Candy (1968)

Richard Burton: MacPhisto

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• MacPhisto : The poem that I just recited to you was composed in a hospital in Burma as I lay close to death, having been savagely beaten by a... a horde of outraged Belgian tourists. You will find this poem in my collected verse entitled... "Forests of Flesh".

• MacPhisto : I wonder if you'd allow me to drive you home.

  Candy Christian : That would be nice.

  MacPhisto : Where do you live?

  Candy Christian : Eighty three fifty seven and a half Schweitzer Terrace.

  MacPhisto : Uhh. Zero, can you find eighty three...

  Candy Christian : Fifty seven and a half.

  MacPhisto : Fifty seven and a half Schweitzer Terrace.

  Zero : Got ya, man.

  MacPhisto : That was Zero.

  Candy Christian : Your driver?

  MacPhisto : No, my friend. Several years ago, I was on a lectured tour of the Congo. One day after having delivered some of my works to Earl, an audience of not less than seven hundred "gonorite" warriors, a uh, uh, a fierce but poet loving tribe. I stumbled out into a clearing and saw an unfortunate native being attacked by a giant bush python. The man was already half digested when I ran to him, took him by the shoulders and tore him from the jaws of the slavering beast, and destroyed the animal with one slash of my ball-point pen. After sixteen delicate operations on his feet and mind, Zero was able to walk again. We have been together ever since.

  Candy Christian : I saw that story Tuesday night on the TV movie of the week.

  MacPhisto : In that case, I saved Zero from a lynch mob three years ago in Shreveport, Louisiana. The rope was already about his neck and then I started speaking my epic, The Brotherhood of Man in English, and then, and then in Welsh. It changed their minds and their lives. There is now a fully integrated school system in Shreveport, Louisiana. And Zero and I...

  Candy Christian : Have been together ever since?

  MacPhisto : Exactly.

• MacPhisto : I... am MacPhisto.

  Candy Christian : Hello, I am Candy, Candy Christian.

  MacPhisto : Candy... beautiful name, it has the spirit and the sound of the Old Testament.

• MacPhisto : Oh for God's sake, Need can't be kept waiting. Need is here. Need... is now!