Atomic Blonde

Synopsis: The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
Director(s): David Leitch
Production: Focus Features
  6 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
R
Year:
2017
115 min
$51,536,935
Website
4,051 Views


( )

(TV clicks on)

RONALD REAGAN :
East and West

do not mistrust each other

because we're armed.

We're armed because we

mistrust each other.

Mr. Gorbachev,

tear down this wall.

(cheering and applause)

("Blue Monday '88"

by New Order plays)

(grunting and panting)

- (grunting)

- (tires squealing nearby)

(tires squealing)

(grunting)

How does it feel

To treat me like you do?

(yells, grunts)

When you've laid

your hands upon me

- (engine revving)

- And told me who you are

(tires squealing)

- (yelling)

- I thought I was mistaken

I thought I heard

- Your words

- (yelling in pain)

Tell me, how do I feel?

(playing over car stereo):

Tell me now, how do...

MAN (laughing):
James

f***ing Gascoigne.

How did you find me?

Maybe you're not as good at

this spy sh*t as you think.

It was Satchel, wasn't it?

Satchel gave me up.

(groans, pants)

I always thought,

if I got tagged,

it would be by the best.

But you're not the best,

are you, Bakhtin?

You're the biggest

f***ing c*nt in the KGB.

(chuckling)

Sticks and stones, Jimmy.

(gunshot echoing)

(ticking)

(grunting)

(splash)

(sighs)

(ice cubes clinking)

(gasping breaths)

("Cat People" by

David Bowie plays)

See these eyes so green

(light clicks, buzzes)

I can stare

For a thousand years

Colder than the moon

It's been so long

And I've been

putting out fire

With gasoline

See these eyes so red

Red like jungle

burning bright

Those who feel me near

(car horn honks)

Pull the blinds

And change their minds

It's been so long

Still this pulsing night

A plague I call a heartbeat

Just be still with me

You wouldn't believe

What I've been through

You've been so long

Well, it's been so long

And I've been putting

out the fire

With gasoline

Putting out the

fire with gasoline.

ATOMIC BLONDE:

(buzzing, ringing)

(lock clunks, buzzes)

(lock clunks, buzzes)

That's a nasty black eye.

Where's C?

Given the scale of

recent world events,

C will not be joining us.

Yes, of course.

(tape recorder clicks, hums)

(lock clunks and

buzzes, door opens)

The voices on record

are the following:

Myself, Senior Directorate

Officer Eric Gray;

Our American guest,

Emmett Kurzfeld

of the U.S. Central

Intelligence Agency;

And returning British

Operational Officer

Lorraine Broughton.

Before we begin, sir,

may I formally request

that Mr. Kurzfeld be removed

- from the debriefing.

- Request denied.

What I have to tell you, sir,

is not for the CIA to hear.

Lorraine, you are the

subject of this debriefing,

- not its controller.

- I understand that.

KURZFELD :
I was

there, in Berlin.

And I'm here with the full

executive authority of Langley.

If it'd make you

more comfortable,

I could stand behind the

mirror with everybody else.

But it's a little

crowded back there.

(quietly):
Cocksucker.

What did you say?

I didn't say anything.

I'm sorry. Did you say

something, Lorraine?

Did you hear me say something?

- I thought you said something.

- What did she say?

LORRAINE :
What?

(Kurzfeld sighs)

Well...

do you want to play

the tape back?

(sighing):
Well, then...

Shall we begin?

Berlin.

What happened?

Yeah.

(chuckles softly) Berlin.

(inhales deeply)

(long exhale)

F***.

(thunder rumbling)

GRAY :
Ah. Lorraine.

Sorry to bring you in

on such short notice.

You know C.

- Yes.

- We were just going over your file.

I see your Russian is excellent.

An expert in escape and evasion.

Proficient in

intelligence collection

and hand-to-hand combat.

It's an impressive

set of skills.

Knowing the Reds as I do,

she'll need to use every

damn one of them.

I'll get straight to the point.

How well do you know

James Gascoigne?

Enough to say hello.

We worked together

- in Istanbul in '85.

- He's dead.

Gascoigne was killed last

night on a mission in Berlin.

GRAY :
The West German Police

fished his body out of

the Spree this morning.

And the coroner extracted

a 7.62 Tokarev round

from the base of his skull.

Soviets.

Yesterday, Gascoigne met

with a Stasi officer,

code-named Spyglass.

We promised Spyglass immunity

in exchange for a

document on microfilm,

code-named "the list."

Hidden in a Swiss

watch, no less.

The list contains every

active clandestine officer,

all their shady deals.

It's an atomic bomb

of information

that could extend the Cold

War for another 40 years.

And we believe the man that

killed Gascoigne now has it.

Our sources point

to Yuri Bakhtin,

a KGB hatchet man with more

than a dozen confirmed kills.

LORRAINE :
So you

want me in Moscow?

No.

Bakhtin never got on the flight.

So he's still in Berlin,

along with the list.

Everyone's hunting for it.

The Yanks, the Frogs.

Soviets, of course.

GRAY :
And our man, Percival.

Who's Percival?

David Percival.

He's our number one in Berlin.

(slide projector clicks)

He's your point of contact now.

Fight the power!

Fight the power...

Straight from the tit

of the Virgin Mary.

We got to fight the

powers that be

As the rhythm's

designed to bounce

What counts is

that the rhyme's

Designed to fill your mind

Now that you realize

the pride's arrived

We got to pump the

stuff to make us tough

From the heart, it's a

start, a work of art

To revolutionize, make a

change, nothing's strange...

The Jordache wasn't easy.

It's for my wife's birthday.

That's really nice.

Now, where's that f***ing list?

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Kurt Johnstad

Kurt Johnstad is an American screenwriter. He has worked on several films including 300, for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award, along with Michael Gordon and Zack Snyder. He also wrote the screenplays for Act of Valor, 300: Rise of an Empire and Atomic Blonde, and was initially tapped to write one of two competing screenplays for Aquaman; Will Beall's script was eventually chosen for the film. more…

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