Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black is a 1998 American romantic fantasy drama film directed and produced by Martin Brest, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani. Celebrating his 65th birthday, businessman and devoted family man Bill Parrish is visited by Death, who wants to know what it's like to be human in return for giving Bill extra days of his life. The screenplay was written by Bo Goldman, Kevin Wade, Ron Osborn, and Jeff Reno, and is loosely based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday, an adaptation of the 1924 Italian play La morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella.
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Show him into the library. Tell him I'll be right there. Yes, sir. I've arranged favors, silver charm bracelets for the women, - Mmm. - And platinum key chains for the men, all engraved "W.P." But now I'm thinking of scrubbing them. They seem so ordinary. Are they ordinary? Do they seem that way to you, Daddy?
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Hello? Anyone here? - I said, is anyone here? - Quiet down. - Where are you? - I'm here. What is this, a joke, right? Some kind of elaborate practical joke? At my 40th reunion, we delivered a casket... to the class president's hotel room and, uh... Quiet. Where are you going, Bill? I, uh... The great Bill Parrish at a loss for words? The man from whose lips fall "rapture" and "passion" and "obsession"? All those admonitions about being " deliriously happy, that there is no sense living your life without. " All the sparks and energy you give off, the rosy advice you dispense in round, pear-shaped tones. What the hell is this? Who are you? Just think of millenniums multiplied by eons... compounded by time without end. I've been around that long. But it's only recently that your affairs here have piqued my interest. Call it boredom. The natural curiosity of me, the most lasting... and significant element in existence, has come to see you. About what? I want to have a look around before I take you. Take me where? It requires competence, wisdom and experience. All those things they say about you in testimonials. And you're the one. - The one to do what? - Show me around, be my guide. And in return, you get...
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Yes. "Yes" what? Yes is the answer to your question. - What question? - Oh, Bill. Come on. The question. The question you've been asking yourself with increased regularity, at odd moments, panting through the extra game of handball, when you ran for the plane in Delhi, when you sat up in bed last night and hit the floor in the office this morning. The question that is in the back of your throat, choking the blood to your brain, ringing in your ears over and over as you put it to yourself. - "The question. " - Yes, Bill. "The question. " The question. Am I going to die? Yes.
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