Bright Young Things (2003)

Stephen Campbell Moore: Adam

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• Adam Fenwick-Symes : Oh Nina, what a lot of parties... Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Circus parties, parties where you have to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St. John's Wood, parties in flats and studios and houses and ships and hotels and nightclubs, in swimming baths and windmills. Dances in London so dull. Comic dances in Scotland and disgusting dances in the suburbs. All that succession and repetition of massed humanity. All those vile bodies. And now a party in a mental hospital...

• Adam Fenwick-Symes : I say, this could be rather fun. I could even make up fashions. If I can't get Archie Shwert to wear suede shoes within a month, you can call me Diedre in public.

  Nina Blount : Yellow suede shoes.

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : Oh, Nina darling! You are a genius! And green bowler hats.

• Adam Fenwick-Symes : Good afternoon. Is Mr Blount in?

  Colonel Blount : There's no Mr Blount here. This is Colonel Blount's house.

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : I'm sorry. I think the colonel is expecting me to lunch.

  Colonel Blount : Nonsense! I'm Colonel Blount.

• Colonel Blount : Don't think me discourteous, but I'm afraid it's impossible for me to ask you to luncheon. I have a guest coming on intimate family business. It's some young rascal who wants to marry my daughter.

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : Well, I want to marry your daughter too.

  Colonel Blount : What an extraordinary thing. Are you sure?

• Colonel Blount : So you're the young fool who's going to marry my daughter.

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : I very much hope so, Sir.

  Colonel Blount : How much money have you got?

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : Well... I had a thousand pounds last night. I gave to all to a drunken major.

  Colonel Blount : What did you do that for?

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : Well, I... I hoped he'd put it on Indian Runner... In the November handicap.

  Colonel Blount : Never heard of the animal. When will you next have some money?

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : Well, when I've written some book. You see, I owe Lord Monomark. For an advance. And until I get it written I rather hoped... *we* rather hoped that you might... help us.

  Colonel Blount : How could *I* help you? I have never written a book in my life. Worte a letter to the Times once. Never published.

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : We thought that... well, that you might give us some money.

  Colonel Blount : You thought *that*, did you?... I think that's an admirable idea. I don't see any reason shy I shouldn't. How much do you want?

• Adam Fenwick-Symes : Nina, I'm afraid I shan't be able to marry you after all.

• Adam Fenwick-Symes : Lottie, where is the major?

  Lottie Crump : What major? I never saw a major.

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : The one you introduced me to.

  Lottie Crump : How do you know he is a major?

  Adam Fenwick-Symes : You said he was.