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Clips from Adaptation. (2002)

"You see that nectary down there?"
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"Darwin hypothesized a moth"
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"with a nose 12 inches long to pollinate it."
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"Everyone thought he was a loon."
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"Then, sure enough, they found this moth"
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"with a 12-inch proboscis."
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"- Proboscis means nose, by the way. - I know what it means."
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"Hey, let's not get off the subject. This isn't a pissing contest."
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"The point is, what's so wonderful"
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"is that all these flowers have a specific relationship"
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"with the insect that pollinates it."
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"There's a certain orchid looks exactly like a certain insect."
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"So the insect is drawn to this flower,"
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"its double, its soul mate,"
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"and wants nothing more than to make love to it."
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"After the insect flies off,"
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"it spots another soul-mate flower and makes love to it, pollinating it."
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"And neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand"
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"the significance of their lovemaking."
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"How could they know that because of their little dance, the world lives?"
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"But it does."
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"By simply doing what they're designed to do"
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"something large and magnificent happens."
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"In this sense, they show us how to live."
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"How the only barometer you have is your heart."
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"How when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way."
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"He's really quite a character. No front teeth."
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"- Doesn't seem to bother him at all. - Why doesn't he get them fixed?"
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"It seems almost sociopathic to make everybody look at that."
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"Yeah, but he gives a great blowjob, honey."
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"He is a fascinating character, though."
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"Sounds like a gold mine, Sue."
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"It could be. I don't know, you know? He's, uh..."
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"He lives with his dad, he's obsessed with his dead mother, and..."
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"He wears his sunglasses on a little dingle-dangle around his neck."
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"Loving it."
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"- Tell them about the van. - Okay, the van. The van."
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"- I can't tell about the van. I gotta pee. - No, tell us about the van."
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"- It's amazing. It's... - What's in it?"
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"You did it in the van."
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"Shut up."
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"David, you tell... Don't you tell them. Don't tell them."
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"Okay, the van."
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"David!"
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"This van was filled with junk..."
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"Shut up!"
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"Potting soil. Shovels. Food wrappers. Fertilizer."
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"Susie said she hoped it was fertilizer, anyway."
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"Said she couldn't be sure. Laroche had a certain aromatic look about him."
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"And she said..."
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"She said perhaps his obsessiveness didn't leave room in his schedule"
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"for personal hygiene."
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"Maybe the orchids got all the available water."
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"I wanted to want something as much as people wanted these plants."
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"But..."
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"it isn't part of my constitution."
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"I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion."
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"I wanna know what it feels like to care about something passionately."
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"Should one be lucky enough to see a ghost orchid,"
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"all else will seem eclipsed."
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"If the ghost orchid was really a phantom,"
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"it was such a bewitching one that it could seduce people to pursue it"
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"year after year and mile after miserable mile."
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"If it was a real flower, I wanted to see one."
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"The reason wasn't that I love orchids. I don't even especially like orchids."
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"What I wanted was to see this thing"
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"that people were drawn to in such a singular and powerful way."
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"So how many turtles did you end up collecting?"
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"Oh, I lost interest right after that."
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"I dropped turtles when I fell in love with Ice Age fossils."
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"Collected the shit out of them."
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"Fossils were the only thing that made sense to me in this fucked-up world."
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"I ditched fossils for resilvering old mirrors."
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"My mom and I had the largest collection"
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"of 19th-century Dutch mirrors on the planet."
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"Perhaps you read about us. Mirror World, October '88?"
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"I got a copy here somewhere."
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"I guess I'd just like to know how you can detach from something"
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"that you've invested so much of your soul in."
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"I mean, didn't you ever miss turtles?"
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"The only thing that made your 10-year-old life worth living?"
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"Look, I'll tell you a story, all right?"
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"I once fell deeply, you know, profoundly in love with tropical fish."
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"I had 60 goddamn fish tanks in my house."
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"I'd skin-dive to find just the right ones."
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"Anisotremus virginicus, Holacanthus ciliaris, Chaetodon capistratus."
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"You name it."
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"Then one day I say, fuck fish."
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"I renounce fish. I vow never to set foot in that ocean again."
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"That's how much fuck fish."
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"That was 17 years ago, and I have never since stuck a toe in that ocean."
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"And I love the ocean."
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"But why?"
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"Done with fish."
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"If you'd really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it linger?"
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"Evidently Laroche's finishes were downright and absolute."
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"He just moved on."
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"I sometimes wished I could do the same."
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"Good afternoon. So, what looks good today?"
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"The key lime pie, please."
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"A small slice."
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"And a coffee, please. Skim milk, please."
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"Orchids. I love orchids."
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"Oh, cool. That's..."
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"Well, I'll be right back with your pie."
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"I'm so excited. I've always wanted to come to an orchid show."
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"I think these flowers are so sexy."
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"Let's see what's around back."
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"What?"
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"- You wanna hear my pitch? - Go away, goddamn it."
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"You know, I'm just trying to do something."
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"Hey, thanks a lot, buddy. Cool."
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"Okay, there's this serial killer, right?"
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"Well, no, wait. And he's being hunted by a cop."
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"And he's taunting the cop, right? Sending clues who his next victim is."
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"He's already holding her hostage in his basement."
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"So the cop gets obsessed with figuring out her identity"
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"and in the process falls in love with her."
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"Even though he's never even met her. She becomes like..."
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"Like the unattainable. Like the Holy Grail."
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