The Adam Project (2022)

Ryan Reynolds: Big Adam

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• Big Adam : Laura, this is... me.

  Young Adam : Hi.

  Laura : Parallel contact, babe?

  Big Adam : Well, you know, you've always said that you wished you'd met me earlier. Here I am.

• Big Adam : [to his younger self]  I spent thirty years trying to get away from the me that was you and, I'll tell you what, kid, I hate to say it, but you were the best part all along.

• Big Adam : Well, I'd say Bring Your Kid to Work Day was a huge success.

  Louis Reed : Uh-huh.

  Young Adam : Yep.

• Young Adam : Do you remember this?

  Big Adam : Remember what?

  Young Adam : This, right here, right now. You being here in 2022.

  Big Adam : Okay, I know where you're goin' with this...

  Young Adam : I mean, if this is happening to me...

  Big Adam : You're wasting your time.

  Young Adam : ...that means it already happened to you, right? Unless it works more like a multiverse where each ripple creates an alternate timeline...

  Big Adam : [irritated]  It's not a multiverse! My God, we watched too many movies.

• Big Adam : Yeah, well, when a bad idea is the only idea, it becomes a great idea.

  Young Adam : Who said that?

  Big Adam : You. Nine years from now, right before you get arrested.

  Young Adam : What?

• Big Adam : [Treating his bullet wound]  That's weird. It farts when I cough.

• Young Adam : [to Adam, after figuring out something Adam didn't]  God, it's like I traded my brains for those muscles. It's a shit deal.

  Laura : [smiles]  Cute kid.

  Big Adam : [to Laura]  Precious, isn't he? Don't you just wanna hold him underwater till the bubbles stop?

  [Laura chuckles] 

  Big Adam : Oh, I freakin' hate myself.

• Young Adam : I think... I think it's easier to be angry than it is to be sad. And I guess, when I get older, I forget that there's a difference.

  Big Adam : How'd you get to be so smart?

  Young Adam : How'd you get to be so dumb?

• Ray : [after beating up Young Adam]  Boom!

  Chuck : [laughing]  Yeah. Nice, man.

  Ray : You crying, Reed? Oh no, Chuck. Look, we made him cry.

  [Young Adam runs away] 

  Chuck : It's like he was trying to lose.

  Ray : Run away, Reed!

  [Adam slams Ray to the wall] 

  Ray : What the hell?

  Big Adam : I'm not supposed to do this, but you ever hear the expression, "Every bully has a bully," Ray? Well, yours isn't holding up his end of the bargain, so I'm gonna take over.

  Ray : What are you talking about?

  Big Adam : [shushes Ray]  You're a good fighter, you like to kick ass, you're a big kid, but if you go near Adam again, I'll know, and I will find you, Ray, and it won't be like a couple of kids in a playground scrap. I will pull bones out of your body, I will sharpen them, and I will use them to stab little Chuckie over here.

  Chuck : What did I do?

  Big Adam : [to Chuck]  Shut your mouth, Chuck, or I'll fill it with Ray's feet.

  [to Ray] 

  Big Adam : D'you understand what I'm saying, Ray? You got all of it? The bones?

  Ray : [terrified and hardly able to speak]  Y...

  Big Adam : Your feet... in Chuckie's mouth?

  [Ray pees his pants] 

  Big Adam : Good. Are you peeing right now?

  Ray : Y...

  Big Adam : You're a real streamer. Get yourself home and clean yourself up. Be the change you wanna see, okay?

  [Ray and Chuck run away] 

  Big Adam : God, I hated those assholes.

• Big Adam : She still hasn't cleaned out his closet.

  Young Adam : She's not much of a housekeeper.

  Big Adam : Hey. You have her to take care of you. She has no one. You understand? Do you understand? She wakes up every morning with a broken heart and a, and a closet full of his clothes and gets nothing from you but a fistful of crap, and not even, like, ten seconds of genuine empathy.

  Young Adam : I'm you, you know.

  Big Adam : Tell me about it. You know, thity years, you still get sick to your stomach every time you remember how you treated her now.

• Big Adam : I hate to say it but you were the best part all along.

• Big Adam : [to his younger self]  When I say "classified," what does your brain hear? Chocolate?

• Young Adam : Will you stop and listen to me? This is my fixed time. You already had my childhood. You had adventures, you flew planes, and I'm still the nerd with an inhaler who gets his ass kicked. I want the rest of it.

