Wanted (2008)

Morgan Freeman: Sloan

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• [last lines] 

  Wesley : [voice-over]  Six weeks ago, I was ordinary and pathetic. Just like you. Who am I now? Account manager? Assassin? Or just another tool that was mind-fucked into killing his father? I'm all of these, and I am none of these. Who am I now?

  [Wesley is shown to have apparently returned to his old job. He Googles his name, which returns no results] 

  Wesley : This is not me fulfilling my destiny. This is not me following in my father's footsteps. This is definitely not me saving the world.

  [Sloan trains a gun to his head] 

  Sloan : Still trying to figure out who you are?

  Wesley : This... is not me.

  [the man turns around; he isn't Wesley] 

  Wesley : This is just a motherfucking decoy.

  [the decoy's eyes dart downwards, and Sloan realizes that he's standing on an "X" mark on the ground made from post-it notes] 

  Sloan : Aw, fuck.

  [Sloan is suddenly killed by a headshot. The bullet's trajectory is shown in reverse, showing that it first passed through Barry's energy drink as he walks with Cathy, the hole in a donut Janice is eating, and several car windows before hitting him. The shooter is revealed to be Wesley, who fired the shot from a rifle in his father's house - miles away from Sloan's position] 

  Wesley : This is me taking control... from Sloan, from the Fraternity, from Janice, from billing reports, from ergonomic keyboards, from cheating girlfriends and sack-a'-shit best friends. This is me taking back control of my life!

  [addressing audience] 

  Wesley : What the fuck have you done lately?

• Sloan : Insanity is wasting your life as a nothing when you have the blood of a killer flowing in your veins. Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

• Sloan : It a choice, Wesley, that each of us must face: to remain ordinary, pathetic, beat-down, coasting through a miserable existence, like sheep herded by fate - or you can take control of your own destiny and join us, releasing the caged wolf you have inside. Our purpose is to maintain stability in an unstable world - kill one, save a thousand. Within the fabric of this world, every life hangs by a thread. We are that thread - a fraternity of assassins with the weapons of fate. This is the decision that lies before you now: the sheep, or the wolf. The choice is yours.

• Sloan : Otherwise, shoot *this* motherfucker and let us take our Fraternity of assassins to heights reserved only for the gods of men! You choose.

• Sloan : Welcome... to the Fraternity. This gun you're holding belonged to your father; he could conduct a symphony orchestra with it.

• Fox : I want you to curve the bullet.

  Wesley : How am I supposed to do that?

  Sloan : [walking in]  It's not a question of how. It's a question of what. If no one told you that bullets flew straight, and I gave you a gun and told you to hit the target, what would you do? Let your instincts guide you.

• Sloan : We can redistribute power were we see fit. The wolves rule. Not a sheep. Now if any of you feel the need to follow the code of The Fraternity to the letter. I invite you to take your gun, put it in your mouth, and pull the trigger. That is what Wesley demands. Otherwise, shoot this motherfucker. and let us take our fraternity to the heights reserved only for the gods of men. You choose.

• Wesley : You want me to kill Robert Dean Darden?

  Sloan : Not me. Fate.

• Sloan : [handing Wesley a gun]  Shoot the wings off the flies.

  Wesley : [nervous]  I don't... I don't know what that means.

  Sloan : [slowly]  Shoot the wings off the flies.

  Wesley : I really think you have me mixed up with somebody else.

  Gunsmith : [holding a gun to the back of Wesley's head]  On three, either you shoot or I do.

• Sloan : For the first time if your life, Wesley, you're in control.

• Sloan : You're like an apostle. Your task is not to interpret, but to deliver.