The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

Benedict Cumberbatch: Louis Wain

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• Louis Wain : You make the world beautiful and warm and kind. I just wanted to say thank you for that before it's too late.

  Emily Richardson-Wain : I don't make the world beautiful, Louis. The world is beautiful, and you've helped me to see that, too. Just remember - however hard things get, however much you feel like you're struggling, the world is full of beauty. And it's up to you to capture it, Louis. To look and to share it with as many people as you can. You are a prism through which that beam of life refracts.

• Louis Wain : [weeping]  I have failed. I have failed her, Mr Rider.

  Dan Rider : I don't think you've failed, Mr Wain, from what you've been saying. Why do you think Emily wanted you to keep painting pictures, Mr Wain?

  Louis Wain : To help people. To show them.

  Dan Rider : Perhaps. And there's no doubt that you've done that. But I have a rather different theory. I think she wanted you to keep painting so you would not be alone. When you paint, Mr Wain, you connect with other people. You give them a piece of yourself, but they are also connecting with you. And that electricity that you describe, that you felt in the presence of Emily. I'd call that love, Mr Wain. And that is still here.

• [last lines] 

  Louis Wain : Look.

• Louis Wain : When it comes to drawing, there's only one rule, you ever need to teach. It's to look.

• Sir William Ingram : In this occasionally bleak world, you have shown a resilience that I admire. And in spite of everything, you've brought me rather a lot of cheer with your pictures.

  Louis Wain : Of cats?

  Sir William Ingram : But they're not just cats, are they? You are a brave soul, Louis. But you can't do all this on your own.

• Louis Wain : I've never seen an American smile before.

  Caroline Wain : You've never seen an American.

• Marie Wain : I'm scared, Louis.

  Louis Wain : [wraps his arm around her]  Me, too.

• Sir William Ingram : Why were you throwing peanuts at a bull?

  Louis Wain : I heard they like peanuts. And that it calms them down. But it didn't work. Trouble with these show cows, huge egos.

• Louis Wain : Electricity. I feel Electricity!