The Raven (I) (2012)
John Cusack: Edgar Allan Poe
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Quotes
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Edgar Allan Poe : Take this kiss upon the brow!/And, in parting from you now/ Thus much let me avow/You are not wrong, who deem/All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream.
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Edgar Allan Poe : Her innocence was the first part of her soul to die.
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Edgar Allan Poe : What's going on?
Detective Fields : I'm Detective Fields. Please, sit down, Mr. Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe : Yes. The infamous Detective Fields. Am I under arrest?
Detective Fields : No... not just yet.
Edgar Allan Poe : Then I'd rather stand! It makes it easier to leave!
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Edgar Allan Poe : You're mad.
Ivan : Really, Mr. Poe? You're one to talk.
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Edgar Allan Poe : I often thought I could hear the sound of darkness as it stole across the horizon, rushing towards me. But here I was overwhelmed by a sorrow so poignant. Once she finally died I felt in all candour a great release, but it was soon supplanted by the return of that dark and morbid melancholy that has followed me like a black dog all my life...
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Edgar Allan Poe : You are referring to one of my stories. A work of fiction!
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Edgar Allan Poe : Emily, I think we should reconsider our announcement.
Emily Hamilton : Why? Are you backing out?
Edgar Allan Poe : No, no, no. Never. If your father sees me there tomorrow, he may have me shot. And, there well may be a depraved killer on the guest list. It's a bit much for one night.
Emily Hamilton : I think it sounds thrilling.
Edgar Allan Poe : Does it? Why?
Emily Hamilton : [amused] How else should Edgar Allen Poe commit himself to eternal love other than under threat of death?
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Edgar Allan Poe : [gasping to the stranger] Tell Fields his name is Reynolds.
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Edgar Allan Poe : [screaming after Ivan] I'll send you to hell!
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Edgar Allan Poe : [after he hops into the carriage] I've come to back to town for your daughter, Charles.
Capt. Charles Hamilton : Over my dead body!
Edgar Allan Poe : Is that an option?
Emily Hamilton : [feigning disgust] Oh, please. I find you revolting as some of your stupid stories.
Edgar Allan Poe : Some, but not all.
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Ivan : [concerned about the mud] Mr. Poe, your clothes!
Edgar Allan Poe : Just beating the mudslingers to it!
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Emily Hamilton : So, I had to hear about your stunt all afternoon.
Edgar Allan Poe : Just wanted to see if I could get that little vein on the side of his neck to finally explode.
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Edgar Allan Poe : Emily, you are my greatest and only inspiration.
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Edgar Allan Poe : [in relation to the murder] You're talking about one of my stories? A work of fiction.
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Edgar Allan Poe : [to Fields about the murders] Do you actually think I murdered these people?
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Edgar Allan Poe : [finding a replica of the Pit and the Pendulum with Griswold dead] I really hadn't imagine the counter weight to be so large.
Detective Fields : We have reason to believe you know the victim.
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Edgar Allan Poe : It appears that my writing has become the inspiration to an actual killer.
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Edgar Allan Poe : [to Fields about Emily] Your men are right. I've killed her
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Edgar Allan Poe : I feel as if I've gone from author to character in one of my many tales. I'm as trapped and bedeviled as any of the hapless bastards I ever created.
Detective Fields : I can appreciate that.
Edgar Allan Poe : Regardless of what you think of me, Fields... I am a master of my art and I will not fail. Ever.
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Edgar Allan Poe : [after the killer escapes] He was inches away. If I hadn't dropped my weapon.
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Edgar Allan Poe : I will kill him. No matter how this ends. I will kill this perversion of a man. For godspeed, even his prose is barbaric.
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Edgar Allan Poe : [after pulling up the floor and finding her] Emily, open your eyes.
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Emily Hamilton : [breathless] You did mean it?
Edgar Allan Poe : Mean what?
Emily Hamilton : When you said you would marry me.
Edgar Allan Poe : In this life and the next.
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Edgar Allan Poe : [screaming after Ivan] i'll send you to hell!
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Edgar Allan Poe : Who's next?