Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

Gene Wilder: Claude, Philippe

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Quotes 

• Duke d'Escargot : What brings you to Paris?

  Claude : Oh, you might say a little business...

  Charles : ...and a little pleasure.

  Duke d'Escargot : Which do you prefer? Business, or pleasure?

  Charles : Well that depends on what you regard as business.

  Claude : And, what you may regard as pleasure!

  Duke d'Escargot : In Paris we say, business is pleasure.

  Charles : And to us, pleasure is our business.

  Duke d'Escargot : Then your business should be a pleasure, making my pleasure a business.

  Claude : Unless, some mistake business for pleasure. While others know no business but pleasure.

  Duke d'Escargot : In that case sir I will show you my business.

  Claude : My pleasure.

• Helene de Sisis : I'm sorry Philippe, I try my best to please you.

  Philippe de Sisis : How? You can't hunt, you can't ride, you can't shoot, you can't fence! What kind of a marriage is this?

• [there are two sets of brothers, a brother from one set has unknowingly spoken to a brother from another set when their actual brothers arrive] 

  Philippe : How did you get here so fast?

  Pierre : I took a secret passageway.

  Charles : How did you get here so fast?

  Claude : I took a secret passage.

• Charles : She's beautiful. I like the king's plan.

  Claude : What are you talking about?

  Charles : She'll never marry Escargot, it'll be a pleasure killing that swine!

  Claude : You've forgotten who you are? You'd be lucky to run the girl through.

  Charles : Oh, yeah.

• The Man in the Iron Mask : [Claude Coupe, mistaken for Phillipe de Sisi, has just entered the room of the Man in the Iron Mask, he is scared out of his shorts]  Has the king forgiven me?

  Claude : [screams with hands over his mouth] 

  The Man in the Iron Mask : Am I free?

  [desperate] 

  The Man in the Iron Mask : Am I free?

  Claude : [calmly]  Who are you?

  The Man in the Iron Mask : I'm the Man in the Iron Mask.

  Claude : Oh, ho-ho! How do you do?

  The Man in the Iron Mask : What is it?

  [he begins walking toward Claude] 

  The Man in the Iron Mask : Do I look so horrible? Do I frighten you?

  Claude : No, no. It's just that you reminded me of somebody else.

  The Man in the Iron Mask : [hugs Claude]  I'm so glad you came!

  Claude : Ho-ho, so am I! So am I!

  The Man in the Iron Mask : How can I ever thank you?

  Claude : Oh, it's nothing! Nothing. You have a nice place here.

  [the man in the iron mask is now shaking Claude's monk costume] 

  Claude : Oh! Watch the mask. Watch the mask.

  The Man in the Iron Mask : Take me with you.

  Claude : [grabs the man's helmet]  Take me with you! Yes.

  The Man in the Iron Mask : Don't leave me alone. Take me.

  The Man in the Iron Mask : Look, I'll go outside, then I'll come back and we'll have a last walk.

  The Man in the Iron Mask : [speaking over Claude]  Please don't leave me here! Please! Please!

  [he is obviously desperate] 

  Claude : [speaking over the Man in the Iron Mask]  Look, look, I wouldn't leave you here, you're my friend. But take you with me; I don't even know who you are.

  Claude : Yaaaghh!

  [he tosses the man off him onto the floor and closes the door, leaving] 

  The Man in the Iron Mask : I thought the king forgave me.

• Charles : Do be gracious. We're not in Corsica.

  Claude : I don't car... kare? care?

  Charles : Care.

  Claude : Care where we are. I don't think this is suitable for the occasion.

• Charles : [as he and Claude are trying to escape out the window to find themselves confronted by a cannon pointed straight at them]  We... from Corsica!

  Claude : As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

• Philippe : I like this plan. Half of France will soon be ours.

  Pierre : Why settle for half? When all of France could be ours.

  Philippe : All of France? Yes. We don't need d'Escargot

  Pierre : Exactly.

  Philippe : Exactly. All the castles.

  Pierre : All the chapels.

  Philippe : All the windows.

  Pierre : The drapes.

  Philippe : All the leather.

  Pierre : The lace.

  Philippe : All the forest!

  Pierre : All the flowers.

  Philippe : All the land!

  Pierre : All the grass.

  Philippe : The rocks!

  Pierre : The stones.

  Philippe : The pebbles!

  Pierre : The dirt.

  Philippe : The mud!

  Pierre : The muck.

  Philippe : I have a new destiny! One day I shall be King!

  Pierre : And I shall be Queen!

• Philippe : Wait till I get her back in that chapel. I'll bring out the *peacock* feathers. That'll tickle her fancy.

