The Iron Giant

"You are who you choose to be."
"Superman."

The Iron Giant is a 1999 Warner Bros. animated film that centers on a young boy named Hogarth Hughes who discovers and befriends a giant robot.

Directed and written by Brad Bird, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.

Music by Michael Kamen.

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Hogarth William Hughes

[after seeing Giant; calmly] So, I guess you're not gonna hurt me? [gasps; Giant holds his hand out as Hogarth cringes and gasps, thinking Giant is gonna pound him, but he reveals the shut-off switch that lands on the ground; shocked] The shut-off switch. [to Giant] You saw me save you. [Giant looks at him innocently] So... where are you from? You came from the sky, right? From up there? [Giant looks up] Don't you remember anything? Hmm, maybe it's that bump from your head. [Giant places his finger on his head, feeling the dent] Do you talk? You know words? "Blah, blah, blah," like that? Can you do that? Blah, blah, blah?
[reflecting on the deer that was killed after the Giant's combat mode engages] Souls don't die
[tries to reason with the Giant in combat mode] It's bad to kill. Guns kill. And you don't have to be a gun. You are what you choose to be. You choose. Choose.. [closes his eyes expecting the Giant to fire, but is relieved when it stands down from combat mode]'

Kent James Mansley

What am I talking about? [angrily] What am I TALKING ABOUT?! [his yelling causes everyone to turn and stare at Kent as the music in the pharmacy stops playing. Kent slowly begins to corner Hogarth] I'M TALKING ABOUT YOUR GOLDARNED SECURITY, HOGARTH! While you're snoozing in your little jammies, back in Washington, we're wide awake and worried. Why? Because everyone wants what we have, Hogarth; Everyone! You think this metal man is fun. But who built it? The Russians? The Chinese? The Martians? Canadians?! I DON'T CARE! All I know is we didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to Kingdom Come! Now, you are going to tell me about this thing, you are going to lead me to it, and we are going to destroy it before it destroys us!!

Dialogue

[Later that night, Hogarth is watching a black-and-white horror movie on TV. The clock reads "9:05"]

Man: Why, the porpoise can communicate telepathically, Miss Melon. [Hogarth fills the Twinkie with whipped cream and eats it] If we can transplant at least 15% of their brain matter into ours, we may be able to...read minds. [glass shatters, and the camera reveals that a brain is on the floor] Darn, a perfectly good brain wasted. [to Miss Melon; leaving the laboratory] I think you have seen enough. How about a nightcap? Let's say my place.

Hogarth Hughes: [annoyed] Oh, jeez.

Miss Melon: I was thinking the same thing. [giggles] Mind reader.

Man: [realizing] Darn. I seem to have left my keys in the lab.

[Hogarth eats popcorn, and a man goes back to the laboratory to get his keys he tries to turn on his light, but the light switch is not working]

Man: Hmm.

[The brain moves slowly on the floor]

Hogarth Hughes: [in a singsong voice, with popcorn in his mouth] You're gonna get it.

[The man picks up his keys and hears shattering noises as Hogarth hears something]

Man: Who's there?

[Hogarth goes upstairs and carries his toy gun]

Man: [frightened] No. No! NO!!!

[Hogarth runs downstairs and sees the brain monster attack the man on TV, but the screen quickly turns to static]

Hogarth Hughes: [annoyed] Oh, come on! [bangs the TV trying to make it work but with no effect] Stupid antenna.

[At Hogarth's school, he draws the giant robot he saw earlier as the class watches an educational film]

Narrator: A peaceful, stay-at-home kind of day in a town very much like your own. But then suddenly without warning. [The bomb exploded] Atomic holocaust! But how does one survive an atomic attack?

Classroom Boy #1: [To another boy] Did you hear about crazy Mr. Stutz? He says his boat ran into a sea monster.

Classroom Boy #2: I heard it was sunk by a meteor.

Classroom Boy #3: [Shaking his head] No, no, no. It was a metal meteor. It ate his boat. My dad says-

Hogarth Hughes: [Interrupting] It wasn't any of those things.

