The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
Mahina: You know, I also have killed a lion. Angus Starling: How many shots did you need? Mahina: I used my hands.
John Patterson: You don't enjoy killing, do you? (Remington ignores the question by taking a swig from his flask) Hawthorne: Then why do it? Charles Remington: Because I've got a gift.
Angus Starling: Well, we all worked together. Worthy deeds were accomplished.
Charles Remington: Well, I'm a very considerate man. My mother taught me that. (Samuel laughs.) Charles Remington: Now, what the hell you laughing about? You don't think I'm considerate? Samuel: I don't believe you had a mother.
Hawthorne: I wouldn't have thought bravery would be a problem for you. Charles Remington: Well, you hope each time it won't be... But you never really know.
Charles Remington: Oh, you're right. The devil has come to Tsavo. Look at me! I am the devil.
(Samuel hands John a letter from his wife) Samuel: You like her? John Patterson: Very much. Samuel: I don't like any of mine.
(After they discover the Lion's Den filled with skeletons, and are terrified) Charles Remington: Lions don't do this. Lions... never had a lair like this. They're doing it for the pleasure. John Patterson: They'll know we've been here.
Samuel: Mzee! John! Where do you think you're going? John Patterson: (John cocks his rifle) I'm going to sort it out. (He fires a shot) I'm going... (He fires again) to sort it out. (He shoots into the air, again, walks onto the bridge, and continues firing)
John Patterson: Darling... you know how God invented liquor so the Irish wouldn't rule the world.
John Patterson: What better job in all the world than build a bridge? Bring land over water. Bring worlds together.
Narrator: Remember this... even the most impossible parts of this story really happened.
John Beaumont: I'm a monster. My only pleasure is tormenting those people who work for me.
Charles Remington: We have an expression in prize fighting: "Everyone has a plan until they've been hit." Well my friend, you've just been hit. The getting up is up to you.
Helena Patterson: You build bridges, John. You have to go where the rivers are.
John Beaumont: I don't care about the thirty dead. I care about my knighthood.
John Patterson: Have you ever failed? Charles Remington: Only at life.