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Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning in The Beguiled (2017)

Colin Farrell: Corporal McBurney

The Beguiled

Colin Farrell credited as playing...

Corporal McBurney

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  • [from trailer]
  • John McBurney: [screaming] What have you done to me, you vengeful bitches?
  • Martha Farnsworth: You're our most unwelcome visitor, and we do not propose to entertain you.
  • John McBurney: You'll find I'm... easily amused.
  • Martha Farnsworth: You won't be here long enough for that.
  • Marie: I wanted to bring this to you last night for fear that you might die before morning, but then I thought, since you were unconscious, you wouldn't be able to read it anyway.
  • John McBurney: That's very logical.
  • Marie: Are you Catholic?
  • John McBurney: I was baptized.
  • Marie: Well then, here's a prayer book for you.
  • John McBurney: Thank you.
  • Marie: I thought you might need to confess if you're on the verge of death.
  • John McBurney: Oh, I think I'll be able to hang around for just a little bit longer.
  • Martha Farnsworth: Is your leg paining you?
  • John McBurney: Some.
  • Martha Farnsworth: Well, I hear numbness would be more grave.
  • John McBurney: Indeed.
  • Martha Farnsworth: There is some brandy if you wish.
  • John McBurney: Oh, now that would be a pleasure.
  • Martha Farnsworth: It's not being offered for your pleasure, only for your comfort.
  • John McBurney: Well, well, well. What are you lovely Southern ladies learning today? The art of castration?
  • John McBurney: I'd like to thank you for all of this, as well. It looks - like just about the finest meal I've ever seen.
  • Martha Farnsworth: Well, bon appetit.
  • [first lines]
  • Amy: [finding some mushrooms] Here you go.
  • John McBurney: [sitting wounded by a tree] Shh. Are you frightened?
  • Amy: No. Yes.
  • John McBurney: Uh, so am I.
  • Amy: Can you move at all?
  • John McBurney: Uh... Uh, I'll try, if there's some place to go.
  • John McBurney: If you could have anything, what's your biggest wish? If you could have anything in the world, what would it be?
  • Edwina: Anything?
  • John McBurney: Yeah. Anything.
  • Edwina: To be taken far away from here.
  • [rushes out of the room]
  • John McBurney: A toast to you, Miss Martha. You must be the bravest woman I've ever known.
  • Martha Farnsworth: No. No. All bravery is, is doing what's needed at the time.
  • John McBurney: Listen, don't tell any of the others, but I consider you to be my best friend in this whole place.
  • Martha Farnsworth: Miss Alicia made the pie herself.
  • Alicia: I hope you like apple pie?
  • John McBurney: I love apple pie. It's me favorite.
  • Edwina: Is that my recipe, Alicia?
  • Alicia: It is.
  • Amy: I picked the apples.
  • John McBurney: Miss Amy, you picked these mushrooms yourself?
  • Amy: [Nods her head yes]
  • John McBurney: Delicious.
  • Amy: Do you like birds?
  • John McBurney: Oh, I love them. Anything wild, I love. Wild and free.
  • John McBurney: You can trust me in your place, ma'am.
  • Martha Farnsworth: Well, I don't know you.
  • John McBurney: Well, I think if you knew me - you would.
  • Martha Farnsworth: You won't be here long enough for that.
  • John McBurney: In the middle of battle with all the iron flying overhead, me first thought was to bury me-self.
  • Edwina: But, when you couldn't, you ran.
  • John McBurney: I did. I surely deed I did.
  • Edwina: That wasn't very brave of you to run.
  • John McBurney: Maybe not. But, it was smart, I think.
  • Edwina: Because you're alive?
  • John McBurney: And now I've met you.
  • Edwina: You don't even know me.
  • Martha Farnsworth: I hope the girls weren't telling stories.
  • John McBurney: What do you care what they say about you?
  • Martha Farnsworth: I don't. I didn't want you to get the wrong impression.
  • John McBurney: Then, you do care what I think about you?
  • Martha Farnsworth: You're a stranger here. That's all.
  • John McBurney: How did you end up in this place?
  • Edwina: Why are you so interested in me?
  • John McBurney: I just recollect you and I are both a little out of place here. I bet you're the independent sort - and the other girls, they don't even know how to get close to you. And then, of course, there's your looks.
  • Edwina: That doesn't matter to me.
  • John McBurney: Oh, you can bet it matters to other people. Sorry to tell you and I hope you don't mind me telling you; but, well, in all my travels, I've never come across such a delicate beauty as yours.
  • John McBurney: If you could have anything, what's your biggest wish? If you could have anything in the world, what would it be?
  • Edwina: Anything?
  • John McBurney: Yeah, anything.
  • Edwina: To be taken far away from here.
  • Martha Farnsworth: When I return, would you care to join me for a brandy, Corporal?
  • John McBurney: I'd like that very much, ma'am.

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