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Peach...I could eat a peach for hours
— Face/Off · 1997
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
On the jet it is pure Castor: a villain's idle, smirking appetite. In the surgery it turns into a nonsense test phrase, and the film's best joke is that Travolta must say it in the voice of the man he hates. Fans quote it as a bit of Nicolas Cage and John Travolta swapping personas, usually with a purr on the word peach, and it stands for the movie's gleeful, over-the-top silliness.
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In context
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Face/Off (1997, directed by John Woo) uses the phrase twice. First it is Castor Troy's own habit: aboard his private jet, bored and flirting, he asks a flight attendant for a peach and says he could eat one for hours. Later, after FBI agent Sean Archer has surgically taken Castor's face, a surgeon implants a chip in his larynx so he sounds like Castor too, and has him repeat "Peach" and the sentence over and over to calibrate it. The line is how the film tests that the voice is perfect.
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- Face/Off transcript, Springfield! Springfield!Jet scene and surgery sceneReference checked
- Wikipedia: Face/OffPlot sectionReference checked
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