The Boxtrolls (2014)

Isaac Hempstead Wright: Eggs

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• Winnie : BoxTroll Exterminators? They live down in Curds Way.

  Eggs : How do I get there?

  Winnie : Curds Way?

  [pointing at street sign "Milk Street"] 

  Winnie : Milk turns into it.

  [rimshot is heard] 

• Eggs : Don't do it. You won't change who you are. Cheese, Hats, Boxes. They don't make you. "You" make you.

• Winnie : [When Eggs states that he is a Boxtroll]  Oh... really? Then let's see you fit into your box!

  Eggs : Err... I can't right now.

  Winnie : [nods head]  Ummhmm.

  Eggs : I'm long boned.

• Eggs : It won't change who you are. Cheese, hats, boxes-they don't make you who you are. You make you.

• Eggs : I told you, we don't eat people.

  Winnie : [challenging]  Why do you keep saying "we"? You're not one of them. You're a BOY.

  Eggs : [denying it]  No I'm not, I'm a Boxtroll.

  Winnie : Oh, really? Let's see you fit in your box.

  Eggs : [making excuses]  I can't right now. I'm long-boned.

  Winnie : And you don't talk like them.

  Eggs : I have a speech impediment.

  Winnie : Your ears aren't pointed.

  Eggs : I slept on them funny.

  Winnie : [when Eggs keeps insisting he's a Boxtroll]  Oh, for goodness sake, give me your hand. I don't bite.

  Winnie : [compares Eggs' hand to that of a Boxtroll's hand, who only has 3 fingers, and the middle finger is huge]  See? You're not like them.

  Winnie : [places her hand against his hand, and their fingers line up]  You're one of us. You're a boy, Eggs.

• Winnie : [Eggs is examining himself in a full-length mirror, he is now dressed in human clothes]  You look more like a proper boy.

  Eggs : [bemused]  Me, proper boy?

• Eggs : Please help us.

  Winnie : [exhales resignedly]  If I agree to help, you have to do exactly as I say.

  Eggs : I promise.

  Winnie : All right, first things first. Off with the box.

  Winnie : [Eggs recoils in shock; quick cut to all the Boxtrolls screaming at Eggs not wearing his box]  Stop that!

  Winnie : [to all the Boxtrolls]  Alright, you petty thieves, bring me your loot.

• Winnie : You were with the Boxtrolls last night?

  Eggs : Yes.

  Winnie : [gets real excited]  Oh. I knew it. I knew it! I knew it! Father didn't believe me, but I knew it! How did you escape?

  Eggs : We went underground.

  Winnie : Did they drag you down to their hideous cave?

  Eggs : [shocked by her question]  Huh?

  Winnie : [morbidly excited]  Were there mountains of baby bones? And rivers of blood?

  Eggs : [aghast by her questions]  What?

  Winnie : Did they eat your family, and did they let you watch?

  Eggs : What?

  Winnie : I mean, MAKE you watch? Tell me everything!

• Eggs : [when Winnie tells him to get in his box]  Err... I can't right now

  [Winnie clears her throat] 

  Eggs : I'm big boned

• Eggs : [practicing his manners]  It's a pleasure to meet you! It's a pleasure to meet you.

• Archibald Snatcher : You really think Portly-Rind and his mob will help a nobody like you? In this town, you want help, you gotta help yourself. That's what a man does.

  Eggs : You're a liar, when I tell Winnie's father the truth, he'll...

  [Snatcher knocks Eggs to the wall with a baseball bat] 

  Archibald Snatcher : HE'LL THANK ME. Because... all your little Boxtroll friends... are going to die. TONIGHT!

  Eggs : WHAT?

  Archibald Snatcher : THEY'LL MAKE ME THE MOST RESPECTED MAN IN THIS TOWN! They'll have no choice but to give me a white hat, they'll parade me. They'll take me up on their shoulders. And I'm NOT gonna let that be ruined by some little Boxtroll sewer rat!