Cold Mountain (2003)

Jude Law: Inman

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• Inman : If you could see my inside - now, whatever you wanna name it - my spirit? That's what I fear. I think I'm ruined. They kept tryin' to put me in the ground. But I wasn't ready,

  Ada : Inman...

  Inman : But if I had - if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead. How could I write to you after what I done, what I seen?

• Inman : You are all that keeps me from slidin' into some dark place.

  Ada : How did I keep you? We barely knew each other. It was a few moments.

  Inman : A thousand moments! They're like a bag - of tiny diamonds. Don't matter if they're real or things I made up. The shape of your neck. That's real. The way you felt under my hands when I pulled you to me.

  Ada : You were plowing a field.

  Inman : You were carrying a tray.

  Ada : You wouldn't come in.

  Inman : No, I wouldn't go in.

  Ada : So that's why I had to carry a tray. So I could come out to see you.

  Inman : That kiss - which I kissed every day of my walking.

  Ada : Every day I was waiting, longing. Longing to see your face.

• Rev. Monroe : I have no plans to preach war in my church, Mr. Inman.

  Inman : I imagine God is weary of being called down on both sides of an argument.

• Inman : Ada, I wanna marry you. If you'll have me.

  Ada : Isn't there some religion where you just say I marry you, three times, and then you're man and wife?

  Inman : I marry you, I marry you, I marry you.

  [Ada laughs] 

  Inman : Why is that funny?

  Ada : No, I think it's I divorce you three times and then you're not married anymore.

  [Ada laughs] 

  Inman : I can wait for ya.

  Ada : Oh, Inman, I marry you, I marry you, I marry you, I marry you, I marry you.

  [Ada and Inman kiss] 

  Ada : I have so... I have so many buttons, is that alright? Will you turn your back?

  [Inman turns his back but then he turns back around] 

  Inman : Nope. No, I will not.

• Ada : I found you this book - to take with you. William Bartram. They tell me it's good. I think he writes about these parts, the author. So...

  Inman : Thank you.

  Ada : And this.

  [hands Inman a tintype of herself] 

  Ada : I'm not smiling in it. I don't know how to do that - hold a smile.

• Inman : But I'm a deserter. If they find me here things could get bad for you.

  Maddy : What are they gonna do? Cut short me young life?

• Ada : Hello, I'm Ada Monroe.

  Inman : I'm Inman.

  Ada : Inman?

  Inman : W.P. Inman.

  Ada : [repeats it]  W.P. Inman.

  Inman : Repeating a thing doesn't improve it.

• Veasey : Oh God of my God! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

  Junior : What's up?

  Veasey : The Israelites! The tribes of Israel are about to flee from the banks of Egypt! Hallelujah!

  Inman : He's got a shit coming on. It's overdue.

• Blind Man : Gettin' better, soldier?

  Inman : Seems that way.

  Blind Man : I wouldn't hurry. The war's almost done.Don't need your help to lose it.

  [chuckles] 

  Inman : Been meanin' to ask you, where'd you take your wound?

  Blind Man : Oh, before I was born. Never set eyes on a thing in this world. Not a tree, a gun, or a woman. Put my hand on all three, though.

• Inman : I ain't getting shot again for some cause I don't believe in.

• Inman : Come out of there.

  Bosie : No, sir. Here's fine.

  Inman : I'll just have to shoot the horse from under you.

  Bosie : Shoot her. She's not mine. You riding Mr. Teague's animal?

  Inman : I am.

  Bosie : He dead?

  Inman : I hope so. Look, how old are you? Give me your gun and ride home, I'm done fighting. I'm sick of it.

  Bosie : I give you my gun and you'll shoot me dead.

  Inman : I will not shoot you, but nor am I walking down that mountain looking over my shoulder for you.

  Bosie : That's what you call a conundrum. I tell you what I've got on my side.

  Inman : What have you got on your side?

  Bosie : The confidence of youth.

• Inman : This doesn't come out right. If it were enough to stand, without the words.

  Ada : It is, it is.

  Inman : Look at the sky now. What color is it? Or the way a hawk flies. Or you wake up and your ribs are bruised thinking so hard on somebody. What do you call that?

• Inman : She got me a book, Ada Monroe. A man by the name of Bartram. He wrote about his travels. Sometimes, just readin' the name of a place - near home - Sorell Cove, Bishop's Creek. Those places belonged to people before us. To the Cherokee. What did he call Cold Mountain? How could a name - not even a real name - break your heart? It's her. She's the place I'm headin'. And I hardly know her. I hardly know her! And I just can't seem to get back to her,

• Inman : I came back for you.

• [Veasey finds a saw] 

  Veasey : Hey! Look at this! This is a good saw.

  Inman : It's not yours. You take it, you make us another enemy. You are a Christian- don't you know your commandments?

