Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful

Victorian Age gothic horror

Director(s): John Logan
Year:
2014
8,546 Views

Lily:
You want to walk in the village and hold my hand. And when people are cruel, you want me to love you even more. Do I hurt you? [Lily scoffs] You pathetic creature. How can you imagine that I could care for you? Does that face belong alongside this? Doesn't the world smile on us? Don't we make a beautiful couple, "thee and me"? Shall we wander the pasture and recite your f***ing poetry to the f***ing cows. You are blind... like all other men.

John Clare:
And you are unlike all other women.

[both grunt as Lily pushes Mr. Clare back]

Lily:
You tell me how. We flatter our men with our pain. We bow before them. We make ourselves into dolls for their amusement. We lose our dignity in corsets and high shoes and gossip and the slavery of marriage! And our reward for this service?

[voice breaking]

Lily:
The back of the hand... The face turned to the pillow... The bloody, aching c*nt as you force us onto your beds to take your fat, heaving bodies!

[crying as she pounds into Mr. Clare]

Lily:
You drag us into the alleys, my lad, and cram yourselves into our mouths for two bob. When you're not beating us senseless! When we're not bloody, from the eyes, and the mouth, and the ass, and the c*nt!

[throwing Mr. Clare to the floor, both panting]

Lily:
Never again... will I kneel to any man. Now they shall kneel to me. As you do, monster.

[Mr. Clare lays there trembling]

Lily:
My monster. My beautiful corpse. How clever he's been, our creator. But our little god... has brought forth not angels... but demons. Thee and me. And what should we do with this power, undead thing? You're a thoughtful man, a philosopher even. So tell me, why do we exist? Why have we been chosen? Tell me.

John Clare:
I don't know.

Lily:
Is it to suffer?

John Clare:
Yes.

Lily:
Must it be?

John Clare:
How can it be other? We long for that we cannot have.

Lily:
Women? I'll bring you a dozen. We'll f***'em together. Me? Then you shall have me. I want you.

[Mr. Clare shudders as she crawls to him]

Lily:
I want a man unlike all other man. My brother, my equal. I'll take you... by this beautiful, white, dead hand and lead you to my bed right now. I'll bleed for you. I'll love you... for your sadness... and your poetry and your passion and your rage. And your infinite, luxurious ugliness. I'll lick your sins away.

[Mr. Clare pants as Lily sits on his lap]

Lily:
And when Victor comes home... we'll put our hands around his throat together... and watch him die. And then this will be our home. And then? What then, undead thing? We were created to rule, my love. And the blood of mankind will water our garden. Us and our kin... and our children, and our generations. We are the conquerors. We are the pure blood. We are steel and sinew both. We are the next 1000 years. We are the dead.

[Lily kisses Mr. Clare, both panting]

Lily:
No being... who ever was... or ever will be, shall love you... like I do.

[Lily closes Mr. Clare against her, wrapping her fingers closed behind him]


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