Kate Winslet credited as playing...
Juliet
- Juliet Hulme: [consoling her new friend] All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic.
- Pauline Parker: Oh, I wish James Mason would do a religious picture! He'd be perfect as Jesus!
- Juliet Hulme: Daddy says the Bible's a load of bunkum!
- Pauline Parker: But we're all going to heaven?
- Juliet Hulme: I'M not! I'M going to The Fourth World... it's sort of like heaven. Only better, because there aren't any Christians!
- [Pauline is spending the Easter holiday with the Hulmes. Hilda Hulme, brushing Pauline's hair into an attractive shag, listens while Juliet describes more of the story that they've been devising]
- Juliet Hulme: Mummy, Paul and I have decided that Charles and Deborah are going to have a baby, an heir to the throne of Borovnia.
- Hilda Hulme: What a splendid idea.
- [She grins, while Pauline is ecstatic with the attention being lavished upon her]
- Juliet Hulme: We're calling him Diello.
- Hilda Hulme: Well, that's a good, dramatic name.
- Juliet Hulme: Paul thought it up.
- Hilda Hulme: Aren't you clever?
- [Pauline beams while Mrs. Hulme fluffs up her hair]
- Hilda Hulme: There: all done.
- [Pauline jumps up and takes Juliet's hand]
- Hilda Hulme: Oh, look at you two. A couple of Borovnian princesses, if ever I saw them! My daughter... and my foster-daughter.
- Juliet Hulme: [speaking too brightly of the murder of Honorah Parker Rieper] I think she knows what's going to happen. She doesn't appear to bear us any grudge.
- Juliet Hulme: Affairs are much more exciting than marriages.
- [Then, with disgust]
- Juliet Hulme: As Mummy can testify.
- [shortly before the murder]
- Juliet Hulme: [admiring the view that includes the path down the hill, where the murder occurred] Isn't it beautiful?
- Pauline Parker: Let's go for a walk down here. Come on, Mummy!
- Honorah Parker Rieper: Oh! No, I'd like a cup of tea, first. Come on!
- [the girls reluctantly follow her into the tea-house]
- Juliet Hulme: Daddy says the Bible is a load of bunkum.
- Pauline Parker: But we're all going to Heaven.
- Juliet Hulme: I'm not. I'm going to the Fourth World. It's sort of like Heaven, only better, because there aren't any Christians. It's an absolute paradise of music, art and pure enjoyment.
- Juliet Hulme: [Juliet has just arrived at her new school. For French class she has taken the name Antoinette] Excuse me, Miss Waller, you've made a mistake. "Je doutais qu'il vienne" is in fact the spoken subjunctive.
- Miss Waller: It is customary to stand when addressing a teacher,
- [pause]
- Miss Waller: Antoinette.
- Juliet Hulme: [stands] You should have written "vînt".
- Miss Waller: I must have copied it incorrectly from my notes.
- Juliet Hulme: [stands] You don't need to apologise, Miss Waller. I found it frightfully difficult myself until I got the hang of it.
- [first lines]
- [Director Peter Jackson opens with the scene that should, logically, end the film: that is, the moments immediately following the murder. The girls Juliet and Pauline run screaming up the hill-path to the tea-house, sobbing and covered in blood. The scene is intercut with b&w visions of the two running across a ship deck to meet Dr. and Mrs. Hulme, whom they both refer to as their mother, as the first three exclamations of "Mummy!" demonstrate]
- Juliet Hulme: Mummy!
- Pauline Parker: Mummy!
- Juliet Hulme: Mummmmy!
- [the scene changes from the ship to the hilltop tea-house. The girls are screaming hysterically as the tea-house woman runs out to see what the noise is all about]
- Pauline Parker: It's Mummy! She's terribly hurt!
- Juliet Hulme: Please! Help us!
- Juliet Hulme: Bloody Bill's sniffing around Mummy something chronic!
- Pauline Parker: I thought he was supposed to be terribly ill.
- Juliet Hulme: That's what we were led to believe.
- [last lines]
- [the last lines show scenes of the murder intercut with b&w shots of Juliet being taken away by her parents on the ship. Pauline and Juliet are sobbing and screaming for each other; and the girls scream as they beat Honorah Parker to death]
- Juliet Hulme: Gina!
- [sobs as she reaches a hand over the ship railing]
- Pauline Parker: Juliet, don't leave! I'm coming! Don't go! You can't! Oh, no!
- [as the girls cry and reach helplessly toward each other, Juliet's parents come and stand on either side of her, trying to comfort her]
- Juliet Hulme: I'm sorry...
- [Pauline screams, and the b&w scene fades into the murder scene]
- Pauline Parker: No!
- [That last bloody shot fades into the credits]
- [Pauline and Juliet are planning to run away to Hollywood and meet their favorite actors, such as James Mason and Mario Lanza]
- Juliet Hulme: As soon as those bods in Hollywood cop a look at us, they'll be falling over themselves!
- Pauline Parker: Oh, it'll be amazing to meet James in person. I just know we'll hit it off brilliantly. And Guy Rolfe. And Mel Ferrer.
- Juliet Hulme: And Mario!
- Pauline Parker: Oh, I can't wait to do the love scenes.
- Juliet Hulme: Ooh.
- Pauline Parker: But what if they're married?
- Juliet Hulme: Oh, don't worry about that. We'll simply 'moider' any odd wives that get in our way!
- Juliet Hulme: Can I have another look?
- [Pauline pulls down her legging, Juliet gasps]
- Juliet Hulme: That so impressive. Can I touch it?
- [Pauline nods and Juliet touches her scar]
- Juliet Hulme: Oooh! I've got scars. The're on my lungs. I spent months in bed during the war, ravaged by respiratory illness.