Zone 414 (2021)

Guy Pearce: David Carmichael

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• Royale : See, I'm the rarefied air here.

  [pause] 

  Royale : My world is a brochure.

  [pause] 

  Royale : You know what rich people want?

  David Carmichael : No.

  Royale : Everything. I facilitate. There's some ugly in it, but all in all, it's a fine solution to Mother Nature's fuck-up inside the core of humanity. But it's not the only world here. Some people don't want them pretty. They want the metal.

• George : Yes, Hamilton found her

  [Melissa] 

  George : at the entrance of the building. She was lost. And I... I thought she was a synthetic. You say she was human?

  David Carmichael : Yeah

  George : She was only here for a few hours. She seemed... Well, she seemed frightened. I didn't ask her why.

  David Carmichael : A young girl turns up on your doorstep frightened, and you didn't ask any questions?

  George : When you don't like to answer questions, you quickly learn not to ask any.

• David Carmichael : I also think you ought to investigate some of your employees. Royale, for example.

  Marlon Veidt : You look, but you do not see, David. David, the man with the name of the second and greatest King of Israel. The giant slayer. Hmm? Are you a man of religion, David?

  David Carmichael : I can't say that I am.

  Marlon Veidt : Ah! See, I disagree. You have a God. The God of reason. But there is another God. Hmm? The God of power. And for Zone 414... I am that God. Do you understand? Can you reach into your working-class mind and see a glimpse of my responsibility? Can you, David? The man with the name of a king... who thinks like a soldier. The purpose of a king is not to grieve his princess. It is to protect his kingdom. You are a small man, David. Hmm. A very small man. And if you have any intention of destroying what I have built, if you stand in the way of the God of power, he will crush you under his heel! I am not a Goliath that you can slay. I am not.