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Bill Pullman in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

Bill Pullman: Dennis Alan

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Bill Pullman credited as playing...

Dennis Alan

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Quotes11

  • Dennis Alan: Don't let them bury me! I'm not dead!
  • [Doctor Alan is strapped in a chair, about to be tortured]
  • Dennis Alan: I'm a U.S. citizen! Think about that!
  • Dargent Peytraud: I don't see the Ambassador here, do you?
  • Dargent Peytraud: Ahh, Doctor Alan! Why are you in Haiti, Doctor Alan?
  • Dennis Alan: It says there on the passport I'm a tourist. I came to see the sights.
  • Dargent Peytraud: Yes, happy happy happy island people! Then why visit an insane asylum?
  • Dennis Alan: I'm an anthropologist, it's a tax write off. Hope you're not with the IRS.
  • Louis Mozart: You are still alive.
  • Dennis Alan: Yeah, I noticed.
  • Dargent Peytraud: [Peytraud is menacing Dr Alan with a blowtorch] You've got a pretty face. The girls must like it. Do you like it, your pretty white face? I asked you a question.
  • Dennis Alan: ...Yeah... I like it...
  • Dargent Peytraud: I like it too. I'll leave the face...
  • Dargent Peytraud: [strapped to chair in final battle] What do you want?
  • Dennis Alan: [answers in revenge] I want to hear you scream!
  • Dargent Peytraud: No!
  • Dennis Alan: Yes!
  • [impales groin with spike]
  • Dargent Peytraud: AHHHHHHHHH!
  • Dargent Peytraud: Did you know this woman, Marielle Duchamp, is a radical? So was her father. He was... misplaced. Did you know that?
  • Dennis Alan: No, I didn't know that.
  • Dargent Peytraud: So is this man... Christophe Durand.
  • Dennis Alan: Christophe who?
  • Dargent Peytraud: The man you met in the graveyard.
  • Dennis Alan: Graveyard? I don't know... what you're talking about.
  • Dargent Peytraud: You're not a very good liar... Doctor Alan.
  • Dennis Alan: Christophe, I need you to remember what happened before you died.
  • Louis Mozart: You see? Even in America, they know me! They come for my work!
  • Dennis Alan: [bemused] You're an idiot!
  • Louis Mozart: [shocked] My powders work... maybe I cast a spell on you!
  • Dennis Alan: You wanna know what I think of your powders?
  • [pours powder into beer and drinks it]
  • Dennis Alan: It's piss.
  • Dennis Alan: [strapped to a chair naked] I'm in medical research! There's a lot of money in it, there's plenty for you!
  • Dargent Peytraud: I don't want money.
  • Dennis Alan: Yea? What do you want?
  • Dargent Peytraud: I wanna hear you SCREAM!
  • [is handed large metal spike]
  • Dennis Alan: Oh, okay, you want to hear me scream, I'll scream. Ahhh!
  • Dargent Peytraud: [puts spike against testicles] Again!
  • Dennis Alan: Ahhhhhhh!
  • Dargent Peytraud: Not good enough!
  • [impales testicles]
  • Dennis Alan: AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
  • Dennis Alan: [about to be tortured] You made your point! I'm on the next plane. I swear!
  • Dargent Peytraud: It's not good enough now. It's too late. You were warned... I warned you!

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