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Brainstorm (1983)

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Brainstorm

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  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I made that for you. It's a gift.
  • [hands her the tape and sets the large silver metal case on the bed]
  • Karen Brace: What is it?
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: It's me.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: [whispers to statue] That's the girl I'm gonna marry.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: When I found her, she looked beautiful. Why do you have to die to let go? All my life, I've had trouble with people. I didn't need them. I always had my own way. Total confidence. And now, because of this - thing she left me, this tape, I'm scared. For the first time, I'm so scared. But the thing is, I like it! I want more! Look, you're married to the first man in the history of the world, who has a chance to take a scientific look at the scariest thing a person ever has to face. I've gotta do it! I've gotta play it. Play that tape! And you have to help me.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Take the house, take the car! I'll go to a hotel! I can't live like this, Karen! You're strangling me!
  • Karen Brace: What are you talking about, you can't live like this? Are you talking about the house? I never wanted it. It was you!
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: No, no! It's you! That's not me you're looking at! It's you!
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: [to Michael] Can you describe what you were feeling?
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I don't know. I got mad.
  • [gesturing to Karen]
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: At you.
  • [Rewinds tape and takes reel with him as he exits]
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: What were you thinking?
  • Karen Brace: You mean when you were recording my thoughts?
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Yeah.
  • Karen Brace: I was thinking about my new design. But he always ignores me and it just... made me furious.
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Feelings.
  • [last lines]
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: We made it. We made it. Look at the stars. I love you.
  • Alex Terson: Michael, I want these personal experiments stopped. You've abused your privilege as a scientist, and you've endangered your life. The thought of you playing that tape makes my skin crawl.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Where is it?
  • Alex Terson: It's locked away where nobody will ever have it.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Alex, I wanna play that tape.
  • Alex Terson: You didn't hear me, did you? Nobody plays that tape. Ever.
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Don't goddamn me, Alex! Just don't goddamn me, sweetheart! And don't take my project! This is MY project! And I don't want to see it end up on some Defense scrap heap before we know what it's really about! You have no idea...
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I would like to make a toast. To the one who never gives up: Lillian Reynolds, EE, MD, PhD, PFT, BVD, RSVP, COD. My friend.
  • Alex Terson: You blew my socks off!
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: What's the Brainstorm Project, Alex?
  • Alex Terson: Brainstorm? I - I don't know?
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You don't know?
  • Robert Jenkins: It's the damndest thing I've ever felt. It knocked my socks off.
  • [first lines]
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Can you see better if I move it a little closer?
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I can see something. It's parts of the grid, but it's still rotating. It's not locking up.
  • Hal Abramson: Maybe we all need a little break, Lillian.
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Hal, you take a break.
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: What did you do?
  • Gordy Forbes: Nothing, just a little experiment in animal behavior.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: [snarls]
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: There's something wrong with you, you know that?
  • Gordy Forbes: Awww, you didn't like Lena.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I wanna tell you something! I don't like the way you treat me in front of people! You talk about this thing as if it was all yours, but I was there too, so don 't do that!
  • Alex Terson: You look bad.
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: Thanks.
  • Alex Terson: You want a Doctor?
  • Dr. Lillian Reynolds: I am a doctor!
  • Gordy Forbes: Lou, what have you got for me?
  • Chef: Here you go, Gordy. Everything you said. It's all bad! Hot and cold. Sweet and sour. Chewy and melt in your mouth.
  • Andrea: Hey, Spaceman. Welcome back to planet Earth.
  • Gordy Forbes: What you see before you is the latest fashion in full sensory gratification. Now, come on, give us a kiss.
  • Alex Terson: Lillian, I know you can do it. I know you can do it. I'd like a demonstration. I want you - to knock my socks off.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Do you have cardboard boxes?
  • Karen Brace: Yes, I have cardboard boxes.
  • Karen Brace: Are you crazy? This is the Ladies Room. It's the Ladies - Room.
  • Gordy Forbes: Hey, this is hot! It sure beats dirty magazines.
  • Karen Brace: Take a look.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Looks great. Sit, please.
  • Karen Brace: Looks great. Sit, please.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Now just - empty your head.
  • Karen Brace: Empty my head?
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Okay, relax.
  • Karen Brace: Empty my head and relax?
  • Alex Terson: This is on your back, Jim. This is on your back!
  • Alex Terson: I have never broken my word you to you, Lillian. I have never broken my word. I keep my word!
  • Karen Brace: You have to promise me - that you'll never leave me again.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I'm not going anywhere!
  • Karen Brace: Promise me!
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Look at those stars.
  • Karen Brace: Let's go to bed!
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: They locked me out, Hal. I have to get back into the computer.
  • Hal Abramson: It's illegal.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: I wouldn't want you to get in trouble, Hal.
  • Hal Abramson: Hell, I don't care. Try Brainstorm. It'll open the project file.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Brainstorm. Thank you.
  • Hal Abramson: I'll do what I can to help you, Mike.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You plugged him in!
  • Alex Terson: I didn't plug him in, Michael. And I've locked that tape up where nobody can...
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Nobody locks me out!
  • Karen Brace: Just ignore them.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: Why should I ignore them?
  • Karen Brace: We're on a vacation, that's why.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: He's been doing that all day.
  • Karen Brace: Just ignore him.
  • Karen Brace: You go to hell.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You go to hell, too!
  • Karen Brace: You go to hell!
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You go to hell, too.
  • Karen Brace: Don't push me.
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You go to hell, too.
  • Karen Brace: You go to hell!
  • Dr. Michael Anthony Brace: You go to hell.
  • Alex Terson: Come on, do it for Science!
  • Bikini Girl #1: For Science? Okay!
  • Hal Abramson: Something happened to me. It was more than just a sexual fantasy. It was - it was a feeling I had. I'm more than I was.
  • Karen Brace: No. No! No! *No!* Mike! No, no. No! No. No. No.
  • Karen Brace: Don't! Don't go! Don't go! Don't go! Don't go! Don't!
  • Karen Brace: Mike! Oh, God! Mike! Mike!
  • Karen Brace: You promised me! You promised me, Mike! Mike! Mike!
  • Karen Brace: Micheal Anthony Brace! Brace! Brace! Brace! Brace! Michael Anthony Brace! Michael Anthony. Micheal Brace! Michael.
  • Karen Brace: We made a deal! We made a deal!
  • Karen Brace: Get up! Micheal! Mike! Get up! Get up! Mike! Get up! Mike, get up. Mike.

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