The Core (2003)
Delroy Lindo: Brazzelton
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Quotes
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Col. Robert Iverson : People. Doctors Zimsky and Keyes? You guys are our resident geophysicists, so what do you make of this?
Dr. Conrad Zimsky : The mantle is a chemical hodgepodge of, a, variety of elements...
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : Say it with me: "I don't know."
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Dr. Josh Keyes : So, we hotwire the nukes, as one does. We seed them through the core at locations that have to be accurate to the inch. We detonate them in a sequence that has to be accurate to the millisecond. Then we outrun the biggest nuclear shockwave in history.
Dr. Conrad Zimsky : Right.
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : Yeah.
Dr. Josh Keyes : I mean, that should be fairly simple.
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Serge Leveque : Excuse me Dr. Brazzelton, when do you think the ship will be operational?
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : When I get my fabrication methods perfected, twelve... ten years. Ten years.
General Thomas Percell : What would it take to get it done in three months?
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : Fifty billion dollars, I...
[laughing]
General Thomas Percell : [deadpan] Will you take a cheque?
Dr. Josh Keyes : You should use a credit card. You get miles.
General Thomas Percell : Hmm.
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Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : [after listening to Zimsky record his book ideas into a portable microphone] Are you going to be doing that Carl Sagan narration all the way down to the core?
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Maj. Rebecca Childs : Guys? We're dodging diamonds the size of Cape Cod, so bear with me. Not exactly nimble here.
Dr. Josh Keyes : Diamonds? I want some.
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : Can I help?
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Dr. Conrad Zimsky : [cheerfully] Hello Braz!
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : [chuckles] Why the hell aren't you dead yet? Okay, this way.
Dr. Conrad Zimsky : [to Josh] Well, that went better than I expected.
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Dr. Josh Keyes : Why do you get dibs on being the hero?
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : Because it's my damn ship.
Dr. Conrad Zimsky : Oh that makes perfect sense.
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : Look, for twenty years I've done nothing but 'Virgil.' Twenty years. 'Virgil' belongs to me, and I will not let her fail. I will not. Now, if you want to know what's worth dying for: this ship. Building it instead of imagining it. If 'Virgil' needs more blood, it will be my blood.
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Dr. Josh Keyes : I never taught the computer how to read empty space.
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : And I never taught Virgil how to fly.
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Dr. Conrad Zimsky : Braz. Edward
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : Yes, Conrad?
Dr. Conrad Zimsky : You're right, it is your ship. But I wish to God it had been ours.
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Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton : I don't know what to do!
