From the Hip (1987)
John Hurt: Douglas Benoit
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Quotes
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Robin 'Stormy' Weathers : Unfortunately, it doesn't matter that her body was never found. Brain tissue was all over her jacket. Somebody's dead, and the jury will be perfectly willing to believe that it's Liza Williams. Now please, let's go over your story one more time.
Douglas Benoit : Shall I say it in Hebraic this time, or maybe Latin? They do still teach Latin in law school these days?
Robin 'Stormy' Weathers : Actually, yes. Steve, tell him the Latin for pain in the ass.
Steve Hadley : Um, vox hemorrhoidum?
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Douglas Benoit : Let me explain something to you, Mr. Weathers. Through the vicissitudes of wholly gratuitous genetic accidents, I was visited with extremely high intelligence. I was further blessed - or burdened, as it were - with certain physical traits that would suggest, shall we say, "good breeding." Now, in this proletarian stew which we laughingly call society, these attributes are not always advantageous.
