Dangerous Minds Page #2

Synopsis: Louanne Johnson is an ex-marine, hired as a teacher in a high-school in a poor area of the city. She has recently separated from her husband. Her friend, also teacher in the school, got the temporary job for her. After a terrible reception from the students, she tries unconventional methods of teaching (using karate, Bob Dylan lyrics etc) to gain the trust of the students.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): John N. Smith
Production: Disney
  6 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
R
Year:
1995
99 min
2,547 Views


We killed the b*tch.

Kick it, kick it, kick it,

kick it, kick it. Hey!

I was beginning to like

the puta.!

Ohh! No, no, no.

Everybody, everybody. Emilio ate her.

Bullshit.

- That b*tch was too ugly to eat.

- Yeah!

Fed her to my dogs.

But I'll eat you.

What is your name?

Emilio Ramirez.

- Now, Emilio!

- Emilio, you in trouble!

Emilio! Emilio! Emilio!

Emilio! Emilio!

- Emilio! Emilio! Emilio! Emilio!

- Oh, my God.

- What's that?

Come on, come on, come on,

come on, come on. You know

what they're like. Come on.

Emilio! Emilio! Emilio! Emilio!

Emilio! Emilio! Emilio! Emilio!

Madison surrendered

to the nationalists.

Hamilton himself could have already have

composed the message that embraced...

Donna. Donna,

take over the class.

Shut up!

What happened to Miss Shepherd?

- Well, she quit.

- Why?

Well, she was a very

high-strung individual.

What, did she have a breakdown?

No. She quit before that.

One of the substitutes,

she had a breakdown.

- That's how they weed them out.

- Who are these kids,

rejects from hell?

No. They're bright kids with little

or no educational skills...

and what we politely call

a lot of social problems.

Damn it, Griffith,

you could've warned me!

Hey, Louanne,

you said you wanted to teach.

- Now, is that a load of bull or what?

- No!

- So teach.

- I ca...

- What?

I can't teach them!

Yes, you can. All you gotta do

is get their attention.

Or quit.

I'm back!

"She decided that if Brian broke a rule

she would utilize these consequences:

The first time he broke a rule

his name would be put on the board."

This is the life

This is the life

This is the life

Okay, you little bastards.

- Come on

- Put your back into it

- Come on

- Put your back into it

- Come on

- Put your back into it

- Come on

- Put your back into it

- Come on

- Put your back into the beat

Achieve the goals

in which you seek

Don't let nobody

steer you wrong

Or you'll be singin'

that same old song

- How someone's always

holdin you down

- There she is.

- Just keep your

two feet on the ground

- Girl, you didn't

get enough yesterday?

And when you come you be direct

'cause punks get no respect

- My eyes to the west side

- East side, west side

How you doin'? Yeah.

Hey, everybody, everybody, look!

A cowboy!

Put your back into it

Put your back into it

- Put your back into it

- Don't talk about... Don't talk

about yourself like that.

"I am a..."

- Shut up! Y'all sound

like them fifth-graders!

- You shut up!

- You shut up!

"Does... anyone...

know..."

- What's "karate"?

- Karate, you stupid a**hole.

- You're so stupid.

- You're a Marine? A for-real Marine?

- Discharged, but yes.

- Estupido.

I'll try some karate

with you, Miss Johnson.

I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed

to touch a student.

But if you really think you know

what you're doin', come on up here.

Hey, sounds like a challenge to me, se.

You'd better get up there.

Oh, I know what I'm doin'.

There's no sense doin' it though

if you can't touch me.

Okay, anybody else know

any karate? What about you?

- Durrell Chang Chang.

- I know some motherfuckin' karate.

Whoo! Durrell, gimme it!

- Durrell.

- Sh*t.

- What about you? You know any karate?

- Raul. Yeah, I know enough.

- Okay, Raul.

- Go on up there.

Come on up here.

- All right. Yeah, sh*t.

I'm gonna take that motherf***er.

- Come on, Nacho.

Sh*t. All right.

Come on, let's go, se.

Let's go.

Sh*t!

You guys...

Wait, wait, wait. Whoa!

