Altered States (1980) Poster

(1980)

Blair Brown: Emily Jessup

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  • Eddie Jessup : What dignifies the Yogic practices is that the belief system itself is not truly religious. There is no Buddhist God per se. It is the Self, the individual Mind, that contains immortality and ultimate truth.

    Emily Jessup : What the hell is not religious about that? You've simply replaced God with the Original Self.

    Eddie Jessup : Yes, but we've localized it. Now I know where the Self is. It's in our own minds. It's a form of human energy. Our atoms are six billion years old. We've got six billion years of memory in our minds.

  • Eddie Jessup : You saved me. You redeemed me from the pit. I was in it, Emily. I was *in* that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real. I don't want to frighten you, Emily, but what I'm trying to tell you is that moment of terror is a real and living horror, living and growing within me now, and the only thing that keeps it from devouring me is you.

    Emily Jessup : Why don't you just come back to us?

    Eddie Jessup : It's too late. I don't think I can get it out of me anymore. I can't live with it. The pain is too great.

  • Emily : You are a Faust-freak, Eddie! You'd sell your soul to find the great truth. Well, human life doesn't have great truths. We're born in doubt. We spend our lives persuading ourselves we're alive. And one way we do that is we love each other.

  • Emily Jessup : [crying]  He doesn't love me. He never loved me. I was never real to him. Nothing in the human experience is real to him.

  • Eddie Jessup : I can't live with it Emily, the pain is unbearable.

    Emily Jessup : We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We write poems...

  • Emily Jessup : Of all the God damn men in this world, why do I have to love this one? I can't get him out of me. Do you know how many men I tried to fall in love with this past year? But it won't work. No matter who I'm in bed with I have to imagine it's him or nothing happens. No matter who I'm eating with or walking with there's always this pain because it isn't him. I'm possessed by him.

  • Eddie Jessup : [Discussing his father's death, and its impact on his thinking]  I haven't told anyone this in ten years. I'm telling you now because I think you have a right to know what kind of a nut you might be getting mixed up with here.

    Emily Jessup : Arthur was right. You are a fascinating bastard.

    [kisses him] 

  • Emily Jessup : Fight it, Eddie! You made it real. You can make it unreal. If you love me... If you love me, Eddie, FIGHT IT!

  • Emily : As a rule, do you usually think about Christ and crucifixions under sexual stress?

  • Eddie Jessup : Am l really that weird in bed?

    Emily : Sometimes.

    Eddie Jessup : Shall l try to change?

    Emily : No, I kind of like it.

  • Emily : Well, you can't get any tidier than that, can you? We're gonna be together in Boston and l think we should get married.

    Eddie Jessup : You know, of course, I'm supposed to be at least a little bit nuts.

    Emily : A little bit? You're an unmitigated madman! You don't have to tell me how weird you are. I know how weird you are. I'm the girl in your bed the past two months.

  • Eddie Jessup : That doesn't sound like Arthur.

    Emily : Well, what he actually said was you were a high-handed, arrogant prick. A little nuts, but brilliant, and that if l ever got you talking, I would find you fascinating.

    Eddie Jessup : That sounds more like Arthur.

  • Emily : Sex is a mystical experience for you. You carry on like a flagellant which can be very nice, but l sometimes wonder if it's me that's being made love to. I feel like I'm being harpooned by some raging monk in the act of receiving God.

  • Emily Jessup : He's a truth lover. Reality to Eddie is only that which is changeless, immutably constant. What happened to Eddie tonight, that was Eddie's idea of love. That was consummation. He finally - got it off with God. He finally embraced the absolute, was finally ravished by truth and it goddamn near destroyed him.

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