Women in Love (1969)

Oliver Reed: Gerald Crich

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• Gerald Crich : And who is "Gudrun"?

  Gudrun Brangwen : In a Norse myth, Gudrun was a sinner who murdered her husband.

  Gerald Crich : And will you live up to that?

  Gudrun Brangwen : Which would you prefer me to live up to, Mr Crich? The sinner or the murderer?

• Gerald Crich : Do you know what it is to suffer when you're with a woman? lt tears you like a silk. And each bit and stroke burns hot. Of course, l wouldn't not have had it. lt was a complete experience. She's a wonderful woman, but l hate her somewhere. lt's curious.

  Rupert Birkin : You've had your experience now. Why work on an old wound?

  Gerald Crich : Because there's nothing else.

  Rupert Birkin : l've loved you, as well as Gudrun. Don't forget.

  Gerald Crich : Have you? Or do you think you have?

• Gerald Crich : Rupert, what is it you really want?

  Rupert Birkin : I want to sit with my beloved in a field, with daisies growing all around us.

• Rupert Birkin : I do believe in a permanent union between a man and a woman. Chopping about is merely an exhaustive process. But a permanent relationship between a man and a woman isn't the last word. lt certainly isn't.

  Gerald Crich : Quite.

  Rupert Birkin : We've got to take down this love-and-marriage ideal from its pedestal. We want something broader. I believe in the additional perfect relationship, between man and man. Additional to marriage.

  Gerald Crich : Well, I don't see how they can be the same.

  Rupert Birkin : No, not the same, but equally important... equally creative, equally - sacred, if you like.

  Gerald Crich : I know you believe something like that. Only, I can't feel it, do you see?

• Gerald Crich : By God, I've just reached the conclusion that nothing matters in the world except somebody to take the edge off one's being alone. The right somebody.

  Rupert Birkin : Meaning the right woman, I suppose?

  Gerald Crich : Yes, of course. Failing that, an amusing man.

• Gerald Crich : There's one thing about our family, you know. Once anything goes wrong, it can never be put right. Not with us.

• Gerald Crich : You know, I always believe in love, in true love. But where do you find it nowadays?

  Rupert Birkin : I don't know. Life has all kinds of things. There isn't only one road.

  Gerald Crich : I don't care how it is with me... as long as I feel... that I've lived. I don't care how it is, as long as I feel that.

• Gerald Crich : It's something you don't reckon with until it's there. And then you realise it was there all the time. It was always there. The possibility of this... incurable illness... this creeping death. There's nothing left. Do you understand what l mean? You seem to be reaching at the void, then you realise that you're a void yourself.

• Gerald Crich : Why are you behaving in this - impossible, ridiculous fashion?

  Gudrun Brangwen : You - make me behave like this.

  Gerald Crich : Me? How?

  Gudrun Brangwen : Don't be angry with me.

  Gerald Crich : No, I'm not angry with you. I'm in love with you.

  Gudrun Brangwen : Yes. Well, that's one way of putting it.

• Gudrun Brangwen : What do I care?

  Gerald Crich : I care! You see, they're my cattle.

  Gudrun Brangwen : How are they yours? You haven't swallowed them. Give me one of them - now!

• Gerald Crich : You don't do sports Herr Loerke?

  Loerke : Not sports. No. Only games.

  Gerald Crich : And what sort of games might they be?

  Loerke : Only ones which I enjoy.

  Gerald Crich : Yes, but, what sort of games?

  Loerke : Secret games. Initiation games. Full of esoteric understanding and fearful, sensual secrets.

• Gudrun Brangwen : Don't you think the understanding of a rat is more interesting than the understanding of a fool?

  Gerald Crich : A fool?

  Gudrun Brangwen : A fool! A conceited fool...

  Gerald Crich : Wouldn't I rather be a fool than explore those sewers with a rat?

• Gerald Crich : I didn't want it anyway. I'm tired. I want to sleep.