Another Country (1984)

Colin Firth: Tommy Judd

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• Fowler : I have half a mind to ask Barclay for permission to beat you!

  Tommy Judd : Well, you've half a mind. We can all agree on that.

• Fowler : Are you trying to be clever or something?

  Tommy Judd : I don't have to try, I am clever.

• Judd : All problems solved for life. No commies and no queers.

• Judd : Barclay confiscated another torch last night.

  Guy Bennett : How many is that?

  Judd : Twelve. Twelve torches taken away to stop me getting the education I'm supposed to be here for.

• Tommy Judd : You know... What I really hate about cricket, is that it is such a damned good game.

  Guy Bennett : Ah! Judd's Paradox. Of course, cricket is a fundamental part of the capitalist conspiracy.

  Tommy Judd : Of course.

  Guy Bennett : One only has to observe the two of them seen. There's the Proletariat forced to labour in the field, while the Bourgeoisie indulges in the pleasures of batting and bowling.

  Tommy Judd : Quite.

  Guy Bennett : I mean, there's every reason to suppose

  [pause] 

  Guy Bennett : ... that the game ultimately derives from the wholly unjustified right of the medieval lord to the unpaid labour of villains and serfs at haymaking and harvest.

  Tommy Judd : You know, you're really beginning to get the idea.

  Guy Bennett : Thanks.

• Guy Bennett : God, if our parents only knew what actually went on here.

  Judd : They do know. Fathers anyway.

• Judd : I'm a school joke, I quite realise that. But I am, don't you think, a respected joke?

• Guy Bennett : My God! That man's really cracking up!

  Tommy Judd : Liberals always do, under pressure.

• Guy Bennett : Wouldn't it be wonderful it Communism were really true?

  Tommy Judd : Is is true.

  Guy Bennett : What, heaven on earth?

  Tommy Judd : Earth on earth. The just earth.