The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Irving Metzman: Theater Manager
Quotes
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[first lines]
Theater Manager : Oh Cecilia, be careful! You all right?
Cecilia : Yeah.
Theater Manager : You're gonna like this one, it's better than last week's, more romantic.
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Movie Goer : I saw the movie just last week. This is not what happens?
Reporter : Where is the Tom Baxter character?
Theater Manager : You'll get your money back.
Movie Goer : I want what happened in the movie last week to happen this week. Otherwise, what's life all about anyway?
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[last lines]
Theater Manager : Cecilia, what are you doing here?
Cecilia : Meeting Gil Shepherd.
Theater Manager : They all gone.
Cecilia : Th - whaddaya, whaddaya mean?
Theater Manager : They went back to Hollywood.
Cecilia : Gil too?
Theater Manager : Mr Shepherd, yeah. Soon as Tom Baxter went back up on the movie screen - couldn't wait to get outta here. He said this was a close call for his career. I think he's gonna play Charles Lindbergh.
[pause]
Theater Manager : Don't forget, Cecilia, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers start today.
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Theater Manager : Can't you go on? There's an audience.
Rita : How? Tom was the lynchpin of the story.
Jason : Right. Whoever you are, you see, sir, although this has been basically my story, Tom moves the expedition along. He lays out the facts...
Henry : What do you mean your story? It's not your story. Its the story of a man's quest for self fulfillment.
Jason : It's the story of a complex tortured soul who has...
Rita : It's the story of the affect of money on true romance.
Jason : I don't see money coming into it?
Rita : My upbringing. My wealth! My private schools.
Henry : I'm the one who marries royalty. I'm the one...
Rita : Nobody cares.
Henry : What do you mean they don't care?
Rita : They wouldn't sell a ticket if it was your story.
Theater Manager : Stop arguing!
Rita : And do what?
Usherette : Maybe you should just turn the projector off.
Henry : No! No, don't turn the projector off! No, no! It gets black. We disappear.
