I'm trying to find the exact quotation when Swann is talking with Benjy in the hallway as the show is starting. It's the line from Swann that triggers Benjy to say, "Life size? I need Alan Swann's as big as I can get them!" Or something to that effect. What is Swann's speech about him being life-size, flesh and blood?
shareBENJY: Alan Swann, afraid? The Defender of the Crown, Captain from Tortuga, the Last Knight of the Round Table?
SWANN: Those are movies, damn you! Look at me! I’m flesh and blood, life size, no larger, I’m not those silly, god damned heroes, I never was!
BENJY: To me you were! Whoever you were in those movies, those silly, god damned heroes meant a lot to me! What does it matter if it was an illusion? It worked! So don’t tell me this is you life size. I can’t use you life size. I need Alan Swann's as big as I can get them. And let me tell you something. You couldn’t have convinced me the way you did unless somewhere in you, you had that courage. Nobody’s that good an actor. You are that silly, god damned hero!
That was a great scene...Linn-Baker really held his own against the great Peter O' Toole in this film.
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