The Crying Game
Appearance
The Crying Game is a 1992 film about a man's experiences as a member of the IRA, his brief but meaningful encounter with a British prisoner of the group, and his unexpected romantic relationship with the prisoner's girlfriend, whom he promised he would protect.
- Directed and written by Neil Jordan.
Play At Your Own Risk. (taglines)
Dil
[edit]- I'm loud, darling, but never cheap.
- I can take it Jimmy. Just not in the face.
Dialogue
[edit]- Fergus: What the fuck, do you know about my people?
- Jody: Only that you're all tough, undiluted motherfuckers... And it's not in your nature to let me go.
- Fergus: Shut the fuck up, will ya?
- Dil: He's still looking, Col.
- Col: Persistent.
- Dil: Good thing in a man.
- Col: An excellent quality.
- Dil: Maybe he wants something.
- Col: I expect he does.
- Dil: Ask him!
- Col: Ask him yourself!
- Fergus: So who's he?
- Col: He's what she should run a mile away from.
- Fergus: Then why doesn't she?
- Col: Who knows the secrets of the human heart?
- Dil: You gonna tell me what it is?
- Jude: What is it?
- Dil: Do you know her, Jimmy?
- Jude: Jimmy, is it? Do you know me, Jimmy?
- Fergus: Dil, this is Jude.
- Dil: Are you following me?
- Jude: Yeah! Just checking. Is he being nice to you, Dil?
- Dil: Ever so nice, aren't you, Jimmy?
- Jude: That's good. I'm glad. Young love, as they say?
- Dil: Absolutely. The younger the better. Doesn't come YOUR way much, I suppose.
- Jude: Don't go looking for it, Dil.
- Dil: Well, maybe you'll get lucky... someday.
- Jude: Bit heavy on the powder, isn't she?
- Dil: A girl has to have a bit of glamour.
- Jude: Oh, absolutely. As long as she can keep it. Isn't that right, James?
- Dil: What you thinking of, hon?
- Fergus: I'm thinking of your man.
- Dil: Why?
- Fergus: I'm wondering why you keep his things.
- Dil: I told you. I'm superstitious.
- Fergus: Did he ever tell you you were beautiful?
- Dil: All the time. Even now.
- Fergus: What do you mean?
- Dil: He looks after me. He's a gentleman, too.
- Col: You could always make it up to her. When a girl runs out like that, she generally wants to be followed.
- Fergus: She's not a girl, Col.
- Col: Whatever you say.
- Fergus: Do they know?
- Dil: Know what, honey?
- Fergus: Know what I didn't know? And don't call me that.
- Dil: Can't help it! A girl has her feelings.
- Fergus: Thing is, Dil, you're not a girl.
- Dil: Details, baby, details.
- Fergus: So they do know?
- Dil: Alright, they do.
- Fergus: Don't. I should've known, shouldn't I?
- Dil: Probably.
- Fergus: Kind of wish I didn't.
- Dil: You can always pretend.
- Fergus: That's true. Your soldier knew, didn't he?
- Dil: Absolutely.
- Dil: Ask to meet me again, Jimmy.
- Fergus: Do you think that's wise?
- Dil: Nothing's wise.
- Fergus: I didn't mean to hit you.
- Dil: I know that.
- Fergus: I kind of liked you as a girl.
- Dil: Well that's a start.
- Fergus: So I'm sorry.
- Dil: So make it up to me.
- Fergus: How?
- Dil: Ask to meet me again.
- Dil: Got you the multivitamins and the iron tablets, hon.
- Fergus: Don't call me that.
- Dil: Sorry, love. Now, the white ones are magnesium supplement.
- Fergus: Stop it, Dil.
- Dil: I've got to keep you healthy, Jimmy. I'm counting the days. Two thousand three hundred and thirty-four left.
- Fergus: Thirty-five.
- Dil: I'm sorry, darling. I keep forgetting the leap year. What am I supposed to call you then, Jimmy?
- Fergus: Fergus.
- Dil: Fergus. Fergus my love, light of my life.
- Fergus : Please, Dil.
- Dil: Can't help it. You're doing time for me. No greater love, as the man says. Wish you'd tell me why.
- Fergus: As the man said, it's in my nature.
Taglines
[edit]- Play At Your Own Risk.
- The movie everyone is talking about... But no one is giving away its secrets.
Cast
[edit]- Stephen Rea - Fergus/Jimmy
- Jaye Davidson - Dil
- Forest Whitaker - Jody
- Miranda Richardson - Jude
- Adrian Dunbar -Maguire
- Breffni McKenna - Tinker
- Joe Savino - Eddie
- Birdy Sweeney - Tommy
- Andrée Bernard - Jane
- Jim Broadbent - Col
- Tony Slattery - Deveroux
External links
[edit]- The Crying Game quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- The Crying Game at Rotten Tomatoes