Be Kind Rewind Page #7

Synopsis: In Passaic, NJ, Elroy Fletcher runs a video store in a condemned building he claims was the birthplace of Fats Waller. Fletcher goes on a Waller centennial trip, leaving his foster son Mike in charge of the store. Mike's peculiar friend Jerry tries to sabotage a power station and nearly electrocutes himself, getting magnetized in the process. He inadvertently erases every tape in the store. Mike and Jerry hatch an plan to hide the disaster by making a homemade "Ghostbusters" to rent to a woman whom Fletcher will be phoning to check on them. Soon, with help, their homemade versions of films develop a cult following. Will this new business save the store and the building? What about Fats?
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Michel Gondry
Production: New Line Cinema
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
PG-13
Year:
2008
102 min
$11,200,000
Website
596 Views


Oh, man, I love The Lion King too.

It's my favorite picture, man.

My mom loved it.

- It's awesome.

- You like it too?

- Yeah, it's awesome.

- It's deeply deep.

- Oh, yeah.

- Because the uncle...

...kills the nephew's father.

- His father...

...which is his brother.

- That's his brother.

He kills his own brother, right?

That's some heavy, Shapeskearian sh*t.

What's funny?

- Shape... Nothing.

- Well, you know...

Does anybody have any ideas,

Lion King lady...

...about how we're supposed to shoot

an animated film?

Roar! I am the king!

Roar! Jerry, I kind of see your head.

- What?

- It doesn't look real.

Well, Alma, stay on the voices.

We'll be in charge

of the bodies and motion.

- Okay.

- I need you to say this:

"I'm gonna piss on the graves

of your ancestors. "

- It's important in the story, Alma.

- Don't say that.

Roar!

I'm going to piss

on the heads of your ancestors!

No, wait. Hold on.

This is a children's movie.

This is the sequel.

We're doing part two.

Less choice...

...more copies of the same movie.

Simplified categorization of genre.

Sir?

Hi.

Noticeable outfit

and big badge on employee.

Sir, are you sure I can't help you?

You've been here for the last two hours,

you can't seem to make up your mind.

I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.

Do you carry a copy

of Stormy Weather?

- What?

- No pecific...

...knowledge required.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

Okay. Very helpful.

- That's it.

- Shoot him, Robo.

I'm taking you downtown.

- I'm coming to get you now...

- Well, you're gonna get shot.

...with my gun.

And there's more

where that came from...

- No!

...for you, cop lady.

Y'all still shooting, man?

- Yeah, we...

- Four o' clock.

Y'all were supposed to be done.

I've been out there for 20 minutes.

- Don't worry. I can handle this guy.

- No, no, I got it, man.

- Let me show you how to do this, man.

- We almost done.

I will shoot you

and I know robot karate.

I got something for you, man.

What do you think you're...?

I'll take you to the...

- Robo!

- Yeah.

- You want some? Yeah, you want some?

- No.

- Stay back.

- I'm wounded!

I'm giving you

till the count of three...

...to drop your weapon.

- Yeah, uh-huh.

That's not funny, y'all.

- Cut.

- Whatever, y'all.

- It's kind of funny.

- No, it's part of the movie.

- That was good.

- It went really well.

- I like your badge.

- Thanks, I made it myself.

Great. Just... Who are these people?

- Oh, my God.

- Let's go.

Let's go before they see us.

Mike! Mike! Over here!

Lookit, okay? You're gonna smile.

Pretend like you know

what you're doing, okay?

- I'm gonna take care of the rest. Yes.

- No.

This was really great...

...but it's too short.

It's so good, it should be longer.

Anyway, I told all my friends,

and they're excited.

- They want to join the store.

- Bring them in.

Okay.

Okay, it's open!

Form two lines.

Rentals on the right

and returns on the left.

The store policy is also...

...two rentals per customer.

Maybe you'd like to get a film

you didn't know about.

Okay, guys, I'm accepting applications

in this line right here.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- What would you like?

- This one Sweded, please.

Okay. Let me just check to see

if you have the proper documents.

It seems like you have a lot of Cs.

I don't even think

you really should have passed.

So we're gonna need a $20

supplement fee for averageness.

- Are you insane? Twenty dollars?

- I'm sorry.

