Frank:
That's the point. I love both of them - the good and the bad.
Rod:
And the ugly.
Frank:
She's a con man
Rod:
So?
Frank:
That's bad
Rod:
Mate, your hair is bad. This, this is exciting.
Frank:
Please say it, say those three words, just three.
Miranda:
Fuck off...
[
pause]
Miranda:
now
Frank:
I had always wanted to know what those love songs were all about, now I know why they are all sad.
Frank:
Maybe she was kidnapped.
Rod:
Maybe she just... left. Life's a bitch.
Frank:
I know.
Rod:
And life has a lot of sisters.
Miranda:
Will you go with me?
Frank:
Why?
Miranda:
Because you make me want to run in the fields.
Frank:
But... why?
Miranda:
Because I need you.
Frank:
Yeah. But why?
Miranda:
Because I love you.
Frank:
Maybe I was in love with a woman who didn't exist. It was ridiculous.
Miranda:
Wait! I can learn. I can be whatever you want me to be.
Christian:
You know it's a myth, don't ya?
Miranda:
What?
Christian:
Love... it's just an incentive to propagate the species.
Frank:
When we were together, I didn't care if I had ever been told a truth in my life.
Miranda:
It's like whatever we say becomes true.
Frank:
Love is a powerful force. Romeo topped himself... so that Cleopatra... Samson pulled down an entire city to win Delilah. Love conquers everything. And yet, there are times when even love itself is powerless. At those times, I prefer to use a breadboard.
Frank:
She's a con man.
Rod:
And?
Frank:
It's bad!
Rod:
No, Frank, your hair... is bad. She is exciting. No, no... she's beyond exciting. She's... she's international. Get out there, conquer it.
Frank:
I can't.
Rod:
Why not?
Frank:
I'm a librarian.
Rod:
Frank, you're clinging to the past. You haven't even got one. You just... stayed in.
[
Frank begins narrating during a montage]
Frank:
He was right. That's all I did. I stayed in. Read books. Until I met her. And what had I done? I panicked. I'd thrown it away. In one month with her... I'd been kidnapped... we'd made 5 million quid from a psychopath. I was alive, electrified by raw, painful, horrible, glorious life. I was in love with 2 women. And that was fine... because both of them were her.
[
Frank is now talking to Rod while driving]
Frank:
That's the thing, I don't just love the girl with the brown eyes who laid beside me by the sea. I love the girl with the blue eyes as well. The one in London.
Rod:
What was her name?
Frank:
Miranda! That's the point! I love both of them. The good and the bad.
Rod:
Annie Oakley.
Frank:
[
taking a deep breath] Would you like to go for a drink?
Miranda:
No. Why?
Frank:
You know, when people say the've seen miracles? Amazing things like, you know, they say they've seen the face of the virgin Mary. But it ain't, it's just a piece of coal or something.
Miranda:
Yeah?
Frank:
Well, what's important is, they've witnessed something of such humongously large, religous proportions, that their whole life just - shimmers.
Miranda:
Yeah.
Frank:
That's me, that is.
[
very serious]
Frank:
*You* are my virgin Mary... coal... thing.
[
long pause]
Frank:
I just wanna sit beside you in a bar. Go on then, say no. I know you're gonna say it.
Miranda:
Allright then. One drink, no fuck.
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