Arizona Dream Page #4

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
881 Views


- She was making a phone call. A phone call.

- Oh, really?

- Yes, really.

Ok, gentlemen, new showroom policy:

As of today...

...if there's any customers

to come in here that are dressed casually...

...they're yours. As of today, starting now.

Clear the area.

Did you know

that the warriors in Papua New Guinea...

...afford eating turtle meat before battle?

They believe

that turtles are very shy...

...and if they eat the meat...

...their enemies will become shy,

and run away.

- Did you know that?

- Isn't that fascinating?

- Isn't that fascinating?

- Well, it's disgusting, but...

- A Papa New Guinea story!

- It's "Papua New Guinea".

I don't give a sh*t!

I don't give a sh*t!

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Isn't that... isn't that the place

where the young boys from the village go into the woods...

...and they build a giant lean-to...

- Yes!

- Right! It's kind of shack.

- No! That's right!

- And they... Right...

- That's true.

- Right... right...

Then they bring out some beautiful woman

that they've captured in another village...

- A girl from another village...

- ...and they put her inside the lean-to.

...and put her into lean-to and then every boy in the village

one by one goes into the lean-to to lose his virginity.

Given the last boy in line is inside, the rest...

suddenly... go to in the shack and knock...

- Do you know the rest of it?

- Yes.

- Why do they knock it down?

- You do.

They knock it down, because then they

clear the way along as they go inside...

...to find the poor bastard who was

last one inside and eat him, and the girl.

- Nice.

- But they're natives. They're natives.

Oops! I've lost my napkin!

Everyday...

Everyday you come home...

Everyday you come home...

There's plenty of room here at this table.

Why don't you move your chairs apart?

No, thank you.

We're fine.

Grace! Grace!

Axel, why dont you tell them tell them

the Eskimo movie dream thing?

Why don't you, Paul?

Well, I'd love to hear it!

What is it?

Oh, yes!

My mother loves bedtime stories.

- Go on... go on, Axel.

- Well, this...

- This Eskimo, Dooey, is... is fishing through a...

- Grace!

...hole in the ice,

and he catches this fish.

- With both eyes on the same side of its head.

- I'm sorry.

- But is that a real fish?

- Yes, it's a real fish.

But then it's... it's a storm coming...

and... eh...

...so Dooey has to get on this dogsled,

and travels through the ice for the... eh...

Stop! Really, stop!

- Grow up! Yeah, Mother, grow up!

- And then they feel cold on the ice and then...

- Mind your own business!

- ...he gets down and builds a fire...

...and the snow from the tree falls down,

puts the...

- ...puts the fire out.

- Jesus.

Hi, sweetheart, go play.

- Is that it? What else happens?

- No. So now Dooey is dying...

- Grace!

- And... um...

...and his dog hypnotizes him...

...and... and brings him back to the igloo...

...where his wife rubs his...

his body with a sponge...

...and... um... you know...

brings him back to life.

That's beautiful.

It is beautiful.

- What was that?

- I'm... I'm sorry, my... my hand slipped. I'm sorry.

Kid, you know.

He's a kid. Beautiful.

It must give you great pleasure

to be the life of the party, Mother.

What party is that, Grace?

Why must you try to screw

every man you see under 30? Why?

Did you know, Grace, that...

...in Papua New Guinea, it's

considered a right of passage...

I don't wanna hear it! I don't wanna

hear it! I don't wanna hear it!

All I'm saying is that in Papua

New Guinea, if a woman wants to...

- I don't want to hear it! You stop with this, please.

- ...go to bed with a young man...

If she's older, it's okay!

- In Papua New Guinea!

- Okay!

If you f***ing say it one more time,

I'm going to smash this table right now!

Papua New Guinea!

- You f***ing thing!

- Go!

Fifth!

Paul, maybe we should go...

- You sit down!

- Go!

- You sit.

- Go!

- Sit!

- Go!

- Sit!

- No! You're not invited! Go!

- Sit!

- Go!

- Sit!

- Go!

- I think we should stay here tonight.

- No! You're not invited!

- Well, I am.

- Elaine, listen...

No, no! Don't talk to my friends like that.

They can stay if they want.

You are disgusting, you know that?

Do you know what you are? You are...

...you are a little immature girl in sagging,

old body!

But you're just a pale imitation

of me when I was your age.

Maybe so. Except I didn't kill my husband!

- Shut up!

- No, you go ahead!

You tell your f***ing new friends...

- ...what it's like to murder somebody!

- Shut up!

- No, you go ahead!

- Shut up, Grace!

- You go ahead!

- Shut, up, Grace!

You're disgusting, you know that?

- Shut up!

- No, 'cuz I said it!

You know what? If it hadn't

been for you, he'd still be alive!

F***.

That's it. That's it. I am gonna kill...

I am gonna kill myself right now.

Oh! Okay, good.

Go ahead!

Go ahead!

I'll give you a nice funeral.

I'm sure you will, Mom. Guess what, though!

You're not getting any money!

You're not getting any of my money!

Wouldn't I like you? What else is new?

I don't care it anyway.

Look, Mom! See?

She's taking down her panty hose.

I'm so glad I'll be dead

before your stupid birthday!

You know what, it'd be the best present

you ever gave me!

This is it, Mom! Goodbye, Mom!

Grace!

Get f***ing away!

Look, Mom!

She's got her panties around her neck!

Look at me!

- Mom! Look at me!

- I am eating! I'm eating now!

You are desperate...

and you're sick, Mom.

You're sick. I can't live this way, Mom.

I don't want to live this way, Mom.

- Why don't you have some dignity for a change?

- I'm not living this way.

- What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do?

- No, this is good.

What did you do that for?

I didn't bite him!

- Mom!

- You didn't have to hit me, did you?

- Mom!

- Is my nose bleeding?

- Mom!

- Grace, please don't do that!

Why aren't you looking, Mom?

Why aren't you looking at me?

I'm a failure!

- I won't live this way anymore.

- I've been incorrigible.

Everybody here witnessed, Mother,

you made me do this.

Grace, stop this right now!

You hear me?

- Go f*** yourself!

- Paul! Shut up!

...cowardly lion.

Grace, I'll never say it again.

- Liar!

- No! No, I promise!

- What you promise?

- Never to say "Papua..."

That's... You are so evil, Mother!

Grace!

Grace!

It's okay...

I'll fight you standing on one foot...

I'll fight you with my eyes closed!

Elaine!

Did you ever... You know when you're

just about to go to sleep...

...or you're just sort of,

you know, falling asleep...

...and... and you think you're falling really,

then you catch yourself?

- Yeah!

- That ever happen to you?

And you're not falling, you...

you're just falling asleep.

There you go.

When I was a little girl...

...I always wanted to fly.

From the top of the house.

At night, I'd close my eyes...

...and imagine I was on the roof...

...looking down at my parents

in their bed.

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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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