Cannibal Holocaust Quotes
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
[first lines]
Reporter: Man is omnipotent; nothing is impossible for him. What seemed like unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today. The conquest of the moon for example: who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing cannibalism.
Reporter: Man is omnipotent; nothing is impossible for him. What seemed like unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today. The conquest of the moon for example: who talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing cannibalism.
Female TV Executive: Today people want sensationalism; the more you rape their senses the happier they are.
Professor Harold Monroe: Ah, yes, that's typical western thought. Civilised isn't it? That's what Alan thought and that's why he's dead. The Yacumo Indian is a primitive and he has to be respected as such. You know, did you ever think of the Yacumo point of view? That we might be the savages?
Professor Harold Monroe: Ah, yes, that's typical western thought. Civilised isn't it? That's what Alan thought and that's why he's dead. The Yacumo Indian is a primitive and he has to be respected as such. You know, did you ever think of the Yacumo point of view? That we might be the savages?
[the group come across the impaled girl. Close-up of Alan smiling at the scene while Faye glares at him]
Mark Tomasso: [off camera] Watch it, Alan, I'm shooting.
Alan Yates: [feigns shock] Oh, good Lord! It's unbelievable. It's... it's horrible. I can't understand the reason for such cruelty. It must have something to do with some obscure sexual rite or with the almost profound respect these primitives have for virginity.
Mark Tomasso: [off camera] Watch it, Alan, I'm shooting.
Alan Yates: [feigns shock] Oh, good Lord! It's unbelievable. It's... it's horrible. I can't understand the reason for such cruelty. It must have something to do with some obscure sexual rite or with the almost profound respect these primitives have for virginity.
Alan Yates: [Faye, Alan's fiance, is being carried away by the Yanomanos] Faye! Faye!
Mark Tomasso: [Simultaneously screaming at each other] Did you see it, Alan? She's had it! We gotta think of ourselves!
Alan Yates: No! We gotta get her outta there! I want to save her!
Mark Tomasso: We gotta get the film back home, Alan!
Alan Yates: I wanna save her!
Mark Tomasso: Think of the film, Alan, think of the film!
Alan Yates: I don't give a shit about it!
[cuts away]
Mark Tomasso: [Simultaneously screaming at each other] Did you see it, Alan? She's had it! We gotta think of ourselves!
Alan Yates: No! We gotta get her outta there! I want to save her!
Mark Tomasso: We gotta get the film back home, Alan!
Alan Yates: I wanna save her!
Mark Tomasso: Think of the film, Alan, think of the film!
Alan Yates: I don't give a shit about it!
[cuts away]
Chaco Losojos: They just want to show us they are brave warriors. And they want us to follow them to the village.
Professor Harold Monroe: Follow them?
Chaco Losojos: Yeah, to return the prisoner, and to talk.
Professor Harold Monroe: Hey listen, I-I don't know about this. I think they want us for dinner tonight.
Professor Harold Monroe: Follow them?
Chaco Losojos: Yeah, to return the prisoner, and to talk.
Professor Harold Monroe: Hey listen, I-I don't know about this. I think they want us for dinner tonight.
Professor Harold Monroe: [voice over] We weren't able to get anything out of the Yanomamo except for the wristwatch they gave us as a token of their gratitude to an ally, an ally they continue to fear and mistrust, so I've decided to try an experiment in psychology: to strip myself completely, clothes, weapons, dog tags, rings, everything, to become like them, naked and unfettered as Adam.
