Me Before You (2016)
Sam Claflin: Will Traynor
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[Last lines]
Will Traynor : [Voice over, narrating the letter Louisa is reading] Clark. A few weeks should have passed by the time you read this. If you follow the instructions, you'll be in Paris on one of those chairs that never sit quite level on a pavement. I hope it's still sunny. Across the bridge to your right, you'll see L'artisan Parfumeur. You should try the scent called Papiomextrem. I always did think it would smell great on you. There are few things I wanted to say and couldn't because you would've gotten emotional and you wouldn't have let me finish. So, here it is. When you get back home, Michael Lawler will give you access to a bank account that contains enough to give you a new beginning. Don't start panicking. It's not enough for you to sit around for the rest of your life but it should buy you your freedom, at least from that little town we both call home. Live boldly, Clark. Push yourself. Don't settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury, knowing I might have given them to you. This eased something for me. So, this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You have been the first day you walked in with your sweet smile and your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt. Don't think of me too often. I don't want you getting sad. Just live well. Just live. I'll be walking beside you every step of the way. Love, Will.
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Will Traynor : You are pretty much the only thing that makes me wanna get up in the morning.
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Will Traynor : I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress.
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Will Traynor : Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.
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Will Traynor : I have to tell you something.
Lou Clark : I know. I know about Switzerland, I have known for months. Listen I know this is not how you would have chosen it, but I can make you happy.
Will Traynor : No.
Lou Clark : What?
Will Traynor : No Clarke. This could be a good life, but it's not my life, it's not even close. You never saw me before. I loved my life. I really loved it. I can't be the kind of man who just accepts this.
Lou Clark : You're not giving it a chance, you're not giving me a chance. I have become a whole new person these last six months because of you.
Will Traynor : I know and that's why I can't have you tied to me. I don't want you to miss all the things that someone else can give you. And selfishly I don't what you to look at me one day and feel event the tiniest bit of regret or pity.
Lou Clark : I would never think that!
Will Traynor : You don't know that. I can't watch you wandering around the annex in your crazy dresses. Or see you naked and not be able to... oh Clarke if you have any idea what I want to do to you right now. I can't live like this.
Lou Clark : Please Will! Please!
Will Traynor : Shh. Listen, this, tonight being with you is the most wonderful thing you could have ever done for me. But I need it to end here. No more pain and exhaustion and waking up every morning already wishing it was over. It's not going to get better than this. The doctors know it and I know it. When we get back, I'm going to Switzerland so I'm asking you if you feel the things you say you feel. Come with me.
Lou Clark : I thought I was changing your mind!
Will Traynor : Nothing was ever going to change my mind. I promised my parents six months and that's what I have given them.
Lou Clark : No! Don't say another word. You're so selfish. I tore my heart out in front of you and all you can say is no. And now you want me to come and watch the worst thing you could possibly imagine. Do you have any idea what you're asking? I wish I had never taken this stupid job. I wish I had never met you.
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Lou Clark : What do you usually do?
Will Traynor : I don't do anything Miss. Clarke, I sit and just about exist.
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[in Switzerland]
Will Traynor : Will you stay?
Lou Clark : For as long as you want me to.
[they kiss]
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Will Traynor : You're insane. Your whole family is insane. And you're a godawful singer. I hope your dad was better.
Lou Clark : I think, what you mean to say is "thank you, Miss Clark, for attempting to entertain me".
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Will Traynor : [sees Lou in the red dress] Lose the scarf.
Lou Clark : The scarf? Why?
Will Traynor : If you're going to wear a dress like that, Clark, you have to wear it with confidence.
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Lou Clark : I don't do much, okay. I go to work and I go to home and that's it.
Will Traynor : Wow, your life is even duller than mine.
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Will Traynor : And Patrick, thank you for the
[pause]
Will Traynor : fitness advice.
Patrick : Just helping my girlfriend to get the best out of her job.
Will Traynor : You're a lucky man. She certainly gives a good bed bath.
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Lou Clark : Something about men?
Will Traynor : Yes, it's french gay porn.
[Lou thinks that Will is being serious]
Will Traynor : You really don't enjoy sarcasm. Do you?
Lou Clark : Sarcasm is fine. I just don't like superiority.
Will Traynor : You must hate me then.
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Lou Clark : You don't have to be an arse! Your friends got the shitty treatment. Fine *They* deserved it. *I'm* just trying to do my job as best I can. So it would be really nice if you didn't try and make my life as miserable as you apparently make everyone else's.
Will Traynor : And what if I said I didn't want you here?
Lou Clark : I'm not employed by you. I'm employed by your mother. So unless *she* says she doesn't want me here anymore, I'm staying. Not because I care about you, or particularly enjoy your company, but because I need the money. I *really* need the money.
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Will Traynor : Tell me something good.
Lou Clark : I used to say that to my dad. But if I told you what he said back, you'd think I was insane.
Will Traynor : Oh, that ship has sailed, Clark.
