Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Scarlett Johansson: Cristina
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Quotes
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Juan Antonio : American?
Cristina : I'm Cristina, and this is my friend Vicky.
Juan Antonio : What color are your eyes?
Cristina : Uh, they're blue.
Juan Antonio : Well, I'd like to invite you both to come with me to Oviedo.
Vicky : To come where?
Juan Antonio : To Oviedo. For the weekend. We leave in one hour.
Cristina : What- Where is Oviedo?
Juan Antonio : A very short flight.
Vicky : By plane?
Juan Antonio : Mmm-hmm.
Cristina : What's in Oviedo?
Juan Antonio : I go to see a sculpture, that is very inspiring to me. A very beautiful sculpture. You will love it.
Vicky : Oh, right. you're asking us to fly to Oviedo and back.
Juan Antonio : Mmmm. No, we'll spend the weekend. I mean, I'll show you around the city, and we'll eat well. We'll drink good wine. We'll make love.
Vicky : Yeah, who exactly is going to make love?
Juan Antonio : Hopefully, the three of us.
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Maria Elena : You speak no Spanish?
Cristina : No, I uh-uh studied Chinese.
Maria Elena : Chinese? Why?
Cristina : I thought it sounded pretty.
Maria Elena : Say something in Chinese.
Cristina : Me?
Maria Elena : Mm-hm.
Cristina : Um... ni hao ma?
Maria Elena : You think that sounds pretty?
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Juan Antonio : Well, now that the day's almost over, is it reasonable of me to ask you if you'll both join me in my room?
Vicky : Oh, come on, I thought we'd settled that.
Cristina : Vicky's just trying to say that she's engaged to be married, that's all.
Juan Antonio : Great. Then these are her last days of freedom.
Vicky : No. Look, I'm not free. I'm committed. You know what my theory is? And when I drink, I get brutally frank. I think that you're still hurting from the failure of your marriage to Maria Elena, and you're trying to lose yourself in empty sex.
Juan Antonio : Empty sex? Do you have such a low opinion of yourself?
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Cristina : I'll go to your room, but you have to seduce me.
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Cristina : If you don't start undressing me soon this is going to turn into a panel discussion.
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Juan Antonio : We were both sure that... our relation was perfect, but there was something missing. You know? Like, love requires such a perfect balance. It's... like the human body. It may turn that you have all the vitamins and minerals, but if... there is minus a single, tiny ingredient... missing, like, like, like, like, ooh, like salt, for example... one dies.
Cristina : Salt?
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Cristina : [Looking at a sculpture of Jesus] Are you very religious?
Juan Antonio : No, no, no, no, I'm not. The trick is to enjoy life, accepting it has no meaning whatsoever.
Cristina : No meaning? You don't think that authentic love gives life meaning?
Juan Antonio : Yes, but love is so transient. Isn't it? I was in love with a most incredible woman... and then in the end...
Vicky : Yes?
Juan Antonio : She put a knife into me.
Cristina : My God, that's terrible!
Vicky : Well, maybe you did something to deserve it.
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Cristina : I can't guarantee the love-making, because I happen to be very moody.
Juan Antonio : Let's not negotiate like a contract. I came over here with no subterfuge and presented my best offer.
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Cristina : How long is she going to stay here?
Juan Antonio : Christina, I know - this is not what you had in mind.
Cristina : No.
Juan Antonio : But, she has to stay with us.
Cristina : I understand. I understand.
Juan Antonio : She has no one else.
Cristina : I understand. It's only for a short time.
Juan Antonio : Yes, a few months, at most.
Cristina : She's staying for a few months?
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Cristina : It's so apparent to me that you and Juan Antonio are still in love - when I see you together.
Maria Elena : Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever. But, it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic. Because, it cannot be be complete.
Cristina : It can't be complete because, you know, I'm getting in the way or, I don't know, I feel like...
Maria Elena : Before you - before you we used to cause each other so much pain, so much suffering. Without you, all this would not be possible. You know why? Because you are the missing ingredient. You are like the tint, that added to the palate, makes the color beautiful.
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Juan Antonio : When I saw you across the room at the art gallery, I noticed you have - beautiful lips. Very full, very sexual.
Cristina : Thank you.
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Cristina : I am here to go to bed with you. You're right. So, you're pretty much home free, unless you - blow it.
Juan Antonio : Blow it?
Cristina : Yeah.
Juan Antonio : *Blow* it - you mean ruin the moment?
Cristina : Yeah.
Juan Antonio : How would I do that?
Cristina : I don't know. It could be anything from some inane comment to wearing the wrong kind of shorts. Although, some how, by looking at you, I think you're wearing the right kind of shorts.
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Juan Antonio : What do you want in life besides a man with the right shorts?
Cristina : I don't know. I know I'm not going to settle till I find what I'm looking for.
Juan Antonio : Which is - what?
Cristina : Something - I want someone, something different, something more, some sort of counterintuitive love.
Juan Antonio : Meaning?
Cristina : Meaning - I don't know. I don't know what I want. I only know what I don't want.
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Maria Elena : Of course I went through your luggage. The first night I was in the house, I didn't trust you. I didn't believe you were who you said you were. I wanted to know who was really sharing the bed of my ex-husband.
Cristina : What!
Maria Elena : Who knew what I would find there? How could I be sure that you were not going to hurt me. After all, I had thoughts of killing you.
