Idris Elba credited as playing...
The Djinn
- Genie: There is no human, nor angel, nor demon, who wouldn't grasp at the chance to fulfil their deepest longings. And I am saddled with the one who claims to want nothing at all? Alithea Binnie, you are a liar!
- Alithea Binnie: There's no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale. None end happily. Not even the ones that are supposed to be jokes.
- Genie: But you and I are the authors of this story, and we can avoid all traps.
- Genie: And there I am, left to my own oblivion, with no one to hear my voice, no one to know me, nor feel me, nor sense me. You can't imagine.
- Alithea Binnie: Well, actually, I can.
- Genie: Can you imagine the loneliness? How it might overwhelm?
- Alithea Binnie: I can.
- Alithea Binnie: We exist only if we are real to others. Do you agree?
- Alithea Binnie: I do.
- Genie: This, then, is our fate, Alithea. If you make no wish at all, I will be caught between worlds, invisible and alone, for all time.
- [from trailer]
- Alithea Binnie: I do have a question. What does one do with three wishes?
- Genie: You'll see.
- Alithea Binnie: I cannot, for the life of me, summon up one eligible wish. And you're asking me for three?
- Genie: Is there any life in you? Are you even alive?
- Alithea Binnie: You know, in some cultures, abstinence from desire means enlightenment!
- Genie: Then you are a pious fool!
- Alithea Binnie: If I'm content, why tempt fate?
- Genie: And you're a coward!
- Genie: [pulls a man from the TV] Would you like this little Albert Einstein?
- Alithea Binnie: No! No, no, no. That can't be good for him. Put him back!
- Genie: I could expand him. We could speak with him.
- Alithea Binnie: No, put him back!
- Genie: Is that a wish?
- Alithea Binnie: No, it's your obligation!
- [the genie sends Einstein back to the TV]
- Alithea Binnie: This is the story you've been avoiding telling me all along.
- Genie: This is the story I've avoided telling even myself
- [from trailer]
- Alithea Binnie: You know, I'm beginning to wish we'd never met!
- [the flask cracks]
- Genie: NO! DON'T SAY THAT!
- Alithea Binnie: Well, I'm beginning to think that I'm in the presence of a trickster.
- Genie: That would be so much better. My work would be so much easier. But the truth is, I am just an idiot who has been extravagantly unlucky.
- Alithea Binnie: Well, I have to take your word for that.
- Genie: I was imprisoned by Solomon precisely because I cried out my heart's desire. Only by granting you yours may I earn my release!
- Genie: So, what would you wish for? What is your heart's desire?
- Alithea Binnie: Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves. I need to take this slow.
- Genie: I have all the time in the world.
- Alithea Binnie: I *will* make three wishes. I will.
- Genie: Before you die.
- Alithea Binnie: Right now. One after the other. Ready?
- Genie: Uh-huh.
- Alithea Binnie: Number one, I wish your headache were gone. Number two, I wish for a sip of this tea. And finally, I wish for another one of those.
- Genie: What was the complexion of this husband?
- Alithea Binnie: His complexion? Uh, in the beginning, it was... glowing.
- Alithea Binnie: Do you know the answer to her question?
- Genie: What women most desire?
- Alithea Binnie: Yeah.
- Genie: Do you not know? If you don't know, I cannot tell you.
- Alithea Binnie: Well, surely we don't all want the same thing.
- Genie: Madam, your yearnings are not at all clear to me.