Alita: Battle Angel Best Quotes – ‘I think you are someone very special.’

Starring: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

Story:

Sci-fi action produced and co-written by James Cameron and directed and also co-written by Robert Rodriguez. The story is set several centuries in a dystopian future and follows the abandoned cyborg, Alita (Rosa Salazar), who is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. Everything is new to Alita, every experience a first.

As she learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson), offers instead to help trigger her memories. A growing affection develops between the two until deadly forces come after Alita and threaten her newfound relationships. It is then that Alita discovers she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the friends and family she’s grown to love. Determined to uncover the truth behind her origin, Alita sets out on a journey that will lead her to take on the injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that one young woman can change the world in which she lives.

Our Favorite Quote:

Best Quotes (Total Quotes: 35)

Alita: I don’t mean to be rude, but am I supposed to know you?

Dr. Dyson Ido: Actually, we haven’t met. I’m Dr. Dyson Ido. This is Nurse Gerhad.

Alita: Do you know who I am?

Dr. Dyson Ido: Well, we were hoping you’d fill in that part. Since you’re a total replacement cyborg, and most of your cyber body was destroyed. We can’t find any records, but your very human brain is miraculously intact. Theoretically you should remember something.

Alita: Oh, well, it’s still pretty blank. No, it’s completely blank, actually. I don’t even know my own name.

[Ido wipes the tear falling from her eye]

Dr. Dyson Ido: Let’s look at the bright side. Your tears are working.

Hugo: I got to admit, I never saw anybody challenged the Centurion before.

[he takes Alita’s hand and help her stand]

Hugo: You’re heavy. I mean…

[he looks at her hand]

Hugo: Oh, you’re a cyborg? Sorry, I was just admiring your hand. Can I see?

[Alita gives him her hand]

Hugo: Wow. It’s really nice work. Did Dr. Ido do it?

Alita: He built all of me. Except my core. That’s mine.

Hugo: Oh. He did a really great job.

Alita: Hey, where are those things?

Hugo: Centurions?

[Alita nods and Hugo laughs]

Hugo: What planet are you from?

Alita: Ido found me in the scrapyard.

Hugo: The scrapyard?

Alita: Mm-hmm.

Hugo: But that would mean…

[just then Ido joins them]

Hugo: Hi, Doc. I got those drive boards you were looking for.

Dr. Dyson Ido: Alita is new in here. She’s still learning about things.

[referring to Alita]

Chiren: Who is the girl?

Dr. Dyson Ido: My new assistant.

Chiren: I was surprised to see her in our daughter’s body. You were supposed to have destroyed that years ago.

Dr. Dyson Ido: I couldn’t.

Chiren: Clearly. And did you tell her who you built that body for?

Dr. Dyson Ido: Our daughter is dead, Chiren. You need to let it go.

Chiren: Oh, it’s obviously not me that’s clinging to something here.

[as Alita tries to sneak back home]

Dr. Dyson Ido: Didn’t I tell you to be home before dark?

Alita: What’s the big deal? I just lost track of time.

Dr. Dyson Ido: Don’t trust anyone. People do terrible things to each other here.

Alita: What happened to your arm?

Dr. Dyson Ido: Here. Eat this

[he places a plate of food on the table]

Alita: Are you okay?

Dr. Dyson Ido: You still need a proper nourishment for your brain.

Alita: Do you have any chocolate?

Hugo: It’s a harsh world. The strong prey on the weak down here. You got to stay focused on your dream.

Alita: What’s your dream?

Hugo: I’ll show you.

[showing Alita the wealthy sky city of Zalem]

Hugo: The tubes are just for cargo, not for the people. If I were as strong as you, I’d climb that tube to Zalem right now.

Alita: They don’t let anybody up there.

Hugo: No, that’s what they want you to think. You just got to know the right people. I happen to be connected.

Alita: Oh.

