A decent pick up line

Day 1,014, 18:48 • Published in USA USA • by Sleeve

I heard this on NPR on the road down to Georgia two weeks ago. It was from an old Terry Gross interview with Siskel and Edgert. They played a clip from the movie Before Sunrise. Made me write down everything I could to be able to find it later, and luckily it was very easy to find a transcript. So here I give you one HELL of a pick up line. Okay you socially inept nerd minded gamers(I know there are at least some of you out there), get to memorizing this line.

Mr. ETHAN HAWKE (Actor): (as Jesse) All right, I have an admittedly insane idea. But I don't ask you this, it's just, you know, it's going to haunt me the rest of my life.

Ms. JULIE DELPY (Actor): (as Celine) What?

Mr. HAWKE: (as Jesse) I want to keep talking to you, you know. I have no idea what your situation is, but I feel like we have some kind of connection, right?

Ms. DELPY: (as Celine) Yeah, me too.

Mr. HAWKE: (as Jesse) Yeah, right. Well, great. So, listen, here's the deal. This is what we should do. You should get off the train with me here in Vienna, and come check out the town.

Ms. DELPY: (as Celine) What?

Mr. HAWKE: (as Jesse) Come on, it'll be fun. Come on.

Ms. DELPY: (as Celine) What would we do?

Mr. HAWKE: (as Jesse) I don't know. All I know is I have to catch an Austrian Airlines flight tomorrow morning at 9:30, and I don't really have enough money for a hotel. So I was just going to walk around. And it would be a lot more fun if you came with me. And if I turn out to be some kind of psycho, you know, you just get on the next train.

All right, all right, think of it like this. Jump ahead 10, 20 years, okay? And you're married. Only your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to have. You know, you start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you've met in your life and what might have happened if you picked up with one of them, right? Well, I'm one of those guys. That's me.

Mr. HAWKE: (as Jesse) So think of this as time travel from then to now to find out what you're missing out on. See, what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything. I'm just as big a loser as he is, totally unmotivated, totally boring, and you made the right choice, and you're really happy.

Ms. DELPY: (as Celine) Let me get my bag.

~hope you like it. Or at least found it reasonably amusing as I did.
Sleeve