Phantom Thread (2017) Poster

Vicky Krieps: Alma

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  • Alma : I want you flat on your back. Helpless, tender, open with only me to help. And then I want you strong again. You're not going to die. You might wish you're going to die, but you're not going to. You need to settle down a little.

  • [first lines] 

    Alma : Reynolds has made my dreams come true. And I have given him what he desires most in return.

    Dr. Robert Hardy : And what's that?

    Alma : Every piece of me.

    Dr. Robert Hardy : He's a very demanding man, isn't he? Must be quite a challenge to be with him.

    Alma : Yes. Maybe he is the most demanding man.

  • [last lines] 

    Alma : [voice-over]  Sometimes I jump ahead in our life together, and I see a time near the end. I can predict the future, and everything is settled. And all our lovers and children and friends come back and are welcome. And we have large gatherings where everyone is laughing and playing games. I am older and I see things differently, and I finally understand you. I take care of your dresses, keeping them from dust and ghosts and time.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Yes, but right now we're here.

    Alma : Yes, of course we are.

    Reynolds Woodcock : And I'm getting hungry.

  • Alma : Mrs. Vaughan is satisfied with the dress.

    Reynolds Woodcock : No one gives a tinker's fucking curse about Mrs. Vaughan's satisfaction!

  • [from trailer] 

    Alma : If you want to have a staring contest with me, you will lose.

    [long pause] 

    Reynolds Woodcock : [laughs] 

  • Alma : You are not cursed. You are loved by me.

  • Reynolds Woodcock : I feel as if I've been looking for you for a very long time.

    Alma : You found me. Whatever you do, do it carefully.

  • Alma : For the hungry boy, my name is Alma.

  • Alma : You see, to be in love with him makes life no great mystery.

  • Reynolds Woodcock : What the hell is it about? Are you a special agent sent here to ruin my evening and possibly my entire life?

    Alma : Why are you so rude to me? Why are you talking to me like this?

    Reynolds Woodcock : Is this my house? This is my house, isn't it! Is this my house?

    Alma : Yes, this is your house. Of course, it's your house!

    Reynolds Woodcock : Or did somebody drop me on foreign soil behind enemy lines? I'm surrounded on all sides!

    Alma : What a question! You brought me here! It's you who brought me here.

    Reynolds Woodcock : When the hell did this happen? Who are you? Do you have a gun? You're here to kill me?

    Alma : [quietly]  Why are you doing this?

    Reynolds Woodcock : Hm, do you have a gun?

    Alma : Stop it!

    Reynolds Woodcock : Where's your gun?

    Alma : Stop being a child.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Where's your gun?

    Alma : Stop...

    Reynolds Woodcock : Show me your gun.

    Alma : ...playing. Stop playing this game.

    Reynolds Woodcock : I'm not playing a game.

    Alma : I'm not... Yes, mm-hmm. Uh-huh.

    Reynolds Woodcock : What game am I playing? What game? What precisely is the nature of my game? You tell me.

    Alma : Oh, this whole...

    Reynolds Woodcock : What?

    Alma : All your rules and your walls and your doors and your people and your money and all this clothes and everything! This! This! This game! Everything here! The whole "pfff"! Nothing is normal or natural or... everything is a game! "Yes, mister! No, madam!" "Yes, uh... vu-vu-poo!" "I don't eat this! I don't drink that, I don't..."

    Reynolds Woodcock : Well, if, if it's my, if it's my life that you're describing, it's entirely up to you whether you choose to share it or not. If you don't wish to share that life as apparently it's so disagreeable to you in every respect, why don't you just fuck off to back where you came from?

    Alma : [quietly]  Fuck you!

  • Alma : If he didn't wake up from this, if he wasn't here tomorrow, no matter. For I know he'd be waiting for me in the afterlife or some safe celestial place, in this life and the next and the next one after. And for whatever there is on the road that follows from here, it would only require my patience to get to him again. You see, to be in love with him makes life no great mystery.

  • Alma : It's no business of ours what Mrs. Rose decides to do with her life but she can no longer behave like this and be dressed by the House of Woodcock.

  • Alma : I still think he's too fussy.

  • Reynolds Woodcock : As I think you know, Alma, I prefer my asparagus with oil and salt. And knowing this, you've prepared the asparagus with butter. Now, I can imagine in certain circumstances being able to pretend that I like it made this way. Right now, I'm just admiring my own gallantry for eating it the way you've prepared it.

    Alma : I don't know what I'm doing here. I, I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm just waiting around like a idiot for you.

    Reynolds Woodcock : This was an ambush, Alma. To what purpose?

    Alma : This is not... I know it's not going as I expected, I, I didn't mean these things to come out. I'm sorry, but it was meant to be nice.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Well, what did you expect?

    Alma : I wanted time with you. I wanted to have you to myself.

  • Alma : You are a very handsome man.

    Alma : You must be around many beautiful women.

    Alma : [nodding at silence]  Yes.

    Alma : So why are you not married?

    Reynolds Woodcock : I make dresses.

    Alma : You cannot be married when you make dresses?

    Reynolds Woodcock : I'm certain I was never meant to marry. I'm a confirmed bachelor.

    Reynolds Woodcock : I'm incurable.

    Alma : Hmm.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Marriage would make me deceitful and I don't ever want that.

    Alma : You sound so sure about things.

    Reynolds Woodcock : I'm sure about that.

    Alma : I think you're only acting strong.

    Reynolds Woodcock : No I am strong.

    Alma : For who? Not for me I hope.

    Reynolds Woodcock : I think it's the expectations and assumptions of others that cause heartache.

  • Reynolds Woodcock : Maybe one day you'll change your taste, Alma.

    Alma : Maybe not.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Maybe you have no taste.

    Alma : Maybe I like my own taste.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Yes. Just enough to get you into trouble.

    Alma : Perhaps I'm looking for trouble.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Stop!

  • Alma : In his work, I become perfect - and I feel just right. Maybe that's how all women feel, in his clothes.

  • Alma : What am I doing here? I'm standing around like an idiot waiting for you.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Waiting for what?

    Alma : Waiting for *you*.

    Reynolds Woodcock : *Waiting for what?*

    Alma : Waiting for you to get rid of me. To tell me to leave. So, tell me. So I don't stand around like a fucking fool.

  • Cyril : You have the ideal shape.

    Alma : I do?

    Cyril : He likes a little belly.

  • Alma : I never really liked myself. I thought my - shoulders were too wide. My neck was - skinny like a bird. And I had no breasts. I felt my - hips were larger than needed and my arms too strong.

  • Alma : That dress doesn't belong here.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Don't start crying.

    Alma : I'm not crying. I'm angry.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Don't start blubbering, Alma.

    Alma : I'm not blubbering.

  • Reynolds Woodcock : 32, 30, 31, 35 and a half, 14 and a half, 17, 20. Would you stand normally.

    Alma : Yes. I stand normally.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Like before.

    Alma : What do you mean?

    Reynolds Woodcock : Straight.

    Alma : Straight.

    Reynolds Woodcock : Like that.

    Alma : Yeah, you didn't say that.

    Reynolds Woodcock : 16 and a half, 8 and a half. You have not breasts. 22.

    Alma : Yes, I know.

    Reynolds Woodcock : 32 and a half. You can drop your arm now.

    Alma : I'm sorry.

    Reynolds Woodcock : No, no. You're perfect. It's my job to give you some. If I choose to. 10. 9. 6 and a half. 25. And - 45. That's it.

  • Alma : It's no business of ours what Mrs. Rose decides to do with her life. But, she can no longer behave like this and be dressed by the House of Woodcock!

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