Brenner (TV Series)
Charlie Paradise: The Tragic Flute (1964)
Ron Randell: Charlie Paradise
Quotes
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Charlie Paradise : Have you ever noticed how a "No" in French sounds better than a "Yes" in any other language?
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Oliver Weems : I'm Oliver Weems. This is Gloria.
Charlie Paradise : Gloria Weems?
Gloria : Gloria... something else.
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Oliver Weems : I've always wanted to meet one of those eccentric painters.
Charlie Paradise : Are you interested in his paintings, Mr. Weems, or in his state of mind?
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Charlie Paradise : You know what Flute was getting at, what his paintings meant.
Plotkin : Aren't they obvious? He was a surrealist, expressing his imagination without any conscience control, flinging his fantasies onto the canvas in a desperate attempt to astound himself.
Charlie Paradise : What was his fantasy? What did he see?
Plotkin : Inversion! Nature in reverse. Dead things alive; living things dead.
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[last lines]
Roy Brenner : Thanks, Charlie. I never would have figured that out in a million years.
Charlie Paradise : You big city cops. I told you, Roy, Greenwich Village is a small town.
Roy Brenner : It's lucky I know the mayor. Thanks, Charlie.