Belfast (2021)
Judi Dench: Granny
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Granny : Go. Go now. Don't look back. I love you, son.
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Buddy : She looks at me sometimes, but we're not allowed to talk in the class, so I can't say anything. And then when we go out to the playground, she always goes off with the other girls. Anyways, I think she loves that other fella.
Pop : Ah, you don't know that for sure. Women are very mysterious.
Granny : And women can smash your face in, too, mister.
Pop : Your granny's become less mysterious over the years.
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Buddy : We have to do a project about the moon landing.
Pop : What? Those boys not come back from that?
Buddy : They did. Now we have to cut things out of the papers, and explain how they got there.
Granny : If they did get there, if they did get to the moon. Not what it says here. God doesn't like it.
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Granny : I'm always saying to your man there, what's yours is mine, and what's mine's me own.
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Granny : Well, them curries, I tried one once. I had to wear a nappy for a week.
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Buddy : We're going to the pictures. He's taking us to "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Granny : What in the name of God is that?
Buddy : It's a flying car.
Granny : Oh, God, I've heard it all.
Buddy : It goes over a cliff, and you nearly fall out of your seat. Do you want to come? It'll be company for you till my Pop's home.
Granny : If God had wanted me to see flying cars, I'd have been born with blinking wings. You love your films, don't you? I was a great one for the pictures when I was your age. I used to think you could climb right inside the screen and visit all those strange places you saw. Like that one in that film. What was that, uh...? Uh, "Lost Horizons". Did you ever see that?
Buddy : No. What was the name of the place, Granny?
Granny : Shangri-La. That's what they called it.
Buddy : Did you ever go there?
Granny : There were no roads to Shangri-La from our part of Belfast.
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Granny : Be careful what you wish for. That's what the minister at the wee mission says.
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Pop : You don't usually buy your wisdom with a walk in the park. Your heart - has to explode.
Granny : Mr. Philosopher. And when did your heart ever explode?
Pop : That time I saw you in those brown stockings.
Granny : Holy God.
[laughs]
Granny : I remember that. It took me half the day just staining my legs brown with the tobacco water. Then our Annie took half the night to draw the seam up the back of me legs with a pencil. You couldn't understand why you couldn't get your hands round them. You thought it was magic.
Pop : It was magic. When you've gray hair, people think your heart never skipped.
Granny : Did yours ever skip?
Pop : Aye, it danced a bloody jig every time you walked in the room.
Granny : Nah. You were full of it then, and you're full of it now.
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Buddy : I watched every night, too, that they were up there, and how did I never see Mike Collins in the mother ship doing his orbit? Sure you would have seen the shape of Columbus against the light of the moon.
Pop : No, that's 'cause mostly he was on the dark side.
Granny : Exactly. It's the side that Lucifer hangs his shillelagh.
Pop : What? No, look, he was on the dark side of the moon most of the time where we couldn't see him, you know, while he was doing his orbit, and then maybe, you know, just before he was due to come round the corner, you had to go in for your tea.
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Granny : You could do the project together, you and the young lady. You'd get the same marks and maybe end up on the same seat together.
Buddy : But how do I even talk to her?
Pop : [singing] How do you handle a woman? There's a way, said the wise old man, A way known by every woman, Since the whole rigmarole began...
Granny : [speaking] Yeah, it's all rigmarole with you, mister.
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Granny : Tell your mammy to stop her cheek, or I'm not taking you to the show.
