Barcelona (1994)

Mira Sorvino: Marta

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• Marta : I don't go to bed with just anyone anymore. I have to be attracted to them sexually.

• Marta : I think there is something fascist about a boy who immediately talks of marrying a woman he likes.

  Fred : I don't think Ted is a fascist of the marrying kind.

• Fred : Tonight while I was shaving - I always shave against the direction of the beard because I understood you got a closer shave that way - I started thinking about this razor commercial on TV which shows the hair follicles like this, going this way. The first of the twin blades cuts them here, then the hair snaps back, and the second blade catches them down here, giving you a closer, cleaner, possibly smoother shave, that we know. But what struck me was if the hair follicles are going in this direction and the razor is too, then they're shaving in the direction of the beard, not against it, which would mean that I've been shaving the wrong way all my life. I mean, maybe that's not so, maybe I misremembered the ad, but the point is, I could have shaved the wrong way all my life and never have known it. And then I could have taught my son to shave the wrong way without him ever knowing it either.

  Marta : You have a son?

  Fred : No... But I might someday. And then maybe I'll teach him to shave the wrong way.

  Marta : I think maybe my English is not so good.

• Marta : You seem very intelligent for an American.

  Fred : Well, I'm not.

• Marta : Ramon is very persuasive, and he painted a terrible picture of what it would be like for her to live the rest of her life in America, with all of its crime, consumerism, and vulgarity. All those loud, badly dressed, fat people watching their eighty channels of television and visiting shopping malls. The plastic throw-everything-away society with its notorious violence and racism. And finally, the total lack of culture.

• Marta : He was talking about the AFL-CIA and the American labor unions. He described how, after World War II, representatives of the American labor union, the AFL-CIA, were sent to Europe to crush progressive unionism.

  Ted : How'd they do that?

  Marta : With sacks of money and the anti-Communist tactics of your senator Joey McCarthy.

  Fred : The AFL-CIA?

  Marta : America's largest union, terribly right wing and facha. You have not heard of it? It's amazing the things Americans don't know about their own country.