You guys don't know sh*t.

- "I don't know sh*t," man.

I know what I'm doin', lady.

- You don't even know any throws.

Now, I heard that a Marine

can kill a man with his, uh,

bare hands. Is that true?

Absolutely.

Oh, sh*t.

Okay, h-here's how it starts.

Um, okay, where's a... Can you two move

that desk down there a little bit?

Um, okay, everything is

slow motion at first.

- Um, Durrell.

- Yeah.

Okay, you, um, you move into

Raul like you're gonna hit him.

Yeah, I can do that.

- Okay.

- Nacho.

Now, Raul, you're gonna

step into Durrell...

and you're gonna

grab his wrist, okay?

You're gonna turn your body

away from him so that your butt

is in his stomach. Okay?

F*** you!

Get the f*** off me, man!

What you gonna do?

- Man, you wish, homes!

You wish, man!

- Bring it on, homes!

- F*** you! Get your hands off me!

- Bring it on, Nacho.

- You wish, man!

- Bring it on.

- Now, it's a hip throw.

It's a hip throw.

- Okay, take your fighting

stance again, okay.

- Nacho.

Okay, grab his wrist.

Okay.

Now, now this time,

as you move in,

you're gonna take this hand,

you're gonna grab onto this shoulder.

Okay? Ready?

Oh, sh*t!

Thank you! Hey! Hey!

All right!

- Ow, man! I'll kick your

motherfuckin' ass, se.!

- Sucker! Sucker!

Well, that was "A" work.

You'd make good Marines.

In fact, from this moment,

each one of you

is like an inductee...

- Who's a duck?

- With a clean record.

- Quack.

- So, if you wanna pass,

- Quack quack.

All you have to do is try.

Oh, homes.

Because at this point,

everyone has an "A."

- What?

- Is she serious?

But it's up to you to keep it.

- Bullshit.

- Yo, why don't you shut up, man.

What if it ain't bullshit? Ain't

never had no f***in' "A" before.

I once knew a man

who couldn't read

He said it ain't no thang

'cause I graduated twice

With the game I possess

Bulletproof vest

to the chest

But when his kids needed help

to prepare for a test

It was stress 'cause Pops

didn't achieve any academics

And true, indeed

This problem is an epidemic

Who want to work five long hard days

through it and get taxed

So that's a message

for your mind

The story's been told

about a thousand times

So here's a message

for your mind

One thousand-one

One thousand-two

So here's a message

for your mind

Morning.

- Okay, today we are going

to conjugate some verbs.

- What?

- What?

Hey, what about karate?

Well, I can't just teach you karate.

I'll show you another hold next week.

Get outta here!

Belt it out, too.

I wanna hear it.

We eat green beans for dinner.

What you do with 'em?

"We eat green beans for dinner."

- Okay...

- Hey, Pam. Pam!

Ye... Yo, Chris!

Hey. Hey. Hey, what's up?

Hey, man, it's not

a big deal, okay?

Is that true?

If we wanna die?

Sh*t, no.

We want you to die.

- Is that true?

- Well, if it was between

you and us, hell yeah.

- Okay.

- Hey! Hey! I don't care

if I live or die!

- What about that?

- Suicide, man.

- What's all this bullshit

with dying?

- You want us dead?

- No, darlin', but I do

want you to keep your "A."

So, no, I'm gonna make it

real easy on you, okay?

All you have to do is tell me

the verb that makes this sentence true.

We choose to do some karate.

- Yeah, right.

- Okay, give me a verb

instead of "choose."

- We're going to die?

- We must die, okay.

- Okay, "we must die." Is "must"

a verb? Can you, uh...

- No, "must" ain't no verb.

- Can you "must" something?

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Ronald Bass (born March 26, 1942), sometimes credited as Ron Bass, is an American screenwriter. Also a film producer, Bass's work is characterized as being highly in demand, and he is thought to be among the most highly paid writers in Hollywood. He is often called the "King of the Pitches".[citation needed] In 1988, he received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Rain Man, and films that Bass is associated with are regularly nominated for multiple motion picture awards. more…

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