My favorite scene in a Man For All Seasons, “William Roper urges More, when he is chancellor, to arrest a man who is a threat to More but who has committed no crimes. When More refuses, Roper can’t believe it: “You’d give the devil benefit of law!” “Yes,” More replies, “What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the devil?” Roper: “Yes! I’d cut down every law in England to do that!” More: “Oh? And when the last law was down and the devil turned round on you where would you hide, the laws all being flat? …Yes, I’d give the devil benefit of law for my own safety’s sake.”
The price system …
Tom Hanks in the Terminal learns how to make a living trapped inside an airport terminal. You know what happens next.
