Taboo (2002)
Derek Hamilton: Benjamin
Quotes
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Benjamin : Question: Would you sleep with a minor? Answer: yes. Let's begin our slide into the moral abyss.
Katie : Oh! Naughty naughty.
Adam : Aw, shit, I, for one, had sex before I was fourteen. I don't see what the big deal is.
Benjamin : Really. I didn't think that they had altar boys in the, uh, the Jewish faith.
Elizabeth : [hurriedly trying to deflect any animosity] Okay, Piper, your turn.
Piper : Question: Would you sleep with a person of the same sex? Answer: yes.
Christian Turner : What a great game to play with our best friends.
Adam : Yeah, fuck Taboo. Let's have an orgy, huh?
Elizabeth : Or enroll in group therapy.
Benjamin : Well, maybe you need new friends.
Piper : Well, actually? We all seem pretty well suited for each other, so far.
Elizabeth : [looks at Adam] Your turn.
Adam : All right, the question is: Would you have a threesome? The answer is yes.
Christian Turner : Two girls and one guy, right?
Piper : Does it matter?
Katie : Well, Mr. Right Wing Conservative over there looks like he might think two girls might be fun. Huh?
[Piper, his current girlfriend, looks at him worriedly]
Elizabeth : Okay, my turn. Question: Would you have sex for money? Answer: yes.
[She looks at Katie]
Katie : I like sex, okay? That does not make me a hooker. At least it doesn't make me a bitch.
Benjamin : That's my baby.
Katie : Question. Mmm. Would you sleep with your partner's best friend? Answer? A very disappointing no.
Christian Turner : Wow. There's one good person amongst us sinners.
Katie : Christian. Pardon me, but don't you have to be a lot fatter and less educated to be part of the Christian coalition?
Christian Turner : So says the prep school anarchist.
Katie : Ah. No, no no. See, I am just a shallow, materialistic party girl, and at least I don't pretend to believe in principles.
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Christian Turner : [answering Katie] Well, I believe in principles.
Elizabeth : Surely, this doesn't have any...
Benjamin : Christian, stop pouting and, uh, read the last question!
Adam : I think he's scared to read the question.
[Christian shakes his head, disturbed by what he's reading]
Adam : Just read the card!
Christian Turner : This - Okay.
[shakes his head]
Christian Turner : Would you sleep with a relative? Answer: yes.
[There are various murmurs of discomposure]
Adam : That's fucking disgusting.
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[It's New Year's Eve, a year after the team played the Taboo game, and they're all slightly drunk and antagonistic]
Benjamin : Ladies, please. I mean, we haven't seen each other since graduation. Could you guys try and be nice, maybe? You know, stop the whiny, insecure, competitive bullshit? Please?
Adam : Yeah, I'm the Jew, it's my job!
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[They raise their champagne glasses in a toast, as the New Year approaches]
Christian Turner : Here, a toast. To the four people in the world that I most love to hate. And
[nodding to Elizabeth]
Christian Turner : to the one that I hate to love.
Elizabeth : [She grins] To relationships that last as long as we live.
[She smiles saucily at Christian]
Elizabeth : As short as that may be.
Piper : To the twelve seconds.
Benjamin : [mocking her drunkenness] "Twelve theconds." I'd like to make a toast to bread. Because without bread, there would be no toast.
Katie : [to Elizabeth, spitefully] Uh, a toast for the cure to cancer! And, uh, ending world hunger, and everything else I'll never be involved in!
Piper : [drunk but happy] To special people! And special times.
Adam : Special Olympics!
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[Benjamin has been studying a portrait on the wall and the plaque below it, when Elizabeth comes to join him]
Benjamin : She looks very happy, huh?
[He reads aloud:]
Benjamin : Virtue, Honesty, and Justice.
Elizabeth : Christian's family motto. Words to live by.
Benjamin : [starts to laugh, but stops] Yeah, yeah. Or to, um, die by.