Hulk (2003)
Eric Bana: Bruce Banner
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Quotes
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The Hulk : [first line, to Bruce] Puny human.
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[from trailer]
Bruce Banner : You know what scares me the most? When I can't fight it anymore, when I totally lose control... I like it.
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Bruce Banner : I should have killed you.
Father : Yeah? I should have killed you.
Bruce Banner : I wish you had. I saw her last night. Saw her face. Brown hair, brown eyes. She smiled at me. She reached down and kissed my cheek. I can almost remember her smell. It was like desert flowers.
Father : Her favorite perfume.
Bruce Banner : It was my mother, and I don't even know her name.
Father : It's alright, son. Go ahead and cry. Go ahead and cry. Cry. Crying will do you good.
Bruce Banner : Don't touch me! Maybe, once you were my father, but you're not now and you never will be.
Father : Oh, is that so? Well, I've got news for you. I didn't come here to see you. I came here to see my son. My real son. The one inside of you. You're nothing but a superficial shell, a husk of flimsy consciousness ready to be torn off at a moments notice.
Bruce Banner : You can think what you like. I don't care, just go!
Father : Now, son, listen to me. I've found a cure... for me. My cells can transform, too. Absorb enormous amounts of energy, but unlike you, they're unstable. Son, I need your strength. I gave you life, now you must give it back to me! Only a million times more radiant, more powerful!
Bruce Banner : Stop!
Father : Stop what? STOP WHAT! Think about all those men out there, in their uniforms! Barking and swallowing orders! Inflicting their petty rule over the entire globe! Think of all the harm they've done! To you, to me! To humanity! And know this, that we can make them, and their flags and their anthems and their governments disappear! In a flash, you and me!
Bruce Banner : I'd rather die!
Father : Oh, that's your answer and indeed you shall die and be reborn a hero! Of the kind that walked the Earth long before the pale religions of civilization infected humanity's soul!
Bruce Banner : DON'T!
Father : [David stops and shortly mocks Bruce in a calm manner] Stop your bawling, you weak little speck of human trash.
[David gets up from his chair, yelling]
Father : I'll go! You just watch me go!
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[after Betty calms the Hulk in San Francisco]
Bruce Banner : You found me.
Betty Ross : You weren't that hard to find.
Bruce Banner : Yes, I was.
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Bruce Banner : Talbot.
Talbot : Yeah?
Bruce Banner : You're making me angry.
Talbot : Oh, am I?
[Banner turns into the Hulk]
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Talbot : See, I need your cells to trigger some chemical distress signals. You know, so you can turn a little green for me again, and I can carve off a piece of the real you, analyze it, patent it, make a fortune. Do you mind?
Bruce Banner : I'll never let you.
Talbot : I'm not sure you've got much of a choice.
[Talbot abuses Bruce]
Talbot : Come on, Bruce. Aren't you feeling a little angry? After all, you've only got me to play with now that Betty's dumped you and gone back to Berkeley.
Bruce Banner : You're lying!
Talbot : You know, for me this is a win-win situation. You turn green, and all these guys come in and kill you and I perform the autopsy. You don't, and I mop the floor with you, and maybe by accident go too far and break your neck. Bad science, maybe, but personally gratifying.
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Bruce Banner : You wanna go to the review board on Monday and tell them we've developed a brand-new method for exploding frogs?
Betty Ross : Yeah, I think maybe there's a market for it. I mean, what if there's a plague?
Bruce Banner : What have you had, Betty, like, one beer?
Betty Ross : I'm just... I'm just saying, you know, frogs start falling from the sky, who do they come to? We'd be world-renowned.
Bruce Banner : Make any parent proud.
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[from teaser trailer, voice only]
Bruce Banner : Even now, I can feel it. Buried somewhere deep inside. Watching me. Waiting. But you know what scares me the most? When I can't fight it anymore, when it takes over, when I totally lose control, I like it.
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Betty Ross : What happened to you last night?
Bruce Banner : I had the most vivid dream. It was like being born. Coming up for air, light hitting my face, screaming. My heartbeat was like boom, boom, boom.
Betty Ross : Were you at the lab?