• Duke d'Escargot : [mistaking Claude for Philippe de Sisis]  I must complement you on your appearance. So charmingly obscene. So vile. So filthy. So disgusting.

  Philippe : Thank you.

  Duke d'Escargot : You've achieved a rare vulgarity in peasantry.

• Queen Marie : [mistaking Claude for Philippe de Sisis]  I must see you later.

  Claude : Me?

  Queen Marie : In my chambers.

  Claude : Why do you want to see me?

  Queen Marie : You'll soon find out.

• Claude : [at the ball]  Why didn't you expose me?

  Helene de Sisis : [mistaking Claude for Philippe de Sisis]  I know your taste Philippe; but, this is hardly the place for that.

• Pierre : Would you stop stepping on my heel!

  Philippe : Can I help it if I have this enormous stride? Look at it, man! Look at it! You see? You see my point? You see my stride? Look!

• Mimi : Jacques' startin' a revolution tomorrow. He's stormin' the palace.

  Claude : He can't do that! We're supposed to go to Spain!

• Mimi : We're patriots. We must help the revolution.

  Claude : No! We've got to stop the revolution.

  Mimi : Stop it?

  Claude : Yes.

  Mimi : What about France? Equality! Liberty! Freedom! Our hopes! Our dreams! Everything we've planned for!

• Philippe : In Corsica, they say there are sixty-eight ways to kill a man. You shall be the sixty-ninth!

• Dr. Boileau : Now, young man. What is your name?

  Philippe : My name? You want to know my name?

  Dr. Boileau : Oh yes.

  Philippe : That's what you're asking me, what is my name?

  Dr. Boileau : Oh yes.

  Philippe : I'll tell you my name, if you want to know what my name is.

  Dr. Boileau : I do.

  Philippe : Do you know *why* I'm going to tell you my name?

  Dr. Boileau : No.

  Philippe : Do you *want* to know *why* I'm going to *tell* you my *name*...

  Dr. Boileau : Oh yes.

  Philippe : ...you *blithering fat headed addle brained idiot?

  [Philippe grabs Boileau] 

  Dr. Boileau : Ohh!

  Philippe : *Aagh!* Because you *asked* me my name, that's *why* I'm going to *tell* you my *name!* *Because you*...

  [Jacques buffets Philippe] 

  Jacques : See, I told you so, they're crazy.

  Dr. Boileau : I know.

  Dr. Boileau : [to Pierre]  Now young man. Do you know who *you* are?

  Pierre : Of *course* I know who *we* are.

  Dr. Boileau : Who?

  Pierre : ...The Corsican Brothers.

  [there is raucous laughter] 

  Dr. Boileau : [incredulously]  The *Corsican Brothers?* Oh, I'm so sorry... Oh do forgive me. I'm so sorry, the Corsican Brothers!

  Dr. Boileau : [to Jacques]  You're right, they're crazy!

  [Dr. Boileau pulls the lever with Philippe and Pierre subsequently falling through a trapdoor] 

• [last lines] 

  [it's present day in front of King Louis XVI's Summer Palace] 

  The Narrator : [reading out of the discovered book]  Listen to this. "This incredible meeting was to write a glittering new page in history. For you see..."

  [the Narrator is shot dead by a Descendant of Pierre] 

  Descendant of Pierre : [to a Descendant of Charles after they both appear in the distance]  Now no one will know the secret.

  [as the Descendant of Charles grabs the book dropped to the ground by the Narrator, he is shot dead by a Descendant of Philippe, who subsequently shoots dead the Descendant of Pierre] 

  Descendant of Claude : [to the Descendant of Philippe as they both appear from behind the bushes]  Did you have to shoot them? I didn't know you were going to shoot them.

  Descendant of Philippe : Bring me that book.

  [the Descendant of Claude picks up the book and hands it to the Descendant of Philippe, who opens it in preparing to read it] 

  Descendant of Claude : You didn't have to shoot them. We've could have talked things over.

  Descendant of Philippe : Talk? Is that what you want: talk?

  Descendant of Claude : [as he nods positively]  Well, you didn't have to...

  [the Descendant of Philippe shoots the Descendant of Claude] 

  Descendant of Claude : [just before he falls to the ground dead]  ... shoot them.

  Descendant of Claude : [to the camera as he opens the book and starts to read aloud]  "This incredible meeting was to write a glittering new page in history. For you see..."

  [a Descendant of the Man in the Iron Mask shoots the Descendant of Philippe dead] 

  Descendant of the Man in the Iron Mask : [yelling as he starts to run away]  Free! Free!