20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Peter Lorre: Conseil

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• Captain Nemo : Mr. Land, you saved my life. Why?

  Ned Land : That's a good question. Well, there's only one thing a fella can do when he's made a mistake as big as this.

  Conseil : What?

  Ned Land : Get drunk!

• [Boarding the Nautilus for the first time] 

  Professor Pierre Aronnax, narrator : There is great genius behind all this.

  Conseil : Yes, and great evil. Don't forget this, this is an engine of destruction.

• [Upon arriving on a deserted beach with Ned Land] 

  Conseil : I don't see any native girls hungry for affection.

• Conseil : Cannibals! Hundreds of cannibals! Captain, Captain, scores of boats!

  Ned Land : Captain, we're under attack!

  Captain Nemo : Naturally, since you invaded their privacy, they have every right to invade ours.

• Ned Land : [after Captain Farragut announces that he is ending the search]  Cheer up, Professor. You'll forget all about fishing when you see the gals in Saigon.

  Professor Pierre Aronnax, narrator : I thought they promised you a bonus if you harpooned this monster, Mr. Land.

  Ned Land : Knowing full well I couldn't collect it. When I get back, I'm shipping out on the first whaler that'll take me. I won't get rich, but I won't be sitting around picking my teeth with my harpoon.

  Conseil : Maybe we are lucky. It might have sunk us.

  Ned Land : You scare me. Be a good loser, Professor. The fish that got away is always the biggest one.

  Conseil : Ah, what a pity, Professor. I know you had visions of that monster mounted in the National Museum.

• Conseil : I want to escape, too! You said you had a plan.

  Ned Land : I do have a plan. Trouble is, it won't work.

• Conseil : All those men. They didn't even have a chance.

  Ned Land : They were sailors, same as me. Slaughtered by that monster you're trying to make friends with.

  Conseil : Ned, don't...

  Ned Land : I don't know about you, Professor, but I feel like a knife that's just stabbed a friend in the back.

• [Donning diving gear] 

  Ned Land : Fine way to go huntin'. I knew there'd be a catch to this.

  Conseil : Seems you can't do anything on this boat without getting wet.

  Ned Land : Hey, I feel like I'm keepin' a fish outta work.

• Conseil : Don't forget the cannibals.

  Ned Land : Oh, belay the cannibals. He said that to scare us.

• Conseil : Why, Ned, you're not thinking of putting messages in these bottles, are you? That went out with Robinson Crusoe. You've forgotten this is the 19th Century.

  Ned Land : There's something else I forgot.

  [punches Conseil in the chin] 

  Ned Land : That's for spyin' on me. Don't let me catch you paddin' the shadow of my stern again. Remember that!

  [Conseil rubs his chin, feelings hurt as well] 

  Ned Land : I don't like bashin' anybody. But you had it comin', lad.

  Conseil : And I thought we were friends.

  Ned Land : Sure, we're friends! Go ahead, hit me.

  [sticks out his chin] 

  Conseil : You mean that?

  Ned Land : [sticking his chin out further]  Sure, go ahead! You can't miss it.

  [Conseil surprises Ned with a punch to the gut] 

  Conseil : *Now* we're friends!