Rollerball (1975)

Maud Adams: Ella

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• Jonathan E. : I've been thinking, Ella. Thinking a lot... and watching. It's like people had a choice a long time ago between having all them nice things or freedom. Of course, they chose comfort.

  Ella : But comfort is freedom. It always has been. The whole history of civilization is a struggle against poverty and need.

  Jonathan E. : No! No... that's not it. That's never been it! Them privileges just buy us off.

  [deep sigh] 

  Jonathan E. : Look, they want me to quit, Ella.

  Ella : Then quit.

  Jonathan E. : Just like that, huh?

  Ella : But you've got to do it now. You've got to before it's too late, whether you want to or not. Look, Johnny... the next game there won't be any substitutions allowed... and no time limit. You'll die, Johnny. Everybody will die.

  Jonathan E. : No time limit. They tell you that?

  Ella : Yes.

  Jonathan E. : They tell you to convince me to quit?

  Ella : Yes, but that isn't why I came here. You have to get out for your own sake. Oh please, Johnny, please.

  Jonathan E. : They tell you to stay if... ah... I did quit?

  [Ella is silent, with a plea in her eyes] 

  Jonathan E. : You my big reward?

  [Jonathan walks away from her as melodramatic violin music starts to play] 

• Ella : You still don't understand why I came here?

  Jonathan E. : You're the only person I ever wanted. I wanted you on my side, that's all.

• Jonathan E. : I've seen your house.

  Ella : You have?

  Jonathan E. : Well, yeah, Iook, when we played in Rome, I stood a block away and watched your front gate for a couple of hours. I was just standing there wondering what your furniture looked like. What you said to each other in the morning. What's he like? What's he do?

  Ella : He's a City Engineer. We have a jetcopter, a son, two cats and a place in the Alps. Well, you don't really want to hear all of this.

  Jonathan E. : A son?

  Ella : Yeah. We have a lot of friends. And he has a lover. We have furniture a lot like yours.

  Jonathan E. : The same taste in furniture, how about that.

• Jonathan E. : How are you?

  Ella : Nervous.