District 9 (2009)

Sharlto Copley: Wikus van de Merwe

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Quotes 

• Wikus Van De Merwe : Get your fokkin' tentacle out of my face!

• Wikus Van De Merwe : Could you go a bit slower with the clicks there, it sounded like you said *three years*...

• Wikus Van De Merwe : Hello, little guy! It's the sweetie man coming!

• Wikus Van De Merwe : We need your signature on this eviction notice.

  Angry Alien : Fuck off!

  [smacks the pad away] 

• Christopher Johnson's Son : Fuel goes in here!

  Christopher Johnson : That's enough! QUIET!

  Christopher Johnson's Son : ...then we fly away.

  Christopher Johnson : I said QUIET! We cannot trust him.

  Wikus Van De Merwe : What is he saying about the fuel, is this, are you trying to start this thing? He-he. Are you little fookers trying to start this, and get away, ay?

  Christopher Johnson : Never mind.

  Wikus Van De Merwe : Ha-ha. Yeah, you sneaky fookin' prawns, heh?

  Christopher Johnson : Too bad. I could have fixed you.

  Wikus Van De Merwe : Wha- wait what did you say about-about the *fixing*?

• [Wikus enters an MNU code and the gate opens] 

  [an MNU agent shoots several bullets at Wikus, causing him to pull the trigger of his Alien gun and shoot the agent] 

  Christopher Johnson : [the MNU agent explodes]  Fuck!

  [Wikus takes off his mask and checks his vest] 

  Christopher Johnson : I thought you said not to kill them?

  Wikus Van De Merwe : He shot at me!

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [in Christopher's ship]  This whole's thing's under your shack? For 20 years, you've had this fookin' thing hidden out here? This is, this is very illegal, I mean, this is... this is a fine.

• Wikus Van De Merwe : Oh! I haven't shown you a picture of my wife! Here she is, my angel. I tell people she actually looks like an angel, you see here? The white looks like a halo on her head. Can you see that? She's my angel, you're picking that up on your cameras there! They probably won't keep that in the film but...

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [when under attack in MNU]  What are you doing?

  Christopher Johnson : Making a bomb!

• Wikus Van De Merwe : I would never have any kind of... pornographic activity with a fokkin' creature!

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [Points out Alien graffiti]  This is basically a guy, and there's 3 humans here, basically trying to make a warning, you know, saying "I kill 3 humans, watch out for me."

• Obesandjo's Lieutenant : [gets a machete, moves towards Wilkus, laughing]  Hehe, I will teach you...

  Wikus Van De Merwe : [grabs an alien weapon]  YOU BLIKSEM!

  Obesandjo's Lieutenant : Hey, HEY, HEY!

  [gets blown away by Wilkus] 

  Obesandjo : OH! HOLY SHIT!

  Wikus Van De Merwe : [blasts several more of Obesandjo's soldiers, then turns to Obesandjo]  You tell them to fokking stand down!

  Obesandjo : [shouts to his soldiers in Xhosa, who back off] 

  Wikus Van De Merwe : Put the fokking weapons in the bag!

  [backing away with the weapons] 

  Wikus Van De Merwe : Don't fokking look at me!

• [Fundiswa clutches his face mask while he witnesses the burning shack] 

  Wikus Van De Merwe : [referring to the face mask]  You don't need that, man. Only sissies wear that. You don't need that.

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [examining and fiddling with the lid of the Prawns' fuel]  ... but, it's uh, not a weapon... but I don't trust it, I don't trust any-a the -

  [sprayed in face with the Prawns' fuel] 

• [Wikus walks into a room filled with Alien weaponry] 

  Wikus Van De Merwe : This is Christmas. This is Christmas, my friends! This is the biggest find that I've ever seen.

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [Comes into his house with the lights turned off, talking to his wife]  I think I crapped my pants

  [Lights turn on and people yell surpise] 

• Wikus Van De Merwe : You wanna' fucking play with me, Koobus?

  [cocks the Exo-Suit's gun] 

  Wikus Van De Merwe : You fucker!

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [giving an Alien reproductive apparatus to co-worker]  Here, you can take that, you want to keep that, as a souvenir of your first abortion, ay. You can feel like you've done one of these too.

  Thomas : [beaming]  Thanks, boss!

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [talking to a prawn in District 9]  We drinking a little bit here, eh?

  [the prawn vomits at Wikus's feet] 

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [while the 'anti-abortion team' burns down the shack with the alien eggs in it]  You hear that? That's a popping sound that you're hearing. It's almost like a popcorn.

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [Nervous]  Forget about the weapons there mate, it doesn't matter. Forget about the weapons!

  Obesandjo : I want his arm. Cut it off.

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [Wikus sees the head restraint descend down in-front of him]  Alright, that's very comfor...

  [Wikus's head is suddenly shunted forward and we hear a whirring sound] 

  Wikus Van De Merwe : [Wikus shouts]  *Argh* Foking Bliksem!

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [picks up to examine and fiddle with silver canister]  Well, huh, this has got the markings of - so it's definitely alien but it's uh, not a weapon... but I don't trust it, ya know, I don't trust any-a the...

  [sprayed in face with the Alien fuel] 

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [Facing the PMCs]  I'm not fucking scared of you!

• Wikus Van De Merwe : This is tangled. This is tangled.

• Wikus Van De Merwe : [Wikus is obviously falling sick]  Okay, let's cut some cake!

  [Wikus begins to hallucinate and experience distortion in hearing his own speech, slowing things down considerably] 

  Wikus Van De Merwe : C-U-T S-O-M-E C-A-K-E!