The Fisher King

The Fisher King Vital Stats

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Release date 1991

Duration 137 min

Producer(s) Debra Hill, Tony Mark, Lynda Obst...more

Director(s) Terry Gilliam...more

Writer(s) Richard LaGravenese...more

Cast Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl...more

Genre Comedy, Drama,

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The Fisher King Quotes

 Disabled Veteran:
Didja hear that Jimmy Nickles got picked up yesterday?
Jack Lucas:
Oh, yeah?
Disabled Veteran:
Yeah. He got caught pissin' on a bookstore. Man is a *pig*. No excuse for that. [lady drops coins in his cup]
Disabled Veteran:
Thank you, baby. It's social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores. [man throws coins on the ground near his feet, which Disabled Veteran cannot reach]
Jack Lucas:
Asshole. He didn't even look at you.
Disabled Veteran:
He's payin' so he don't have to look. See... guy goes to work every day, eight hours a day, seven days a week. Gets his nuts so tight in a vice that he starts questioning the very fabric of his existence. Then one day, 'bout quitting time, Boss calls him into the office and says, "Hey Bob, whyncha come on in here and kiss my ass for me, will you?" Well, he says, "Hell with it. I don't care what happens, I just want to see the expression on his face as I jab this pair of scissors into his arm." [sighs]
Disabled Veteran:
Then he thinks of me. He says, "Waitaminit. I got both my arms, I got both my legs. At least I'm not begging for a living. Sure enough, Bob's gonna put those scissors down and pucker right up. See, I'm what you call kind of a "moral traffic light", really. I'm like sayin', "Red! Go no further! Boooo-ee boooo-ee boooo-ee..."
 

 Jack Lucas:
I was attacked, two kids tried to set me on fire.
 

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 Parry:
It begins with the king as a boy, having to spend the night alone in the forest to prove his courage so he can become king. Now while he is spending the night alone he's visited by a sacred vision. Out of the fire appears the holy grail, symbol of God's divine grace. And a voice said to the boy, "You shall be keeper of the grail so that it may heal the hearts of men." But the boy was blinded by greater visions of a life filled with power and glory and beauty. And in this state of radical amazement he felt for a brief moment not like a boy, but invincible, like God, so he reached into the fire to take the grail, and the grail vanished, leaving him with his hand in the fire to be terribly wounded. Now as this boy grew older, his wound grew deeper. Until one day, life for him lost its reason. He had no faith in any man, not even himself. He couldn't love or feel loved. He was sick with experience. He began to die. One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool, he was simple minded, he didn't see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king, "What ails you friend?" The king replied, "I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the holy grail, that which he sought all of his life. And he turned to the fool and said with amazement, "How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?" And the fool replied, "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty."
 



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