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[When Lou starts shaving Will's beard off]
Will Traynor : You're really going to do this?
Lou Clark : I'm... I'm really gonna do this.
Will Traynor : My mother's gonna be so happy.
Lou Clark : Yes, well, we won't let that put us off.
Will Traynor : You've got a funny look on your face. Please don't tell me you shaved off my eyebrows.
Lou Clark : Only the one.
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Will Traynor : Interesting choice of footwear.
Lou Clark : Patrick says they make me look like a leprechaun drag queen.
Will Traynor : He was being nice.
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Will Traynor : Can I take you somewhere?
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Will Traynor : First kiss I ever had was on that rampart.
Lou Clark : Probably didn't hurt that you owned the castle.
Will Traynor : Ah, maybe I should've told her. She dumped me a week later for a boy who worked at a local shop.
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Will Traynor : How did you end up at that cafe?
Lou Clark : Treena made a bet that I couldn't get a job in 24 hours. I proved her wrong.
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Will Traynor : You look like a madwoman. An oddly cheerful madwoman.
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Will Traynor : You don't get it Clark. I want to be in Paris as me. The old me. With pretty French girls giving me the eye.
Lou Clark : Could be something to look forward to.
Will Traynor : If I shut my eyes now, I know exactly how it feels to be in that little square. I remember every sensation. I don't want those memories erased by the stuggle to fit behind a table, the taxi drivers who refuse to take me, and my wheelchair power pack that won't charge in a French socket.
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Will Traynor : [Talking about going to Lou's birthday party] I'll come, if you want me to.
[after some scenes. Talking about going to Alicia's wedding]
Will Traynor : Will you come with me?
Lou Clark : If you want me to.
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Camilla Traynor : Well... This is Louisa Clark. Nathan will talk you through his equipment.
Will Traynor : I'm here, Mother. You don't have to talk across me. My *brain* isn't paralyzed. Yet.
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Will Traynor : A wind concerto.
Lou Clark : I've been assured it involves no farting.
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Rupert : Baynes, have you ever come across him at all?
Will Traynor : No.
Rupert : Fearsome. Total monster. Most days I feel like I can hardly leave my chair.
[Will lifts his eyebrows. Rupert awkwardly drinks tea]
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Will Traynor : [speaking about Freddie Foster who just walked away] He's a nice guy. He fancies you.
Lou Clark : [chuckles] He needs glasses.
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Will Traynor : You know what I see when I look at you?
Lou Clark : Don't say "potential".
Will Traynor : Potential... You need to broaden your horizons, Clark. You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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Will Traynor : Where did you pick up your exotic tastes?
Lou Clark : What do you mean by that?
Will Traynor : It can't be from around here.
Lou Clark : Why not?
Will Traynor : Because this is the kind of place people come to when they've got tired of actually living. People here think excitement is a new "Please be quiet" sign going up in the library. You should be out there, claiming the world as your own. Showing your leprechaun shoes to dodgy men.
Lou Clark : I like my life.
Will Traynor : You like everything.
Lou Clark : I'm happy here.
Will Traynor : Well, you shouldn't be.
Lou Clark : Oh, you want me to be more like the girls you know, do you? Go to London, marry somebody like Rupert.
Will Traynor : I believe he's taken.
Lou Clark : And ignore the fact that he's shagging his secretary within five years. And bitch about him at dinner parties, knowing he won't leave because he's scared of the alimony. And have sex once every six weeks, and listen to him going on and on about how much he adores the children, while doing nothing to actually take care of them. And have perfect hair, but get this kind of pinched face through never saying what you actually mean. And develop an insane Pilates habit, and buy a dog, or a horse, and develop a crush on your riding instructor. And watch your husband take up jogging when he hits 40 and buy a Harley. And know that every day, he goes into the office and looks at the young men, and feels like, somehow, he got suckered! And leave him anyway, and come back here to give the children a happy childhood.
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Will Traynor : When I was a kid, this used to be my favorite place in the whole world.
Lou Clark : Did you walk around up here pretending you were a warrior prince?
Will Traynor : Even nicked a sword from one of the exhibits. Weighed a ton.
Lou Clark : I think this would still be my favorite spot.
Will Traynor : That's because you haven't been anywhere.
Lou Clark : Oh... So where's better than this, then? Val d'lsère?
Will Traynor : Paris. Place Dauphine, right by the Pont Neuf. Sitting outside a café with a strong coffee and a warm croissant with unsalted butter and strawberry jam.
Lou Clark : So, let's go! We could get on the Eurostar right now.
Will Traynor : No.
Lou Clark : But you just said...
Will Traynor : You don't get it, Clark. I want to be in Paris as me. The old me. With pretty French girls giving me the eye.
Lou Clark : That could be something to look forward to.
Will Traynor : If I shut my eyes now, I know exactly how it feels to be in that little square. I remember every sensation. I don't want those memories erased by the struggle to fit behind a table, the taxi drivers who refuse to take me, and my wheelchair power pack that won't charge in a French socket.
