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The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Mr Moustafa: When the destiny of a great fortune is at stake, men's greed spreads like a poison in the bloodstream. Uncles, nephews, cousins, in-laws of increasingly tenuous connection. The old woman's distant relations…
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Author: It is an extremely common mistake. People think the writer's imagination is always at work, that he's constantly inventing an endless supply of incidents and episodes; that he simply dreams up his stories out of…
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Zero: What happened?
M. Gustave: What happened, my dear Zero, is I beat the living shit out of a sniveling little runt called Pinky Bandinski, who had the gall to question my virility. Because, if there's one thing we've…
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M. Gustave: It's quite a thing, winning the loyalty of a woman like that for nineteen consecutive seasons.
Zero: Um... yes, sir.
M. Gustave: She's very fond of me, you know.
Zero: Yes, sir.…
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M. Gustave: Serge X, missing. Deputy Kovacs, also missing. Madame D, dead. Boy with Apple, stolen (by us). Dmitri and Jopling, ruthless, cold-blooded savages. Gustave H, at large. What else?
Zero: Zero, confused.
M.…
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M. Gustave: The beginning of the end of the end of the beginning has begun. A sad finale played, off-key, on a broken-down saloon piano in the outskirts of a forgotten ghost town. I’d rather not bear witness to such…
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Jopling: [referring to Serge X] I've never trusted that butler. He's too honest.
Dmitri: [on phone] Too honest, you say?
Jopling: Mm-hm.
Dmitri: All right, well, be that as it may, find him quick and make it snappy.
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M. Gustave: I'm not angry with Serge; you can't blame someone for their basic lack of moral fiber. He's a frightened little yellow-bellied coward. It's not his fault, is it?
Zero: I don't know, it depends.
M. Gustave…
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Jopling: [having discovered Agatha's involvement in Gustave's escape] I've got to hand it to them. I didn't see that coming. Well, what do you want me to do?
Dmitri: [on phone] Talk to the club-footed sister again. And…
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M. Gustave: [after seeing police at reception] Have you ever been questioned by the authorities?
Zero: Yes, on one occasion, I was arrested and tortured by the rebel militia after the Desert Uprising.
M. Gustave: You…
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M. Gustave: [Of Mme. Celine] She was dynamite in the sack, by the way.
Zero: ...She was 84, Monsieur Gustave.
M. Gustave: Mmm, I've had older. When you're young, it's all filet steak, but as the years go by, you have to…
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Dmitri: If I learn you ever once laid a finger on my mother's body, living or dead, I swear to God, I'll cut your throat! You hear me?
M. Gustave: I thought I was supposed to be a fucking faggot.
Dmitri: You are, but…
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Dmitri: [about M. Gustave] This criminal has plagued my family for nearly 20 years. He's a ruthless adventurer and a con artist who preys on mentally feeble, sick old ladies! And he probably fucks them, too!
M. Gustave…
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Dmitri: Where's Boy with Apple?!
M. Gustave: (pause) NONE OF YOUR GODDAMN BUSINESS!
Dmitri: I'm gonna finish your candy ass once and for all. [draws a pistol from his boot and starts shooting at M. Gustave]
Henckels…
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Zero: [Reading a letter from M. Gustave] "My dear and trusted colleagues..."
M. Gustave: I miss you deeply as I write from the confines of my regrettable and preposterous incarceration. Until I walk amongst you again as…
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The Author: Is it simply your last connection to that vanished world—his world, if you will?
Zero: His world? No, I don't think so. You see, we shared a vocation; it wouldn't have been necessary. No, the hotel I keep for…
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Serge X: Forgive me, Monsieur Gustave. I never meant to betray you. They threatened my life and now they've murdered my only family.
M. Gustave: No. Who did they kill this time?
Serge X: My dear sister.
M. Gustave: The…
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