The Rum Diary (2011)

Michael Rispoli: Sala

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• Paul Kemp : [Kemp and Sala are wandering down a pier late at night, high on hallucinogens]  I thought I was losing grip in there. What did we take?

  Sala : I don't know.

  Paul Kemp : We need to get some more.

  [Kemp stops to stare at a tank full of lobsters] 

  Paul Kemp : [quietly]  That explains it... doesn't it?

  Sala : Explains what?

  Paul Kemp : The world... and us.

  [he stares deep into the eyes of one particular lobster] 

  Paul Kemp : [voiceover]  I wonder what it is you might think about our different worlds. He looked at me kinda sideways and said, "Human beings are the only creatures on Earth who claim a God, and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one. Does the world belong to no one but you?" And when he said it, I was taken aback. Not because of who was doing the talking. Because I finally understood the connection between children scavenging for food, and shiny brass plates on the front doors of banks.

• Paul Kemp : I thought you said you had a TV.

  Sala : No, the guy across the alley has a TV. I have binoculars.

• Sala : Do not confuse love with lust, nor drunkenness with judgment.

• Moburg : Maybe I can interest you gentlemen in something else.

  Paul Kemp : Like what? Death?

  Moburg : Like the most powerful drug in the history of narcotics. I'm not at liberty to discuss or disclose; all I can tell you is: this stuff is so powerful, they give it to communists.

  Paul Kemp : Who does?

  Moburg : The FBI.

  Sala : Why would the FBI get communists high?

  Moburg : That I can't help you with.

• Lotterman : What do you know about horoscopes?

  Paul Kemp : Nothing.

  Lotterman : Ah, well, if I can write one, you can. So it's every day with a special "Star's Star" featured Saturday with Betty Grable and Neil Sedaka, things like that. So here, everything you need is right there. It's called "Madam La Zonga Predicts."

  Paul Kemp : What happened to Madam La Zonga?

  Sala : He got canceled.

  Paul Kemp : What do you mean, fired?

  Lotterman : They raped him to death.

  Paul Kemp : They raped him to death?

  Sala : There are very few places on this island I decline to visit, but the toilets frequented by sailors on the west side of Candado Pier is one.

  Paul Kemp : They raped him to death?

• Paul Kemp : The only upside with Nixon is he ain't gonna win.

  Sala : He's got the grin.

  Paul Kemp : He ain't gonna win. Irish guy's gonna win. But don't ever let him live.

  Sala : Well how do you know that?

  Paul Kemp : I do horoscopes.

• Sala : You're high, you fool! Drink some rum.

• [last lines] 

  Sala : Ride yourself a trade wind...

• Paul Kemp : You know what I think? I think we're drinking too much rum.

  Sala : There's no other way.

  Paul Kemp : I'm getting double ashtray, and double salt pot.

  Sala : You gotta a Moberg bifocal.

• Sala : [while hallucinating]  I have fear! You're giving me fear!