Guernica (2016)

James D'Arcy: Henry

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• Henry : I need a line to New York.

  Carmen : Whatever they need.

  Henry : [on the phone calling New York Herald Tribune]  Listen, George. Here's your damn war story. Twenty-six April, 1937. Gernika. Don't give a damn if you use my name or you have someone else sign it. But it's the story I want printed. Ready? A very small town in the north of Spain is about to become very famous, but for all the wrong reasons.

• Henry : Why don't you become a fashion photographer? Or sports?

  Marta : I want my Capa.

  Henry : Robert Capa is overrated.

  Marta : Hemingway, too, isn't he? Everybody is overrated, but not you.

  Henry : I didn't say that.

  Marta : You've had your glory moments. Now leave room for us.

• Marco : Hey, Henry.

  Henry : Marco. I wondered when you'd show up. Like a bad penny.

  Marco : Yes. I heard your car was bombed. But I thought it was you telling your usual stories, but now...

  Henry : And I heard that you've been secretly writing articles for the fascists.

  Marco : Yes

  Henry : It's dangerous when you cross the lines, Marco.

  Henry : You get yourself shot.

  Marco : If you write what they want, you never get shot.

• Henry : [Making phone call to New York]  George! How's New York? Where is my check?

  George : Henry, we have cheaper journalists, you know.

  Henry : Yeah, but none of them is named Henry Howell.

  George : They'll have names of their own if I give them a chance. Listen, child star Shirley Temple released a toy collection with her face. And all the papers opened with that. There's a war on, Henry...

  Henry : All right. Here's what we can do. I've got a hand-drawn battle map. Make a great illustration. But...

  Henry : Speaking of illustrations, how about a week in Paris, George? Picasso is preparing a new exhibition. Let's do Picasso. Together. He'll talk to me, you know.

  George : Nothing about Paris. Bergara. Do you remember that article? That's war. And WAR SELLS, Henry. I WANT WAR! I...

• Henry : So, what's your life's story?

  Teresa : I wanted to be a writer. But when the war happened, the loyalists needed people who spoke languages, and knew how to deal with journalists.

  Henry : So you're dealing with me?

  Teresa : Well, in my way.

  Henry : And because you didn't become a writer, you deal in editing what other people write.

  Teresa : Well, circumstances delimit one's choices, don't they? To be honest, I'm like you. I don't fit in many places.

  Henry : You're a Communist?

  Teresa : Loyalist. I wish to see a democracy for Spain.

• Teresa : [knock on the door]  Come in.

  Carmen : Teresa? These are the new journalists. Marco Navas. He works for a Portuguese newspaper. And these two are the oneswith the car that broke down.

  Marta : No, it didn't break down. It was bombed.

  Carmen : Marta Vonier, photographer from Le Figaro. And Henry Howell, from the New York Herald Tribune. American.

  Teresa : I studied your writing at college. I... I think I've read it all. Short. Sharp. Very inspiring. Your style has evolved over time, hasn't it?

  Henry : Well, I'm still a growing boy.

  Teresa : I just read this article of yours about Bergara. You write of a battle at a castle where our soldiers were firing from the battlements. I think it was a pretty good piece. It's quite interesting because there are no castles in Bergara. Why? Why did you write it? Is it even about the truth anymore?

  Henry : Well, maybe I got the name of the town wrong. There's so many.

  Teresa : Don't play with us. For you, it's a story. But for us, it's life and death.

  Vasyl : Obey the rules, Mr. Howell. They're simple enough even for you.

  Henry : I'm sorry. You are?