Bruce Banner : No, but something... and there was that man. The one with the dogs.
Betty Ross : Who.
Bruce Banner : That new janitor. He said he was my father.
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Harper : Bruce! Big day. Did you sleep? I didn't sleep.
Bruce Banner : Slept okay. Is Betty here?
Harper : She's around. I really got to say, seeing you in that styling headwear.
Bruce Banner : You're implying something about my helmet?
Harper : You look like a massive nerd, even around other scientists. Can just I ask? Were you wearing the helmet while she dumped you?
Bruce Banner : See? It protects my very important brain, Harper. Go prep the samples.
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[deleted scene, Betty and Bruce's review board presentation]
Betty Ross : The Nanomeds, which are essentially little molecular machines remain inert in the body until we activate them with a burst of gamma radiation. Then they instantly go to work repairing tissues, by breaking down damaged cells, and by forcing healthy cells to replicate. The problem we've been having involves managing the energy flux created by such rapid cellular activity and the buildup of waste products from the dismantled cells. Which have so far led to catastrophic results. In our next round of experiments, we'll be damaging the cells with drastically higher doses of gamma radiation, resulting in more uniform trauma. We hope in this way to better contain their destructive potential. If we do, if we succeed, we may someday realize our goal of near-instantaneous bodily repair.
Review Board Member : But to date the Nanomeds have failed. What are you looking at in terms of...
Bruce Banner : They know too much.
Review Board Member : I'm sorry?
Bruce Banner : Death is a kind of forgetting. You see, each time a human cell replicates, it loses a little more DNA from the end of its chromosomes. Eventually what happens is it forgets so much that it forgets its function, its ability to cope with trauma to continue to reproduce. Whereas life, life is the ability to both retrieve and act on memory. What makes the Nanomeds so extraordinary, and continuing our funding worthy, of course, is the fact they are life. Unbound. It's beautiful, but it's untenable. Part of life is death, is forgetting, and unchecked, its mutations... it's monstrous. You see, the Nanomeds remember their instructions too well. Basically, to stay in balance and alive, we must forget as much as we remember.
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Talbot : You and I have never had the chance to get to know each other properly.
Bruce Banner : Well, that's because I don't want to get to know you. Properly or improperly.
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Father : [absorbing Hulk's energy] Sleep, Bruce, and forget forever. Struggle no more... and give me all of your power.
Bruce Banner : You think you can live with it? Take it! TAKE IT ALL!
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Betty Ross : My God. It must be the nanomeds. It must be the gamma exposure. But we've never seen any effect like this before.
Bruce Banner : No. Deeper. The gamma just unleashed what was already there.
Betty Ross : Unleashed what?
Bruce Banner : Me. It.
[gasping]
Betty Ross : It's okay. It's okay. What were those animals?
Bruce Banner : My father sent them. He is my father. He wanted me to change. He wanted me to change into that mindless hulk. Why would he want that?
Betty Ross : Can you remember anything? Is there anything from when you were changed?
Bruce Banner : It was like a dream.
Betty Ross : About what?
Bruce Banner : Rage. Power. And freedom.
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Ross : [about Dr. David Banner] He gets released, and a month later your lab is destroyed. What a coincidence. So you're just not going to tell me where he is, are you?
Bruce Banner : How many times do I have to tell you? I'd like to help you, but I just don't know.
Ross : You know who I am, right, Banner?
Bruce Banner : You're Betty's father. You're a high-ranking general.
Ross : Let's cut the crap. I'm the guy who had your father tossed away, and a lot more like him, and I'll do the same with you if I feel so disposed. You understand?
Bruce Banner : If you had him tossed away, then why are you asking me? I don't remember! I was always told my father was dead.
Ross : Don't play with me! You were four years old when you saw it.
Bruce Banner : When I saw what?
Ross : You were right there! How could anyone forget a thing like that?
Bruce Banner : [whispers] What?
Ross : Oh, some more repressed memories.
Bruce Banner : Just tell me.