Classroom Boy #2: [Annoyed] What would you know about it Poindexter?

Mrs. Tensedge: [Sternly] Hogarth! [Shushing] Don't make me come over there.

Chorus: Hands over your head. Keep low to the ground. Time to duck in cover. The bombs are coming down. [The bomb exploded] Duck and cover.

Hogarth Hughes: [whispering to his classmates] It's about 50 or 60 feet high and it only eats metal.

Classroom Boy #1: [annoyed, whispering] Shut up, you little spaz!

Classroom Boy #3: It's probably been sent by foreigners to take over the country.

Classroom Boy #2: Yeah, we should bomb it to smithereens before it does.

Chorus: 'Cause all the kids who don't, Will cease to be around.

[Hogarth draws a giant robot eating metal]

[Kent Mansley, a government agent, closes the door with the government seal with "BUREAU OF UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA" who is smoking his pipe. He takes out his ID]

Kent Mansley: [First words] Kent Mansley, United States Government, Unexplained Phenomena Department.

Marv: Marv Loach. I--

Kent Mansley: What happened here?

Marv: Not sure. Sometimes, the line'll snap if the weather is bad, sure.

[Marv Loach and Kent Mansley walk through the wreckage of the power station where Kent makes a report]

Marv: But for a whole tower to get twisted up like that, whoa! It's got me beat. It's almost like it was bitten off. By some Enormous Beast.

Kent Mansley: [Writing the notes down] "Enormous Beast." Yeah. What do you think? Escaped gorilla?

Marv: Uh, what department is that again?

Kent Mansley: Frankly, I'm not at liberty to reveal the particulars of the agency I work for, and all that that implies.

Marv: [whispers] You mean, uh, National Security?

Kent Mansley: [Chuckles] Let's put it this way. Every once in a while, things happen that just can't be rationalized in a conventional way. People want to know that their government has a response. I am that response. So, were there any witnesses?

Marv: Well, sir, if you'll just follow me. [Kent follows Marv to his truck. Marv opens his truck and takes out what's left of Hogarth's BB Gun.] We did find this. [Kent examines the damaged BB Gun] United States Government, huh? Guess that means something big's happenin' here, eh?

Kent Mansley: No, Marv. Big things happen in big places. And the sooner I fill out my report, the sooner I can get back to them. [he walks away with the BB gun; to himself] Enormous beast, yeah. [he chuckles as he enters his car] Biggest thing in this town is probably the homecoming queen.

[Kent notices his broken car]

Kent Mansley: [alarmed] OH, MY GOD!

[Kent jumps out, terrified, and his fedora falls off. He then quickly runs back to the power station. Afterwards, Giant's arm emerges from the trees. Kent is escorting Marv to his car.]

Kent Mansley: Come on, Marv, come on. I need a witness.

Marv: Okay, I'm coming, I'm coming.

Kent Mansley: It's around the corner. Come on, pick up the pace here.

Marv: Don't pull so hard, Mr. Manley, easy on the work shirt.

Kent Mansley: [panicking] You've never seen anything like it. It's like a big, big chomp out of the side of the car.

Marv: Take it easy.

Kent Mansley: It's like a bite out of a ham sandwich, like a-- [he becomes shocked to see his car is gone, and his fedora and the BB gun remains; gasps in shock]

Marv: [Confused] What, um-- What are we looking at here, Mr. Manley?

Kent Mansley: Something big, Marv. [he picks up the damaged BB gun] Something big.

Hogarth Hughes: Do you talk? You know words? "Blah, blah, blah," like that? Can you do that? Blah, blah, blah?

Iron Giant: [First words] Blah, blah, blah.

Hogarth Hughes: [cringes] Well... you get the idea anyway. [picks up a rock] See this? This is called a rock. Rock.

Iron Giant: Rock!

Hogarth Hughes: Good.

Iron Giant: [picks up a boulder] Rock?

Hogarth Hughes: Yes!

Iron Giant: [picks up a tree] Rock!

