Klaus (2019)

Joan Cusack: Mrs. Krum

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• Mrs. Krum : This town was built on resentment and spite. And it'll stay that way as long as a Krum...

  Mr. Ellingboe : Or an Ellingboe!

  Mrs. Krum : Ugh. Have something to say about it.

• Mrs. Krum : Look around, Aksel! Where is your clan?

  Mr. Ellingboe : Uh...

  Mrs. Krum : I'll tell you where they are - they're at block parties! Hayrides! And COOK-OUTS!

  Concerned Ellingboe Man : Don't forget about the brunches!

  Ellingboe Councilwoman : [sobbing]  It was a book club that took my poor Sven!

  Mrs. Krum : You see? The postman and that old toy maker are brainwashing everyone!

  Mr. Ellingboe : What are you saying?

  Mrs. Krum : I'm saying it's time to join forces against a common enemy! I'm saying... we need a TRUCE.

  [all gasp] 

  Mr. Ellingboe : A truce? Have you gone mad?

  Mrs. Krum : Either we band together to take care of this, or it's gonna be all book clubs and cookouts from here on...

  Concerned Ellingboe Man : And brunches! Don't forget about the brunches!

  Mrs. Krum : Yes, that. That too.

  Mr. Ellingboe : So... we must join together in peace, to stop this peace?

• Mrs. Krum : Do you know what this is, little boy?

  Mr. Ellingboe : This is tradition!

  Mrs. Krum : Centuries of glorious hatred, passed down through generations! There was the hundred-day brawl of '45...

  Mr. Ellingboe : ...which we totally won!

  Mrs. Krum : The maritime game of chicken.

  Mr. Ellingboe : The Great Mooning of '86.

  Mrs. Krum : So, if there's something we know...

  Mr. Ellingboe : ...going back as far as we can remember...

  Mrs. Krum : ...it's that a Krum despises an Ellingboe...

  Mr. Ellingboe : ...and an Ellingboe can't stand a Krum!

• Mrs. Krum : [ambushing Klaus the night of delivery]  Well now, isn't this convenient?

  Klaus : What are you doing here?

  Mrs. Krum : Why, we were just thinking... don't our children also deserve a present?

  Mr. Ellingboe : [gesturing at the sack of toys]  And lookee here - you've already got her favorite thing in the world! A nice, big piñata!

  Alva : Hey, you put one hand on those toys, and I swear...!

  Klaus : [restraining her]  Stand back! All right, do what you will with the toys. But no one gets hurt!

  Mrs. Krum : Suits us just fine. How long until children go back to the old ways once there are no toys to bribe them with? How long until they turn against each other? And how long until the grownups follow?