La Chienne (1931)

Janie Marèse: Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu

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• Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : Men are such bores! It's always the same thing.

• Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : Just yesterday he said if he had money, he'd dress me up nice and I wouldn't look half bad.

  Maurice Legrand : You look fine as you are.

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : And he's so talented. He does a terrific imitation of Maurice Chevalier. But he has no connections, so I have to help him.

  Maurice Legrand : You help him?

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : Yes, we've been together three years. That's like being married, isn't it?

• Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : I live around here.

  Maurice Legrand : May I see you to your door?

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : No, I'd best say good-bye here. I live with my family and if neighbors see me with a gentlemen...

• Maurice Legrand : Half past midnight. I told Adèle I'd be back by midnight.

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : How time flies! And we didn't even do anything, darling.

  Maurice Legrand : When I think we've never spent a night together. I'd love to spend a whole night with you, feel your warm, soft body next to mine all night long.

• Yvonne : You love your painter?

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : I can't say I dislike it with Maurice. It's just nothing. I lay back and think of Dédé.

• Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : It's not disgusting like it was with old Marchal. He was the lusty type.

  Yvonne : So why did you do it with Marchal?

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : I had to when Dédé was broke. So you like my little place? What would you. have done in my place?

• Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : And you could paint pictures yourself. You're as smart as old Legrand. Smarter even. I'd mix your colors and clean your brushes. It would be wonderful.

  André Jauguin dit Dédé : Would you shut up?

  [slaps Lulu] 

  André Jauguin dit Dédé : You can be a real pain when you get started.

  [slaps Lulu] 

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : All right, darling. I won't say any more if it bothers you. Kiss me.

• Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : You disgust me!

  Maurice Legrand : You think I enjoyed it? If it hadn't been for your money, I'd have dumped you in a minute. Monsieur wants true love! To be loved for himself! What a laugh!

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : You slut! You're no woman. You're a bitch!

  Maurice Legrand : Talk away.

• Maurice Legrand : You lick the hand that feeds you *and* the hand that beats you!

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : If you knew how you bore me, you wouldn't waste your breath.

  Maurice Legrand : So your pimp beat you. He was right: It's the only way to treat you.

  Lucienne Pelletier dite Lulu : Maybe he did, but I love him.

  Maurice Legrand : You love him?