Georgy Girl (1966)

Alan Bates: Jos Jones

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• Jos Jones : [visiting Meredith in the maternity ward, shortly after she's given birth]  How are you feeling?

  Meredith : Lousy.

  Meredith : [glancing at the newborn baby]  Well? Aren't you going to look at it? This is your marvelous child you couldn't bear being destroyed, remember?

  Meredith : [while Jos gets up and looks at the baby]  It's hideous. I hate it... It gave me hell.

  Jos Jones : [looking at the baby, rather indifferently]  All new babies look like that. You'll like it when it's a bit older.

  Meredith : Oh no. I want it adopted. Now.

  Jos Jones : [He sits back down]  I've got a rotten headache. Have you got any aspirin or dope or anything?

  Meredith : [scoffs]  Huh! Not that I couldn't use it myself... How do you feel about adoption, anyway? If I ask the nurses here, they'll plague me with sermons.

  Jos Jones : You're a bitch.

  Meredith : You're a bastard.

• Jos Jones : Georgina! George, where are you? You great, sexy beast! I'm free! Hey. I've chucked in that god-awful job at the bank and I'm free. Now we can spend all day in bed together. Hey, where are you? Hey, where are you hiding that great, seraphic body of yours, eh? Come out! Come out. Come out. Come out.

  [undressing, he stops short when he sees the health inspector] 

  Health Visitor : Mr Jones?

• Jos Jones : God, isn't it marvelous without her?

  Georgy : Don't say that.

  Jos Jones : Oh, sorry. Say the first thing that comes into your head.

  Georgy : Yes, it is.

• Jos Jones : Why the hell did I marry you?

  Georgy : Oh, Jos, please go away.

  Meredith : Why did you marry me?

  [as she laughs, he spontaneously kisses Georgy] 

  Meredith : Thunderous chords on the piano. Scream of train going into tunnel. Don't pass out, dear.

• Jos Jones : [while making out, he inexplicably stops]  That's enough of that, Georgy.

  Georgy : Why? I like it! Why are you stopping? I know I'm not pretty like Meredith.

  Jos Jones : [she cries]  Oh, god, no. You're not like Meredith. Well, I couldn't go to bed with you like I do with her, then grab a tomato sandwich and then rush out and catch the 72 bus. Hey. With you, it would be just one long, drawn-out bloody drama. All this whining and carrying on. You know, the trouble with you is you could say that you're a good girl. So I'm sorry, lass.

• Jos Jones : Where's that rude girl, eh? Lying lasciviously in bed? Contemplating in the loo? Aha! Lounging in the bath.

  [singing] 

  Jos Jones : You'll look a little lovelier each day.

  Georgy : She's gone out, Jos. She had to. Suddenly.

  Jos Jones : Uh-huh. I brought some supper for the two of us.

  Georgy : [tasting a morsel]  Mm. Soggy.

  Jos Jones : I meant Meredith and me.

  Georgy : Obviously.

  Jos Jones : And now she's out. Did she say any time?

  Georgy : 8:00, Uh, 7:30.

  Jos Jones : Get out the Scrabble, then.

• Georgy : O-C-H-R-E. Ochre. I win!

  Jos Jones : Oh! I had "ZHO". Z-H-O.

  Georgy : Hey, what's that when it's at home?

  Jos Jones : A Himalayan ox.

  Georgy : Truly?

  Jos Jones : Truly.

  Georgy : Had some good words. "Catagmatic". "Sostenuto".

  Jos Jones : One of the few advantages of a musical education, my dear.

  Georgy : [he whistles Beethoven's Fifth Symphony]  You ought to leave that bank, Jos. Go back to your proper work.

  Jos Jones : I wish I could, George. But second-rate flautists are fourteen for tuppence.

• Jos Jones : See, that's where you're a freak, Georgy, not being fat and ugly, but wanting to save people!