There's an exchange in the movie that I've known about for a long time, and it's the reason I **hate** this movie, unreasonably perhaps, because I haven't seen the movie and therefore I'm unfairly gauging a scene from a film by an inadequate substitute, a snippet of conversation from the film. Just the text, no context, no actors' interpretations going on.
The context is that the dad played by Joe Mantegna is irritated by Pandolfini's interest in his son, and that leads to this:
> Bruce: You have no idea what I want. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art. I spent my life trying to play like him. Most of these guys have. But we're like forgers. We're competent fakes. His successor wasn't here tonight. He wasn't here. He is asleep in his room in your house. Your son creates like Fischer. He sees like him, inside.
> Fred: You can tell this by watching him play some drunks in the park?
> Bruce: Yes. You want to know what I want. I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
What is this crap? You're saying this about BOBBY FUCKING FISCHER??
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