Eraserhead (1977)

Allen Joseph: Mr. X

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• Mr. X : Mary usually does the carving but tonight since you are our guest, you could do it, Henry. All right with you?

  Henry Spencer : Of course. I'd be happy to. So I just, uh... I just cut them up like regular chickens?

  Mr. X : Sure, just cut them up like regular chickens.

• Mr. X : I thought I heard a stranger. We've got chicken tonight. Strangest damn things. They're man-made. Little damn things. Smaller than my fist. But they're new! I'm Bill.

  Henry Spencer : Hello. I'm Henry.

  Mrs. X : Henry's at LaPelle's Factory.

  Mr. X : Oh. Printing's your business, huh? Plumbing's mine. For 30 years. I've seen this neighborhood change from pastures to the hellhole it is now! I put every damn pipe in this neighborhood!

  Mary X : Dad!

  Mrs. X : Bill!

  Mr. X : People think that pipes grow in their homes. But they sure as hell don't! Look at my knees! Look at my knees!

  Mrs. X : Bill, please!

  Mr. X : Are you hungry?

• Mr. X : Well Henry, what do you know?

  Henry Spencer : Oh, I don't know much of anything.

• Mr. X : The girls have heard this before but... 14 years ago I had an operation on my left arm here. The doctors said that I wouldn't be able to ever use it. But what the hell do they know, I said. So I rubbed it for a half hour every day. And slowly I could move it a little, and use it to turn a faucet... and pretty soon I had my arm back again. And now, I can't feel a damn thing in it. All numb! I'm afraid to cut it, you know?

• Mr. X : This dinner's getting mighty cold.