# Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine is a 2013 film about a rich Manhattan socialite who falls into poverty and homelessness.
    Directed and written by Woody Allen.

## Jasmine Francis

* Who do you have to sleep with around here to get a Stoli martini with a twist of lemon?
* [on Chili] He's another version of Augie, he's a loser.
* [Ginger tells Jasmine that Eddie knows a dentist looking for help] Oh, forget it! Jesus, it's too menial! I'd go nuts. I wanna go back to school, get my degree and become...you know...Something substantial. I can't just do some mindless job. I was forced to take a job selling shoes on Madison Avenue. So humiliating. Friends I'd had at dinner parties at our apartment came in and I waited on them. I mean, do you have any idea what that's like? You know, one minute you're hosting women and the next, you're measuring their shoe size and fitting them. [emotionally intense] Erica Bishop came into the store. She saw me and was so embarrassed for me, she slipped out thinking I didn't see her. [shouts] I saw you, Erica!
* [mumbling to herself] It's fraught with peril. They gossip, you know, they talk. I saw Danny. Yes, did I tell you? He's getting married. A weekend in Palm Beach means I can wear... what could I wear? I can wear the Dior dress I bought in Paris. Yes, my black dress. Well, Hal always used to surprise me with jewelry. Extravagant pieces. I think he used to buy them at auction. It's so obvious what you're doing. You think I don't know. French au pair. ["Blue Moon" begins playing] This was playing on the Vineyard. "Blue Moon". I used to know the words. I used to know the words. Now they're all a jumble.

## Ginger

* He was a handsome guy with money. He was a smooth talker and pampered her. What's she gonna say? No?

## Other

* Augie: Some people, they don't put things behind so easily.

## Dialogue

    Jasmine: The flight was bumpy, the food was awful. I mean, you'd think, first class...
    Ginger: I thought you said you were broke.
    Jasmine: [pause] Well, yes. I'm tapped out. Really, I mean the government took everything.
    Ginger: [pause] Well, you look great.
    Jasmine: Oh, now who's lying!
    Chili: Well how long you planning on staying with Ginger?
    Jasmine: No one wants to get out of here as fast as I do.
    Chili: [offended] I'm sure. This is a big comedown from what you're used to.
    Chili: Ginger said you had a nervous breakdown.
    Jasmine: Well, she tends to be quite dramatic.
    Chili: Said you were in the street, talking to yourself.
    Jasmine: You know, I don't think that this is any of your business.
    Chili: No, but since I'm marrying her, we don't have any secrets between us.
    [Hal buys Jasmine a palatial house]
    Hal: So what do you think?
    Jasmine: I love it! You shouldn't spoil me so.
    Hal: Well why not? Who else am I going to spoil?
    Augie: When your sister had all that money, she wanted nothing to do with you. Now that she's broke all of a sudden she's moving in.
    Ginger: She's not just broke. She's all screwed up.
    Ginger: You think Al is a step up from Chili?
    Jasmine: Anybody is a step up from Chili.
    Dr. Flicker: Have you ever gotten high on nitrous oxide?
    Jasmine: No.
    Dr. Flicker: It would remove your inhibitions.
    Jasmine: I don't really have any inhibitions.
    Matthew: Mom said you started screaming in the street.
    Jasmine: Anxiety, nightmares and a nervous breakdown, there's only so many traumas a person can withstand until they take to the streets and start screaming.
    Chili: She doesn’t care about you! She’s a phony!
    Jasmine: Can you please not fight in here? I don’t think I can take it. For some reason my Xanax isn’t kicking in.
    [Dwight kisses Jasmine]
    Jasmine: Oh! That's... sudden.
    Dwight: What's your reaction?
    Jasmine: My reaction is you can do it again if you want.
    [Dwight has just learnt that Jasmine lied to him about her past]
    Dwight: Of course we can't get married! You lied to me!
    Jasmine: Oh no!
    Dwight: Up and down the line!
    Jasmine: No, no, no! I wanted to tell you the truth! I just didn't wanna ruin everything!
    Dwight: What?! Are you delusional?! Didn't you think I'd eventually find out?! What were you thinking?!
    Jasmine: I don't know what I was thinking! I don't know! That everything happened in the past! You and I loved each other and get married--
    Dwight: And what?! And what?! That it would just vanish?! Didn't you think that I would find out, if not today, or immediately eventually? Like after we were married? Or is that what you wanted? That you'd wait until it was too late?!
    Jasmine: [bitterly] Too late for what?! For your future plans where you needed the appropriate wife?!
    Dwight: I'm not saying that it would've been an issue, but that you could stand by and deceive me until I married you!
    Jasmine: [bitterly] Oh, no, no, no, you mean till I trapped you, is what you mean.
    Dwight: Your ethical behavior is equal to your ex-husband.
    Jasmine: I wasn't deceiving you when I said I loved you.
    Dwight: God, I found out by chance! It was just by sheer chance!
    Jasmine: Okay, if it's over, it's over. I get it. You're not marrying me. I brought everything on myself. I've only got myself to blame. I did it to myself, as usual. As usual. [begins mumbling to herself] You and your stupid little French whore.
    Dwight: [confused] I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm taking you home.
    Jasmine: Let me out of the car. Let me out of the car.
    Dwight: Don't be ridiculous.
    Jasmine: Can you just - can you just please let me out of the car.
    Dwight: But how are you gonna get home?
    Jasmine: I'm not going home. Can you let me out of the car. Let me out of the car!
    [Jasmine finds her estranged stepson Danny working in a music store, where he reveals that he found out about her calling the FBI on Hal]
    Danny: As disillusioned as I was with him, I hated you more.
    Jasmine: The moment I did what I did, I regretted it.
    Danny: I don't wanna discuss it. It's past. It's over. You can't take back that phone call.
    Jasmine: I need you, Danny.
    Danny: I don't wanna see you, Jasmine. I want the past past. I've become a different person, thanks to my wife. I'm off drugs. Just please, don't spoil everything. Just get out of my life so I can move on.
    [Jasmine returns to the apartment to find that Ginger and Chili are back together]
    Jasmine: Oh, for Christ sake! What's wrong with your self-esteem?! There's a world of men out there who never think about ripping the phone out of the wall!
    Ginger: Hey, leave him alone. You're always picking on him.
    Jasmine: No, you choose losers, okay? Because that's what you think you deserve. And that's why your living like this and that's why you'll never have a better life.
    Ginger: [tearfully] I'm.. I'm living... I'm living like this! Because you married the biggest loser of all! And went your own sweet way! While he pissed away my one big chance to make a better life!

## Cast

* Cate Blanchett - Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis
* Alec Baldwin - Hal Francis, Jasmine's ex-husband
* Sally Hawkins - Ginger, Jasmine's sister
* Bobby Cannavale - Chili, Ginger's fiancé
* Louis C.K. - Al, Ginger's lover
* Andrew Dice Clay - Augie, Ginger's ex-husband
* Peter Sarsgaard - Dwight Westlake, Jasmine's fiancé
* Michael Stuhlbarg - Dr. Flicker, Jasmine's boss
* Tammy Blanchard - Jane, a friend of Jasmine's
* Max Casella - Eddie, Chili's friend
* Alden Ehrenreich - Danny Francis, Jasmine's stepson
* Barbara Garrick - Diane, a friend of Jasmine's
* Emily Bergl - Hal & Jasmine's friend

## External links

* Blue Jasmine quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Blue Jasmine at Rotten Tomatoes
* The official Blue Jasmine site