Pépé le Moko (1937)
Jean Gabin: Pépé le Moko
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Quotes
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Tania : When I feel down, I change eras.
Pépé le Moko : Change eras?
Tania : I think of my youth. I look at my old photo and imagine it's a mirror. I put on one of my old records, from the days when I'd sell out the Paris music halls. I'd go on stage against a country backdrop with a red spotlight on my pale face, and I'd sing.
[singing]
Tania : Some people dream of America, As they see it at the cinema, A magnificent land they swear, Our Paris just can't compare. That kind of talk makes them bold, When they feel blue and want to holler, But they just end up hungry and old, In New York scrounging for a dollar. Among the criminals and outcasts, And emigrants with broken pasts, They sing of Paris at last, Where's my windmill on Place Blanche? My tobacco shop, my corner café? When every day was a new chance? Where are all the friends who made my day? Where are the dance halls where we'd meet? The songs the accordionist would play? Where are the places where we could eat, Without a cent in our pockets to pay? Where are they now?
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L'Arbi : I told you the truth!
Pépé le Moko : Find another truth!
L'Arbi : It's the truth.
Pépé le Moko : Shut up!
L'Arbi : I swear on my father head!
Pépé le Moko : No risk! He was guillotined.
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Pépé le Moko : Our friend Slimane is funny. He means it! He wants to arrest me. Delusions of the grandeur!
Inspecteur Slimane : I'll get you! It's written!
Pépé le Moko : Sure. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. Sure!
Inspecteur Slimane : You're funny.
Pépé le Moko : And how much time will I do?
Inspecteur Slimane : Consult a fortune teller.
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Pépé le Moko : Blame it on the Casbah.
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Pépé le Moko : I'm like England. My future is on the waves.
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Inspecteur Slimane : Women will be your undoing, Pépé.
Pépé le Moko : Relax. I give them my body but I keep my head. Who knows when I might need it, right?
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Pépé le Moko : How do you like my burg?
Gaby Gould : I don't like the provinces. Once past the Paris city limits, I feel ill at ease.
Pépé le Moko : Really?
Gaby Gould : If I can't wake up in Paris, I want to go back to sleep.
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Pépé le Moko : What's so funny?
Gaby Gould : Nothing.
Pépé le Moko : A pity.
Gaby Gould : A pity?
Pépé le Moko : A pity I don't know you better.
Gaby Gould : Why?
Pépé le Moko : So I could smack you one. I hate people laughing without me knowing why.
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Pépé le Moko : What did you do before?
Gaby Gould : Before what?
Pépé le Moko : Before the diamonds.
Gaby Gould : I dreamed of them.
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Pépé le Moko : I really like you. You're beautiful. And being with you is like being in Paris. With you I escape, you see? You're a different landscape. I was pretending to sleep earlier. I let my mind wander. You know what I heard? The Métro. Can you imagine? The Métro! You taunt me with diamonds, you're wearing silk and gold, but you remind me of the Metro and frites and café au last on café terraces. That's what you're like.
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Pépé le Moko : You have a good mug.
Inspecteur Slimane : Do I?
Pépé le Moko : Oh yes. You wear your badge on your face. To look this phony, now that's honesty!
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Pépé le Moko : Not with them, Slimane?
Inspecteur Slimane : Hasty work is sloppy work. *Shouia.* Slow is better.
Pépé le Moko : Don't like to brawl, my little beagle?
Inspecteur Slimane : No, my little fox.
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Pépé le Moko : You saw nothing.
Le Grand Père : What can I have seen?
Pépé le Moko : You heard nothing.
Le Grand Père : I'm one-eyed and going deaf.
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Inspecteur Slimane : I'll get you, Pépé. But, in my own way. If God is willing.
Pépé le Moko : I can't wait!
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Pépé le Moko : And if I kill you?
Inspecteur Slimane : Inshallah! You despise me too much to kill me.
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Pépé le Moko : What'd she say?
Inspecteur Slimane : Nothing much. She just talked. I don't really listen to women.
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Pépé le Moko : You're too brutal.
Carlos : And you're not brutal enough.
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Pépé le Moko : She's as different from Inès as a phonograph from a wireless.
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Pépé le Moko : Some clocks read 2 o'clock and chime 4 when it's only 11:45. Régis doesn't ring true.
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Inspecteur Slimane : What did you think of her?
Pépé le Moko : Not bad. She's got pearls and the kind of smile I like: with lip rouge! And bracelets like I understand them: in platinum with small diamonds. And a "hell-with-you" attitude.
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Pépé le Moko : You're right. I'm an idiot. I'm sorry. Aren't you fed up with a guy like me? Ah-la-la-la-la. I'm rotten.
Inès : You are what you are.
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Pépé le Moko : I'm going down now! She can't come up, but I can go down.
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Pépé le Moko : Make sure everything looks right. I want cushions and ashtrays, and vases with flowers.
Tania : No problem.
Pépé le Moko : An water the flowers with eau de cologne.
Tania : I'll use my "Reve de Java"! It smells like violets.
Pépé le Moko : And put out a table with two settings. I'll handle the grub and the juice.
Tania : All this for his new bird!
Pépé le Moko : She's no bird!
Tania : Why? Birds are nice.
Pépé le Moko : Sure, my turtledove!
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[repeated line]
Pépé le Moko : Get off my back!
