Contempt (1963)

Brigitte Bardot: Camille Javal

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• Paul Javal : After dinner we'll see a movie. It'll give me ideas.

  Camille Javal : Use your own ideas instead of stealing them from everyone else.

• Paul Javal : You don't want to make love?

  Camille Javal : Listen to the jerk.

  Paul Javal : Is that a mocking smile or a tender smile?

  Camille Javal : A tender smile.

  Paul Javal : So, answer me!

  Camille Javal : If it were true, I'd tell you. A woman can always find an excuse not to make love. But you're really a jerk.

  Paul Javal : Vulgar language doesn't suit you.

  Camille Javal : It doesn't suit me? Listen to this: Asshole. Cunt. Shit. Christ almighty. Craphole. Son of a bitch. Goddamn. So, still think it doesn't suit me?

• Camille Javal : [voice-over]  I've noticed the more we doubt, the more we cling to a false lucidity, in hope of rationalizing what feelings have made murky.

• Camille Javal : You like my shoulders?

  Paul Javal : Yes.

  Camille Javal : I don't think they're round enough. And my arms?

  Paul Javal : Yes.

  Camille Javal : And my face?

  Paul Javal : Your face, too.

  Camille Javal : All of it? My mouth, my eyes, my nose, my ears?

  Paul Javal : Yes, everything.

  Camille Javal : Then you love me totally.

  Paul Javal : Yes. I love you totally, tenderly, tragically.

  Camille Javal : Me too, Paul.

• Camille Javal : See my feet in the mirror?

  Paul Javal : Yes.

  Camille Javal : Think they're pretty?

  Paul Javal : Yes. Very.

  Camille Javal : You like my ankles?

  Paul Javal : Yes.

  Camille Javal : And my knees, too?

  Paul Javal : Yes. I really like your knees.

  Camille Javal : And my thighs?

  Paul Javal : Your thighs, too.

  Camille Javal : See my behind in the mirror?

  Paul Javal : Yes.

  Camille Javal : Do you think I have a cute ass?

  Paul Javal : Yes. Very.

  Camille Javal : Shall I get on my knees?

  Paul Javal : No need to.

  Camille Javal : And my breasts. You like them?

  Paul Javal : Yes, tremendously.

  Camille Javal : Gently, Paul. Not so hard.

  Paul Javal : Sorry.

  Camille Javal : Which do you like better, my breasts or my nipples?

  Paul Javal : I don't know. I like them the same.

• Camille Javal : Look. Look.

  [Wearing a wig] 

  Camille Javal : Doesn't it suit me? No?

  Paul Javal : I prefer you as a blonde.

  Camille Javal : And I prefer you without a hat and cigar.

  Paul Javal : It's just to look like Dean Martin in "Some Came Running."

  Camille Javal : What a laugh.

  Paul Javal : What is?

  Camille Javal : You may want to look like Dean Martin, but it's more like Martin's Ass.

  Paul Javal : Who's that?

  Camille Javal : Never read the adventures of Martin's Ass?

  Paul Javal : No.

  Camille Javal : One day he goes to Baghdad to buy a flying carpet. He finds this really pretty one, so he sits on it, but it doesn't fly. The merchant says: "Not surprising." Are you listening?

  Paul Javal : Yes.

  Camille Javal : "Not surprising. If you want it to fly. You mustn't think of an ass." So Martin says: "Okay, I won't think of an ass." But automatically he thinks of one so the carpet doesn't fly.

  Paul Javal : What's that got to do with me?

  Camille Javal : Exactly what I was saying.

• Camille Javal : We used to live in a cloud of unawareness, in delicious complicity. Things happened with sudden, wild, enchanted recklessness.

• Paul Javal : Don't come if you don't want to. I'm not forcing you.

  Camille Javal : It's not you that's forcing me. It's life.

• Camille Javal : I've noticed that the more we doubt, the more we cling to a false lucidity, in the hope of rationalizing what feelings have made murky.

• Paul Javal : I'd like you to meet my wife, Camille. Fritz Lang, Camille.

  Camille Javal : Hello, sir.

  Paul Javal : He's the one who did that western with Dietrich.

  Camille Javal : It was terrific!

  Fritz Lang : I prefer "M".

  Camille Javal : Your "M"?

  Fritz Lang : Yes.

  Camille Javal : We just saw it on TV. I really liked it.

• Paul Javal : You're being an idiot.

  Camille Javal : Where can I pee?

• Paul Javal : "Rio Bravo" is playing in town. So is Nicholas Ray's "Bigger Than Life."

  Camille Javal : I'm not interested.

  Paul Javal : I wrote it.

  Camille Javal : I know.

• Camille Javal : I won't say no, but I won't say yes either.

• Paul Javal : Why the thoughtful air?

  Camille Javal : Maybe because I'm thinking of something. That surprise you?

• Paul Javal : What's going on, sweetie?

  Camille Javal : I want to have fun. Nothings going on, Paul. I'm afraid I'll get bored there. I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not going. I'm not going.

• Camille Javal : If you love me, just be quiet.

• Paul Javal : A husband has the right to know why his wife's sulking. I'm sure its that girl.

  Camille Javal : Drop dead!

• Camille Javal : I'm the same as always. You're the one who's changed. Ever since you've been with movie people. You used to write crime novels. We didn't have much money, but everything was fine.

• Camille Javal : [Reading from a book on "Lang"]  "The problem, in my opinion, is in our conception of the world. A positive view or a negative one. Greek tragedy was negative, in that it made Man a victim of Fate, as embodied by the Gods, who abandoned him to a hopeless destiny."

• Camille Javal : [Reading from a book on "Lang"]  "Man can rebel against things that are bad, false. We must rebel when we're trapped by circumstances, conventions..."

• Camille Javal : I despise you! That's really what I feel for you. That's why the love's gone. I despise you. And you disgust me when you touch me.

• Fritz Lang : "Each morning, to earn my bread, I go to the market where lies are sold and, hopefully, I get in line with the other sellers."

  Camille Javal : What's that?

  Fritz Lang : Hollywood. From a ballad by poor B.B.

  Paul Javal : Bertolt Brecht?

  Fritz Lang : Mmm hmm.

• Jerry Prokosch : Why don't you say something?

  Camille Javal : Because I have nothing to say.

• Jerry Prokosch : [trying to impress the girl by speaking French]  What do you think... me?

  Camille Javal : Get in your Alfa, Romeo. We'll see about that!

• Paul Javal : Why don't you want to make love anymore?

  Camille Javal : All right. Let's do it, but fast.