A Little Romance

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
Are you in love?

Lauren King:
You don't fall in love with a boy you just met.

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
Are you?

Lauren King:
Yeah.

Daniel Michon:
...that legend is just another one of your damn lies.

Julius:
You could make it true. What are legends anyway but stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things? Of course, it takes courage and imagination... not everybody has that. I may be an old fraud Daniel, but I do know this: something that two people who are in love create together against impossible odds, can hold them together... forever.

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
[looking at a sculpture] Have you ever seen a real one?

Lauren King:
One what?

[pause]

Lauren King:
Oh. Sure

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
Who's? His?

Lauren King:
Who's?

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
You know, his... Daniel's.

Lauren King:
Oh, sure.

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
Have you ever... you know...

Lauren King:
Done it? All the time, every which way.

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
God!

Lauren King:
Well, I would have prefered to have waited, but... well you know the French.

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
God! [pause] Where?

Lauren King:
Where what?

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
Did you do it?

Lauren King:
Well, he has this old mattress in his cellar...

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
God!

Daniel Michon:
Call me Bogie.

Lauren King:
Why?

Daniel Michon:
Because they belong together.

Lauren King:
So what does your father do?

Daniel Michon:
He drives.

Lauren King:
A truck?

Daniel Michon:
No... a taxi.

Lauren King:
You shouldn't be embarrassed, it's honest work.

Daniel Michon:
Not the way he does it.

Daniel Michon:
You have a father or just a mother?

Lauren King:
No, I have a father. As a matter of fact, I'm on my third.

Daniel Michon:
[surprised] Does your mother divorce them or just kill them?

Lauren King:
[laughs] No, still alive.

Daniel Michon:
What does the latest one do?

Lauren King:
He's in telephones.

Daniel Michon:
Telephones. What does he do exactly?

Lauren King:
Exactly? He's the head of ICT. In Europe.

Daniel Michon:
So. You're a capitalist.

Lauren King:
[shakes her head] My father's a capitalist. My own politics are more... radical than my parents'.

Daniel Michon:
It's easy to be liberal when you're rich. I've seen it in films.

Lauren King:
[on phone] Natalie? Lauren. What happened in school today?

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
We were playing mixed soccer with the boys, Billy and another boy were choosing girls to be on their team. Can you imagine how nervous I was?

Lauren King:
Natalie, he's your cousin!

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
Second cousin. The kids don't come out funny or anything, I checked.

Lauren King:
Heidegger isn't all that hard. I mean, his stuff is mostly etymological. you know, like, why is there something rather than nothing at all.

Daniel Michon:
[Daniel and Lauren have snuck into the projection room of an adult movie theater] I just noted there aren't any subtitles.

Lauren King:
You sorta get the gist of it, anyway. [Watches screen] She's so pretty. Why would she...? [Something unseen happens on screen and Lauren, horrified, runs off]

Daniel Michon:
[Daniel, watching the movie:] what is he making her do?

Daniel Michon:
[chasing after Lauren outside the adult theater] I've never seen one of them before either, I wouldn't have taken you. It isn't like that. That's something else. It isn't love.

Lauren King:
I used to think, maybe a long time ago, like... like in the time of the pharaohs or Louis the 13th that, there was somebody, made just perfect for me. I mean, when you think about it and consider that your feelings of love, begin when you're about ten and if you live to say 70, well that's pretty limiting because, what chance is there that he'll be alive at the same time you are? You know?

Daniel Michon:
I feel the same things. I mean, even if she lived in my lifetime. What if my perfect woman lived in India or California or Brazil? What chance is there that I'd meet her when I live in La Garenne?

Lauren King:
It's incredible isn't it?

Daniel Michon:
Absolutely... incredible.

[holds her hand]

Natalie Woodstein, Lauren's dorky friend:
You don't know what love is like until you've fallen for your cousin.

Daniel Michon:
[as Daniel helps Lauren pick up the books she dropped on the ground, he sees one specific book... ] Heidegger?

Lauren King:
Ah, it's for school. An assignment.

Daniel Michon:
They assign you Heidegger?

Lauren King:
Sure

Daniel Michon:
They are teaching you existentialism?

Lauren King:
Heidegger isn't really an existentialist.

Daniel Michon:
He claims he isn't. His writing says he is.

Lauren King:
You read Heidegger?

Daniel Michon:
Not anymore. He bores me. Especially his fascination with the tall German poet. What's his name...?

Lauren King:
H?lderlin!

Daniel Michon:
H?lderlin. Did you try to struggle though any of that stuff? Like "The Death of Empedocles."

Lauren King:
"... Empedocles." It's awful. Humph, but the French translation is terrible.

Daniel Michon:
Oh believe me, it's terrible in any language.

Lauren King:
[realizing how smart Daniel really is] I know! That's fantastic!