Stardate 5784.0. In one of his most moving portrayals, Michael Dunn plays Alexander, "everybody's slave" on a planet of telekinetic beings.
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Are you from the spaceship Enterprise? |
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Alexander, at your service. |
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I sing, I dance, I play all variety of games, and I’m a good loser. A very good loser! Please try to bear that in mind. |
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Now, would you please accompany me? |
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Our leader liked Plato’s ideas. Plato … Platonians. See? |
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In fact, our present philosopher king, Parman, sometimes calls us Plato’s children … although we sometimes think of ourselves as Plato’s stepchildren. |
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Excuse me. Someone’s waiting for you. |
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They say I’m a throwback … and I am, and so are you. |
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Sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. |
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What do you mean, "like me"? |
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I thought you were talking about my size, because they make fun of me for my size. |
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They were treating you the same way they treat me … just like me! Only you fight them! |
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Listen, where you come from, are there a lot of people without the power, and my size? |
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I’m ashamed to be a Platonian. Ashamed! |
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I was brought here as the court buffoon. That’s why I’m everybody’s slave and I have to be 10 places at once and I never do anything right. |
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All the time I thought it was me … my mind that couldn’t move a pebble. They even told me I was lucky they even bothered to keep me around at all, and I believed them! |
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I never knew people like you existed. |
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Alexander sings… |
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Oh, you mean, the same thing that kept me from having the power made me a … dwarf. |
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All I ask is one thing. If you do make it out of here, take me with you. Just drop me any place where they never heard of kyranyde or Platonius. |
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I could have had your power, but I didn’t want it. |
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I could have had your place right now, but the sight of you and your academicians sickens me. |
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Despite your brains you’re the most contemptible things that ever lived in this universe. |
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The arms and legs of everybody’s whim. Look down. Don’t meet their eyes. Smile … Smile! |
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They were gods to me. |
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How could I forget that? It was exactly six months and 14 days after we got here that they started pushing me around. |
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It’s not me; it’s not my size. It’s them! It’s them, it’s them! |
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Don’t save them; let them die. At least let me give them a taste of what they gave me. Please, they’re going to kill you anyhow – you know that! |
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That’s the first time anybody ever thought of my life before his own. |
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I should have told you when you first came there that they were going to kill you because I knew that, but I was afraid. I was afraid … |
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Anything I can do to help, you just tell me. |
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Oh no! Not after what they’ve done to ME! |
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Do you think that’s what I want? Become one of them? Become my own enemy? Just lie around like a big blob of nothing and have things done for me? |
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I want to move around for myself! If I’m going to laugh or cry I want to do it for myself! You can keep your precious power! |
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Not that I’m afraid or anything, but will it hurt much? |
Film adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's novel about a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany. In an Academy Award nominated performance, Michael Dunn plays Karl Glocken, arguably the least "foolish" passenger aboard...
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[Glocken] My name is Carl Glocken and this is a ship of fools. |
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[Glocken] I’m a fool … you’ll meet more fools as we go along. This tub is packed with them. |
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[Glocken] And who knows? If you look closely enough, you might even find yourself on board. |
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[Levanthal] I beg your pardon. You aren’t
Jewish, are you? [Glocken] No. I have my own minority group. |
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[Glocken] I don’t mind not being seen at the Captain’s table, perhaps because I was never invited in the first place. |
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[Glocken] Perhaps they thought we might hit it off. |
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[Glocken] That’s the way it is. People are always mistaking me for someone else. |
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[Levanthal] You are sure you aren’t Jewish? [Glocken] Reasonably sure. |
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[Glocken] Beg your pardon? |
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[Glocken] I think you’re being a bit harsh on yourself. |
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[Levanthal] When you hear that music wherever
you are, don’t you have a special feeling about being a German? [Glocken] I tell you Levanthal, now honestly, when I hear that music wherever I am I have a special feeling about being a dwarf. |
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[Glocken] You may be the biggest fool on this whole boat! |
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[Glocken] Where have you been during this voyage?! |
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[Glocken] Levanthal you are blind! Absolutely
blind! You can’t see what’s going on in front of your own face! [Levanthal] What do you mean? You mean this business about the Jews? You don’t understand us! The German Jew is something special. We are Germans first, and Jews second… |
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[Glocken] You are German, aren’t you? You are the most German person I have ever met! |
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[Glocken] I find the most amusing things about people are the guilts that the drum up for themselves. |
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[Glocken] Oh, I can just hear you saying, "What has all this to do with us?"…Nothing. |
Tongue-in-cheek telefilm about down-and-out detective Frank Hogan (Richard Boone) and his diminutive partner Arthur Boyle (Michael Dunn) trying to solve a missing persons case in 1946 Los Angeles. This film also featured "Wild Wild West" veteran Victor Buono.
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[Arthur] You know, you’re 0 for 2 against that guy. |
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[Arthur] I just spoke to a member of our accounting staff and he assured me that a check has been mailed to you only a matter of a few days ago … the postal service is becoming just deplorable … |
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[Arthur] Sir, are you impugning my credibility? |
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[Arthur] Well then, sir, I’m afraid our firm shall just have to take its custom elsewhere … thank you … |
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[Arthur] What would you suggest as an alternative? |
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[Arthur] Mr. Lee got a little bit nasty last time. Wouldn’t even send over any of his noodles … |
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[Arthur] As financial risks we rate something below the Rockefellers every place from here to San Diego. |
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[Arthur] Wonder how long it would take to drive from here to San Diego? |
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[Arthur] Now who do we owe? [Francis] Open the door and find out. |
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[Arthur] Francis, didn’t anyone ever tell you
about a gift horse? That you should never look one in the mouth? [Francis] I wasn’t lookin’ at her mouth. |
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[Arthur] Besides, when someone bops you on the head with a gun you’re supposed to fall down unconscious. |
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[Arthur] Did you get a look at the guy? [Francis] Only his fist. |
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[Arthur] Francis, this is important. |
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[Arthur] Maybe next time you’ll fall down unconscious like you’re supposed to. |
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[Arthur] Well what do you want me to do? Punch him in the knee? |
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[Arthur] Did you ever get the feeling that we don’t know everything we’re supposed to know? |
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[Francis] And a $50 penalty if I get bopped
again. [Arthur] $50 for each bop! |
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[Arthur] Think it could have been our sweet
client? [Francis] I don’t think it was Veronica Lake. |
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[Arthur] I’ve got a feeling we’re in over our heads. |
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[Arthur] Oh Francis, I think I’m gonna be ill… |
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[Arthur] I think we’re being followed. |
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[Arthur] Francis, she’s crying again. |
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[Arthur] That reminds me. What do you want for dinner? |
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[Francis] Now take it easy! Remember what
happened the last time! [Arthur] That wasn’t my fault! A minor miscalculation. Besides, it was a dumb place to put a tree. |
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[Clerk] Where did you come from? [Arthur] Jackson Heights. |
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[Arthur] Francis, I don’t like this man. |
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[Arthur] Oh yeah, our boy really does like the horses. I wonder if he was any good. |
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[Arthur] Francis, wake up. Look who’s here. |
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[Arthur] Francis and I have our funds sort of tied up at the moment. |
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[Arthur] Uh, gentlemen, Francis and I are here for professional reasons. |
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[Arthur] Well gentlemen, as usual you have been very helpful. |
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[Arthur] Yo ho, Francis… |
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[Arthur] I really like westerns! |
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[Arthur] This is the one where the guy who owns the bank is selling guns to the Indians, but the guns are no good … so that really gets the Indians MAD … |
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