Hulk (2003)

Nick Nolte: Father

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• Bruce Banner : I should have killed you.

  Father : Yeah? I should have killed you.

  Bruce Banner : I wish you had. I saw her last night. Saw her face. Brown hair, brown eyes. She smiled at me. She reached down and kissed my cheek. I can almost remember her smell. It was like desert flowers.

  Father : Her favorite perfume.

  Bruce Banner : It was my mother, and I don't even know her name.

  Father : It's alright, son. Go ahead and cry. Go ahead and cry. Cry. Crying will do you good.

  Bruce Banner : Don't touch me! Maybe, once you were my father, but you're not now and you never will be.

  Father : Oh, is that so? Well, I've got news for you. I didn't come here to see you. I came here to see my son. My real son. The one inside of you. You're nothing but a superficial shell, a husk of flimsy consciousness ready to be torn off at a moments notice.

  Bruce Banner : You can think what you like. I don't care, just go!

  Father : Now, son, listen to me. I've found a cure... for me. My cells can transform, too. Absorb enormous amounts of energy, but unlike you, they're unstable. Son, I need your strength. I gave you life, now you must give it back to me! Only a million times more radiant, more powerful!

  Bruce Banner : Stop!

  Father : Stop what? STOP WHAT! Think about all those men out there, in their uniforms! Barking and swallowing orders! Inflicting their petty rule over the entire globe! Think of all the harm they've done! To you, to me! To humanity! And know this, that we can make them, and their flags and their anthems and their governments disappear! In a flash, you and me!

  Bruce Banner : I'd rather die!

  Father : Oh, that's your answer and indeed you shall die and be reborn a hero! Of the kind that walked the Earth long before the pale religions of civilization infected humanity's soul!

  Bruce Banner : DON'T!

  Father : [David stops and shortly mocks Bruce in a calm manner]  Stop your bawling, you weak little speck of human trash.

  [David gets up from his chair, yelling] 

  Father : I'll go! You just watch me go!

• Betty Ross : All you've given Bruce is fear. Fear of life.

  Father : Fear. Perhaps, Miss Ross. And loneliness, too. Yes. I feel them both. But I have lived completely once. I was so much in love. And she so much wanted a baby. My baby. I could tell from the moment she conceived that it wasn't a son I had given her, but something else. A monster, maybe. I should have put a stop to it right then, but I was curious, and that was my downfall. And as I watched this tiny life unfold, I began to imagine the horror of it, and my curiosity was replaced with compassion. But they took away my chance to cure him. Your father threw me out. I remember that day so well. Every moment. Every sensation. Walking into the house. The feeling of the handle of the knife in my hand. I knew I was doing a father's work, fulfilling a father's mercy... but then she surprised me. It was as if she and the knife merged. You cannot imagine the unbearable finality of it. And in that one moment, I took everything that was dear to me and transformed it into nothing more than a memory.

• Father : We're going to have to watch that temper of yours.

• Father : And what have I done to my son, Miss Ross? Nothing. I tried to improve on the limits in myself. Myself, not him. Can you understand? To improve on nature, MY nature, knowledge of one's self. It's the only path to the truth that give men the power to go beyond God's boundaries.

• Father : How little you understand, Miss Ross. And how dangerous your ignorance has become.

  Betty Ross : I'm sorry?

  Father : Don't be sorry. My son is... unique. That's why you can't relate to him. And because he is unique, the world will not tolerate his existence. Will they? But you - you try. Don't you?

• Father : [absorbing Hulk's energy]  Sleep, Bruce, and forget forever. Struggle no more... and give me all of your power.

  Bruce Banner : You think you can live with it? Take it! TAKE IT ALL!

• Father : Dogs! Go! Go get her! And let nothing stand in your way! Go!

• Father : [writing in his notes]  What has been passed on?

• Father : And don't worry about the dogs. You'll be fine... just don't look 'em in the eyes.

• Father : Your name is not Krenzler. It's Banner.

  Bruce Banner : What?

  Father : Your name. It's Banner. Bruce Banner. Bruce.

  Bruce Banner : How did you get in here?

  Father : I work here now. In the labs. The late shift. It keeps me close to you. You always work so late yourself with your friend Miss Ross. No, no, no. Please. Please. Let me. You're not well. You've had a terrible accident. You're wondering why you're still alive. You're thinking there's something inside. Something different... inexplicable. I can help you understand, if you'll let me. If you'll... forgive me.

  Bruce Banner : Look, mister, I'm sure I have nothing to forgive you for. So, perhaps you should leave now. I'll be fine.

  Father : You must know. You may not want to believe it, but I can see it... in your eyes. So much like your mother's. Of course, you're my flesh and blood. But then, you're something else too, aren't you? My physical son, but the child of my mind, too.

  Bruce Banner : No. You're lying. My parents died when I was a small boy.

  Father : No, no, no, no. That's not true, that's not true. That's what they wanted you to believe. The experiments, the accident - all top secret. They put me away for thirty years. Thirty years. Away from you. Away from our work. But they couldn't keep me forever. After all, I'm sane. They had to admit it. You see, everything... your extraordinary mind has been seeking all these years... it's been inside you. Now, we will understand it. We will harness it.

• Bruce Banner : [over the phone]  Hello?

  Father : Bruce? So, they think they can just throw you away as they did me.

  Bruce Banner : What's wrong with me? What did you do to me?

  Father : I got a visit today. A very unwelcome visit. I'm afraid my hand is being forced.

  Bruce Banner : What did you do to me?

  Father : You so much want to know, don't you? But I think no explanation will serve you half as well... as the experience. In any case, I still don't quite understand it myself. If they'd only let me work in peace... Of course, my betters would have none of that.

  Bruce Banner : So you experimented on yourself, didn't you? And passed it on to me... what?

  Father : An alteration. Genetic. A deformity. I guess you you could call it that. But an amazing strength too. And now, finally unleashed, I can harvest it.

  Bruce Banner : No! You'll do no such thing. I will isolate it and treat it myself. I'll remove it and I'll kill it before it does any real harm.

  Father : I'll bet you and your Betty would love to destroy it. But would you really destroy part of yourself? I don't think so. And as for Betty, I'm sending her a surprise visit... from some four-legged friends of mine. You see, I managed to culture some of your very own DNA, Bruce, and the results are tremendous. They're unstable, but very powerful.

  Bruce Banner : What about my DNA?

  Father : Let's just wait and see what Betty makes of the results, huh?

  Bruce Banner : [angered]  No. You're crazy. I won't let you.