Beasts Of The Southern Wild Page #2

with you staring at me like that?

What, you scared?

I'm gonna show you,

no storm can't beat no Doucet.

We Doucets.

We not scared of no damn storm!

I'm gonna show you.

I'm gonna take care of that storm.

I'm coming to get you, storm!

Look at me! Look at me, Hushpuppy!

Look at me whip butt!

Come on, storm!

Come on!

I'm gonna get you!

Come on, I'm right here!

I'm right here! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah!

Mama!

Mama?

For the animals that didn't have a dad

to put them in a boat...

...the end of the world already happened.

Winston!

Yo, Winston!

They're all down below,

trying to breathe through water.

Yo, Edison, you in here?

Someday, when I'm gone,

you gonna be the last man in the Bathtub.

You're gonna have to learn

how to feed yourself.

Now stick your hand in this water.

Stick it in there.

Okay, what you do is

you hold your hand steady...

...and you just wait on your fish to come.

You gotta ball your fist up, okay?

That's your punching hand.

Ball your fist up, case you have

to whack him when he come out.

All right, all right.

Oh, got it, got it!

Yeah! Oh, Lord!

Look what we got!

Look what we got!

Gotcha. We got it! Say, "I gotcha!"

- I gotcha!

- Yeah!

Hold him down.

You hold him down like this...

...and you whack him good

with your fist.

Go ahead, whack him!

You whack him good.

Hold him like that and whack him.

Hold it.

Ow!

Don't worry about that.

That's all a part of it.

Come on, you want to try it again?

Come on, one more time.

Mama?

Is that you?

I've broken everything.

Strong animals know

when your heart is weak.

That makes them hungry,

and they start coming.

Yo, Walrus.

Hey, man.

Come on, I gotcha. All right, partner.

I knew you wasn't gonna leave.

I must've passed out.

Little Jo..

- Hey.

- You okay, huh?

What happened to you? Get up.

Come on.

He been talking all night long

how it's the last night on earth.

Don't worry about him.

Trying to touch my titties and sh*t...

...right in front of Peter T over there.

- Oh, Peter T, my man.

- Hello.

Good to see you, man!

I knew you wasn't gonna leave me.

- Oh, no. Oh, no.

- That's one classic dude right there.

You a titan, man.

Yeah! Glad you stayed, man.

If I had a pair of wings,

I know I could have flown in that bad boy.

Almost blew off

Walrus' panties, ha, ha, ha!

But I would probably

have bounced off a tree.

Hushpuppy.

Did I ever tell you the story

about your conception?

Jesus.

One day, when me and Hushpuppy

mama first met...

...we were so shy,

we used to sit around...

...and drink beer

and smile at each other.

One day, I got so shy, I just napped.

Back when Daddy

used to talk about Mama...

...he said she was so pretty,

she never even had to turn on the stove.

She'd just walk into the room...

...and all the water starts to boil.

Your mama battered that gator up

and set it to frying.

And Hushpuppy popped into the universe

about four minutes later.

I got it under control.

Miss Bathsheeba!

Come on, y'all. Come on, girlie! Come on!

Yeah, yeah! Come on!

- That's it.

- Thank you.

- Thank you. Very nice.

- Look what we got.

We got the fresh catch today.

You like that, babe?

Yeah! Come on!

Come on, children,

I got some for y'all too.

Yeah! Let's go. Time to eat.

For the ones we never find,

we make a funeral the Bathtub way.

Yeah, tastes like more.

Come on. All right.

With no crying allowed.

Yes, to the water!

Come on, boy! Come on!

Pick that goddamn thing up!

Let's go!

Okay.

So I say to myself...

...I'm gonna pee in my pants just a little.

Hell, when the water goes down...

...I'm gonna French kiss the dirt.

The water ain't going down, man.

That's my beautiful place

under that water.

Everything beautiful is gone.

Man, you know they got salt in that water,

done ate everything up.

Trees are gonna die first,

then the animals, then the fish.

You gotta think about moving.

I got it under control.

Come here, Hushpuppy.

Come sit by your Uncle Jean.

Let me show you how to do this.

Here. Here, baby.

Don't be scared of it, now.

Now, turn it upside-down.

There you go.

Now, push it with your thumb.

Good girl. That's it.

And then, real careful,

take this knife and you pop this off.

That's beautiful.

No, HUSHPUPPY!

Beast it.

Beast it!

Show me you can do it!

- Come on, I know you can do it.

- Come on!

- Beast it!

- Come on, now!

Beast it! Beast it! Beast it!

Beast it! Beast it! Beast it!

Beast it. Beast it.

Come on, now! Beast it!

Yeah!

Come on! Yeah! Yeah!

You see what kind of family we got?

We got feeling!

You're an animal!

Yeah, you're an animal. Yeah.

Yeah!

It wasn't no time to sit around

crying like a bunch of pussies.

We're gonna make a camp

right on top of the Bathtub.

We got enough animals to eat

until the water goes down.

Like this.

Smoother. Gentler.

Yeah, that's right. Right there.

It's gonna be all right.

Okay. Okay.

That's the most important thing

I can ever teach y'all.

Y'all got to learn how to take care

of people smaller and sweeter than you are.

You got it.

You okay?

Two weeks later,

everything started to die.

Got to get something out of this water.

Walrus, you want to leave the Bathtub?

No.

I heard that.

Nobody is leaving the Bathtub.

You don't know nothing.

This water gonna kill us here.

We gotta do something about this.

I ain't starving to death while them people

going grocery shopping and all that.

Sh*t. Son of a...

Boss, Daddy got to go

take care of something.

I'm gonna fix everything the way it was.

- Where are you going?

- Don't worry. I'm the man.

We gonna win.

And if anything go wrong,

Walrus is daddy.

You gonna be the king of the Bathtub.

I promise that.

Just sit right there. I'll be back.

I think they be gone.

I really can't say where.

What are you

talking about? They go to the levee?

- Ain't no problem.

- Don't make me slap your ass!

You so much as piss on that wall,

you know what them people gonna do?

They gonna find us

and stick us in a damn shelter.

Daddy says brave men don't run

from their home.

Peter T, hold onto the boat.

You're gonna be fine.

Peter T, you hold the trip wire. Okay?

- Get the line over there.

- Okay.

The entire universe depends on

everything fitting together just right.

If you can fix the broken piece,

everything can go right back.

Come on, baby!

Peter T...

...hand me that trip wire.

I'm so sorry, but...

Peter T, you drop the trip wire?

Well, yes, I did.

- Peter T.

- I gotta go find it.

Get over here!

Aah! What are you doing, woman?

I'm hauling your ass home, little boy.

Get off!

Touch that wall,

they gonna come after us.

You don't know nothing!

Jean Battiste! Get the trip line!

Get in the boat!

Get your ass in here!

HUSHPUPPY!

Pull!

- Pull, pull!

- Now, boss!

- Now, boss!

- No!

It didn't matter

that the water was gone.

Sometimes you can

break something so bad...

...that it can't get put back together.

Mama!

Mama!

This is a mandatory evacuation area.

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