& David Norris: It’s the men’s.
Elise Sellas (beloved Emily Blunt aka Rose in the Wild Target): Yep.
& David: My shoes... You know, shiny shoes, we associate with high-priced lawyers and bankers. If you want to get a working man’s vote, you need to scuff up your shoes a little bit. But you can’t scuff them up so much that you alienate the lawyers and the bankers because you need them to pay for the specialists back in Tenafly. So, what is the proper scuffing* amount? Do you know we actually paid a consultant $7,300... Was it $7,300, Charlie?.. $7,300, for a consultant to tell us that this is the perfect amount of scuffing.
& David: Give him 3-2-2-7. I’m not used to this phone yet.
Charlie Traynor: No, I can’t. He’s going to ask you about joining the firm. All business calls have to be done on a company Blackberry.
David: Really?
Charlie: Sarbanes-Oxley, you voted for it, pal. In fact, you co-sponsored that one.
& Elise: Were you just looking at my legs while I slept?
David: I was helpless against the dress.
Elise: It’s a skirt.
David: It’s a belt!
& David: Who the hell are you guys?
Richardson: We are the people who make sure things happen according to the plan.
& David: I was supposed to spill my coffee?
Richardson: We call that an adjustment. See, sometimes, when people spill their coffee or their lnternet goes out or they misplaced their keys, they think it’s chance. And sometimes it is. Sometimes it’s us... nudging* people back on plan. Sometimes when nudging isn’t enough, management authorizes a recalibration.
& Harry: Your entire world is turned upside down and you’re thinking about a woman... Even if you could remember the number, you’ll never get through. Lost cell phone, changed numbers, whatever creates the fewest ripples*. My name is Harry, by the way.
& David: The Chairman?
Harry: That’s just a name we use. You use many other names.
& Harry: We're just here to keep you on plan. That's all we're authorized to do.
David: Are you allowed to be telling me this stuff? Are they following me now?
Harry: We have to monitor the entire world. We don't have the manpower to follow everyone all the time.
& Harry: And there is something about water. It blocks our ability to read your decision tree.
& David: Are you an angel?
Harry: We’ve been called that. We’re more like case officers who live a lot longer than humans.
& Richardson: What’s this?
McCrady: If they kiss.
Richardson: A kiss? That’s all it takes?
McCrady: A real kiss. If that happens, every possible adjustment strong enough to break them up will cause ripples over your limit.
& David: Why do you want to keep us apart?
Richardson: Because the plan says so.
David: Then you misread the plan.
Richardson: There is no misreading the plan when it comes to you and Elise.
David: Then the plan is wrong.
Richardson: Do you know who wrote it?
David: I don’t care.
Richardson: You should. You should really show a little respect.
& Richardson: It wasn’t your fault. They were meant to be together.
Harry: What?
Richardson: Were. In an earlier version of the plan. Actually, a dozen earlier versions. ...
Harry: How could a plan just change like that?
Richardson: I don’t know. It’s above my pay grade.
& David: Whatever happened to free will?
Thompson: We actually tried free will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire, we stepped back to see how you would do on your own.
You gave us the Dark Ages for five centuries until finally we decided we should come back in. The Chairman thought that maybe we just needed to do a better job with teaching you how to ride a bike before taking the training wheels off again.
So, we gave you the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, scientific revolution. For 600 years we taught you to control your impulses with reason. Then in 1910, we stepped back again.
Within 50 years, you had brought us World War I, the Depression, Fascism, the Holocaust, and capped it off by bringing the entire planet to the brink of destruction in the Cuban missile crisis...
At that point a decision was taken to step back in again before you did something that even we couldn’t fix. You don’t have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will.
& David: I make decisions every day.
Thompson: You have free will over which toothpaste you use or which beverage to order at lunch. But humanity just isn’t mature enough to control the important things.
David: So, you handle the important things? The last time I checked, the world is a pretty screwed-up place.
Thompson: It’s still here. If we had left things in your hands, it wouldn’t be.
& Thompson: Elise is about to become one of the most famous dancers in the country and eventually one of the world’s greatest choreographers. If she stays with you, she ends up teaching dance to six-year-olds...
& Richardson: This is the job.
Harry: You ever wonder if it’s right? I mean, if it’s always right?
Richardson: Not like I used to. Look, Chairman has the plan. We only see part of it.
& David: Are these ever locked?
Harry: Not when you’re wearing one of our hats.
& Harry: Assume everyone with a hat on is a threat. I don’t care if it’s a Yankee cap, a bowler, or even a yarmulke. Assume everyone in a hat is working with Thompson.
David: Even you guys can’t get through the doors without your hats on, right?
Harry: Right. It’s one of the ways the Chairman limits our power. Water is another way.
& David: Harry? You’re the Chairman?
Harry: No. You’ve met him though... or her. Everybody has. The Chairman comes in a different form to everyone so people rarely realize when it happens.
David: Is this some sort of test?
Harry: In a way, it’s all a test, for everybody.
-- Dict:
scuffing — потёртость
nudging — подталкивать
ripples — рябь
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