1-
[The Ancient One]: “Who are you in this vast multiverse,
Mr. Strange?”
2-
[Mordo]: “Bathe, rest, Meditate, if you can. The Ancient
One will send for you.”
(Handing out to Strange a
piece of paper with a word written on it …)
[Strange]: “Oh, what’s this? My mantra?”
[Mordo]: “The Wi-Fi password. We are not savages.”
3-
[The Ancient One]: “We harness energy drawn from other
dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells, to conjure shields and weapons…to
make magic.”
4-
[The Ancient One]: “How did you get to reattach severed
nerves and put a human spine back together bone by bone?”
[Strange]: “Study and practice, years of it.”
5-
[Wong]: “Mr. Strange.”
[Strange]: “Uh, Stephen, please. And you are?”
[Wong]: “Wong.”
[Strange]: “Just Wong? Like Adele? Or Aristotle…Drake…Bono…E-mi-nem.”
6-
(Pointing to books on
shelves…)
[Strange]: “What
are those?”
[Wong]: “The
Ancient One’s private collection.”
[Strange]: “So they’re forbidden?”
[Wong]: “No knowledge in Kamar-Taj is forbidden; only
certain practices. Those books are far too advanced for anyone other than the
Sorcerer Supreme.”
[Strange]: “This one’s got pages missing.”
[Wong]:
“That’s the Book of Cagliostro. A study of time. One of the rituals was stolen
by a former master. The Zealot Kaecilius. Just after he strung up the former
librarian and relieved him of his head.”
“I am now the guardian of these books. So if a
volume from this collection should be stolen again…I’d know it…and you’d be
dead before you ever left the compound.”
[Strange]:
“What if it’s just overdue, you know? Any late fees I should know about?
Maiming, perhaps?”
(…)
“Thank you for the books…and
for the horrifying story…and for the threat upon my life.”
7-
[Mordo
to Strange]: “Fight like your life depended on it…Because one day…it may.”
8-
[Kaecilius]:
“How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister…?”
[Strange]:
“Doctor.”
[Kaecilius]:
“Mister Doctor?”
[Strange]:
“It’s Strange.”
[Kaecilius]:
“Maybe. Who am I to judge?”
9-
[Kaecilius to Strange]: “What
was it that brought you to Kamar-Taj, doctor? Was it enlightenment? Power? You
came to be healed as did we all. Kamar-Taj is a place that collects broken
things. We all come with the promise of being healed and instead The Ancient One
gives us parlor tricks…The real magic she keeps for herself. Do you ever wonder
how she managed to live this long?”
10-
[Christine]: “What the hell
is happening? Where have you been?”
[Strange]: “Well, after
Western medicine failed me I headed east and ended up in Kathmandu.”
[Christine]: “Kathmandu?”
[Strange]: “Yeah.”
[Christine]: “Like the Bob
Seger song?”
[Strange]: “Yeah. 1975, Beautiful
Loser. Side A. Yeah.”
“I went to a place called Kamar-Taj and talked
to someone called The Ancient One.”
[Christine]: “Oh, so you
joined a cult.”
[Strange]:
“No, I didn’t. No, not exactly. No. They did teach me to tap into powers that I
ever never knew existed…”
[Christine]: “Yeah. That
sounds like a cult.”
[Strange]:
“It’s not a cult.”
[Christine]:
“Well. That’s what a cultist would say.”
11-
[Strange]: “Yeah, you
know, you really should have stolen the whole book because the warnings…The
warnings come after the spells.”
Love #2 and #8!
ReplyDeleteThey are priceless. :-D
DeleteI agree #2 & #8 made me laugh. Cumberbatch must be fun in this role!
ReplyDeleteHe is. You should watch it; I think you will like it.
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