Hogarth Hughes: No, no. That is a tree. [points to boulder] Rock... [points to tree] ...tree. Get it?

Iron Giant: [looks at boulder] Rock. [looks at tree] Tree.

Hogarth Hughes: That's right! [to himself] Wow, my own giant robot, I am now the luckiest kid in America! This is unbelievable. This is the greatest discovery since, I don't know, television or something. I gotta tell someone. I should call some-- No. They'll panic. [to Giant] People will always wig out and start shooting when they see something big like you.

Iron Giant: [Confused] Hmm?

Hogarth Hughes: Oh. "Wig out". It means, "crazy". You know, like, uh-- [puts his hands on his head and makes a face as he babbles; Giant mimics him] No, no! Don't do that! That's the kind of stuff that makes them shoot at ya.

Kent Mansley: Two nights ago, at approximately 1900 hours, sat com radar detected an unidentified object entering Earth's atmosphere, losing contact with it 2 1/2 miles of the coast of Rockwell. Some assumed it was a large meteor or a downed satellite. But my office in Washington received a call from someone who reported an actual encounter with the object. This is no meteor, gentlemen. This is something much more serious. So...

Hogarth Hughes: So, we can't call Ripley's Believe It or Not!, because they wouldn't believe it. And uh...oh it's getting dark, and if I don't get home soon, Mom's gonna wonder where I am. If she comes looking for me and sees you, then we got a screaming problem again. So for now, would you, you know, just...just stay here, okay? I'll come back tomorrow. [The Giant stands up and Hogarth looks up seeing how tall he is; awed] Wow. Well, goodbye. [He walks away and the Giant starts to follow him] No, no. Me go. You stay. No following. Good. [But the Giant does follow him anyway; frustrated] I told you! I'll come back tomorrow! Now, stay! [The giant doesn't listen] No, no, no! Bad robot! Look, you can't go stomping around and you can't come with me. My mom will wig out. [the Giant makes a face and laughs] That's right. So you have got to stay in the forest, and I'll bring you some food tomorrow. But I gotta go home now. So goodbye. [walks across the railroad. He stops when he sees the Giant kneeling down] Hey! [the Giant picks up the rails with his mouth] Hey, wait a minute! [the Giant stops to look at him] What do you think you're doing?! Look at this mess! [to make matters worse, the crossing bell goes off and Hogarth hears a train coming] Oh, no. [to Giant] Put it back! Put it back right now! [tries pushing the tracks down] Help me! I need your help! [the Giant places his hands on the tracks] Good, good! [the Giant puts the track back on the ground. Hogarth sees the light of the approaching train] Oh yeah, put them together. See? Like this. This one here, that one there. [the Giant fixes the track] Okay, over, over. Good, good. Now the other one. Okay, good enough. Let's go! [runs but he stops and sees the Giant still fixing the track. And worse, the train is approaching fast] What the-? [runs to the Giant] That's fine! Leave it alone! The train is coming! The train is coming! Come on! Let's go! [the Giant finishes fixing the track, and gasps upon seeing the train approach him. Hogarth reacts in horror and he jumps to the ground cringing. The train hits the Giant. As Hogarth looks at the wrecked train, the Giant suddenly lands in front of him along with his parts] Oh no, no, no. [the Giant gets up] You're alive! [sees the body parts moving towards the robot's body, as the Giant lets out his radio transmitter]

Man: [calling out in distance] Hello? Anybody out there?

Hogarth Hughes: We're in trouble now.

Man: [in the distance] Are you all right?

Hogarth Hughes: [to Giant] Look, I've changed my mind. You can follow me home. Okay? Let's go!

[Mansley calls up General Rogard after the Giant devoured his car]

General Rogard: [annoyed on phone] Damn it, Mansley. You call me at home for this?

Kent Mansley: [over phone] You don't understand sir. It ate my car.

General Rogard: [over phone] And you saw this happen?

Kent Mansley: No, I didn't actually see it. It went off into the woods.

General Rogard: So you don't have any evidence?

