Flip a coin. when it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.
Boardwalk Empire
You just said "relationship." But the point is that it isn't one. It's been created in this room by the artifice of therapy. And I don't know that I believe in that artifice anymore. I can't distinguish it from reality.
You're sitting across from me, and you're pregnant, and I still think that you are meant to be with me.
In Treatment
You have wasted your life. If you died would anybody care that the world lost that wit? You think that the only truth that matters is the truth that can be measured. Good intentions don't count. What's in your heart doesn't count. Caring doesn't count. But a man's life can be measured by how many tears shed when he dies. Just because you can't measure them, just because you don't want to measure them, doesn't mean it's not real. And if I'm wrong, you're still miserable. Did you really think that your life's purpose was to sacrifice yourself and get nothing in return? No. You believed there's no purpose to anything. Even the lives you save you dismiss. You turn the one decent thing in your life and you taint it, strip it of all meaning. You're miserable for nothing. And I don't know why you'd want to live.
House M.D.
You should learn to forget what I say. I know I do.
Downton Abbey
You know who I envy? Writers. They create these characters that they want to spend time with and then they decide if they're gonna let them live or die, or let them be happy or unhappy. Let them be failures or successes.
In Treatment
Dialogues, dialogues,...
When a man walks into a room he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere...just ask him. If you listen, he'll tell you how he got there. How he forgot where he was going and then he woke up. If you listen, he'll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel and dreamt of being perfect. And then he'll smile with wisdom... content that he realized the world isn't perfect. We're flawed because we want so much more. We're ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.
Mad Men
You pretend to buck the system, pretend to be a rebel. You claim to hate the rules. But all you do is substitute your own rules for society's. And it's a nice simple rule, tell the blunt, honest truth in the starkest, darkest way, And what will be, will be. What will be, should be. And everyone else is a coward. But you are wrong. It's not cowardly to not call someone an idiot. People aren't tactful or polite just because it is nice. They do it because they got an ounce of humility. Because they know that they will make mistakes, and they know that their actions have consequences, and they know that those consequences are their fault. Why do you want so bad not to be human, House?
House M.D.
Sir Humphrey: With Trident [Ballistic missile] we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
Jim Hacker: I don't want to obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
Sir Humphrey: It's a deterrent.
Jim Hacker: It's a bluff. I probably wouldn't use it.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but they don't know that you probably wouldn't.
Jim Hacker: They probably do.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, they probably know that you probably wouldn't. But they can't certainly know.
Jim Hacker: They probably certainly know that I probably wouldn't.
Sir Humphrey: Yes, but even though they probably certainly know that you probably wouldn't, they don't certainly know that, although you probably wouldn't, there is no probability that you certainly would.
Yes Minister
سريال مال دهه هشتاد است. جيم هکر به عنوان وزيری در کابينه دولت انگلستان منصوب شده و آدم چندان جدیای نيست. در وزارت معاون ثابت وزارتخانه، سر هامفری اپلبی، که همه کاره وزارت است سعی میکند حريف تازهکار را دستآموز کند تا زياد پی سياستها و نظرات مشعشع خودش نرود و سر هامفری بتواند در کمال آرامش نقطه نظرات بدنهی بوروکراتيک وزارتخانه را پيش ببرد. اين وسط معاون خصوصی وزير، برنارد وولی هم هست که کارش يا تکمضراب زدن وسط بحثهای بیپايان و بی سر و ته هکر و سر هامفری است يا بين وفاداری به هر کدام از اين دو قطب هميشه متضاد مردد مانده. طنز سريال واقعاً ظريف و عالی است. تکتک اشارات کار برده و کمدی بر اساس محتواست. البته تماشايش بعضاً ديکشنری و تمرکز زياد میخواهد؛ به خصوص فهميدن حرفهای سر هامفری که طوری حرف میزد که عموماً جيم هکر آخر خطابهاش میپرسد چی؟ مثلاً اين را گوش کنيد:
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در تمام داستانها جيم هکر میخواهد کاری بکند و هميشهی خدا سر هامفری به دليلی مخالف است و بعد با هزار و يک دوز و کلک کاری میکند که آن طرح يا بخوابد يا خود وزير تغييرات لازم را درش بدهد و تازه خيال کند کار خودش بوده. آخر فصل سوم سريال طی يک سری وقايع واقعاً احمقانه و خندهدار جناب جيم هکر به نخست وزيری میرسد و همراهش سر هافری و برنارد هم میروند (در حقيقت سر هافری، هکر را نخست وزير میکند) و ابعاد درگيریهايشان از استخدام چند تايپيست در وزارت به قراردادهای موشکهای بالستيک میرسد. البته بعد از نخست وزيری، هکر هر از گاهی حريف سر هامفری میشود، ولی باز هم نمیشود گفت مملکت را کدام میچرخانند.
پدرسوختگی سر هامفری و کلاً بدنه بورکراتيک و کهنه دولت دقيقاً همانی است که دايیجان ناپلئون سالها حرفش را زد و ما باور نکرديم. ديدن اينکه اين جماعت چطور سر ديگران و خدا و خودشان کلاه میگذارند و عزرائيل را دچار بحران هويت میکنند ديدنی است. خلاصه اگر آدم حوصله سر درآوردن داشته باشد از خنده خفه میشود. روی هم سی و هفت قسمت نيم ساعته است. هر سه بازيگر از بازيگران تئاتر هستند و ول کن سناريوی عالی سريال را، بازیهايشان واقعاً ديدنی است. کل سريال هم يک اسطوره در تاريخ تلويزيون انگلستان است. زمان پخشش با دوران مارگارت تاچر يکی بوده و همه جا مینويسند که مارگرات تاچر عاشق اين سريال بوده، جز اينکه فکر نمیکرده جيم هکر در ابعاد نخست وزيری بوده است.
اينجا میتوانيد يکی از بگومگوهای بیپايان سر هامفری و جيم را ببينيد.
راست میگويند که آدمها دو دستهاند، آنها که اين شش نفر را میشناسند و آنها که نمیشناسند.
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