:35:01
- But we'd all be murdering each other.
- Oh no. Oh no.
:35:05
After all, murder is, or should be, an art.
:35:10
Not one of the seven lively, perhaps,
but an art, nevertheless.
:35:13
As such, the privilege of
committing it should be reserved
:35:17
for those few who
are really superior individuals.
:35:21
And the victims - inferior beings
whose lives are unimportant anyway.
:35:25
(Rupert) Obviously.
:35:26
Now mind you,
l don't hold with the extremists
:35:28
who feel there should be open season
for murder all year round.
:35:31
No, personally, I would prefer to have...
:35:35
''Cut a Throat Week.''
:35:37
Or ''Strangulation Day.''
:35:41
Probably a symptom
of approaching senility,
:35:43
but I must confess I really don't
appreciate this morbid humour.
:35:47
- The humour was unintentional.
- You're not serious about these theories.
:35:51
(Brandon) - Of course he is.
- You're both pulling my leg.
:35:53
No. Why do you think that?
:35:54
The notion that murder is an art
which superior beings should practice -
:35:59
(Rupert) ln season!
:36:01
- Now I know you're not serious.
(Rupert) - l'm a very serious fellow.
:36:05
Then may I ask who is to decide
if a human being is inferior,
:36:09
and is therefore
a suitable victim for murder?
:36:11
- The privileged few who commit it.
- And just who might they be?
:36:15
Oh, myself, Phillip...
:36:19
possibly Rupert.
:36:21
(Rupert) l'm sorry, Kenneth, you're out.
:36:23
- Gentlemen, I'm serious.
- And so are we, Mr Kentley.
:36:26
The few are those men of such
intellectual and cultural superiority
:36:29
that they're above
the traditional moral concepts.
:36:33
Good and evil, right and wrong were
invented for the ordinary average man,
:36:36
the inferior man, because he needs them.
:36:38
So you agree with Nietzsche
and his theory of the superman.
:36:40
- Yes, I do.
- So did Hitler.
:36:42
Hitler was a paranoid savage.
:36:44
His supermen, all fascist supermen
were brainless murderers.
:36:47
I'd hang any who were left.
:36:48
But then, you see,
I'd hang them first for being stupid.
:36:52
I'd hang all incompetents and fools.
There are far too many in the world.
:36:56
Then hang me. I must be stupid, because
I don't know if you're serious or not.