Kent Mansley: But sir, I've got an eyewitness!

General Rogard: An eyewitness with a concussion.

Kent Mansley: This thing- [softly] This thing is a menace. It tore up the power station. It caused a train wreck!

General Rogard: What did? [sternly] Tell me again, Mansley, and this time... listen to yourself.

Kent Mansley: [sighs; wearily] A giant metal monster. [Rogard guffaws on the other end. Kent sees a kitchen mitt that seems to mock him.] Please, sir. I've got a feeling about this one. [flips the oven mitt around as General Rogard calms down]

General Rogard: That's lovely, Kent. But let me try to explain how this works: If you told me you'd found, say, um, a giant footprint, I might send over an expert to make a plaster cast of it. Hell, you get me a photograph of this thing, and I could probably get some troops over there! But you tell me you've got a feeling.

Kent Mansley: All right, then fine. You want evidence? I'll get you evidence, and when I do, I'm gonna want a memo distributed.

[Later that night, as the Giant is asleep, Hogarth enters carrying comic books]

Hogarth Hughes: If you're gonna stay here, you gotta keep better track of yourself. Sheesh. Anyway, I thought you'd like, you know, a bedtime story or something. I've got some really cool ones. [showing the Giant comic books] Mad Magazine, very funny. The Spirit, very cool. Boy's Life? [Shrugging] Ehh. Oh, here. [shows him the Superman comic book] This guy is Superman. Sure, he's famous now...but he started off just like you. Crash-landed on Earth. Didn't know what he was doing. But he only uses his powers for good, never for evil. [puts down the comic book] Remember that.

Iron Giant: [curiously looks at another comic book featuring an evil robot called Atomo] Hmm.

Hogarth Hughes: [sees the Atomo comic book] Oh, that's Atomo, the metal menace. He's not the hero, he's the villain. He's not like you. You're a good guy. Like Superman.

[Hogarth places the Superman comic book over the Atomo comic book to get Atomo off the Giant's mind]

Iron Giant: Superman. [feels his stomach rumbling]

Hogarth Hughes: You're hungry, aren't you?

Iron Giant: [nodding] Mmm-hmm.

Hogarth Hughes: But I don't have any metal here. Just follow me.

[At pharmacy]

Hogarth Hughes: First, you take a chocolate bar. Any bar will do.

Kent Mansley: Oh.

Hogarth Hughes: Do you mind if I, uh--?

Kent Mansley: No, knock yourself out, skipper.

Hogarth Hughes: [crumbles up choco-lax] You crumble up the chocolate into little pieces, [stirs the ice cream] then you kind of stir it into the ice cream. See?

Kent Mansley: Yes, I see. What do you call this, again?

Hogarth Hughes: Landslide. It's new. Very new.

[Hogarth tosses choco-lax wrapper in a garbage can without Kent noticing]

Kent Mansley: Mmm. Landslide. Topnotch. Mmm.

[Hogarth makes a landslide with a regular chocolate bar.]

Kent Mansley: You know, Hogarth. We live in a strange and wondrous time. The Atomic Age. But there's a dark side to progress, Hogarth. Ever hear of Sputnik?

Hogarth Hughes: Yeah, it's the first satellite in space.

Kent Mansley: Foreign satellite, Hogarth, and all that that implies. Even now, it orbits overhead... Boop! Boop! ...watching us. We can't see it, but it's there. Much like that giant thing in the woods. We don't know what it is or what it can do. I don't feel safe, Hogarth. Do you?

Hogarth Hughes: [puzzled and confused] What are you talking about?

Kent Mansley: What am I talking about? [angrily] What am I TALKING ABOUT?! [his yelling causes everyone to turn and stare at Kent as the music in the pharmacy stops playing. Kent slowly begins to corner Hogarth] I'M TALKING ABOUT YOUR GOLDARNED SECURITY, HOGARTH! While you're snoozing in your little jammies, back in Washington, we're wide awake and worried. Why? Because everyone wants what we have, Hogarth; Everyone! You think this metal man is fun. But who built it? The Russians? The Chinese? The Martians? Canadians?! I DON'T CARE! All I know is we didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to Kingdom Come! Now, you are going to tell me about this thing, you are going to lead me to it, and we are going to destroy it before it destroys us!! [Kent's stomach suddenly begins to gurgle, causing his glare to fade away and his eyes to widen] Just hold that thought and stay right there! Uh-oh!

