as you're concerned, there's only winter.
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Hugo Drax : Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him.
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[Drax addresses his staff aboard the space station]
Hugo Drax : First there was the dream, now there is reality. Here in the untainted cradle of the heavens will be created a new super race, a race of perfect physical specimens. You have been selected as its progenitors. Like gods, your offspring will return to Earth and shape it in their image. You have all served in public capacties in my terrestrial empire. Your seed, like yourselves, will pay deference to the ultimate dynasty which I alone have created. From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens.
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Hugo Drax : [Hastily grabs pistol, trains it on Bond who has cornered him] At least I shall have the pleasure of putting you out of my misery, Mr. Bond.
[Drax chuckles as Bond raises his hands]
Hugo Drax : Desolated, Mr. Bond?
James Bond : [Bond shoots Drax with a poison dart from his wrist-gun. Drax, gasping, drops his pistol and staggers backwards toward the airlock] Heartbroken, Mr. Drax. Allow me.
[He opens the airlock door and pushes Drax in]
James Bond : Take a giant step for mankind!
[He closes the door and ejects Drax into space]
Dr. Holly Goodhead : [rejoining 007] Where's Drax?
James Bond : Oh, he had to fly.
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Hugo Drax : Even in death, my munificence is boundless. When this rocket lifts off, I shall be leaving you in your own private crematorium. Mr. Bond, Dr. Goodhead, I bid you - farewell.
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Hugo Drax : Frederick Gray! What a surprise. And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks. You must excuse me, gentlemen; not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow!
Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence : On behalf of the British government, I apologize.
M , James Bond : I believe you owe us some explanation, 007.
James Bond : I quite agree, sir.
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Hugo Drax : Jaws, Mr. Bond must be cold after his swim. Place him where he can be assured of warmth.
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Hugo Drax : Despite your efforts, my finely-wrought dream approaches its fulfillment.
James Bond : And what dream are you speaking of?
Hugo Drax : Witness the splendor of my conception. First: a necklace of death about the Earth. Fifty globes, each releasing its nerve gas over a designated area, each capable of killing 100 million people. The human race, as you know it, will cease to exist. Second: a rebirth, the rise of a new world.
Dr. Holly Goodhead : Any dream rooted in that sort of holocaust hasn't a chance, Drax. Hitler thought so, remember?
Hugo Drax : [chuckles] So I've been told by others. We shall see whether I have learned enough from the mistakes of his Third Reich to succeed where he failed.
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Drax Radarman 1 : U.S. spacecraft on course to intercept us, sir.
Hugo Drax : Activate laser. Prepare to destroy spacecraft.
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James Bond : What exactly are you up to here, Drax? And why the orchids?
Hugo Drax : The curse of a civilization. It was neither war nor pestilence that wiped out the race who built the great city lying around us. It was their reverence for this lovely flower.
James Bond : Because long-term exposure to its pollen causes sterility.
Hugo Drax : Correct, Mr. Bond. As you discovered, I have improved upon sterility. Those same seeds now yield death. Not, of course, to animals or plant life; one must preserve the balance of nature.
James Bond : ...One more thing, Drax: You delivered a shuttle to the U.S. government, then you yourself hijacked it. Why?
Hugo Drax : Because I needed it. One of my own Moonrakers developed a fault during assembly.
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Hugo Drax : You have arrived at a propitious moment, coincident with your country's one indisputable contribution to Western Civilization: Afternoon tea. May I press you to a cucumber sandwich?
James Bond : Thank you, no, nothing at all.
