The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Laurence Harvey: Raymond Shaw
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Quotes
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Raymond Shaw : My dear girl, have you ever noticed that the human race is divided into two distinct and irreconcilable groups: those that walk into rooms and automatically turn television sets on, and those that walk into rooms and automatically turn them off. The trouble is that they end up marrying each other.
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Raymond Shaw : It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
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Raymond Shaw : I've got a job on a newspaper. Research assistant to Mr Holborn Gaines.
Mrs. Iselin : Holborn Gaines? That Communist?
Raymond Shaw : He's not a Communist, Mother. As a matter of fact, he's a Republican.
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Raymond Shaw : Twelve days of Christmas! One day of Christmas is loathsome enough!
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[a general greets Medal of Honor winner Staff Sgt. Raymond Shaw on his return to the U.S]
General : Congratulations, son. How do you feel?
Raymond Shaw : Like Captain Idiot in Astounding Science comics.
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Raymond Shaw : You couldn't have stopped them, the Army couldn't've stopped them, so I had to. That's why I didn't call.
[pauses, then with horror]
Raymond Shaw : Oh god, Ben!
[Shoots himself in the head with the rifle]
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Raymond Shaw : Senator Iselin is not my father. Repeat: he is not my father. If you learn nothing else on your visit to this country, memorize that fact.
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Chunjin : I need job.
Raymond Shaw : Job?
Chunjin : Yes Sir, Mr. Shaw.
Raymond Shaw : But my dear fellow, we don't need interpreters here. We all speak the same language.
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[Shaw has been conditioned to obey when seeing the queen of diamonds; Marco has brought a special deck of all queens of diamonds]
Raymond Shaw : They can make me do anything, Ben, can't they? Anything.
Bennett Marco : We'll see, kid. We'll see what they can do and we'll see what we can do. So the red queen is our baby. Well, take a look at this, kid...
[fans deck and keeps holding up the cards]
Bennett Marco : 52 of them! Take a good look at 'em, Raymond, look at 'em, and while you're looking, listen. This is me, Marco, talking. 52 red queens and me are telling you... you know what we're telling you? It's over! The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed. They're smashed as of now because we say so, because we say they are to be smashed. We're busting up the joint, we're tearing out all the wires. We're busting it up so good all the queen's horses and all the queen's men will never put old Raymond back together again. You don't work any more! That's an order. Anybody invites you to a game of solitaire, you tell 'em sorry, buster, the ball game is over.
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Mrs. Iselin : Raymond, I'm your mother. How can you talk to me this way? You know that I want nothing for myself. You know that my whole life has been devoted to helping you...
Raymond Shaw : [Balls his fists and jams them over his ears] Mother...
Mrs. Iselin : And helping Johnny!
Raymond Shaw : Mother...
Mrs. Iselin : My boys!
Raymond Shaw : Mother...
Mrs. Iselin : My two boys!
Raymond Shaw : Mother, stop it.
Mrs. Iselin : That's all I've ever cared about.
Raymond Shaw : Stop it.
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Raymond Shaw : [after Shooting the Iselins, he turns to a surprised Marco] You couldn't stop them, the army couldn't stop them, so I had to. That's why I didn't call.
Marco : [He stares at him in confusion]
Raymond Shaw : Oh Ben!
Raymond Shaw : [Shoots himself with the rifle]
