The Danish Girl (2015)
Alicia Vikander: Gerda
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Quotes
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Gerda Wegener : I need to see Einar.
Lili Elbe : Let me help, please.
Gerda Wegener : I need my husband, can you get him?
Lili Elbe : I can't.
Gerda Wegener : I need to talk to my husband, and I need to hold my husband. Can you at least try?
Lili Elbe : I'm sorry.
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Lili Elbe : How have I ever deserved such love? There's nothing to be afraid of anymore.
Gerda Wegener : No.
Lili Elbe : Last night I had the most beautiful dream. I dreamed that I was a baby in my mother's arms. And she looked down at me, and she called me Lili.
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[last lines]
Gerda Wegener : [to Hans as her scarf is carried away on the wind] No, leave it. Let it fly.
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Gerda Wegener : We went for coffee, and after... I kissed him. And it was the strangest thing. It was like kissing myself.
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Gerda Wegener : It's hard for a man to be looked at by a woman. Women are used to it, of course, but for a man to submit to a woman's gaze - it's unsettling. Although I believe there's some pleasure to be had from it, once you yield.
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Einar Wegener : There was a moment when I was just Lili, and I think that he could see that. Do you see?
Gerda Wegener : But Lili doesn't exist. We made her up.
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Gerda Wegener : For a man to, um, submit to a woman's gaze is, er, unsettling... Although I believe there is some pleasure to be had by it - once you, ah, yield.
