Followers Quotes in The Omega Man (1971)

[At the deserted Dodger Stadium, Neville is tied up in an auto de fe and about to be burned at the stake]

Matthias: Here is evil.

Followers: Evil. Evil.

Matthias: Is this not the place where all the dead were burned?

Followers: Yes.

Matthias: [points to Neville] And this is the last of the dead! And what shall we do with him, my brethren?

Followers: Burn. Burn!

Matthias: Yes, burn. BURN!

Matthias: And, oh, brothers and sisters, I ask you to look at him. Does he have the marks? Do you see them?

Followers: No.

Matthias: You see him as we were before the punishment. Before we gained grace. You see lying there the last of scientists, of bankers, of businessmen. The users of the wheel.

Followers: Yes.

Matthias: Do we use the tools of the wheel as he does?

Followers: No.

Matthias: Is he of the Family?

Zachary, Followers: No.

Matthias: Is he of the sacred society?

Followers: No.

Matthias: Then what is he?

Followers: Evil!

Matthias: [stands up] He is part of the dead. He has no place here. He has the stink of oil, maletrical circitry about him. He is obsolete.

[Neville comes to]

Matthias: [points to him] You are discarded. You are the refuse of the past!

Robert Neville: You're full of crap.

Matthias: How hard it is to admit the truth. Take him to the little room... for the questioning.

Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!

Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.

Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!

Followers: He is! He is the Messiah!

Brian: Now, fuck off!

[silence]

Arthur: How shall we fuck off, O Lord?

Followers: If it's not a personal question, are you a virgin?