[Kent rushes to the bathroom, and the camera quickly pans to reveal Hogarth left the pharmacy]

Dean McCoppin: [sets up his chair] This can't last forever, Hogarth. We gotta tell somebody about him.

Hogarth Hughes: Ah, you worry too much. [climbs up the rock boulder] Hey, Dean! Watch this!

Dean McCoppin: [sits down on his chair] All right, we're watchin', we're watchin'.

Hogarth Hughes: This one's for professionals only! [jumps in the lake] Banzai! [Giant looks down at Hogarth in the lake. Hogarth emerges from the water, shivering] C-C-Come on in! Th-Th-The water's great!

Dean McCoppin: [chuckles] No, thanks.

Hogarth Hughes: You...w-weenie! [to Giant] Come on in! It's really, really refreshing. [Giant walks away] What? You too? You... big baby! [?]

Iron Giant: [jumps] BANZAI! [?]

Hogarth Hughes: Whoo!

[?]

Truck Driver: Hey!

Dean McCoppin: Yeah?

Truck Driver: You're right in the middle of the road!

Dean McCoppin: Yeah?

Truck Driver: All right. [drives away]

Dean: I think that's enough fun for one day.

[?]

Annie Hughes: Are you okay in there, Mr. Mansley? I'm back with that toilet paper you needed.

Kent Mansley: [chuckles] Thanks! I think I'm feeling better now. Much. [sees the photo of Hogarth and Giant] Much better.

[Later that night, Giant and Hogarth are at Dean's junkyard. Giant feels very sad about the deer. Hogarth walks up to him.]

Hogarth Hughes: I know you feel bad about the deer. But's it not your fault. Things die. It's part of life. It's bad to kill. But it's not bad to die.

Iron Giant: You die?

Hogarth Hughes: Well... yes, someday.

Iron Giant: I die?

Hogarth Hughes: I don't know, you're made of metal, but you have feelings, and you think about things, and that means you have a soul. And souls don't die.

Iron Giant: Soul?

Hogarth Hughes: Mom says it's something inside of all good things, and that it goes on forever and ever.

[Hogarth pats Giant's face and walks away, Giant lies on the scraps and he looks up at the midnight.]

Iron Giant: Souls don't die.

[Hogarth goes inside the barn putting his bicycle away]

Kent Mansley: [in the shadows] You're late for dinner, Hogarth.

[Frightened, Hogarth runs to the door, but Kent blocks him and locks the door, trapping Hogarth]

Kent Mansley: Your mom's worked late tonight, Hogarth. So it's just us guys. And we're going to have a little chat. [shoves Hogarth into a chair] Sit down! [Turns on a lamp] How's that? A little too bright? Good. [Chuckles] Forgive me, Hogarth, I wanted you to learn something.

Hogarth Hughes: [angrily] What can I learn from you?

Kent Mansley: You can learn this, Hogarth, That I can did anything I want whenever I want if I feel it's in the people's best interest. The Giant metal man, where is it?

Hogarth Hughes: [angrily] I don't know what you're talking about.

Kent Mansley: You don't? Wow... [lays down a picture of a piece of metal that Hogarth lured the Giant with] Does this ring a bell? [Hogarth doesn't answer] No? How about this? [lays another picture which Hogarth accidentally took of himself with the Giant behind him] You've been careless, Hogarth.

Hogarth Hughes: [angrily] It doesn't prove anything.

Kent Mansley: That's enough to get the Army here with one phone call.

Hogarth Hughes: [angrily] Then what's stopping you?

Kent Mansley: [angrily shoves lamp off the table] WHERE'S THE GIANT?! [grabs Hogarth by the jaw] You can't protect him, Hogarth. Anymore than you can, protect your mother.

