Cloud Atlas (2012)
Halle Berry: Native Woman, Jocasta Ayrs, Luisa Rey, Indian Party Guest, Ovid, Meronym
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Quotes
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Zachry : Who tripped the Fall, if not Old Georgie?
Meronym : True-true? The Old Uns.
Zachry : That's just a rope o'smoke. Old Uns got the Smart. They mastered sick and seeds, they make miracles and fly across the sky.
Meronym : True. All true. But they got somethin' else. A hunger in their hearts, a hunger that's stronger than all their Smart.
Zachry : Hunger? For what?
Meronym : A hunger for more.
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[Old Sixsmith notices the "shooting star"-shaped birthmark]
Old Rufus Sixsmith : That's a very peculiar birthmark.
Luisa Rey : Yeah, my mom was sure it was going to be cancerous and kept trying to get me to remove it, but... I kinda like it.
Old Rufus Sixsmith : I knew someone who had a birthmark that was similar to that.
Luisa Rey : Who was it?
Old Rufus Sixsmith : Someone I cared about very much.
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Luisa Rey : You have to do whatever you can't not do.
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Luisa Rey : You seem nervous. Do I make you nervous, Isaac?
Isaac Sachs : No. Actually, just the opposite.
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Isaac Sachs : I had... a girlfriend once. She kept trying to get me to read... Carlos Castenada. You ever read any of *that* shit?
Luisa Rey : Oh yeah.
Isaac Sachs : But the relationship was doomed. Every time she brought up any of the karma, past life stuff, I-I couldn't stop myself from laughing. And yet... I can't explain it. But I knew when I opened that door...
[trails off, becomes serious]
Isaac Sachs : They destroyed most of the copies of the report.
Luisa Rey : Most?
Isaac Sachs : There's no good choice here, is there? If I help you, I could lose my job, or worse. If I don't, a lot of people... yeah it'll be worse than worse.
Luisa Rey : You have to do... whatever you can't *not* do.
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[Frobisher is misplaying Ayrs' composition]
Vyvyan Ayrs : [pained] Stop. Please. You're hurting me. You must have misheard me. I said a "melody", not a "malady".
[Jocasta enters]
Jocasta Ayrs : Vyvyan?
Vyvyan Ayrs : Jocasta! Deliver me.
Jocasta Ayrs : What's going on here? Who is this?
Jocasta Ayrs : I see. Should I be introduced?
Vyvyan Ayrs : There's really no point. The boy is as useful as the clap. Fortunately, he'll be much easier to get rid of.
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Luisa Rey : I... called about an old recording, written by a man named Robert Frobisher.
Store Clerk : Oops, busted. I know I shouldn't be playing it, I was... checking it to make sure it wasn't scratched. But... honestly, I just can't stop listening to it.
Luisa Rey : This is the "Cloud Atlas Sextet"?
Store Clerk : It's, uh... the "Symphony".
Luisa Rey : It's beautiful. But I think I've heard this before.
Store Clerk : Can't imagine how. I doubt there's more than a... handful of copies in all of North America.
Luisa Rey : But I know it. I know I know it.
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Luisa Rey : My little meteor.