The Master (2012)

Philip Seymour Hoffman: Lancaster Dodd

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• Lancaster Dodd : If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

• Lancaster Dodd : Would you scrub yourself and make yourself clean. My daughter's getting married, come join us! Leave your worries for awhile, they will still be there when you get back, and your memories aren't invited.

• Freddie Quell : What do you do?

  Lancaster Dodd : I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.

• Lancaster Dodd : When we're in love we experience pleasure, and extreme pain.

• Lancaster Dodd : Marriage, previous to The Cause, was *awful*. Awful. There's a cycle, like life. Birth, excitement, growth, decay. Death. Now... now. How about this? Here comes, a large dragon. Teeth! Blood dripping! Red eyes! What do I got? A lasso. And I whip it up, I wrap it around its neck, and I wrestle! Wrestle! Wrestle him to the ground. I snap up, I say "Sit, dragon!" Dragon sits. I say "Stay!", dragon stays. Now it's got a leash on. Take it for a walk. And that's what-where we're at with it now. It stays on command. Next we're gonna teach it to roll over and play dead.

• Lancaster Dodd : If you leave me now, in the next life you will be my sworn enemy. And I will show you no mercy.

• Lancaster Dodd : There are dangers of traveling in and out of time as we understand it. But it's not unlike traveling down a river, you see? You travel down the river, 'round the bend, look back, and you cannot see around the bend can you? But that does not mean it is not there, does it? But certain clubs would like us to think that a *truth*, I say *truth*, uncovered should stay hidden.

  John More : I belong to no club, and if you're unwilling to allow any discussion...

  Lancaster Dodd : No, this isn't a discussion, it's a grilling! There's nothing I can do for you, if your mind has been made up. You seem to know the answers to your questions, why do you ask?

  John More : I'm sorry you're unwilling to defend your beliefs in any kind of rational...

  Lancaster Dodd : If, if you already know the answers to your questions, then why ask *pig fuck*? We are not helpless. And we are on a journey that risks the dark. If you don't mind, a good night to you.

• Lancaster Dodd : Why aren't you with her?

  Freddie Quell : I'm an idiot.

  Lancaster Dodd : Why aren't you with the lovely girl?

  Freddie Quell : I got no reason. I'm a fool.

  Lancaster Dodd : Do you love Doris?

  Freddie Quell : Yes.

  Lancaster Dodd : Is she the love of your life?

  Freddie Quell : Yes, sir.

  Lancaster Dodd : Then why aren't you with her?

  Freddie Quell : I don't know.

  Lancaster Dodd : Yes you do. Tell me why you are not with her if you love her so much.

  Freddie Quell : I told her I'd come back and I never went back and now I just... I gotta get back to her.

  Lancaster Dodd : Why don't you go back?

  Freddie Quell : I don't know.

  Lancaster Dodd : Close your eyes. Starting now, you are not to blink. If you blink we go back to the start.

• John More : Some of this sounds quite like Hypnosis. Is it not?

  Lancaster Dodd : This is a process of dehypnotization, if you will. Man is asleep; this process wakes him from his slumber

  John More : I still find it difficult to see the proof with regards to past lives that your movement claims.

  Lancaster Dodd : Would you care to submit yourself to processing? You'd look through the telescope, as my friend said.

  John More : Perhaps another time. You've also said that these methods, cause methods can cure leukemia. According to your book...

  Lancaster Dodd : Some forms of Leukemia. In being able to access past lives we are able to treat illnesses that may have started back thousands even trillions of years

  John More : Trillions?

  Lancaster Dodd : With a tee, sir.

  John More : [chuckles]  Earth is not understood to be more than a few billion years old.

  Lancaster Dodd : Well even the smartest of our current scientists can be fooled, yes?

  John More : You can understand skepticism, Can you not?

  Lancaster Dodd : Yes, Oh yes yes. For without it we'd be positives and no negatives. Therefore zero charge, we must have it.

  John More : Good science by definition allows for more than one opinion, doesn't it?

  Lancaster Dodd : Which is why our gathering of data is so far-reaching.

  John More : Otherwise you merely have the will of one man. Which is the basis of cult. Is it not?

  Lancaster Dodd : Tis, tis. And thankfully we are, all of us, working at breakneck speeds, in the unison towards capturing the mind's fatal flaws and correcting it back to its inherent state of perfect. While righting civilization and eliminating war and poverty and therefore the atomic threat.

