First Love (1977)

William Katt: Elgin Smith

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• [first lines] 

  [a faceless leg, belonging to Elgin Smith, is kicking around a soccer ball by himself] 

  Elgin Smith : [breathless voice over]  Inside. All right. Make it good, let's do that again. OK coach, why aren't you watching now. Watch out, Pele. Let's top that ball - top it. Yeah. Let's do it again. All right. Smith, the mighty foot, moves downfield with amazing agility. Intense concentration. Ah, you've been reading too much, Ben. Oh!

• [last lines] 

  [Elgin is at the zoo by himself looking at the camel in the pen as it snows lightly and as a zoo worker passes by] 

  Zookeeper : Sure get your money's worth.

  Elgin Smith : Oh, yeah. I guess I am. Do you happen to know where Bactria is?

  Zookeeper : Asia, I think.

  Elgin Smith : Asia.

  Zookeeper : Uh-huh.

  Elgin Smith : Does it snow there?

  Zookeeper : Maybe. Sure snows here.

  Elgin Smith : Yeah.

  Zookeeper : [about the camels in the snow]  They seem to adapt.

  Elgin Smith : Yeah, I guess they do.

• Shelley : Some women are so jealous. I'm not. Are you?

  Elgin Smith : Well, I don't think I'd like it if my girlfriend was messing around, no.

  Shelley : That's *sweet*. That's old fashioned. I like that in a man.

• Elgin Smith : I don't think you know what love is.

  David Bonner : Love is what feels good.

• Elgin Smith : Would you like to go for a drink or something? I don't have any dope.

  Shelley : I bet I could find your room. Once I've been someplace once, I'm just like a homing pigeon.

  Elgin Smith : My room?

  Shelley : Yeah. Third floor.

  [in a fake French accent] 

  Shelley : Ze zecond one ze left.

• Elgin Smith : Shelley, what are you doing?

  Shelley : I'm taking my clothes off.

• Shelley : You want to make love?

  Elgin Smith : Just like that? Have you been reading a lot of Cosmopolitan or something?

  Shelley : You may not believe this, but, I've never said that to a guy before. But, you're kind of different. I feel sort of - maternal. Oh, it's not in a bad way. It's in a sexy way.

• Elgin Smith : I want to tell you something. That was the first time...

  Caroline Hedges : First time? The first time? What do you mean?

  Elgin Smith : No.

  Caroline Hedges : What else do you mean?

  Elgin Smith : That was the first time that - its ever felt right. You know, like it should feel when you make love to somebody.

• Elgin Smith : Do you cum? Do you have orgasms?

  Caroline Hedges : You don't mean orgasms do you? What do you think I've been doing?

  Elgin Smith : When?

  Caroline Hedges : When? Elgin, I was cumming all over the place.

  Elgin Smith : When exactly?

  Caroline Hedges : How could you miss it?

  Elgin Smith : Be more specific.

  Caroline Hedges : Where were you? I could hardly breathe. And by body was having convulsions.

  Elgin Smith : Oh, that was it, huh.

  Caroline Hedges : Yeah, that was it. I'm sorry. Next time I'll send up flares.

• Elgin Smith : Do I satisfy you?

  Caroline Hedges : Yes. In a lot of ways.

• Elgin Smith : All I ever hear about or read about in the world is female orgasms and I've never seen one. I just wanted to know for sure.

  Caroline Hedges : Well, now you've seen many. You can be sure.

  Elgin Smith : It's just that with a guy, you know, there's an obvious progression of events, you know. First...

  Caroline Hedges : You're hard.

  Elgin Smith : Yeah. And then, you know...

  Caroline Hedges : White, sticky stuff.

  Elgin Smith : Yeah, and then, you know...

  Caroline Hedges : Then you're soft and no good to me anymore.

• Elgin Smith : Do you have any dope?

  David Bonner : No. You should have felt bad yesterday. I had a whole lot of it. It's gone. I've got some sleeping pills.

  Elgin Smith : I don't want to go to sleep, David. I just want to go numb.

• Elgin Smith : How old is this guy?

  Caroline Hedges : Forty-six.

  Elgin Smith : Forty-six? You and I together aren't forty-six.

• Elgin Smith : Did you cum with him? Did you?

  Caroline Hedges : I don't remember.

  Elgin Smith : He's real experienced.

  Caroline Hedges : He's very experienced. Elgin, do you have *any* idea how much this is turning me off?

• Shelley : Do you want to make love?

  Elgin Smith : I always end up saying no to you, don't I?

• Caroline Hedges : I think you're a lovely person.

  Elgin Smith : You're a cunt.

• Elgin Smith : Sit down. Have a seat. I sound like a receptionist. Have a seat. The doctor will be right with you.

  Shelley : Oh, Doc, it's an emergency. I have a broken life. Maybe we should x-ray it.

• David Bonner : Look, Elg, you can't take the woman thing too seriously. You got to remember that.

  Elgin Smith : More from David Bonner and the great ideas of Western Man series.

• Elgin Smith : Are you happy with me?

  Caroline Hedges : Yes. Are you with me?

  Elgin Smith : Can't you tell?

  Caroline Hedges : Can't *you* tell?

  Elgin Smith : I don't know.

• Shelley : Have you ever tried any positions from the Kama Sutra?

  Elgin Smith : I doubt it.

  Shelley : I'll tell you about Krishna and Rahda.

  Elgin Smith : Okay.

  Shelley : Krishna was the god of all the heavens and Radha was this young Indian maiden he wanted to make love to; but, because he was a god and she was just a maiden he couldn't do it. So, he invented a position, called the defying position.

  Elgin Smith : The defying position.

  Shelley : The defying position. Um, you hold my leg up like that and hold it like this.

  Elgin Smith : You've got to be kidding.

  Shelley : No! It's great. You'll love it. I - I think. Wait. Hold on. Oh! Oh! Now, see. But, wait. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh! Oo, that feels good.

  Elgin Smith : Shelley, you won't believe this; but, there is an easier way.

• Elgin Smith : Come on. I'll make you a cup of hemlock.

• Shelley : You know, I'd stay all night. I'd do whatever you'd want to do. But, you have to know that it's me. That's all I want.

  Elgin Smith : I know. I know.

  Shelley : You just have to know it's me.

  Elgin Smith : I know.

  Shelley : Know you don't. Nobody does.