Rose McGowan: Cherry Darling

Planet Terror

Cherry Darling

Cherry Darling: You're a doctor?
Dr. Dakota Block: Hmm. I was earlier tonight.
Cherry Darling: I always wanted to be a doctor, instead, I can do this.
[Cherry arches her body up in a bridge position]
Cherry Darling: Useless talent number 66. I'm very pliable.
Dr. Dakota Block: You know, my girlfriend had a theory. She said at some point in your life, you find a use for every useless talent you ever had. It's like connecting the dots.
Cherry Darling: I'm not that optimistic. I feel like I'm sinking down a drain and I can't get out.
Dr. Dakota Block: She'd say, "when you're stuck in that spiral, you reach up".
Cherry Darling: What if there's nothing up there?
Dr. Dakota Block: Just reach up.

El Wray: So what are you going to do now?
Cherry Darling: I'm going to be a stand-up comedian.
El Wray: You're not funny.
Cherry Darling: That's what I keep trying to tell everybody but they all say I'm hilarious.
El Wray: But you're not.
Cherry Darling: There's a difference between being frank... and being dick.

The Rapist: [muffled under the mask] Do you like Ava Gardner?
Cherry Darling: Sorry?
The Rapist: [removes his mask] Ava Gardner, do you like her?
Cherry Darling: Yeah, I guess...
The Rapist: I was just thinking that you, uh, kinda look like Ava Gardner a little bit.
[pulls out his pistol]
The Rapist: You know what this is?
Cherry Darling: A gun...
The Rapist: It's simplicity itself: you see, you point it at what you wanta die, and you pull the little trigger here, and a little bullet comes outta here, and the little bullet hits you
[taps her between the eyes]
The Rapist: right there! And you know what? You don't look like Ava Gardner no more.

[last lines]
Cherry Darling: It's beautiful. *She's* beautiful. I wish you could see us, us two. It's like you said it would be. Two against the world, baby. Two against the world.

El Wray: Get up. We're leaving.
Cherry Darling: I can't walk.
El Wray: So what? Get up!
Cherry Darling: Motherfucker! Look at me!
[removes blanket to reveal her missing leg]
Cherry Darling: Look at me! I was gonna be a stand-up comedian! Who's gonna laugh now?
El Wray: Some of the best jokes are about cripples. Let's go.
Cherry Darling: It's not funny. I'm pathetic.
El Wray: Would you stop crying over fucking spilt milk?
Cherry Darling: I have no leg!
[looking frustrated, El Wray rips off a wooden table leg and shoves it in Cherry's stump]
El Wray: Now you do. What do you think?

El Wray: [dying] Go. Leave me.
Cherry Darling: I am not leaving you here like this. Motherfuckers around here eat road kill.
[El Wray laughs]
Cherry Darling: See? I'm funny. I made you laugh.
El Wray: Go to the ocean. Put your backs to it and protect yourselves there.
Cherry Darling: I'm not leaving you, Wray. Two against the world.
El Wray: It will be. I promise.
[touches her stomach]
El Wray: I never miss.

Cherry Darling: [astonished that Dakota has shot The Rapist with a syringe] Where'd you learn to do THAT?
Dr. Dakota Block: Useless Talent #37.

Cherry Darling: Look, you were being an unbelievable dick. I was walking out on you. I was cold, I took your fucking jacket. So, if you're go on one of your psycho, obsessive, controlling rants about a fucking jacket, then fucking take it 'cause I'd rather fucking freeze than fucking hear about it one more time!

Cherry Darling: [after seeing Abby get his head blown off] I don't suppose anyone else here is a bio-chemical engineer?
El Wray: [no one replies] I'll take that as a "no."

The Rapist: You're a dancer?
Cherry Darling: I was earlier tonight.
The Rapist: [grabs Cherry by her hair] Well, I'm pulling you out of retirement!

El Wray: Did you find what was in the pocket?
Cherry Darling: Fuck no.
El Wray: Look for it.
[Cherry searches through one pocket]
El Wray: No, the other one.
[Cherry searches through the other pocket and takes out a box with a ring inside it]
El Wray: I was gonna give it to you, but you left me. 'Cuz you took the jacket...
Cherry Darling: [saying it at the same time as El Wray] ... and I looked for it for two weeks.
El Wray: Read it.
Cherry Darling: Two against the world.
El Wray: Remember that?
Cherry Darling: I never forgot it.

Cherry Darling: [her wooden leg is stuck in the truck door] My leg's stuck. Pull over.
El Wray: It's just wood.
Cherry Darling: It's splintering!
El Wray: Would you just leave it alone?
Cherry Darling: Why do you have to be so mean?
El Wray: Just, just do me a favor, alright? Stay strong.
Cherry Darling: Stay?
El Wray: Yeah, baby. Stay.

Cherry Darling: I broke my leg.
El Wray: That's okay,
[pulls her broken wooden leg off]
El Wray: I made you something.
[installs the Machine Gun leg]
El Wray: I DO believe in you, always have. I believe you could be better. You deserve better, even better than me. Right now, I need you to become who you were meant to be. Stand!