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Le narrateur: [During the dance sequence] Now is the time for a digression in which to describe our heroes' feelings. Arthur keeps watching his feet, but his mind's on Odile's mouth and her romantic kisses. Odile is wondering if the boys notice her breasts moving under her sweater. Franz thinks of everything and nothing. He wonders if the world is becoming a dream or if the dream is becoming the world.
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Le narrateur: A few clues for latecomers: Several weeks ago... A pile of money... An English class... A house by the river... A romantic young girl...
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Le narrateur: We now might open a parenthesis on Odile's, Franz's and Arthur's feelings... but it's all pretty clear. So we close our parenthesis and let the images speak.
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Le narrateur: What's that big building? asked Odile. The Louvre. The whitewash is great, she said. That guy deserves a medal.
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Le narrateur: Arthur said they'd wait for night to do the job, out of respect for second-rate thrillers. How do we kill all that time? asked Odile. Franz had read about an American who'd done the Louvre in nine minutes 45 seconds. They'd do better.
[Running through the Louvre]
Le narrateur: Arthur, Franz and Odile beat Jimmy Johnson by two seconds.
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Le narrateur: My story ends here like a dime novel. At a superb moment, when everything is going right. Our next episode, this time in Cinemascope and Technicolor: Odile and Franz in the tropics.
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Odile: All that is new is, by that fact, automatically traditional.
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English Teacher: Today no need to know how to ask for directions or a room with a bath; today we must know how to spell 'Thomas Hardy'.
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Franz: A minute of silence can last a long time... a whole eternity.
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Franz: I'm loopy the lup, the good wolf.
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Arthur: The situation couldn't be clearer. But what's not clear is the part I'll be playing.
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Odile: No, he doesn't come to English class anymore. He says England is done for. He's learning Chinese.
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Madame Victoria: I hope you go to class and not to the movies.
Odile: I hate movies.
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Arthur: In ten minutes, downstairs, in the car.
Odile: How do you know I'm coming?
Arthur: Now, in nine minutes 56 seconds.
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Franz: Sometimes, if you don't hide stuff, nobody notices. I read that in an American book.
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Franz: [Reading the newspaper to Arthur] She treated me like a butler, said the lumberjack, husband of the vanished countess. The police think it's murder, but Roger says 'It's an elopement.' Futile search in bedroom slippers.
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Odile: What's your family name, Arthur?
Arthur: Rimbaud.
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Odile: What do you see in me?
Arthur: And you in me?
Odile: I don't know. A husband.
Arthur: Is that what interests you? What exactly does it mean to you?
Odile: It means offering your breasts and your thighs.
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Franz: Isn't it strange how people never form a whole?
Odile: In what way?
Franz: They never come together. They remain separate. Each goes his own way, distrustful and tragic. Even when they're together, in big buildings, or in the street. Don't feel like talking?
Odile: No.
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Odile: I'm worn out with sorrow and fatigue.
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Odile: Are there lions in Brazil?
Franz: Yes, as well as croc... Odiles.
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Arthur: Ever kiss a guy?
Odile: Sure I have.
Arthur: You know how?
Odile: Sure, with the tongue.
Band of Outsiders Quotes
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Bartholome 2022-03-23 09:02:49
The first in 2018 was dedicated to Godard. It was another three-person trip, and I checked it two years later than Truffaut's "Zu and Zhan", which is also a classic. Interpretation of the scene of being shot, the disappearing 60 seconds, crossing the Louvre, the fate of tossing a coin, etc., will forever shine in the history of film. It is not clear whether the story of the "footless bird" at the end affected Wong Kar-wai's "The True Story of Ah Fei", but the dashing and unrestrained three-way scene must have influenced John Woo's "Across the World".
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Jaleel 2022-03-22 09:02:29
One minute of silence, three-person dance, dashing at the Louvre, no-footed bird... They are all really clever sections. Although I'm still not interested in threesomes and French youth at eight o'clock, and the heroine is so disgusting that I don't want to see Anna Karina again in my life, but... at least I can enjoy the voiceover!
