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(14,918 posts)in the closing scene of Carnal Knowledge.
http://www.filmsite.org/bestspeeches25.html
Screenwriter: Jules Knowledge (1971)
Screenwriter(s): Jules Feiffer
"It's Up, in the Air!"
Play clip (excerpt): Carnal Knowledge
The reassuring speech of paid prostitute Louise (Rita Moreno in a cameo) to massage dysfunctionally-impotent Jonathan's (Jack Nicholson) ego (and more) in the film's final scene. Obsessively, he had her recite a carefully-worded script while kneeling between his legs. (he yelled at her - "God-damn it! You're doing it all wrong" - when she deviated). After accepting payment of $100, and as he reclined back on a couch, she reassured him as she stroked his thighs: "I don't think we're gonna have any trouble tonight." She called him "a real man, a kind man" and then went on:
A real man, a kind man...I don't mean weak kind the way so many men are. I mean the kindness that comes from enormous strength, from an inner power so strong that every act, no matter what, is more proof of that power. That's what all women resent. That's why they try to cut ya down, because your knowledge of yourself and them is so right, so true, that it exposes the lies which they, every scheming one of them, live by. It takes a true woman to understand that the purest form of love is to love a man who denies himself to her - a man who inspires worship, because he has no need for any woman, because he has himself. And who is better, more beautiful, more powerful, more perfect... you're getting hard... more strong, more masculine, extraordinary, more... bust. It's rising, it's rising... more virile, domineering, more irresistible. It's up - in the air...