  Veasey : You'll find the good Lord very flexible on the subject of property. We could do a lot with this saw. Cut down a tree. Play music with it. You're gonna thank me for this saw.

  Inman : I'll say thank you when I've lost you and I've found some food.

• Inman : Move away from the baby!

  Bardolph : Don't shoot.

  Inman : Take off your boots. Take off your pants and your shirt.

  [Bardolph takes off his boots, pants, and shirt] 

  Bardolph : Don't shoot me, please. We're starving. We haven't eaten.

  Inman : You'd better get running before you catch your death of cold.

  Bardolph : Thanks, thank you. I will.

  [Bardolph starts to run, and then Sara shoots him] 

• Sara : I'm alone here, as you can see, with my baby. I need to believe you mean no harm.

  [Inman takes out his gun] 

  Inman : No, I mean to give it to you.

  Sara : I don't want it. If I had my way they'd take metal altogether out of this world. Every blade, every gun.

• Ada : Somebody said you were enlisting. Are you?

  Inman : If there is a war, we'll all fight.

  Ada : Did you get a picture made?

  Inman : Say again?

  Ada : A tintype, with your musket and your courage on display.

  Inman : You're laughin' at me.

  Ada : I don't know you.

• Ruby : Have you been shot?

  Inman : Not lately.

• Inman : I'm wetter than a fish.

• Inman : [in bed with Sara]  Thing is, I love someone. I love someone very much.

• Shyla : [Sits in Inman lap, passionately kisses him while he's in a drunken semiconscious state]  Mmmm... mmmm!

  Inman : Look..I... uh..

  Shyla : [Ignores him, continues moaning and kiss him]  Mmmm!

  Lila : [Pulls Shyla off of Inman]  He's mine! You rub yourself off on the preacher. I'm gonna make him hug me 'til I grunt.

  [Grunts, sets Shyla down and makes her leave the room] 

  Dolly : [Staring at Inman]  He's purty, ain't he?

  Lila : Get!

  [Gently pushes Dolly aside] 

  Dolly : [while walking out]  How am I ever supposed to get a man?

  Lila : [Sits down on the kitchen table and looks at Inman]  Hey!

  Inman : [Staggering gets up and walks, pointing at the stairs]  I know. I know.

  [Lila puts her foot in his crotch as he walks by, he stops and holds her foot] 

  Lila : [Removes the top of her dress, showing Inman her breasts]  How about that? How does that favor?

  Inman : I... I gotta go.

  Lila : [Clears the table and bends over, pulls up her dress, showing Inman her butt]  Just get on and ride me all the way to China!

  [Lies down on the table, waiting for Inman to penetrate her, moans sensually] 

  Lila : [Inman touches her butt, hesitates]  You shy? Need a hand?

  Lila : [Gets down on her knees and starts undoing Inman's pants]  Let's have a look and see what we can muster.

  Inman : [Inman's belonging fall out of his pockets]  Oh no, now look what you me do.

  [Starts picking them up] 

  Junior : [Junior comes in with the Confederate Home Guard]  Slut!

  [Hits Lila in the forehead with his gun] 

  Junior : Slut!

  [Knock out Inman] 

  Confederate Officer : Home Guard!

  Junior : [to Lila]  Cover yourself up! I told you, you don't touch the money!

• Maddy : Is she waiting for you? This Ada Monroe?

  Inman : She was. I don't know.

• Inman : I've had to put myself in the way of people's kindness.

• Inman : What would you give for that? To have your eyeballs for ten minutes.

  Blind Man : Ten minutes? Shoot. I wouldn't give a - Indian head cent. Might turn me hateful.

  Inman : That's sure what seein's done to me,

  Blind Man : Nah, that's not the way I meant it. You said ten minutes. It's havin' a thang and then the loss of it I'm talkin' about.

• Inman : Am I near the Cape Fear River?

• Veasey : I'm God's minister.

  Inman : What part of God's business is throwin' a woman down a gorge?

  Veasey : A slave woman, Can you see that in this light? Black as a bucket of tar.

  Inman : Is she dead?

  Veasey : No. I drugged her, like you would a butterfly, And I care for her. That's the heartbreak of it. She's got my bastard in her belly.

• Maddy : So you been fightin'?

  Inman : I could be at killin', for days, my feet against the feet of my enemy. And I always killed him. He never killed me. I don't know why.

  Maddy : Gave it a try, to look at ya.

• Inman : I'm like the boy who goes for wood in winter and comes back in spring with a whistle - like every fool sent off to fight with a flag and a lie,

• Sara : My man's dead. Took his wound at Gettysburg and never saw his boy.

  Inman : I'm sorry.

  Sara : It's pretty much what you'll get if you knock on any door of this war. Man dead, woman left.

• Inman : You're always carrying a tray,

  Ada : I was going to take some root beer over to the negroes.

• Inman : [to Veasey]  I should have shot you when I had the chance.

  Veasey : Please yourself. I'm just being a Christian.