Ross : I'm sorry, son. You're an even more screwed up mess than I thought you'd be. Until we get to the bottom of this, your lab has been declared a top secret military site and you're not going to get a security clearance to get back into it. Or any other lab that's doing anything more interesting than trying to figure out the next generation of herbal hair gel.
[He leans forward threateningly]
Ross : And one more thing: If you ever come within a thousand yards of my daughter again, I'll put you away for the rest of your natural life.
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[from commercial]
Bruce Banner : I don't know who I am. I don't know what I'm becoming. But I know one thing for sure, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
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Betty Ross : [first line, to Bruce] Hey. I found you.
Bruce Banner : Betty, hey.
Betty Ross : I hate them.
Bruce Banner : Wait, I just got here. Who do we hate?
Betty Ross : The review board. We have to make a presentation on Tuesday.
Bruce Banner : [groans]
Betty Ross : And you're gonna make it with me.
Bruce Banner : You think I should?
Betty Ross : Yeah, you're great with that stuff. You start talking about microbes and nanomeds, you sound almost passionate.
[beat, Bruce gives her an "Excuse me?" kind of look]
Betty Ross : I'm sorry. That was rude.
Bruce Banner : Look, nobody expects this to be easy, us working together after being so close.
Betty Ross : We were close?
Bruce Banner : [snorts] Look, if I could be more whatever, you know. I'm just...
Betty Ross : Don't. It's not your fault, really. You're just a byproduct of my inexplicable obsession with emotionally distant men. I'll get over us.
Bruce Banner : Good for you.
Betty Ross : Anyway, I'm just really stressed about this review. If we don't get impressive results today, we're gonna have a really hard sell come Tuesday.
Bruce Banner : Well, then, let's go be impressive.
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Betty Ross : Good morning. Glenn dropped by.
Bruce Banner : What's he doing here?
Talbot : You know, Dr. Krenzler, you and I have never had the chance to get to know each other properly.
Bruce Banner : Well, that's because I don't want to get to know you, properly or improperly. So, leave.
Talbot : Hey, no worries. You know, let me give you a little heads-up. There is a hairsbreadth between friendly offer and hostile takeover. I've done my homework. The work you're doing here is dynamite. Think: GIs embedded with technology that makes them instantly repairable on the battlefield in our sole possession. That's a hell of a business.
Bruce Banner : Well, it's not what we're doing here. We're doing the basic science for everyone.
Talbot : You know, someday I'm gonna write a book and I'm gonna call it When Stupid Ideals Happen To Smart, Penniless Scientists. In the meantime, Bruce, you will be hearing from me.
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[last lines, in Spanish]
Paramilitary : Take all the medicine! Quiet! Sit down! Shut up!
Bruce Banner : We need these medicines for the people who live here.
Paramilitary : Who are you to decide what the people need? These people are helping our enemies. And maybe you are too. Take all this! It is the property of the government!
Bruce Banner : You're making me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
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Bruce Banner : Listen to your father and take your medicines, okay?
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Father : Your name is not Krenzler. It's Banner.
Bruce Banner : What?
Father : Your name. It's Banner. Bruce Banner. Bruce.
Bruce Banner : How did you get in here?
Father : I work here now. In the labs. The late shift. It keeps me close to you. You always work so late yourself with your friend Miss Ross. No, no, no. Please. Please. Let me. You're not well. You've had a terrible accident. You're wondering why you're still alive. You're thinking there's something inside. Something different... inexplicable. I can help you understand, if you'll let me. If you'll... forgive me.
Bruce Banner : Look, mister, I'm sure I have nothing to forgive you for. So, perhaps you should leave now. I'll be fine.
Father : You must know. You may not want to believe it, but I can see it... in your eyes. So much like your mother's. Of course, you're my flesh and blood. But then, you're something else too, aren't you? My physical son, but the child of my mind, too.
Bruce Banner : No. You're lying. My parents died when I was a small boy.
Father : No, no, no, no. That's not true, that's not true. That's what they wanted you to believe. The experiments, the accident - all top secret. They put me away for thirty years. Thirty years. Away from you. Away from our work. But they couldn't keep me forever. After all, I'm sane. They had to admit it. You see, everything... your extraordinary mind has been seeking all these years... it's been inside you. Now, we will understand it. We will harness it.