I don't make the rules,

I just have to enforce them.

You're crazy. You're insane.

- I'm leaving.

- You can bend a rule a little.

- Your movies suck anyway!

- No.

Next!

- Excuse me.

- Jerry.

I am RoboCop.

I heard there was a disturbance...

...at Be Kind Rewind video store.

Mr. RoboCop,

may I have an autograph, please?

- For my grandson?

- Me too, me too.

Anything you say

can and will be held against you...

...in a court of RoboCop.

Miss Falewicz.

- Hi, Miss Falewicz.

- Yeah.

- Can you Swede this for me?

- Oh, Driving Miss Daisy.

I'd really rather not do this one.

I really never really got this movie.

I thought it was a little condescending.

It's... It's a lovely movie.

Full of generosity and giving.

- She teaches him to read.

- I know, ma'am.

How many movies

have that kind of heart?

Okay.

Hoke, that's the spot.

Pull over the car.

- Stop the car right... Hoke!

- This is not the spot.

Are you...? Are you deaf?

- I wish I was deaf.

- This is the spot.

Who is that hussy chasing after us?

- Be gone, hussy. Hoke...

- You know we're not filming any of it?

- We're just scouting.

- I know, I'm just practicing.

I'm staying in character.

Come on, dude.

Let's keep in character, okay?

- All right. Mm-hm.

- Come around the side and help me.

Help me get out of the car.

- Hoke!

- Yes, ma'am.

- Jerry, have you ever seen the movie?

- Hoke.

She doesn't act like that.

Don't you talk to me like that,

young missy.

- She doesn't act like that.

- You stay over there.

Hoke, go and find me the grave

that says Werthan on it.

Go like the wind, run.

Run, Hoke. Please.

W-E-R-T-H-E-N.

Hoke, can you hear me?

Oh, no, Hoke.

You're illiterate, aren't you?

- Jerry.

- I'll teach you how to read.

A W is like a mountain upside down.

Isn't that clever?

Now, what happens

if you add an "er"...

...to the W?

- Mike!

- What do you think?

- You get...

- Wer.

- Wer!

Add a "then, " what do you get?

- Okay, Jerry, stop.

- Wer...

- Would you stop?

- No.

- Wer...

- Werthan, Werthan, Werthan, Werthan!

Werthan, Werthan, Werthan, Werthan!

- Mike.

- Knock it off.

Mike, what are you doing?

- Are we shooting?

- Jerry, come back.

Jerry.

- Hey.

- Don't mess around. I'm not in the mood.

You know, I was in character.

- I know.

- He didn't have to take it so personally.

Well, apparently he did. Jerry, like,

you crossed the line a little bit.

Don't you think

I have my share of humiliation?

Who keeps on giving

the orders all day? He does.

- Uh-huh.

- Who keeps taking them?

- Well, I kind of do all the time.

- No, no, no, no.

Me. And why should I?

- Things have changed.

- Uh-huh.

People recognize me in the street.

- Right, Simon?

- Yeah.

Yeah. Yup.

- Yeah.

- They love me. I want my own trailer.

You have a trailer, okay?

That is where you live.

- Is that spit on there?

- Yes.

- Come on.

- Everybody does know you on the street...

...because all you do is go from your shop

to Mr. Fletcher's and back.

- It's true.

- No, you don't get it.

They look at me in a different way,

with love and resp...

- I'm a star.

- You are a star.

I want my own trailer

next to my trailer.

A movie trailer.

That trailer doesn't count.

Get up, Jerry.

- Everybody's ready.

- It's my time!

Ali's the man!

Ali! Ali! Ali!

It's okay. We're not suggesting...

As far as Foreman goes,

he was devastating that punching bag...

...and we writers

were so frightened for Ali..

...that we were...

- It's incredible.

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Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry (French: [miʃɛl ɡɔ̃dʁi]; born 8 May 1963) is a French independent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. His other films include the surrealistic science fantasy comedy The Science of Sleep (2006), the comedy Be Kind Rewind (2008), the superhero action comedy The Green Hornet (2011), the drama The We and the I (2012), and the romantic science fantasy tragedy Mood Indigo (2013). He is well known for his music video collaborations with Radiohead, Björk, Beck, The Chemical Brothers and The White Stripes. more…

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