He Was A Quiet Man Page #7

Synopsis: A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?
Director(s): Frank A. Cappello
Production: Mitropoulos
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
NOT RATED
Year:
2007
95 min
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No. No, no, no.

No!

Let me through!

Let me through!

[plane landing]

[panting]

Mr. Shelby?

Hello, Bob.

What's going on?

Why is he here?

Well--

I just came--

I didn't ask you!

I think you better go.

Are you sure?

Yeah.

I, uh-- I'll see you

tomorrow, Bob.

Right?

I didn't know that he

was coming over.

The nurse let him in

before I could stop her.

He's never come

over here before.

Why here? Why now?

He wanted to talk.

About what? About your

miraculous recovery?

Or how-- how he wants

to ask you back into his life.

Don't do this.

Don't do what?

Don't turn this into

something it's not.

Don't tell me

how to feel!

He came over here because

he was worried about you.

He said that you two

had words earlier

and that you

left very upset.

Did he tell you

why I was upset?

How he wanted me to buy you

a present from him? Huh?

I bet he didn't tell you

a thing about that, did he?

Yeah, he did.

He also told me that

you harassed Paula

and that you choked

Harper in the elevator.

That's 'cause they

disrespected you.

My God! What is so wrong?

I'm not the one

who has the problem!

I don't need any help!

I--

[panting]

Do I?

Bob, everybody needs

help sometimes.

There's nothing

wrong with that.

Look at me.

Without you, I'd either

be hopeless or dead.

That's because you

need me right now.

What happens if you

start to get better?

If you could feed yourself,

clothe yourself,

take better

care of yourself--

What're you gonna

do with me then, huh?

Bob, please stop it.

What're gonna

do with me then?

You're gonna throw me away.

That's it.

No, I'm not.

Listen to me.

Yes, you are!

Yes, you are!

Sit down.

Come here.

Sit down.

Come here.

No!

I'm not coming

over there!

Bob. Sit down.

Come here

and sit down, now.

Jesus.

Listen to me.

I didn't just find you

in this tragedy.

I found myself.

And I can tell you

with all honesty

that it doesn't matter

if I never walk again

or I can f***ing fly.

It's your heart

and your soul that

I desperately need,

and I'll always need.

So you have a problem?

So what?

I'm gonna help you

get through this.

You just need the courage

to do the right thing.

What is the right thing?

To do what's in your heart.

And you need the courage

to face that.

It's easier to find

when I'm with you.

And if you feel

it's slipping away,

just look into my eyes...

and it'll be right there.

Do you love me?

Bob...

that's such a foreign word

to me, you know that.

It doesn't mean

that I won't,

I just-- I have to be

sure before I say it.

[plane landing]

It doesn't matter.

Yes, it matters.

It does matter, Bob!

Please. Don't go.

Stay with me

tonight, please.

Please.

Why?

Because I'm afraid if you

leave feeling this way...

you won't find

your way back.

[soft moan]

What-- what?

[Bob]

So, she couldn't say it.

So what?

It'll come.

It'll happen.

I just have to be patient.

'Cause in the end,

it's all about timing.

[groans]

The b*tch lied.

[yells]

Excuse me, sir!

Where's Shelby?

He's not up here.

He's downstairs.

Maconel!

Maconel.

Dammit, I told that

drone not to leave.

You know where

Maconel went?

[office chatter]

[Woman]

You see that?

[Man]

Yeah.

He's got a gun!

[siren]

You're the one, Bob.

You're the one that needs help.

[Bob]

You may ask why

I did what I did.

But what choice

did you give me?

How else could

I get your attention?

All I wanted was to

exist in your world.

Just one person

who took time

to actually see me,

who helped me...

find...

a way out.

[gunshot]

There comes a time

when the diseased

and the weak

must be sacrificed

in order to save the herd.

He seemed like a nice guy.

He was a quiet man.

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