Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
Eric Elmosnino: Serge Gainsbourg, Voix de La Gueule
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Quotes
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Serge Gainsbourg : [after a man tips him while he plays the piano] What are you fucking kidding me? I'm not a jukebox!
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Serge Gainsbourg : You match my aesthetic criteria. You're pure beauty and you're also the tragic figure of despair.
[pause]
Serge Gainsbourg : Do you understand what I'm saying?
Bambou : You want to screw me?
Serge Gainsbourg : Maybe. I'm just saying it more poetically.
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Serge Gainsbourg : [about the Jamaicans in the studio] Why do they look so fucking miserable?
Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg : They want to know what you're going to play. I don't know what to tell them about your sexual songs.
Serge Gainsbourg : Why? They don't fuck?
Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg : They don't mess around with reggae. To them, it's sacred music.
Serge Gainsbourg : Then tell them we'll sing La Marseillaise.
Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg : How do I explain that?
Serge Gainsbourg : [to the Jamaicans in English] It's a French war song.
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[from trailer]
Serge Gainsbourg : You want me to write you a dirty song?
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[looking at a statue of a man with a cabbage head]
La Gueule : Hey, Gainsbarre, he sure looks like us, doesn't he?
Serge Gainsbourg : I'm the man with the cabbage head. Half vegetable, half man.
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France Gall : Everyone loves the songs my father chooses for me.
Serge Gainsbourg : Don't you want to piss your father off once in a while?
France Gall : Why?
Serge Gainsbourg : A guy once told me, if the parents like what you do, then it's shit.
[pause]
Serge Gainsbourg : You want me to write you a dirty song?
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[last lines]
Serge Gainsbourg : [looking at his newborn baby] Let's name him after his daddy.
Bambou : The king Serge.
Serge Gainsbourg : Non Lucien the second. Called to take over France like his dad. And Navarre too, don't forget.