Hugo: You got to willing to do what it takes. Whatever it takes. Funny thing is you’ve seen it. You just can’t remember.

Alita: What do you mean?

Hugo: Doc found you in the scrapyard. All that stuff is dumped from Zalem. So you must be from up there.

Alita: I guess so.

Hugo: If you could just tell me what those eyes have seen.

Alita: I wish I could. I keep trying to remember, but it’s still a blank. I’m starting to feel like I wasn’t very important. Just an insignificant girl thrown out with the rest of the garbage.

Alita: You are a Hunter-Warrior.

[the factory door opens]

Dr. Dyson Ido: Stay here. Don’t kill anyone.

Alita: [to Ido] You know more about me than you’re saying. Whose body is this? Who am I?

[Ido shows Alita a photo of his daughter]

Alita: This was your daughter. You built this body for her.

Dr. Dyson Ido: Her name was Alita. She was really looking forward to waking up with legs that could run.

Alita: You built her a pair of fast legs.

Dr. Dyson Ido: She never got to use them. She was murdered.

Dr. Dyson Ido: Her mother, Chiren, couldn’t deal with Alita’s death. Maybe she just couldn’t deal with me. So I went hunting.

[referring to his daughter’s killer]

Dr. Dyson Ido: I needed to kill him. Maybe I was just hoping that he would kill me. It brought no peace. There were other demons like him out there, and I felt somehow I was responsible for all of them. So I registered as a Hunter-Warrior, there’s nothing noble about it.

Alita: Did you ever find peace?

Dr. Dyson Ido: I found you.

Alita: I’m not your daughter. I don’t know what I am.

Dr. Dyson Ido: I do.

Dr. Dyson Ido: Have a look at your original cyber core. This your brain. A normal, healthy teenage girl’s brain. If there is such a thing. But this is your heart. Heart of your original core. Powered by an anti-matter micro reactor.

Alita: So I’ve got a strong heart.

Dr. Dyson Ido: You have a heart strong enough to power all of Iron City for years. This is lost technology. Nobody’s made this stuff since before The Fall.

Alita: Yeah, right. So I’m three hundred years old?

Dr. Dyson Ido: Sweetheart, you are.

Alita: The woman in my memory, called me 99.

Dr. Dyson Ido: What you saw is a flash of your previous life.

Alita: Who was I?

Dr. Dyson Ido: In time you’ll remember.

Alita: I want to be a Hunter-Warrior like you.

Dr. Dyson Ido: Alita, that’s impossible.

Alita: We could be a team.

Dr. Dyson Ido: Alita, this is dangerous. It’s dirty work.

Alita: I know.

Dr. Dyson Ido: No, you don’t.

Alita: How is that your choice to make?

Dr. Dyson Ido: It’s out of a question.

Alita: I might need a life or death situation to remember who I was. Even if it’s just for a second.

Dr. Dyson Ido: Alita, some things are better left forgotten. I don’t want blood on these hands too.

Alita: Then I’ll find out for myself.

[she turns and runs off]

Dr. Dyson Ido: Alita!

[referring to Ido]

Alita: I’m just tired of it. He just wants me to be his perfect little girl.

Hugo: So are you going to live by his rules or yours?

Kinuba: Vector, you prick! I should’ve known.

Vector: What you should’ve known, my friend, is that no one is greater than the game.

[he lights up a flame gun and kills Kinuba]

Alita: What’s outside the city?

Hugo: Not much. The war wiped out all the utilities and most everything else.

Hugo: All we know is Sky City fell all in one night, when the enemy launched the last attack with every ship they had.

Alita: Who was the enemy?

Tanji: The URM.

Koyomi: United Republic of Mars. URM.

Alita: URM.

Hugo: On that last night of the war, there earth shook and the sky burned. And in the morning, Zalem stills stood.

[referring to the Berserker body]

Alita: This body, it has the power I need. I feel a connection to it. I can’t explain. This could be who I am.

