Up in the Air (I) (2009)

Vera Farmiga: Alex Goran

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• Natalie Keener : [sitting across from Ryan and Alex in Miami]  I thought I'd be engaged by now. I thought by 23, I'd be married, maybe have a kid, corner office by day, entertaining at night. I was supposed to be driving a Grand Cherokee by now.

  Alex Goran : Well, life can underwhelm you that way.

  Natalie Keener : Where did you think you'd be by err...?

  Alex Goran : It doesn't work that way. At a certain point, you stop with the dead lines. It can be a little counter productive.

  Natalie Keener : I don't want to say anything that is anti-feminist. I really appreciate everything that your generation did for me.

  Alex Goran : It was our pleasure.

  Ryan Bingham : Well done.

  Natalie Keener : Sometimes it feels like, no matter how much success I have, it's not gonna matter until I find the right guy. I could have made it work, he really fit the bill, you know. White collar, 6'1, college grad, loves dogs, likes funny movies, brown hair, kind eyes, works in finance but is outdoorsy. I always imagined he'd have a single syllable name like Matt or John or Dave. In a perfect world, he drives a 4 runner and the only thing he loves more than me is his golden lab. And a nice smile. What about you?

  Alex Goran : You know, honestly by the time you're 34, all the physical requirements just go out the window. You secretly pray that he'll be taller than you, not an asshole would be nice just someone who enjoys my company, comes from a good family. You don't think about that when you're younger. Someone who wants kids, likes kids. Healthy enough to play with his kids. Please let him earn more money than I do, you might not understand that now but believe me, you will one day otherwise that's a recipe for disaster. And hopefully, some hair on his head. I mean, that's not even a deal breaker these days. A nice smile. Yea, a nice smile just might do it.

  Natalie Keener : Wow. That was depressing.

• Alex Goran : [in Miami, referring to Natalie's boyfriend]  He broke up with you over text message?

  Ryan Bingham : That's kind of like firing someone over the Internet.

• Ryan Bingham : [over the phone]  I thought I was a part of your life.

  Alex Goran : I thought we signed up for the same thing... I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis.

  Ryan Bingham : I'm a parenthesis?

• Alex Goran : [referring to Natalie's boyfriend, in Miami]  What a weasly prick.

  Natalie Keener : Yeah, but what does that make me? Someone who falls for a prick.

  Alex Goran : [sitting next to Ryan]  We all fall for the pricks. Pricks are spontaneous, they're unpredictable and they're fun. And then we're surprised when they turn out to be pricks.

• Ryan Bingham : [in a hotel bar after emptying their memberships cards from their wallets]  Aww... Maplewood card. How dare you bring that into this palace?

  Alex Goran : Hilton offers equal value and better food but the Maplewood gives out warm cookies at check-in... I'm a sucker for simulated hospitality.

  Ryan Bingham : There's an industry term for that. It's a mixture of faux and homey - faumey.

  Alex Goran : Oh, my God. I wasn't sure this actually existed. This is the American Airlines...

  Ryan Bingham : It's a Concierge Key, yeah.

  Alex Goran : What is that, carbon fibre?

  Ryan Bingham : Graphite.

  Alex Goran : Oh, I love the weight.

  Ryan Bingham : I was pretty excited the day that bad boy came in.

  Alex Goran : I'll say. I put up pretty pedestrian numbers. 60 thousand a year, domestic.

  Ryan Bingham : That's not bad.

  Alex Goran : Don't patronize me. What's your total?

  Ryan Bingham : It's a personal question.

  Alex Goran : Please.

  Ryan Bingham : And we hardly know each other.

  Alex Goran : Come on, show some hubris. Come on, impress me. I bet it's huge.

  Ryan Bingham : You have no idea.

  Alex Goran : How big? What is it, this big? This big?

  Ryan Bingham : I don't want to brag.

  Alex Goran : Oh, come on! Come on.

