Hitchcock's Rope

Being a huge fan of mis-interpretation or re-interpretation, I am a fan of Hitchcock's Rope in which two fictional young men - inspired by the true Leopold and Loeb case - kill one of their aquantinces and hide his body in a truck. One things lead to another, and they're discovered by the very man who they thought would most agree with their motives, as they justified their actions with his philosophies.

Sadly, for them, this man (Rupert), does not agree with their logic and the following discussion ensues; which just goes to show it always pays to clarify second and third party intents.


Brandon: Rupert, remember the discussion we had before with Mr. Kently?
Rupert: Yes
Brandon: Remember we said, "the lives of inferior beings are unimportant"? Remember we said - we've always said, you and I - that moral concepts of good and evil and right and wrong ... don't hold for the intellecturally superior. Remember, Rupert?
Rupert: Yes, I remember.
Brandon: That's all we've done. That's all Phillip and I have done. He and I have lived what you and I have talked. I knew you'd understand because you have to, don't you see? You have to.
Rupert: Brandon - Brandon, till this very moment, this world and the people in it ... have always been dark and incomprehensible to me, and I've tried to clear my way with logic ... and superior intellect. And you've thrown my own words right back in my face, Brandon. You were right to. If nothing else, a man should stand by his words. But you've given my words a meaning that I never dreamed of! And you've tried to twist them ... into a cold, logical excuse for your ugly murder! Well, they never were that, Brandon, and you can't make them that. There must have been something deep inside you from the very start ... that let you do this thing, but there's always been something deep inside me that would never let me do it ... and would never let me be a part to it now.