Batman Begins

Henri Ducard: Are you so desperate to fight criminals that you lock yourself in to take them on one at a time? Bruce Wayne: Actually, there were seven of them. Ducard: I counted six, Mr. Wayne. Bruce: How do you know my name? Ducard: The world is too small a place for someone like Bruce Wayne to disappear no matter how low he chooses to sink. Bruce: Who are you? Ducard: My name is merely Ducard, but I speak for Ra’s Al Ghul, a man greatly feared by the criminal underworld. A man who can offer you a path. Bruce: What makes you think I need a path? Ducard: Someone like you is only here by choice. You have been exploring the criminal fraternity, but whatever your original intentions, you have become truly lost. Bruce: And what path can Ra’s Al Ghul offer? Ducard: The path of a man who shares his hatred of evil and wished to serve true justice. The path of the League of Shadows. Bruce: You’re vigilantes. Ducard: No, no, no. A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratifi

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Ducard: What do you seek? Bruce Wayne: I seek the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

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Henri Ducard: Your parents' death was not your fault. It was your father's. [Bruce attacks him furiously] Anger does not change the fact that your father failed to act. Bruce Wayne: The man had a gun! Ducard: Would that stop you? Bruce: I've had training! Ducard: [counterattacks, driving Bruce back] The training is nothing! The will is everything! The will to act!

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Henri Ducard: You're stronger than your father. Bruce Wayne: You didn't know my father. Ducard: But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved ones is just poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed, so you'd be spared your pain. I wasn't always here in the mountains. Once I had a wife, my great love. She was taken from me. Like you, I was forced to learn that there are those without decency that must be fought without hesitation, without pity. Your anger gives you great power, but if you let it, it will destroy you, as it almost did me. Bruce: What stopped it? Ducard: Vengeance. Bruce: That's no help to me. Ducard: Why, Bruce? Why did you not avenge your parents?

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Alfred Pennyworth: I've prepared the master bedroom for you, sir. Bruce Wayne: No. My room will be fine. Alfred: With respect, Wayne Manor is your house. Bruce: It's my father's house. Alfred: Your father is dead. Bruce: This place is a mausoleum. If I had my way, I'd pull the damn thing down, brick by brick. Alfred: This house, Master Wayne, has sheltered six generations of your family. Bruce: Why do you give a damn, Alfred? It's not your family. Alfred: I give a damn, sir, because a good man once made me responsible for what was most precious to him in our world. Bruce: You still haven't given up on me? Alfred: Never.

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Rachel Dawes: The D.A. couldn't understand why Judge Faden insisted on making the hearing public. Falcone paid him off to get Chill out in the open. Bruce Wayne: Maybe I should be thanking him. Rachel: You don't mean that. Bruce: What if I do? My parents deserve justice. Rachel: Well, you're not talking about justice, you're talking about revenge. Bruce: Sometimes they're the same thing. Rachel: No, they're never the same. Justice is about harmony. Revenge is about you making yourself feel better, which is why we have an impartial system. Bruce: Your system is broken. Rachel: [driving past a homeless camp] Look beyond your own pain, Bruce. This city is rotting. People talk about the depression as if it's history, and it's not. Things are worse than ever down here. Falcone floods our streets with crime and drugs, preying on the desperate, creating new Joe Chills every day. Falcone may not have killed your parents, Bruce, but he's destroying everything they stood for. [stops outside a ba

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