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An accused president is cornered: "there's got to be a way around this," he pleads, offering money—only to be asked whether he can be bought. He admits he used the office, but insists, "I never did it for the money." What he wanted was the feeling of being what he was.
Can Russell P. Kramer Be Bought
❝ Monólogo · 5 frases What I Was
A former president accused in a payoff scandal is pressured to resign, and in a private room he is offered a deal and asked point-blank whether he can be bought. He admits he made use of the office but denies doing it for money, explaining that his books and appearances are only to keep from being forgotten.
The scene is a confession dressed up as an argument. The accusation is about money—"Are you honestly saying that Russell P. Kramer can be bought?"—but the real subject is ego and erasure. The defense is oddly candid: he did use the office, he just did not do it for cash. His reason is the film's most human note, "I never did it for the money," followed by the admission that books and appearances exist so people "don't forget me" and he can taste "what I was." It is vanity, but it is also the specific fear of a man who used to be somebody and now has to say so out loud. The scene turns a corruption charge into a study of what power leaves behind.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“Are you honestly saying that Russell P. Kramer can be bought?”
He answers a bribe by naming himself in full, turning insult into indictment.
Formal
“Two, I never did it for the money.”
A numbered reason hides a confession that the real hunger was never money.
Neutral
“those are things I do so the people will know I'm still here, so they don't forget me...”
A public man admitting he acts out of fear of being forgotten.
Neutral
“but how is that any different from what you are doing, Russ?”
A sharp counter-question that turns an accusation right back on the accuser.
Informal
My books, my personal appearances, those are things I do so the people will know I'm still here, so they don't forget me... And so I can get just a little taste of... What it's like to be... What I was.
He is accused in the kickback scandal involving Haney and Olympia, and he is told the death of Reynolds and the helicopter crash are tied to it, though he denies knowing about them.
He admits he used the office and made money from it, but insists that he never did anything illegal and never acted for the money.
He says they let people know he is still here and stop them from forgetting him, so he can feel what it was like to be what he once was.
A Secret Service officer introduced by Agent Kopeck as the man who stopped Colonel Tanner and saved the presidents' lives.
It is a joke: asked where they met before, Fleming answers with the song title, meaning a dreamy, impossible place rather than a real location.
