Angels in America

Angels In America Vital Stats

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Release date 2003

Duration 352 min

Producer(s) David Black, Sidney Lumet, Lilith Jacobs...more

Director(s) Mike Nichols...more

Writer(s) Tony Kushner...more

Cast Patrick Wilson, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep...more

Genre Drama, Fantasy,

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Angels In America Quotes

 Sir:
Whadda you want?
Louis Ironson:
I want you to fuck me, hurt me, and make me bleed.
Sir:
I want to.
Louis Ironson:
Yeah?
Sir:
I wanna hurt you.
Louis Ironson:
Fuck me.
Sir:
Yeah?
Louis Ironson:
Hard.
Sir:
Yeah? You've been a bad boy?
Louis Ironson:
[laughs] Very bad. Very bad.
Sir:
You need to be punished, boy?
Louis Ironson:
Yes, I do.
Sir:
Yes, what?
Louis Ironson:
...Oh, uh...
Sir:
Yes, what, boy?
Louis Ironson:
Oh! 'Ts- yes, sir.
Sir:
I want you to take me to your place, boy.
Louis Ironson:
No, I can't do that.
Sir:
No, what?
Louis Ironson:
No sir, I can't. I don't live alone, sir.
Sir:
Your lover know you're out with a man tonight, boy?
Louis Ironson:
No sir, he... my lover doesn't know.
Sir:
Your lover know you like...
Louis Ironson:
Let's change the subject, okay? Can we go to your place?
Sir:
...I live with my parents.
 

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 Harper:
In your experience of the world. How do people change?
Mormon Mother:
Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.
Harper:
And then up you get. And walk around.
Mormon Mother:
Just mangled guts pretending.
Mormon Mother:
That's how people change.
 

 Prior Walter:
But still. Still bless me anyway. I want more life. I can't help myself. I do. I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more spirit than body, more sores than skin, when they're burned and in agony, when flies lay eggs in the corners of the eyes of their children - they live. Death usually has to take life away. I don't know if that's just the animal. I don't know if it's not braver to die, but I recognize the habit; the addiction to being alive. So we live past hope. If I can find hope anywhere, that's it, that's the best I can do. It's so much not enough. It's so inadequate. But still bless me anyway. I want more life. And if he comes back, take him to court. He walked out on us, he oughta pay.
 

 Belize:
Real love isn't ambivalent. I'd swear that's a line from my favorite best-selling paperback novel, "In Love with the Night Mysterious", except I don't think you've ever read it. Well, you ought to, instead of spending the rest of your life, trying to get through "Democracy in America." It's about this white woman whose daddy owns a plantation in the Deep South, in the years before the Civil War. And her name is Margaret, and she's in love with her daddy's number-one slave, and his name is Thaddeus. And she's married, but her white slave-owner husband has AIDS: Antebellum Insufficiently-Developed Sex-organs. And so, there's a lot of hot stuff going down, when Margaret and Thaddeus can catch a spare torrid ten under the cotton-picking moon. And then of course the Yankees come, and they set the slaves free. And the slaves string up old daddy and so on, historical fiction. Somewhere in there I recall, Margaret and Thaddeus find the time to discuss the nature of love. Her face is reflecting the flames of the burning plantation, you know the way white people do, and his black face is dark in the night and she says to him, "Thaddeus, real love isn't ever ambivalent."
 

 Harper Pitt:
I don't understand this. If I didn't ever see you before, and I don't think I did, then I don't think you should be here in this hallucination because in my experience the mind which is where hallucinations come from shouldn't be able to make anything up that wasn't there to start with that didn't enter it from experience from the real world. Imagination can't create anything new can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions. Am I making sense right now?
Prior Walter:
Given the circumstances, yes.
Harper Pitt:
So when we think we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.
 



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