Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Scarlett Johansson: Major
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Quotes
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Major : Everyone around me seems to fit. They seem connected to something I am... not. It's like I have no past.
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[last lines]
Major : [narrating] My mind is human. My body is manufactured. I'm the first of my kind, but... I won't be the last. We cling to memories as if they define us. But what we do defines us. My ghost survived to remind the next of us... that humanity is our virtue. I know who I am... and what I'm here to do.
Aramaki : [in Japanese] Major. Engage targets... You're authorized.
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[repeated line]
Major : My name is Major Mira Killian, and I give my consent.
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Dr. Ouelet : [repairing cybernetic hand] Open and close, please. You have damaged internal systems.
Major : Maybe next time you can design me better.
Dr. Ouelet : How are you?
Major : I'm fine, I can't feel anything.
Dr. Ouelet : No, you. In there.
[smiles]
Major : I've been having glitches. But they'll pass.
Dr. Ouelet : You've been talking your medication?
Major : Yeah. But these ones are still cycling. I had two this morning.
Dr. Ouelet : Sounds or image?
Major : Both.
Dr. Ouelet : [scans] I see it. Have you made any unencrypted downloads?
Major : No, just delete them for me.
Dr. Ouelet : Consent.
Major : My name is Major Mira Killian and I give my consent to delete this data.
Dr. Ouelet : It's done. It's no big deal.
Major : What are they?
Dr. Ouelet : Sensory echoes from your mind. Shadows. Can't be sure.
Major : How do you know what's a glitch and what's me?
Dr. Ouelet : The glitches have a different texture... to the rest of your code. I can see everything. All of your thoughts, your... decisions.
Major : I guess privacy is just for humans.
Dr. Ouelet : You are human. People see you as human.
Major : Everyone around me seems to fit. They seem connected to something, something I'm... not. It's like I have no past.
Dr. Ouelet : Of course you have a past. And with time you'll feel more and more connected to it... and to them.
[surgery complete]
Dr. Ouelet : Open and close, please.
[hand works]
Dr. Ouelet : We cling to memories as if they define us, but... they really don't. What we do is what defines us.
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Dr. Ouelet : Do any of the glitches mean something to you?
Major : No. They don't.
Dr. Ouelet : You've been inside the same shell as he has. That could have... very serious consequences. You were not authorized to Deep Dive the geisha.
Major : You're disappointed.
Dr. Ouelet : No, I'm worried. You're not invulnerable. I can repair your body, but I can't protect your mind.
Major : Why not? You can see all my thoughts, so... you should be able to secure them.
Dr. Ouelet : Try and understand your importance, Mira. You're what everyone will become one day.
Major : You don't know how alone that makes me feel.
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Major : My name is Major Mira Killian and I do not consent to the deletion of this data. I do not consent... I do not consent.
Dr. Ouelet : We never needed your consent. Yours or anyone's.
Major : You're killing me... aren't you?
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Dr. Ouelet : Hello Mira. I'm Dr. Ouelet. Do you remember anything about the attack?
Major : What happened? I was... I was drowning. There's water.
Dr. Ouelet : That's right. You were on a boat. A refugee boat. It was sunk by terrorists.
Major : Why can't I feel my body?
Dr. Ouelet : Mira, your body was damaged. We couldn't save it. Only your brain survived. We made you a new body. A synthetic shell. But your mind, your soul, your "ghost," it's still in there.
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Major : This is Major. I'm on site. Awaiting instructions.
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Major : The Harbor. My parents. The way they died. Did that happen?
Dr. Ouelet : No. We gave you false memories. Cutter wanted to motivate you to fight terrorists. I didn't approve. It was cruel, but my work, it was important, and... you were born. You were so beautiful.
Major : Nothing I have is real.
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Major : Tell me who you are.
Kuze : I am that which you seek to destroy. In this life, my name is Kuze.
Major : What are you doing to me?
Kuze : I have connected you to a network of my own creation. When I am finished in this world, my ghost can survive there and regenerate.
Major : What do you want from me?
Kuze : I became fascinated with you, reading your code while you were inside that geisha. Like nothing I had felt before and yet so... familiar. We are the same.
Major : We are not the same. You kill innocent people.
Kuze : "Innocent", is that what you call them? I am as they made me.
Major : Who made you?
Kuze : What have they told you? That you were the first? The first cerebral salvage? You were born of lessons took from my failure.
Major : What are you talking about?
Kuze : I was conscious while they dismembered my body and discarded me like garbage. I was lying on a table, listening to doctors talk about how my mind had not meshed with the shell that they had built, how Project 2571 had failed, and they had to move on to you.
[removes a piece of Major's face]
Kuze : What a beauty you are. They have improved us so much since they made me. They thought we would be a part of their evolution, but they have created us to evolve alone... beyond them.
Major : "Evolution", that's what you call killing everyone who made you?
Kuze : You're not listening to me.
Major : You're a murderer.
Kuze : They tried to kill me first. It is self-defense; defense of self! More will die until they tell me what they took!
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Batou : I got night vision, mile-zoom, and X-ray. I guess I see like you now.
Major : Don't worry, you'll get used to it.
Batou : Thanks for saving my ass.
Major : Glad to see you're okay.
[as Major is about to leave the lab]
Batou : Major? Could you feed the dogs for me? I don't want to scare them.
Major : [agrees] Anytime.
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Major : [as she gets interrogated with an electric prod] The truth is... I wasn't built to dance.
[bursts loose and fights back at the thugs]
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Cutter : [spoilers]
[last lines]
Cutter : I Thought That It Might Be You
Aramaki : [in Japanese] It Is Unwise To Resist
[Cutter pulls a gun and Aramaki guns him down]
Cutter : [staggering to his feet, his gun kicked out of reach]
[whispering]
Cutter : please
Aramaki : [in Japanese]
[over the coms]
Aramaki : Major? I'm With Cutter Is There Anything You'd Like To Say To Him?
Major : [icily] Tell Him This Is Justice... It's What I Was Built For!
Aramaki : [in Japanese]
[brief pause]
Aramaki : So... Do I Have Your Consent?
Major : [coldly] My Name Is Major... And I Give My Consent!
[with a slight sneer Aramaki rapidly fires point blank, then silently watches Cutter fall back into a pool]
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Major : [Major has just discovered her past life; to Kuze] I remember what they did to us, Cutter and his men. This is where they took us from. We used to sleep right here. We were like a family, all of us runaways. We had nothing except each other. They took that from us. Your name was Hideo.
Kuze : Motoko... that was your name. Motoko. Come with me into my network. We will evolve beyond them... and together, we can avenge what they have done to us. Come with me.
