On the boat |
Jesse makes his call while Celine walks to the back of the boat. Eventually thay stand on the back of the boat, the wind blowing, as Notre Dame looms in the background.
Jesse: Notre Dame... check that out! I heard a story once that when the Germans were occupying Paris and they had to retreat back, they wired Notre Dame to blow up and they had to leave one guy in charge of hitting the switch. But the guy, the soldier, just waited, sitting there, and he couldn't do it! You know, he just sat there, knocked out by how beautiful the place was. And then, when the allied troops eventually came in, they found all the explosives and the switch just lying there. And they found the same thing at Saicre Coeur, the Eiffel Tower and two other places, I think. I always liked that story.