Grand Prix (1966)

Eva Marie Saint: Louise Frederickson

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• Jean-Pierre Sarti : I suppose what's wrong with me is my life. But I can't change it, or won't. So there's nothing you can do for me.

  Louise Frederickson : What's wrong with your life?

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : I've begun to see the absurdity of it. All of us, proving what? That we can go faster, and perhaps remain alive? Nino gambling his life for a trophy, then fills it with beer, and does tricks. Stoddard filling himself with drugs in order to drive, and still passing out with the pain. Don't you see how absurd it all is? Who cares?

  Louise Frederickson : I thought you cared, for yourselves. I didn't know you asked of anyone else. Nevertheless, others do care. 100,000 of them cared today.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : And did you see them rush to see Peter burn? Did you see the looks on their faces? *I* saw. For the first time today I *really* saw those faces.

  Louise Frederickson : But not all of them, Jean-Pierre. There are some who come for that, for the accidents and the fires. But the others... the others ride with you all. You put something in their lives they can't put there themselves.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : Are you one of those?

• Jean-Pierre Sarti : Did you see them rush to see Peter Aron burn? Did you see the looks on their faces? I saw. For the first time today, I really saw those faces.

  Louise Frederickson : But not all of them, Jean-Pierre. There are some who come for that - for the accidents and the fires. But the others... the others ride with you, maybe. You put something in their lives that they can't put there themselves.

• Louise Frederickson : I love you, Jean-Pierre.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : And I you... We'll have to discuss the consequences of those terrible words, huh?

• Jean-Pierre Sarti : Before you leave I want to tell you something. Not about the others, but about myself. I used to go to pieces. I'd see an accident like that and be so weak inside that I wanted to quit - stop the car and walk away. I could hardly make myself go past it. But I'm older now. When I see something really horrible, I put my foot down. Hard! Because I know that everyone else is lifting his.

  Louise Frederickson : What a terrible way to win.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : No, there is no terrible way to win. There is only winning.

• Jean-Pierre Sarti : Well, I can see I'm not properly dressed for the occasion. I should be wearing something fashionable.

  Louise Frederickson : Well, your driver's suit isn't bad. Maybe you could start a new style.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : Spun glass, form-fitting, waterproof, flameproof.

• Louise Frederickson : I work for an American fashion magazine. We're going to do an issue around racing cars.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : Yes! Now I have it! Of course: Louise Frederickson. You once did an article about my wife, Monique Delvaux. "One of the 27 best-dressed businesswomen in the world." - or something like that.

  Louise Frederickson : Only ten. You were away at the time, as I recall.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : [recalling the article]  Yes... "While... while her husband is off racing motor cars, this busy woman executive spends long hours in her office administering the complex affairs of the Delvaux Motor Company." I remember that part very well. It had about it the slight hint of feminine prejudice toward the footloose male.

  Louise Frederickson : It wasn't meant to sound that way.

• Jean-Pierre Sarti : Sun, food and sex. It's hard to think of them 10 years from now. Fat and married. With five fat children.

  Louise Frederickson : Maybe. Maybe they'll avoid it.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : The marriage or the fat?

• Louise Frederickson : You're very superior, Mr. Aron. For the man to put Scott Stoddard where he is.

  Pete Aron : Scott put Scott where he is.

• Louise Frederickson : I like to be free. I like traveling. I like making my own decisions. Meeting new people, working. I like to be free.

• Jean-Pierre Sarti : Very bad for a woman to be too independent.

  Louise Frederickson : Very bad for whom?

• Louise Frederickson : How do you know I'm not married?

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : I have noted the unmarried woman's brave air of independence, mingled with vague longing.

  Louise Frederickson : Independence, maybe. Vague longing. I wasn't aware of that.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : Something perhaps only a man would see.

  Louise Frederickson : Or imagine.

• Jean-Pierre Sarti : To health, wealth and happiness.

  Louise Frederickson : You are very greedy.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : No. Hopeful.

• Jean-Pierre Sarti : You're being very foolish, you know.

  Louise Frederickson : Let me be foolish, then.

• Louise Frederickson : The risks you take. Aren't they ridiculous? I mean, I might understand it if you made a great deal of money, but I'm told you don't at all.

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : Some of us do. But money is not an important part of it.

  Louise Frederickson : Then what is?

  Jean-Pierre Sarti : Many things.

  Lisa : It's marvelous to go very fast.

  Louise Frederickson : Why is it so marvelous to go very fast?

  Louise Frederickson : Answer that one, Lisa?

  [Lisa shrugs her shoulders]