Julia Stiles aufgeführt in der Rolle von...
Joan Brandwyn
- [Giselle has been secretly seeing a married psychologist]
- Betty Warren: Does he pay you for sex? I mean, at the rate you're going, you could make a fortune.
- Joan Brandwyn: Betty!
- Betty Warren: Everyone thinks so. Do you know what they say? They say you're a whore. And pretty soon, once they've all sampled you, they'll toss you aside like a used rag.
- Joan Brandwyn: Betty, stop! Now!
- Betty Warren: The men you love don't even want you! Your father doesn't want you!
- Giselle Levy: [to Connie] I'm gonna meet you downstairs.
- Betty Warren: Professor Dunbar?
- Connie Baker: Betty, that's enough!
- Betty Warren: Everyone knows that you hide outside his house! It must be torturous running after a man who doesn't even care about you. Who's in love with someone else. Who hates you!
- Giselle Levy: Betty...
- Betty Warren: He *hates* you!
- [Giselle pulls Betty into a hug]
- Betty Warren: Get off of me!
- [Betty struggles, but gives in a sobs on Giselle's shoulder]
- Betty Warren: [about her husband] He doesn't want me!
- Giselle Levy: [sympathetically] I know...
- Katherine Watson: There are seven law schools within 45 minutes of Philadelphia. You can study and get dinner on the table by 5:00.
- Joan Brandwyn: It's too late.
- Katherine Watson: No, some of them accept late admissions! Now, I was upset at first, I can tell you that. When Tommy came to me at the dance and told me he was accepted to Penn, I thought, 'Oh God, her fate is sealed! She's worked so hard, how can she throw it all away?' But then I realized you won't have to! You can bake your cake and eat it too! It's just wonderful!
- Joan Brandwyn: We're married. We eloped over the weekend. It turned out he was petrified of a big ceremony, so we did a sort of spur-of-the-moment thing. Very romantic.
- [Katherine is stunned]
- Joan Brandwyn: It was my choice, not to go. He would have supported it.
- Katherine Watson: But you don't have to choose!
- Joan Brandwyn: No, I have to. I want a home, I want a family! That's not something I'll sacrifice.
- Katherine Watson: No one's asking you to sacrifice that, Joan. I-I just want you to understand that you can do both.
- Joan Brandwyn: Do you think I'll wake up one morning and regret not being a lawyer?
- Katherine Watson: Yes, I'm afraid that you will.
- Joan Brandwyn: Not as much as I'd regret not having a family, not being there to raise them. I know exactly what I'm doing and it doesn't make me any less smart. This must seem terrible to you.
- Katherine Watson: I didn't say that. I...
- Joan Brandwyn: Sure you did. You always do. You stand in class and tell us to look beyond the image, but you don't. To you a housewife is someone who sold her soul for a center hall colonial. She has no depth, no intellect, no interests. You're the one who said I could do anything I wanted. This is what I want.
- Katherine Watson: [hugs] Congratulations. Be happy.
- [walks away]
- Connie Baker: And, it was perfect, romantic, we stayed up all night, talking.
- Joan Brandwyn: [to Giselle] You're late, what happened to Sunday brunch?
- Giselle Levy: We stayed up all night, too. Not talking.
- Connie Baker: The psychoanalyst again.
- Giselle Levy: Divine exhaustion.
- Katherine Watson: It says here that you're pre-law. What law school are you going to go to?
- Joan Brandwyn: I hadn't really thought about that. After I graduate, I plan on getting married.
- Katherine Watson: And then?
- Joan Brandwyn: [confused] And then... I'll be married.
- Joan Brandwyn: I've got a secret to tell you. I got accepted early to Yale Law School.
- Betty Warren: To *what*? Why? You don't want to be a lawyer!
- Joan Brandwyn: Maybe I do.
- Betty Warren: You won't switch brands of cold cream without asking me, but you applied to law school?
- Joan Brandwyn: On a lark. We never thought I'd get in.
- Betty Warren: Who's 'we'?
- Joan Brandwyn: Miss Watson. She practically filled out my application for me.
- Betty Warren: You've got to be kidding me. What right does she have? You're getting married!
- Joan Brandwyn: First of all, there's no ring on this finger. Second, I can do both. I can!
- Betty Warren: You are this close to getting you ever wanted. And this close to losing it.
- Connie Baker: [holding up a diaphragm] This isn't what I think it is, is it?
- Joan Brandwyn: Where'd you get it?
- Giselle Levy: From the school nurse.
- Betty Warren: It's against the law!
- Giselle Levy: No, honey, it's a girl's best friend.
- Betty Warren: A certain kind of girl.
- Giselle Levy: Meet the last virgin bride.
- Betty Warren: Spencer is a gentleman.
- Giselle Levy: And even gentlemen have dicks.
- Connie Baker: Maybe I'll get one!
- Giselle Levy: What, a dick?
- Betty Warren: Don't be stupid, Connie!
- Connie Baker: [hurt] Someone, somewhere, someday might be interested. Just in case, I'll be prepared.
- [Connie leaves, fighting back tears]
- Joan Brandwyn: Was that necessary?
- Betty Warren: I was taught it's best to speak honestly.
- Giselle Levy: You're a bitch.
- Katherine Watson: From the beginning, man has always had the impulse to create are. Can anyone tell me what this?
- Joan Brandwyn: "Wounded Bison", Altameera, Spain, about 1500 BC.
- Katherine Watson: Very good, Joan. Despite the age of these paintings, they are technically very sophisticated...
- Joan Brandwyn: Because of the shading, and the thickness of the lines as it moves over the hump of the bison. Is that right?
- Katherine Watson: Yes, that's exactly right. Next slide. This one, you are probably less familiar with. It was discovered by archaeologists in...
- Betty Warren: [dryly] 1879, Lascaux, France, dates back to 10 000 BC, singled out because of the flowing lines depicting the movement of the animal.
- [the class laughs]
- Katherine Watson: Impressive. Name?
- Betty Warren: "Herd of Horses."
- Katherine Watson: I meant yours.
- Giselle Levy: We call her Flicka.
- Joan Brandwyn: You gave me a C.
- Katherine Watson: I'm kind.
- Joan Brandwyn: The assignment was to write about Bruegel. That's what I did.
- Katherine Watson: No, what you did was copy Strauss.
- Joan Brandwyn: I was referencing an expert.
- Katherine Watson: If I wanted to know what he thought, I'd buy his book.