• Lancaster Dodd : Man is not an animal. We are not a part of the animal kingdom. We sit far above that crowd, perched as spirits, not beasts. You are not ruled by your emotions. It is not only possible, it is easily achievable that we due away with all negative impulses - and bring man back to his to his inherit state of perfect. Man is not an animal. We are not a part of the animal kingdom. We sit far above that crowd, perched as spirits, not beasts. You are not ruled by your emotions. It is not only possible, it is easily achievable...

• Lancaster Dodd : Free winds and no tyranny for you, Freddie, sailor of the seas. You pay no rent, free to go where you please. Then go, go to that landless latitude and good luck. If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first in the history of the world.

• Lancaster Dodd : What a day. We fought against the day and we won. We won.

• Lancaster Dodd : I recalled you and I working together in Paris. We were members of the pigeon post during a four-and-a-half month siege of the city by Prussian forces. We worked in raid balloons, delivered mail and secret messages across the communications blockade set up by the Prussians. We sent 65 unguided mail balloons and only two went missing. In the worst winter on record. Two.

• Freddie Quell : Well, I'm sorry if I got out of hand last night. It was cold and...

  Lancaster Dodd : Don't apologize. You're a scoundrel

  Freddie Quell : [laughs] 

  Lancaster Dodd : And as a scientist and a connoisseur, I have no idea the contents of this remarkable potion. What's in it?

  Freddie Quell : Secrets.

• Lancaster Dodd : [Lancaster and Freddie have been imprisoned in two separate cells, sharing a wall]  Your fear of capture and imprisonment is an implant from millions of years ago. This battle has been with you from before you know. This is not you.

  Freddie Quell : SHUT THE FUCK UP!

  Lancaster Dodd : It's not you.

  Freddie Quell : SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!

  Lancaster Dodd : It's not you. You are asleep. Your spirit was free. Moving from body, to the next body. Free. Free for a moment. Then it was captured by an invader force, bent on turning you to the darkest way, you've been implanted with a push-pull mechanism that keeps you fearful of authority and destructive. We are in the middle of a battle that's a trillion years in the making and it's bigger than the both of us!

  Freddie Quell : You're making this shit up! You make this shit up! You don't know what you're talking about!

• Lancaster Dodd : Are you unpredictable?

  [Freddie farts and starts laughing] 

  Lancaster Dodd : Silly. Silly animal.

  Freddie Quell : I couldn't help it. I'm sorry.

  Lancaster Dodd : It's good to laugh during processing. Sometimes we forget. Even if it is at the sound of an animal.

• Lancaster Dodd : You shouldn't work in your condition.

  Freddie Quell : No, I can work.

  Lancaster Dodd : You're aberrated.

  Freddie Quell : No I'm not!

  Lancaster Dodd : You know what that means?

  Freddie Quell : ...No.

• Freddie Quell : I don't know what I told you but if you have work for me to do I can do it.

  Lancaster Dodd : You seem so familiar to me.

  Freddie Quell : Yeah. What do you do?

  Lancaster Dodd : I do many, many things. I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but, above all, I am a man. A hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.

• Lancaster Dodd : If we meet again in the next life, I will be your sworn enemy and I will show you no mercy.

• Lancaster Dodd : You're acting aggressive because you drink too much alcohol.

  Freddie Quell : No, I don't think so.

• Lancaster Dodd : This is not the way. Naughty boy, okay? All right? Freddie? You are a mischief. What a horrible young man you are. This is acting like an animal. A dirty animal that eats it's own faeces when hungry.

• Peggy Dodd : You can do whatever you want, as long as I don't find out.

  [Peggy starts giving Lancaster a handjob] 

  Peggy Dodd : And as long as no one that I know knows about it. Other than that, stop with this idea. Put it back in its pants. It didn't work for them, and it's not going to work for you. We have enough problems as it is, okay? Can you cum for me?

  Lancaster Dodd : Oh, yes.

  Peggy Dodd : Okay, cum for me.

  Lancaster Dodd : Oh, yes!

  Peggy Dodd : Best behavior out! Can you cum for me?

  Lancaster Dodd : Yes.

  Peggy Dodd : And no more of that boy's hooch.

  Lancaster Dodd : No more hooch.

  Peggy Dodd : Say it again!

  Lancaster Dodd : No more hooch!

  Peggy Dodd : Cum for me!

  Lancaster Dodd : [Lancaster cums]  Oh! Oh! Oh! Yes. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

• Lancaster Dodd : You've wandered from the proper path, haven't you?

• Lancaster Dodd : Here we have some answers. No more secrets. The source - of all creation, good and evil, and the source of all - now, funny enough - the source of all - is you. I have unlocked - and discovered a secret to living in these bodies that we hold. And, oh yes, it's very, very, *very*, *very* *serious*. The secret - is laughter.