Hogarth Hughes: My mom?

Kent Mansley: [lets go of Hogarth's jaw and sighs] It's difficult to raise a boy all alone, we can make it more difficult. In fact, we can make it so difficult it would be irresponsible for us to leave you in her care, and all that implies, you'll be taken away from her, Hogarth.

Hogarth Hughes: You can't do that!

Kent Mansley: Oh, we can, and we will.

Hogarth Hughes: [lowers his head; defeated] He's in the junkyard, McCoppin's Scrap, off Culver Road.

Kent Mansley: Ah, the junkyard. Of course! Food for the metal-eater. I wouldn't worry about this, Hogarth. It isn't really happening. This is only...a bad dream.

[Kent shoves a chloroform rag on Hogarth's mouth as he screams and moans, the scene fades to Hogarth in bed hearing voices then he wakes up hearing Kent talking on the phone]

Kent Mansley: [On phone] Yes, sir. This thing is real, sir. I not only have incontrovertible evidence, General, I know where it's hidden. I don't know who built it, but it's here, it's massive, and we're running out of time, there's no doubt we should act, the only question, sir, is, "Can you afford not to?" Excellent, sir. You won't regret it. Thank you, sir. [hangs up telephone]

[Hogarth hides behind his bedroom door, and he tries to escape but he is blocked by Kent]

Kent Mansley: The Army arrives in the morning, Hogarth. Don't get cute.

[Hogarth glares angrily at him as he slowly backs away into his room then he closed the door]

Hogarth Hughes: [quietly] I gotta warn Dean.

[Hogarth runs to his bedroom window as he tries to open it, but he sees that, while unconscious, Kent nailed the window shut. Kent opens the door glaring at him and Hogarth glares back]

Kent Mansley: I'll be watching you.

[Kent sits down on Annie's bed with a cocky smile. Hogarth continues glaring at him as he goes into his bed. He puts on his army helmet; he folds his arms and puts on his goggles to hide his eyes from Kent. Kent smiles evilly as Hogarth glares angrily at him. They stare at each other for hours. Kent grows tired and Hogarth appears to fall asleep. Kent smiles at this and looks at his watch. The next morning, he wakes up and looks at Hogarth's bed. He smiles when he thinks Hogarth is still asleep.]

Hogarth Hughes: [walks by] Morning, Kent.

[Kent gasps and walks into Hogarth's bedroom. He pulls the bed sheets only to see pillows and the helmet, which falls to the floor. Kent gets angry as he realizes that while he fell asleep, Hogarth (who had faked sleeping under his goggles) got out of bed and called Dean to warn him. Annie enters the room.]

Annie Hughes: [comes in] For some reason, the Army is in our front yard, Mr. Mansley.

Kent Mansley: [Smiles in embarrassment] Please call me Kent.

[Mansley is desperate to show General Rogard and his troops the Giant, but when Dean reveals its part of a certain metal sculpture he made...]

Kent Mansley: Sir, listen.

General Rogard: [sternly] Step outside, Mansley.

Kent Mansley: Yes, sir.

[Hogarth watches Rogard fume off at Mansley outside the house]

General Rogard: [angrily] DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH HARDWARE I BROUGHT OUT HERE?! YOU JUST BLEW MILLIONS OF UNCLE SAM'S DOLLARS OUT OF YOUR BUTT!!!

Annie Hughes: [talking to Dean] I gotta admit, I'm relieved that this is what Hogarth was talking about. I mean, I was beginning to think it was real. I mean, don't get me wrong. I like it. But um, do you need all this stuff on the surface?

Dean McCoppin: Well, uh, no, actually.

Annie Hughes: Well, just sort of-- It seems kind of slapped on. You know, not as thought-out as this other piece.

Dean McCoppin: You like that one?

Annie Hughes: Yeah.

