Goya's Ghosts (2006)
José Luis Gómez: Tomás Bilbatúa
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Quotes
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Tomás Bilbatúa : Forgive me, Father Lorenzo, but um, have you ever been put to the... to the Question, yourself?
Brother Lorenzo : Have I ever been?
Tomás Bilbatúa : Yes. Have you ever been subjected to the Question?
Brother Lorenzo : Of course not.
Tomás Bilbatúa : Do you think that if you were, and they asked you to confess something grotesquely absurd... say... say you were told to confess that you're really a monkey.
[laughter around the table]
Tomás Bilbatúa : You're sure that god would grant you the fortitude to deny it? Or would you rather confess to being a monkey? To avoid the pain.
Goya : I know I would.
Tomás Bilbatúa : I know you would. So would I.
Tomás Bilbatúa : [to Lorenzo] Would you?
Goya : What is this Tomás, are you playing some sort of silly game with you guest? Nobody would ever ask Father Lorenzo to confess something so absurd.
Tomás Bilbatúa : I would.
[leaves the table]
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Tomás Bilbatúa : [reading from a freshly prepared document] I, Lorenzo Casamares, hereby confess, that contrary to my human appearance, I am in fact, the bastard son of a chimpanzee and an orangutan, and I have schemed to join the church, in order to do harm to the holy office.
Tomás Bilbatúa : [places the parchment and quill in front of Lorenzo, then sits down] Sign it.
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Tomás Bilbatúa : [worried father, to his young daughter] You have received a summons from the Holy Office.
[she sits down]
Tomás Bilbatúa : Do you have any idea what it might be about?
Inés : No...
Tomás Bilbatúa : Where did you go with your brothers last night?
Inés : The tavern.
[shakes her head]
Tomás Bilbatúa : Think. Did you say something sacrilegious?
Inés : [shakes her head] No.
Tomás Bilbatúa : [to his two sons] Was there an incident or something they could hold against her?
Álvaro Bilbatúa : She kissed the feet of a dwarf.
[Inés sticks her tongue out at him]
Tomás Bilbatúa : [to his daughter] You did?
Álvaro Bilbatúa : She did.
[his mother scoffs]
Inés : Everyone did.
Ángel Bilbatúa : You know... they can summon her just to... testify against someone else.
María Isabel Bilbatúa : [hoarsely] Someone else?
Inés : Is there someone you know they might be interested in?
Inés : I don't know.
[shakes her head]
Inés : No.
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Goya : You're crazy.
Tomás Bilbatúa : Francisco, please, stay out of this.
Goya : Let us go.
Tomás Bilbatúa : You can go.
Goya : What do you mean I can go? And Father Lorenzo?
Tomás Bilbatúa : Did he let my daughter go?
[to Lorenzo:]
Tomás Bilbatúa : Did you let my innocent daughter go?
[to Francisco:]
Tomás Bilbatúa : Did he?