
Some Kind of Beautiful
- R
- Year:
- 2014
- 99 min
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It's important you understand.
It's not you, it's me.
What we have is so special.
I love you more than I can say,
but I'm sorry, truly,
because... I fucked up.
Look...
I owe you an explanation, but honestly,
I don't know where to begin.
Well...
maybe there, at the beginning.
You see, I grew up above a great party.
- Gordon!
- Mommy?
- She's in the kitchen.
- What are you doing?
I'm waiting for your mother to bring out
the hors d'oeuvres. Now bugger off.
After school, I used to love
to listen to my father lecture.
teach you it was Wordsworth,
Keats, and Coleridge,
defined the Romantic age.
And they've told me to ignore Byron.
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know was
how one of his many lovers described him.
He was controversial.
Now did you know,
this esteemed establishment told Byron
that he wasn't allowed to bring
his beloved dogs to college?
So he said screw the rules. He went out
Brought it to class on a chained leash.
He tied up to that very pipe just there.
So you see, it was Byron who defined
the Romantic age, which wasn't about love.
It was about going your own way,
defying authority
and following your heart,
sticking it to the man,
and as many women as possible.
Now that... that is Romantic.
And if the faculty
don't like me saying so,
well, they can take this job
and they can shove it.
Because like Mr. Bob Dylan, I ain't gonna
work on Maggie's farm no more.
Dad hated authority,
and everyone loved him for it.
All I wanted was to be just like him.
Forget the critics.
Let them have their opinions.
Let them publish their books and brag
about them at tedious faculty parties,
and let university librarians
The faculty has called this class
"The Romantics and Literary Theory."
I want you all to forget
the second half of this sentence.
There's nothing theoretical
about the romantics.
"Where true love burns,
"desire is love's pure passion.
"It is the reflex
"of our earthly frame...
"that takes its meaning
from the nobler part
and but translates...
the language of the heart."
Wakey, wakey, Professor Haig.
Oh, shit. It's Saturday, isn't it?
No, don't look like that.
Are you sure about this?
I mean, I make a terrible
first impression.
Will you relax, Richard?
My dad is gonna love you.
- Really?
- Yeah, you'll have lots to talk about.
Yeah? Corporate hard-nosed raider
meets libidinous lit professor.
- It's a match made in heaven.
- I just want my dad
to meet the wonderful man
I've been dating for the last six months.
- Six months?
- Broke your record, didn't I?
- Crazy.
- "Love is begun by time,
and time qualifies the spark
and fire of it all."
Relax, you're still very sparky, darling.
Really sparky, I mean...
Well, my liege, I must hie me
to Heathrow, thou to London,
- chimes of 6:
00 sharp.- Sure, of course.
- Sharp.
- Sharp. 6:
00. Chimes.Sal.
Sal, I've got to go. Why?
Because we've been talking for so long
I've lost track of time, space, and myself.
Hello? Hello? Olivia?
- Not to worry, madame.
- I'll call maintenance.
- We'll fish it out later.
- Are you there? Can you hear me?
- Please don't.
- Hello?
Olivia?
Apa!
There you go. They fishing
your phone out of the drain?
No.
I told them not to.
I am cutting myself off from the world.
Footloose, fancy-free.
Won't that be lonely?
An island unto yourself?
- No.
- Madame?
- Can I have a glass of red wine, please?
- Yes, madame.
No. I would populate the island
with all new people.
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