Arizona Dream Page #10

Synopsis: An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director(s): Emir Kusturica
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
1993
142 min
884 Views


fake artists? That's my day!

So good!

Godfather!

...big deal together, and that there was

something in it for me, if I could help him out.

He said that... He said that you were

being tough on the negotiations...

...but if they could get a little

help and close the deal fast...

- ...it... it'd be good for the family.

- Do you believe that, son?

- Do you believe that?

- He said there was something in it for me!

- On my own!

- I've always taken care of you.

Taken care of me?

You're my kid brother!

You take care of me?

You ever think about that?

You ever once think about that?

Set Freddo off to do this!

Set Freddo on to do that!

Let Freddo take care of some

Mickey Mouse night club somewhere.

Send Freddo

to pick up somebody at the airport!

I'm your older brother, Mike,

and I was stepped over!

- That's the way Pop wanted it.

- It ain't the way I wanted it!

I can handle things.

I'm smart!

Not like everybody says,

I'm smart and I want respect!

Is there anything you can

tell me about this investigation?

Any more?

The Senate lawyer quest that.

He belongs to Wroth.

Freddo.

You're nothing to me now.

You're not a brother,

you're not a friend.

I don't wanna know you,

or what you do.

I don't want to see you in hotels,

I don't want you near my house.

When you see our mother...

...I wanna know a day in advance,

so I won't be there.

Understand?

- Mikey!

- Mikey!

I don't want anything to happen to you,

not while our mother is alive.

Grace!

Grace!

- Grace!

- No!

- Grace!

- No!

Grace!

Grace!

Grace...

...go home.

Grace?

Grace! No! Grace!

- Grace!

- Grace!

Grace!

You promised!

For the last time, I heard a voice

that wasn't my mother's...

...whispering,

"Good morning, Columbus."

And it didn't bother me.

And finally...

...the voice became lower and turned into a wind

that sent the peaceful smell of cheap cologne.

And for the first time in my life...

...I realized, like Columbus, I had

to live in a world of cheap cologne.

And I wasn't sure any discovery

in America was possible anymore.

Smoothing roads and counting fish

wasn't science...

...but somehow

it prepared me for the ocean.

I don't know why, but... my father's

words jumped back into my head.

You know that work was like

a hat that you put on your head...

...and even if you didn't have pants, you didn't have

to walk down the street being ashamed of your ass...

...because you had a hat.

And even though my uncle Leo

worked for everything he got...

...I'm not sure he got

anything he needed.

Elaine and Grace were really one person

who were too big to share life in one body...

...no matter how much they loved

or hated each other.

After the storm,

I couldn't say life was beautiful...

...but all I kept hoping for

was the Eskimo boy in my dream...

...to run out of one of

these doors and hug me.

Even though I no longer

felt like a fish...

...and realized I knew nothing...

...I was happy to be alive.

Correction & Arrangement:

BANQUO:

A howling wind is whistling

in the night...

My dog is growling in the dark...

Something's pulling me

outside...

To ride around in circles...

I know you have

got the time...

Coz anything I want, you do...

You'll take a ride

through the strangers...

Who don't understand

how to feel...

In the deathcar, we're alive...

In the deathcar...

We're alive...

I'll let some air come

in the window...

Kind of wakes me up a little...

I don't turn on the radio...

Coz they play sh*t, like...

You know...

When your hand was

down on my dick...

It felt quite amazing...

And now that,

that is all over...

All we've got is the silence...

In the deathcar, we're alive...

In the deathcar...

We're alive...

Come on mandolins, play...

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David Atkins

David Atkins, OAM (born 12 December 1955) is an Australian dancer, choreographer, music-theatre director and producer. more…

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