  Ryan Bingham : Let's just say I have a number in mind and I haven't hit it yet.

  Alex Goran : This is pretty fucking sexy.

  Ryan Bingham : Hope it doesn't cheapen our relationship.

  Alex Goran : We're two people who get turned on by elite status. I think cheap is our starting point.

  Ryan Bingham : There's nothing cheap about loyalty.

• Alex Goran : [over the phone]  You never called.

  Ryan Bingham : Well, I wasn't sure what was appropriate.

  Alex Goran : Appropriate? Ryan, I'm not some waitress you banged in a snowstorm. That word has no place in our vocabulary. I am the woman that you don't have to worry about.

  Ryan Bingham : Sounds like a trap.

  Alex Goran : Listen, the next time that you're worried about manners, don't. If you want to call, call. Just think of me as yourself, only with a vagina.

  Ryan Bingham : When am I going to see you?

• Natalie Keener : [sitting across from Ryan and Alex]  I should just date women

  Alex Goran : [sitting next to Ryan while the three of them have drinks]  I tried it, we're no picnic ourselves

  Natalie Keener : I don't mind being married to my career and I don't expect it to hold me in bed as I sleep, I just don't want to settle

  Alex Goran : You're young, right now you see settling down as a failure

  Natalie Keener : It is, by definition

  Alex Goran : By the time someone is right for you it won't feel like settling and the only one to judge you will be the twenty three year old with the target on your back

• [Ryan meets Alex Goran for the first time at a hotel bar] 

  Ryan Bingham : Are you satisfied with Maestro?

  Alex Goran : Yeah, I am.

  Ryan Bingham : A little stingy with their miles. I like Hertz.

  Alex Goran : No, Hertz keeps its vehicles too long. If a car has over 20,000 miles, I won't drive it.

  Ryan Bingham : Maestro doesn't instant checkout. I like to park and go.

  Alex Goran : Hertz doesn't guarantee navigation.

  Ryan Bingham : It's funny. You don't seem like a girl who needs directions.

  Alex Goran : Oh, I hate asking for directions. That's why I get a nav.

  Ryan Bingham : That new outfit, Colonial, it's not bad.

  Alex Goran : [impressed and flattered]  Is that a joke?

  Ryan Bingham : Yes.

  Alex Goran : Because their kiosk placement blows.

  Ryan Bingham : They never have available upgrades.

  Alex Goran : Basically, it's a fleet of shit-boxes. I don't know how they're still in business.

  Ryan Bingham : I'm Ryan.

  Alex Goran : I'm Alex.

• [after they both have sex in Ryan's room; Ryan lays on the floor whilst Alex, naked, lies on the bed] 

  Ryan Bingham : Good call on that towel rack.

  Alex Goran : I like how you burritoed me in the sofa cushions.

  Ryan Bingham : I was improvising.

  Alex Goran : Shame we didn't make it to the closet.

  Ryan Bingham : Mmm. We gotta do this again.

  Alex Goran : Oh. yeah.

• Ryan Bingham : [Over the phone]  I was hoping to hear from you

  Alex Goran : I'm in Hot-lanta and I need a rib joint recommend bad

  Ryan Bingham : Fat Matts: bring a bib

  Alex Goran : [referring to the initials of the airports she'll stop at during her business trip]  I'm out of Hartsfield into IAD with a connection to ORD and SDF

  Ryan Bingham : Oh, sorry

  Ryan Bingham : Tell me about it how long is your lay over? They got multiples at SDF can you push?

  Alex Goran : Yeah I can push

• Ryan Bingham : [after sleeping together]  You're up.

  Alex Goran : I have to fly stand by to make a meeting in Cincinnati.

  Ryan Bingham : Ok.

  Alex Goran : [playfully]  I made you feel cheap.

  Ryan Bingham : Just leave the money on the dresser.

  Alex Goran : I'll text you later so we can swap schedules.