Dr. Dyson Ido: You’ve been given a chance to start over, with a clean slate. How many of us get that chance?

Alita: Why did an enemy warship respond to me? Because I knew that ship! I’ve been on others like it, haven’t I? Haven’t I?

Dr. Dyson Ido: Whatever you were, is not who and you are now.

[Alita slams her fists on the metal table in anger]

Alita: No! I’m a warrior, aren’t I? And you know. You’ve always known.

Dr. Dyson Ido: This is called a Berserker. It’s a humanoid weapon system created by the URM Technarchy. Your core was designed to interface with this type of body. Your identity code activated it. The instinctive fighting technique you use is Panzer Kunst. A lost combat art for machine bodies, it was used by the Berserkers. This is why you’re drawn to conflict without hesitation. It’s part of your training. You are not just a warrior, Alita. You an URM Berserker. The most advanced cyborg weapon ever created. And that is exactly why I will never unite you with this body.

Alita: That’s fine. Fine.

[Alita turns and walks off]

[to the Hunter-Warriors]

Alita: I heard you were the heroes of Iron City. I am not impressed.

Hugo: What the hell are you doing?

Alita: I’m going to need you to stand way back.

[to the Hunter-Warriors]

Alita: I will take on anyone in this room. And if I win, you fight alongside me.

[an upgraded Grewishka storms into the Kansas Bar]

Grewishka: I’m only here for the girl.

Zapan: Well, she’s all yours.

Dr. Dyson Ido: What about the rest of you?

Master Clive Lee: There is no bounty on this guy, Doc. Not our problem.

[Alita walks towards Grewishka]

Alita: It’s alright, Ido.

[McTeague’s dog runs up to Grewishka and starts barking]

Grewishka: Aah. The only one with courage. So innocent.

[he kills the dog]

Grewishka: Iron City is no place for an innocent, little flea.

[Alita bends down and touches the blood on the ground from the dead dog and uses her finger to mark her face with it]

Alita: [in her mind] I do not stand by in the presence of evil.

[to Grewishka]

Alita: I do not stand by in the presence of evil.

[Grewishka attacks her]

[as Grewishka slices Alita’s body in half, she has a flashback memory]

Gelda: You have the soul of a survivor. They’ll never give up. Know what is hidden. Always ask what is it that you are not seeing.

Alita: Nova?

Gelda: He’s the dragon that must be slain.

[after Grewishka slices Alita’s body, he lifts her up by her hair]

Alita: What’s the matter? My little toy doesn’t want to play anymore? I’ll turn you into a living pendant to adorn my chest. And then I can hear your voice every moment of the day, bleeding for mercy!

[Alita manages to dislodge herself, then attacks him and blinds him in one eye with her one remaining arm]

Alita: Fuck your mercy!

[after Ido has transplanted Alita into the Berserker body]

Dr. Dyson Ido: Well, look at you.

[Alita does some gymnastic moves with her body]

Dr. Dyson Ido: Well, you were right. A warrior’s spirit needs a warrior’s body.

[her index fingers lights a flame]

Dr. Dyson Ido: It draws in air, generating an arc plasma. Um, you control it, I don’t know. Didn’t exactly come with the manual, did you? Some kind of weapon.

[Alita comes over to Ido, sits next to him and takes his hand]

Dr. Dyson Ido: Now you know who you are.

[Alita leans on his shoulder and Ido puts his arm around her]

Dr. Dyson Ido: But that’s just a shell. It’s not bad or good. That part’s up to you.

Alita: Does it bother you, that I’m not completely human?

Hugo: You are the most human person I have ever met.

Vector: She is the last of her kind. The finest weapon of the URM Technarchy. I need you to destroy this Alita. I need you to bring me her heart.

Grewishka: I live only for her death.

Vector: I like your drive, Hugo. You have a solid future with my team.

Hugo: My future is in Zalem. I remember your promise everyday, to send me up when I get you a million credits.

