Passchendaele (2008)

Paul Gross: Michael Dunne

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Quotes 

• Michael Dunne : Do you think maybe I could accompany you to a dance, or...?

  Sarah Mann : I don't dance with soldiers.

  Michael Dunne : I could lose the uniform.

  Sarah Mann : I don't dance with naked soldiers.

• Michael Dunne : Listen to me. Forests burn 'cos they have to. And oceans, they go up and down 'cos they have to. I don't think we're that different. If you want to get through this you have to start seeing it for what it is. It's something we do all the time because we're good at it. And we're good at it because we're used to it. And we're used to it because we do it all the time.

• Michael Dunne : [about to say "I love you"] 

  Sarah Mann : You should stop.

  [long pause] 

  Sarah Mann : In a heart beat, I could fall so hard. But I'm, I'm not, I'm broken somewhere. Quite broken. So I'd start to think you were stupid for loving me. Then I'd begin to resent you and eventually, I'd hate you.

• David Mann : I came here to kill Germans!

  Michael Dunne : No. You came here to kill your father.

• Dobson-Hughes : [insulting the Germans]  Gas... even a Boer wouldn't sink so low to use gas.

  Michael Dunne : I believe we're using gas, sir.

  Dobson-Hughes : [after a pause]  Quite right.

• Michael Dunne : [leads two horses towards Sarah]  I know you don't dance with soldiers, miss. But would you go riding with one?

• [repeated line] 

  Michael Dunne : I'm not a good storyteller...

• Michael Dunne : [is being refused to see her again]  How about I ask your father about it?

  Sarah Mann : [looks hurt]  I think you'll find that hard to do.

  Michael Dunne : Why? He doesn't like suitors?

  Sarah Mann : No. He's dead. He died at Vimy Ridge.

  Michael Dunne : [after a pause]  I'm sorry.