Jojo Rabbit (2019)

Thomasin McKenzie: Elsa

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• Elsa Korr : You're not a Nazi, Jojo. You're a ten-year-old kid who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.

• Jojo Betzler : I said to draw where Jews live. This is just a stupid picture of my head.

  Elsa Korr : Yeah, that's where we live.

• Elsa Korr : You know what I am. Say it. Say it!

  Jojo Betzler : A Jew?

  Elsa Korr : Gesundheit.

• Jojo Betzler : I'm way too busy for a girlfriend.

  Elsa Korr : One day you'll make time. You'll think of nothing else. You'll meet someone, and spend your days, dreaming of the moments you can hold them in your arms again. That's love.

• Elsa Korr : I don't know anything about being a woman. Is that what it is? You do things like drink wine?

  Rosie : Sure. You drink. Champagne if you're happy. Champagne, if you're sad. You drive a car. Gamble if you want. Own diamonds. Learn how to fire a gun. You travel to Morocco. Take up lovers. Make them suffer. You look a tiger in the eye. And trust without fear. That's what it is to be a woman.

• Jojo Betzler : How dare you, Jew? You are weak, like an eyelash. I am born of Aryan ancestry. My blood is the color of a pure red rose. And my eyes are blue.

  Elsa Korr : [grabs Jojo]  Break free. Break free, great Aryan. There are no weak Jews. I am descended from those who wrestle angels and kill giants. We were chosen by God. You were chosen by a pathetic little man who can't even grow a full moustache. A stronger race, huh?

• Elsa Korr : Is it dangerous out there?

  Jojo Betzler : Extremely.

• Elsa Korr : Your mother took me in. She's kind. She treats me like a person.

• Jojo Betzler : Beethoven.

  Elsa Korr : Einstein.

  Jojo Betzler : Bach.

  Elsa Korr : Gershwin.

  Jojo Betzler : Brahms, Wagner, Mozart.

  Elsa Korr : Musicians. Is that all you have?

• Elsa Korr : In the beginning, we used to live in caves, deep, deep in the center of the Earth... Scary places full of strange and wonderful creatures all with one thing in common.

  Jojo Betzler : Mm-hmm. Stealing the ends of penises?

  Elsa Korr : No, you idiot. The love of art.

  Jojo Betzler : No cutting penises off?

  Elsa Korr : Do you want the story or not?

  Jojo Betzler : You may continue, but I know it's true. The penis thing. Rabbis use them for earplugs.

• Jojo Betzler : So, I'd like you to draw a picture of where Jews live. Where you all eat, sleep, and where the Queen Jew lays the eggs.

  Elsa Korr : You really are an idiot.

• Elsa Korr : Perhaps we're all ghosts now, and we just don't know it.

  Rosie : Perhaps. You've lived more lifetimes than most.

  Elsa Korr : I haven't lived at all.

• Elsa Korr : Houdini.

  Jojo Betzler : No, that's impossible!

  Elsa Korr : Believe it brother. Just ask Pissaro, Modigliani, Man Ray, Gertrude Stein, Mr. Moses, and the King of them all: Jesus Christi, Amen.

  Jojo Betzler : You're just saying any old name now. I've never heard of these people,

• Jojo Betzler : What's the first thing you'll do when you're free?

  Elsa Korr : Dance.

• Elsa Korr : He's coming to rescue me, and then we'll go live in Paris.

  Jojo Betzler : You'd turn your back on Germany forever?

  Elsa Korr : It turned on me first.

  Jojo Betzler : Well, we don't need you. You and your stupid boyfriend can shut up and go live in dumb-cheese-snail-baguette land.

• Elsa Korr : He proposed to me on the banks of the Floß. He knelt down like a proper gentleman, recited a poem by Rilke. And when I said yes we danced into the night.