  [audience laughs] 

• Lancaster Dodd : Leave your worries for a while, they'll still be there when you get back.

• Lancaster Dodd : Are you usually truthful to others?

  Freddie Quell : No. I don't know. Sometimes.

• Lancaster Dodd : Do your past failures bother you?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : Do your past failures bother you?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : Do your past failures bother you?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : Do your past failures in life bother you?

  Freddie Quell : No.

• Lancaster Dodd : Have you killed anyone?

  Freddie Quell : Yes.

  Lancaster Dodd : Who?

  Freddie Quell : Japs in war.

  Lancaster Dodd : Do you regret this?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : What are you running from?

• Lancaster Dodd : Are you lying?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : Are you a liar?

  Freddie Quell : Yes.

• Lancaster Dodd : Do you often think about how inconsequential you are?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : Do you believe that God will save you from your own ridiculousness?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : Have you ever had intercourse with someone inside your family?

  Freddie Quell : Yes.

  Lancaster Dodd : Have you ever had intercourse with someone inside your family?

  Freddie Quell : Yes.

  Lancaster Dodd : Who?

  Freddie Quell : My auntie.

  Lancaster Dodd : Have you killed anyone?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : Maybe?

  Freddie Quell : Not me.

  Lancaster Dodd : Have you killed anyone?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : How many times did you have intercourse with your aunt?

  Freddie Quell : Three times.

  Lancaster Dodd : Where is your aunt now?

  Freddie Quell : I don't know.

  Lancaster Dodd : Would you like to have intercourse with her again?

  Freddie Quell : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : Do you regret this?

  Freddie Quell : No.

• Lancaster Dodd : How did you come to have sex with your Auntie Bertha?

  Freddie Quell : I was drunk and she looked good.

  Lancaster Dodd : And you did it again and again?

  Freddie Quell : Yes.

• Lancaster Dodd : Release and return to me. Open your eyes. Say your name.

  Freddie Quell : Freddie Quell.

  Lancaster Dodd : Are you here with me in 1950?

  Freddie Quell : Yes.

  Lancaster Dodd : End of session.

• John More : I find it quite difficult to comprehend, or more to the point, believe, that you believe, sir, that time travel hypnosis therapy can bring world peace and cure cancer.

  Lancaster Dodd : I have never been to the pyramids, have you?

  John More : No.

  Lancaster Dodd : And yet we know that they are there because learned men have told us so.

• Lancaster Dodd : Do you linger at bus stations for pleasure?

• Lancaster Dodd : I will give you a full reprieve from your naughtiness.

• Lancaster Dodd : Open your eyes, come back to me. What is your name?

  Margaret O'Brien : Margaret O'Brien.

  Lancaster Dodd : What is your name?

  Margaret O'Brien : Well, now that you mention it - I think I was a man.

• [repeated line] 

  Lancaster Dodd : Back to the start.

• Lancaster Dodd : Kools. I like Kools. Minty flavor.

• Lancaster Dodd : What scares you so much about traveling into the past, sir?

  John More : I'm not frightened.

  Lancaster Dodd : Are you afraid that we might discover that our past has been reshapen? Perverted? And perhaps what we think we know of this world - is false information?

• Lancaster Dodd : Down, but not out. No, not dead yet.

• Margaret O'Brien : What I just experienced, was that me?

  Lancaster Dodd : What was you, darling?

  Margaret O'Brien : That man in the armor, was that me?

  Lancaster Dodd : Yes. That was your spirit. Our spirits live on in the whole of time, exist in many vessels *through* time. This is the vessel you're existing in *now*, in 1950.

• Peggy Dodd : "How do we know who he is?" is perhaps the question. And, "What is the reason he is here if he is past help?"

  Elizabeth Dodd : He makes me nervous. I think he wants me. I think he's in love with me.

  Peggy Dodd : I wonder how he got here, and what he's after. Is it really all so easy that he just came across us? He's a drunk, and he's dangerous. And he will be our undoing if we continue to have him here.

  Lancaster Dodd : Thank you, all of you, for your honesty. But, if we are not helping him, then it is *we* who have failed him. 'Tis it not?

  Peggy Dodd : Perhaps he's past help. Or insane.

  Lancaster Dodd : Thank you, truly. Thank you. Food for thought.

• Lancaster Dodd : [singing]  I put that girl upon my knee, Mark well what I do say, I put that girl upon my knee, She said, "Young man, you're rather free!"

• Lancaster Dodd : The game is called Pick-a-Point. You pick a point, drive straight at it, as fast as you can. I'll go first. I pick that winding road.