  Big Adam : You want the rest of it?

  Young Adam : Yeah.

  Big Adam : Okay, here's the rest of it: Dad's death screws you up more than you ever realize. You get depressed. You get angry. You wander around high school without ever making a social dent. College is a high point until, after a year, you lose your scholarship for something that is so unbelievably stupid I cannot even say it out loud right now. You end up in the Air Force. Turns out you could really fly. And then along comes time travel, and the whole world starts to fall apart until the only woman you have... the only woman you ever loved gets taken away. Do you understand me? Till you lose... She just gets taken away.

  Young Adam : There's gotta be more than that.

  Big Adam : There is, kid, and thanks to Sorian, none of it's good. We can fix it.

  Young Adam : By destroying time travel?

  Big Adam : That's right.

• Young Adam : Wait, wait! How do you know my name?

  Big Adam : You're Adam Reed. Born February 10th, 2010. Your parents are Ellie and Louis Reed. Louis would've died about a year ago. You don't play any sports because of an acute asthmatic condition.

  [Hawking begins barking frantically] 

  Big Adam : Plus you're freakishly small for a 12-year-old. You go to Franklin Middle School, where you've been suspended two, maybe three times for fighting - which is ironic because you can't fight to save your life.

  Young Adam , Big Adam : Hawking! Zip it!

• Young Adam : Do we get a lot of girls in college? I...

  Big Adam : Adam! Time travel exists. It exists. Isn't that crazy? Every conceptual idea you have about the universe has just been thrown out the window, yet your big question is, "Do I get laid?"

  Young Adam : Do I?

  Big Adam : Jesus Christ.

  Young Adam : I was just wondering.

  Big Adam : [exiting]  Well, wonder in silence.

  Young Adam : [whispering to himself, grinning]  Oh, my God, it's gonna happen.

• [Young Adam stares admiringly at his future self's arm muscles] 

  Big Adam : What?

  Young Adam : I just... You're... kinda ripped.

  Big Adam : Okay.

  Young Adam : Do you work out a lot, because... I don't think my genetics will have muscles like that?

  Big Adam : [overlapping]  Do you ever have a thought and not let it come out your mouth? Could be fun to just keep it in, you know?

  Young Adam : Maybe in the future there's like... like, gene therapy or nanotechnology for...

  Big Adam : [as his younger self reaches out]  Don't do it. Don't, don't... don't do it.

  Young Adam : So when does... all this... happen, and does everyone skip leg day in the future?

• Louis Reed : Is that my jacket? Looks a little tight on you, don't you think?

  Young Adam : That's what I said.

  Big Adam : It's fine.

  Louis Reed : You look like a condom with buttons.

• Big Adam : How do you destroy math?

  Louis Reed : Well, I've never written the algorithm down or demonstrated it to another human being, so it lines here in the old bean, and in the subbasement in a diamond-hard neuromorphic processor.

  Big Adam : Are you talkin' about your penis?

  Louis Reed : Can... can we be serious now?

  Big Adam : Yes. No. Yes.

  Louis Reed : It's a hard drive, okay?

  [Adam chuckles] 

  Louis Reed : God, you're such a child.

• Big Adam : I'm about to get my ass kicked.

  Young Adam : [repeating Adam from earlier]  Don't worry. He doesn't wanna fight.

  Big Adam : They wanna fight. The really, really wanna fight.

  Young Adam : Just look 'em in the eyes and smile. Smile in a way that says, "I want this. I've been waiting my whole life for this," then drop down and hit 'em in the private bathing suit parts.

• Big Adam : Take it easy.

  Young Adam : [falls backwards yelling]  Ah!

  Big Adam : Or... you know, fall down and scream. Put the bat down.

  Young Adam : Who the hell are you?

  Big Adam : Just put the bat down. I'm not gonna hurt you, I promise.

  Young Adam : What are you doing in here?

  Big Adam : Mostly bleeding. W... Wait, how old are you?

  Young Adam : What?

  Big Adam : How... old are you?

  Young Adam : Twelve.

  Big Adam : [to himself]  Twelve. Shit.

• Big Adam : You shaved my ass with a Subaru!

  Louis Reed : I SAVED your ass with a Subaru!

• Big Adam : How did you get to be so smart?

  Young Adam : How did you get to be so dumb?

• Big Adam : You're right, though. Teenage boys are horrible. It's like living with a urinal cake that yells at you.