General Rogard: [still berating Kent] You'll be chief inspector of Subway toilets by the time I'm finished with you! [gets in the jeep] Now pack up. I'll expect you back in Washington to clear out your office. [signals the soldier to drive away, pointing to the road]

Kent Mansley: [softly] Yes, sir.

[Hogarth plays with the giant robot.]

Hogarth Hughes: Thruster to base. I'm going in. [climbs up on the car] Only one creature could create so much destruction. The hideous, people-eating, killing machine, Atomo! [But the Giant did not pay attention] Atomo!

Iron Giant: No Atomo. [pulls up a giant S from a "Seafood" sign and puts it on his chest] I Superman.

Hogarth Hughes: Okay, Superman. Take this! [pointing his toy gun at him and the robot's eyes turn red] Stupid gun. [the Giant fires his beam that Hogarth dodges and Dean sees what's going on and the Giant gasped] Hey, what's wrong? As I was saying, take this! [points his toy gun again and the Giant fires at Hogarth, Dean quickly saves Hogarth from getting hit] What happened? What was that...

Dean McCoppin: Shh, stay down and follow me. [the Giant gasped as Hogarth and Dean tried to hide but the Giant found them. Dean stood in front of Hogarth, defensively] Get back! [the Giant looks at Dean in confusion] I said "Get back!" I mean it!

Iron Giant: No. Stop. Why?

Hogarth Hughes: It was an accident; He's our friend.

Dean McCoppin: [to Hogarth] He's a piece of hardware, Hogarth. Why do you think the army was here? He's a weapon. A big gun that, that walks!

Iron Giant: I-- I-- I('m) not (a) gun.

Dean McCoppin: Yeah, what's that? Huh? [points at a hole, by the Giant's Eye Gun, in a school bus] You almost did that to Hogarth!

Iron Giant: [sees hole in bus; shocked] No. [runs away as snow begins to fall]

[Although Hogarth has placated the Giant's the Nautilus launches a missile at it on Kent's panicked orders and the town sounds an air-raid siren]

Annie Hughes: Shouldn't we get to a shelter?

Dean McCoppin: [shaking his head] It wouldn't matter.

Iron Giant: I fix.

Hogarth Hughes: Giant? [Giant kneels down and gently places his finger at him.]

Iron Giant: Hogarth. You stay. I go. [lifts Hogarth's chin, and sadly waves his other finger] No following. [backs slowly]

Hogarth Hughes: [softly] I love you. [The Giant flies off toward the missile, and remembers what Hogarth told him once] You are who you choose to be.

Iron Giant: [Last words] Superman! [collides with missile]

Taglines

Some secrets are too huge to hide.
The story of a boy and a giant from another world who became a hero on this one!
Something humongous is among us.
It came from outer space!

Cast

Eli Marienthal ― Hogarth William Hughes (speaking voice)
- Mary Kay Bergman (vocal effects)
Vin Diesel ― The Iron Giant
Harry Connick, Jr. ― Dean Jeffrey McCoppin
Christopher McDonald ― Kent James Mansley
Jennifer Aniston ― Anne Margaret "Annie" Hughes
Cloris Leachman ― Mrs. Lynley Tensedge
James Gammon ― Foreman Marv Loach/Floyd Turbeaux
John Mahoney ― General Shannon Rogard
M. Emmet Walsh ― Earl Stutz

Brad Bird Trailer

[shows Warner Bros. Feature Animation logo, Hogarth watches a movie on TV]

Narrator: You're nine years old. You're watching TV...

[Glass shatters on TV]

Man: [on TV] Darn. A perfectly good brain wasted.

Narrator: When all of a sudden...

[The TV goes static]

Hogarth: [Smacks the TV] Stupid antenna.

[Hogarth investigates a gigantic track with a flashlight]

Narrator: You go to investigate. Your conclusion?

Hogarth: Invaders from Mars!

Narrator: You do what any kid would do.

[Hogarth gears up and runs to the woods]

Narrator: You go looking for trouble. And sure enough, it finds you.

[Random clips from the movie play and end off with the film's title, the Iron Giant looks at Dean through his door]

Dean: Oh, yeah.

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