Vector: Personally, I’d rather rule in hell than serve in heaven. To be at the bottom of the food chain up there. But down here, we could live like kings. So tell me about this friend of yours.

Hugo: Alita.

Vector: Is that her name? Alita.

Alita: I was hoping maybe you’d want to stay.

Hugo: Hey. It’s not right away. I still got to raise the rest of the money first.

Alita: It’s okay. It’s your dream. I know it’s what you’ve always wanted.

Hugo: You know, I was always so sure. And you came along, nothing is clear anymore.

Alita: How much more do you need before you can go?

Hugo: Ninety K.

Alita: Ninety K? I can make that in bounties. I’ll just figure out who has the highest prices on their heads and then I’ll take them out.

Hugo: No, I can’t ask you to do that for me.

Alita: I’d do whatever I had to for you. I’d give you whatever I have.

Hugo: What are you doing?

[she takes out her heart and offers it to Hugo]

Alita: I’d give you my heart. Take it. It’s got an URM micro reactor for power supply probably worth millions. With your connection you can find a buyer. You can make enough for both of us to go to Zalem, and then we’ll just find a cheaper replacement.

Hugo: No!

Alita: Come on, you buy and sell parts all day long.

Hugo: Don’t just do things for people. No matter how good you think they are, or how deserving they are.

Alita: It’s all or nothing with me. This is who I am.

[he pushes her hand holding her heart back]

Hugo: I know. It’s okay. Put it back.

[Alita puts her heart back in her chest]

Alita: That was pretty intense, huh?

Hugo: Yeah, that was very intense.

Alita: [laughing] Sorry.

[to the Hunter-Warriors]

Vector: You are the scum of the game. But tonight you’re hand-picked scum, because tonight is not a game. It is a hunt. I’m paying five hundred thousand to the one who kills the girl called Alita.

Vector: You had her heart in your hands, and you let her live.

Chiren: I did.

Vector: Why?

Chiren: Because I’m a doctor. And I’m a mother. And somehow I forgot that. I can’t do this anymore. I’m out.

[Chiren turns to leave]

Vector: Chiren, wait. Don’t you think it’s time you went to Zalem? I mean I could send you up there right now.

Chiren: What I want isn’t up there.

[Chiren turns and leaves]

Vector: I’ve found the only way to enjoy immortality is to watch others die.

[Alita stabs him]

Alita: You’ve just lost a puppet.

[looking down at the stab wound in his chest]

Vector: Well.That looks fatal. No matter. The Vector was getting tiresome.

Alita: You’ve made the biggest mistake of your life.

Vector: What’s that?

Alita: Underestimating who I am.

Vector: Until next time. Remember, I see everything.

[Vector dies]

[Alita chases after Hugo, who is climbing a cargo tube towards Zalem]

Alita: You have to come down. We can’t stay up here.

Hugo: There’s a bounty on me. This is the only way.

Alita: No, this is dangerous! We have to get down now!

Hugo: If I go back down there, I’m dead!!

Alita: No, you have to listen to me, okay? I’ve been right here before. This is exactly where Nova wants you. He’s using you to get to me. Come on, we have to go back down.

Hugo: We belong up there, Alita.

Alita: We don’t belong anywhere, except together.

Hugo: But we’ll always be running.

[she holds out her hand towards Hugo]

Alita: Together. Come with me. Please.

Hugo: Okay.

[just then Nova releases a serrated defense ring and shreds Hugo’s body]

[Alita tries to save Hugo as his body slides down the tube]

Alita: Hold on! I got you! Okay. Okay. Don’t move. Don’t move. I’m going to lift you up slowly.

[as she tries to lift him, his arm starts to come apart; Alita starts crying]

Hugo: Thank you, for saving me.

Alita: I love you.

[Hugo’s arm shreds apart and he falls to his death]

Hugo: No!

Total Quotes: 35



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