The Neon Demon (2016)

Elle Fanning: Jesse

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• Jesse : I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't write... no real talent. But I'm pretty, and I can make money off pretty.

• Jesse : I don't want to be like them. They want to be like me.

• Jesse : You know what my mother used to call me? Dangerous. "You're a dangerous girl". She was right. I am dangerous.

• Sarah : What's it feel like?

  Jesse : What do you mean?

  Sarah : To walk into a room, and it's like in the middle of winter. You're the sun.

  Jesse : It's everything.

• Gigi : He calls me the bionic woman.

  Jesse : Is that a compliment?

• Jesse : [standing on the diving-board]  I know what I Iook like. And what's wrong with that anyway? Women would kill to look like this. They carve and stuff, and inject themselves. They starve to death, hoping, praying that one day they'll look like a second-rate version of me.

• Jesse : When I was a kid, I would sneak out to the roof at night; I thought the moon looked like a big round eye. And I would look up and I'd say, "Do you see me?". Ya know, I'd stay out there for hours. Sometimes I'd fall asleep, just dreaming.

  Dean : About what?

  Jesse : What I would be.

  Dean : What was that?

  Jesse : I could never figure it out.

• Ruby : Am I staring?

  Jesse : A little.

  Ruby : Sorry... you just have such beautiful skin. I'm Ruby, by the way. Do you have a name or you want me to guess?

  Jesse : Jesse.

  Ruby : Jesse. And you just got to LA, Jesse?

  Jesse : How'd you know?

  Ruby : You've got that look. Oh, don't worry, honey, that whole deer in the headlights thing is exactly what they want.

• Jesse : I know what I look like. Women would kill to look like this.

• Jesse : Are we having a party or something?

• Sarah : All she really wants to know is, who are you fucking?

  Jesse : Sorry?

• Jesse : Something's in my room!

  Hank : What do you mean something's in your room?

  Jesse : I saw something in my room!

  Hank : Are you high?

• Jesse : Didn't it hurt?

  Gigi : Anything worth having hurts a little. Besides, nobody likes the way they look.

  Jesse : I do.

  [Gigi scoffs with disgust] 

• Gigi : Jesse? What are you doing here?

  Jesse : They told me to wait.

  Gigi : For what?

  Jesse : For makeup.

  Gigi : You're in the show?

  Jesse : [smirks]  Yeah.

  Gigi : This show?

  Jesse : ...yes.

  Gigi : [pauses in disbelief]  That's my chair.

• Gigi : You wanna know what I had done, don't you?

  [Jesse stares intently] 

  Gigi : Well I thought I'd get more work if I went down a cup size. So I'd look like a hanger, ya know? But then my surgeon, Dr. Andrew, he pointed out a lot of other problems with my body. So I had them: shave my jaw, I had a slight eyebrow lift, new nose, cheeks, inner and outer lipo... oh, and they pinned my ears.

  Jesse : Why?

  Gigi : So I could wear a ponytail?

• Gigi : Well, you certainly move fast.

  Jesse : What do you mean?

  Gigi : You must be fucking him. Sarno doesn't let just anyone walk his collection.

  Jesse : [scoffs]  I don't think I'm his type...

  Gigi : Why not? You're very masculine.

• Jesse : [after the shoot]  You're still here?

  Ruby : How did it go?

  Jesse : It went good. It was great actually.

  Ruby : Did he say anything?

  Jesse : My agency said if the pictures turned out good, he might consider them for an editorial. Do you think he would?

  Ruby : [shakes her head]  I think he makes a lot of promises to young girls.

  [nods] 

  Jesse : [looks down, then up again]  I should go, before my meter runs out.

  Ruby : I don't think you should be alone with him.

  [shakes her head] 

  Jesse : [shakes her head]  He seemed fine to me.

  Ruby : [smiling]  That's not what I'm saying, Jesse.

  Jesse : [looks down, then up again]  I'm not as helpless as I look.

• Ruby : Hey, you wanna go somewhere?

  Jesse : Where?

  Ruby : A party.

  Jesse : What kind of party?

  Ruby : [beaming smile]  The fun kind.