Wednesday, January 21, 2009

My Favorite Scene

Movie : Thank you for Smoking
Actors :
Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor and his son (in the movie ) Joey
Scene : Nick teaches his kid how he is able to propagate his views and ensures that he is never wrong.
Now here is the dialogue !!

Joey Naylor
: ...so what happens when you're wrong?
Nick Naylor: Whoa, Joey I'm never wrong.
Joey Naylor: But you can't always be right...
Nick Naylor: Well, if it's your job to be right, then you're never wrong.
Joey Naylor: But what if you are wrong?
Nick Naylor: OK, let's say that you're defending chocolate, and I'm defending vanilla. Now if I were to say to you: 'Vanilla is the best flavour ice-cream', you'd say...
Joey Naylor: No, chocolate is.
Nick Naylor: Exactly, but you can't win that argument... so, I'll ask you: so you think chocolate is the end all and the all of ice-cream, do you?
Joey Naylor: It's the best ice-cream, I wouldn't order any other.
Nick Naylor: Oh! So it's all chocolate for you is it?
Joey Naylor: Yes, chocolate is all I need.
Nick Naylor: Well, I need more than chocolate, and for that matter I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom. And choice when it comes to our ice-cream, and that Joey Naylor, that is the defintion of liberty.
Joey Naylor: But that's not what we're talking about
Nick Naylor: Ah! But that's what I'm talking about.
Joey Naylor: ...but you didn't prove that vanilla was the best...
Nick Naylor: I didn't have to. I proved that you're wrong, and if you're wrong I'm right.
Joey Naylor: But you still didn't convince me
Nick Naylor: It's that I'm not after you. I'm after them.
[points into the crowd]

Amazing stuff, after this dialogue , I started to read all the books of Christopher Buckley , except this book all other books you should have an idea of US politics , but this is a great book with amazing dialogues and lot of ideas of public speaking, even when the entire crowd hates you.

The movie ends with the following line
Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent.

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