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[deleted scene]
Betty Ross : [Betty receives a phone call] Hello?
Bruce Banner : Hey.
Betty Ross : Hey. How are you?
Bruce Banner : I'm fine.
Betty Ross : Are you sure?
Bruce Banner : Yeah.
Betty Ross : What are you doing?
Bruce Banner : I'm just sitting here, thinking about you. About your dream.
Betty Ross : Which dream?
Bruce Banner : In the desert.
Betty Ross : What were you thinking about?
Bruce Banner : I don't know. Sometimes when I'm not really thinking about much of anything, I remember images from it. Did I ever tell you that?
Betty Ross : No.
Bruce Banner : It's like I dreamed it myself.
Betty Ross : You should get some sleep.
Bruce Banner : Yeah. You too.
Betty Ross : Good night.
Bruce Banner : Good night.
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Bruce Banner : What's the matter?
Betty Ross : [chuckles] It's these dreams, Doctor. I keep having them and they're terrible.
Bruce Banner : Tell me about your dream.
Betty Ross : Well, it starts... It starts with a memory. I think it's my first memory. It's this image I have from when I was maybe two years old.
Bruce Banner : Do you think it's just a dream?
Betty Ross : No, I think it's something that happened when I was living at a desert base with my father. Anyhow, the dream goes on and suddenly I'm alone.
Bruce Banner : That's terrible. You know I'd never hurt you.
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Bruce Banner : [over the phone] Hello?
Father : Bruce? So, they think they can just throw you away as they did me.
Bruce Banner : What's wrong with me? What did you do to me?
Father : I got a visit today. A very unwelcome visit. I'm afraid my hand is being forced.
Bruce Banner : What did you do to me?
Father : You so much want to know, don't you? But I think no explanation will serve you half as well... as the experience. In any case, I still don't quite understand it myself. If they'd only let me work in peace... Of course, my betters would have none of that.
Bruce Banner : So you experimented on yourself, didn't you? And passed it on to me... what?
Father : An alteration. Genetic. A deformity. I guess you you could call it that. But an amazing strength too. And now, finally unleashed, I can harvest it.
Bruce Banner : No! You'll do no such thing. I will isolate it and treat it myself. I'll remove it and I'll kill it before it does any real harm.
Father : I'll bet you and your Betty would love to destroy it. But would you really destroy part of yourself? I don't think so. And as for Betty, I'm sending her a surprise visit... from some four-legged friends of mine. You see, I managed to culture some of your very own DNA, Bruce, and the results are tremendous. They're unstable, but very powerful.
Bruce Banner : What about my DNA?
Father : Let's just wait and see what Betty makes of the results, huh?
Bruce Banner : [angered] No. You're crazy. I won't let you.
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[from trailer]
Bruce Banner : [to Talbot] You're making me angry. I don't think you're gonna like me when I'm angry.
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[from trailer]
Betty Ross : Bruce, I don't understand what I just saw.
Bruce Banner : It's like the gamma unleashed something that was already there.
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Betty Ross : How are you?
Bruce Banner : Okay, I guess.
Betty Ross : I think that somehow your anger is triggering the nanomeds.
Bruce Banner : How could it? We designed them to respond to physical damage.
Betty Ross : Emotional damage can manifest physically.
Bruce Banner : Like what?
Betty Ross : Serious trauma. Repressed memories.
Bruce Banner : Your father grilled me about something that happened to me from early childhood that I'm supposed to remember.
Betty Ross : He did?
Bruce Banner : It sounded bad, but... I honestly don't remember.
Betty Ross : The thing that worries me is a physical wound is finite, but with emotions, what's to say it won't just go on and on and start a chain reaction?
Bruce Banner : You know what scares me the most? When it happens, when it comes over me and I totally lose control, I like it.
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Bruce Banner : Talbot
Talbot : Yeah?
Bruce Banner : You're making me angry
Talbot : Oh am I?
[Bruce stares at him and starts crushing his hand as his face starts turning Green. Talbot is then thrown onto the couch as Bruce groans, grows, and rips his clothes off becoming the Hulk]
