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The Man from Earth (2007)

John Billingsley: Harry

The Man from Earth

John Billingsley credited as playing...

Harry

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  • Harry: Edith, I was raised on the Torah, my wife on the Qu'Ran, my eldest son is an Atheist, my youngest is a scientologist, my daughter is studying Hinduism, I imagine there is room there for a holy war in my living room, but we practice live and let live.
  • Edith: [talking about God] He's everywhere. We just can't see him.
  • Harry: Pfft. If this was the best I could do, I'd be hiding, too.
  • [John walks back in the room]
  • Harry: Well, you're finally fulfilling one prophecy about the millennium, John.
  • John Oldman: What's that?
  • Harry: Here you are again.
  • Harry: I can give you the ten commandments in ten words: "Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't."
  • Harry: [insistent] *You* are creating the mystery here obviously y'have something you'd like to say. Say it.
  • John Oldman: [Hesitant] Maybe... I...
  • Harry: [sing-song] Ten, nine, eight, seven, si...
  • Sandy: [Chiding] Harry, stop.
  • John Oldman: There is something I'm tempted to tell you I think, I've never done this before, I wonder how it will pan out. I wonder if I could ask you a silly question?
  • Art: [Scoffing] John, we're teachers, we answer silly questions all the time
  • Linda Murphy: [Teasing] Hey!
  • John Oldman: What if a man from the upper Paleolithic survived until the present day?
  • John Oldman: I suspect I saw the British Isles from what is now the French coast. Huge mountains on the other side of an enormous deep valley that was shadowed by the setting sun. This was before they were separated from the continent by the rising seas as the glacier was melting.
  • Harry: That happened?
  • Dan: Yes, the end of the Plasticine Period. So far what he says fits.
  • Art: [incredulous] Oh get... from any textbook...
  • John Oldman: And that's where I found it. How can I have knowledgeable recall if I didn't have knowledge? It's all retrospective. All I can do is integrate my recollections with modern findings.
  • Harry: [Wryly echoing Dan] Supernatural.
  • Art: [Quietly disturbed / reflective] Supernatural, stupid word, everything that happens happens within nature whether we believe it or not.
  • John Oldman: [Amused] Like a fourteen thousand year old caveman?
  • John Oldman: [about the food] Put that stuff in the kitchen!
  • Harry: [wryly] No, I'm gonna put it in the bathroom, John.
  • Harry: In science fiction terms, I would say... Perfect regeneration of the body's cells, especially in the, eh, vital orgasm. Actually, the human body appears to be designed to live about 190 years. Most of us just die of slow poisoning.
  • Harry: You know, the more I think about it, yeah, it's possible. Anything is possible, right? After all, one century's magic, another century's science. They thought Columbus was a nut job, right? Pasteur, Copernicus?
  • John Oldman: Aristarchus long before that. I had a chance to sail with Columbus. Only I'm not the adventurous type. I was pretty sure the Earth was round, but at that point, I still thought he might fall off an edge someplace...

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