  Ryan Bingham : I really like you.

  Alex Goran : I like you too.

  Ryan Bingham : Good, go catch your flight.

• Ryan Bingham : How do you like Wisconsin in February?

  Alex Goran : I'll like it if you're there and I know a killer burger joint in Milwaukee

  Ryan Bingham : I mean northern Wisconsin, what are you doing this weekend?

  Alex Goran : You want me to be your date?

  Ryan Bingham : Yeah

  Alex Goran : At your sister's wedding?

  Ryan Bingham : Look, I'm not the wedding type but this is the first time I don't want to be the guy alone at the bar, I want a dance partner I want a plus one so if you can "stomach" it I'd like it to be you

• Ryan Bingham : [in a hotel bar, exchanging sexual encounter stories while they were flying]  So we came up with this master plan which was for me to put gauze to bandage up my hands and when we gotten up to the plane, Trans-Atlantic flying to Zürich we walked up, waited until it was dark walked up to the bath room with her and they were watching a movie opened up went inside she opened the door for me came in and she was going to help me we gave it our best shot, it wasn't great but it was fun and tricky

  Alex Goran : Give me some details

  Ryan Bingham : Well it's not so easy have you ever tried it?

  Alex Goran : Yes I have

  Ryan Bingham : Really?

  Alex Goran : Really

  Ryan Bingham : You've done that?

  Alex Goran : I have done that

  Ryan Bingham : Done it on a Trans-Atlantic fight?

  Alex Goran : And domestic, regional actually

  Ryan Bingham : How about at night time?

  Alex Goran : Only day time

  Ryan Bingham : How do you do that?

  Alex Goran : I'm really flexible

• Ryan Bingham : [sitting across from each other, exchanging traveling schedules by looking through their laptop computers]  I'm in Newark on the twelfth Bethesda on the thirteenth Oklahoma City on the fifteenth

  Alex Goran : Heading south west? I'll be in Albuquerque on the weekend of the sixteenth

  Ryan Bingham : I'll be in Florida on the twentieth

  Alex Goran : Fort Lauderdale?

  Ryan Bingham : Miami

  Alex Goran : I should probably go back to my room so I can wake up in my bed

  Ryan Bingham : I think that would be the likely thing to do

• Alex Goran : [Talking through text messaging]  can't fall sleep

  Ryan Bingham : Me too just laying here

  Alex Goran : You should rub one out

  Ryan Bingham : Only fair if you do it too

  Alex Goran : Way ahead of you

  Ryan Bingham : Call me next time so I can listen

  Alex Goran : Have sweet dreams about me

• Alex Goran : [Over the phone]  What were you thinking showing up at my door like that?

  Ryan Bingham : I wanted to see you. I didn't know you had a family why wouldn't you tell me that?

  Alex Goran : I'm sorry I ruined your evening but you could've seriously screwed things up for me. That's my family that's my real life.

  Ryan Bingham : [before remaining silent for a few minutes]  I thought I was a part of your real life

  Alex Goran : What do you want? Tell me what you want, you don't even know what you want. I'm a grown up, so if you'd like to see me again then give me a call

• Alex Goran : Back home I don't get to act the way I do.

  Ryan Bingham : That's why don't go back home.

  Alex Goran : I know, you're so cool Mr. "empty back pack"

  Ryan Bingham : You know about my back pack?

  Alex Goran : I Googled you.

  Ryan Bingham : You did?

  Alex Goran : It's what us modern girls do when we have a crush.

  Ryan Bingham : Does it bother you?

  Alex Goran : It depends, is the bag empty because you hate people or you hate the baggage they come with?

  Ryan Bingham : I don't hate people, I'm not exactly a hermit.

  Alex Goran : You don't want to be tied down? Or the whole responsibility thing?

  Ryan Bingham : I don't know what originally sparked the back pack, I probably needed to be alone recently. I've been thinking about emptying the back pack or put everything back in it.