Ganja & Hess Page #2
- R
- Year:
- 1973
- 110 min
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"There is a dreadful
need in Man to teach.
"It destroys the pure instinct to learn.
"The navigator learns from the stars.
"The sun opens the mind
and sheds light on the flowers.
"The eyes shame the pages of any book.
"Gesture destroys concept.
"Involvement mortifies vanity.
"You are the despised of the earth.
"That is as if you were water
in the desert.
"To be adored on this planet
is to be a symbol of success.
"And you must not succeed
on any terms,
"because life is endless.
"You are as nameless as a flower.
"You are the child of Venus,
"and her natural affection is lust.
"She will touch your belly
with her tongue
"but you must not suffer in it,
"for love is all there is
"and you are cannon fodder
in its defense."
And O Lord...
...that as we are baptized
into the death of thy blessed son,
our savior, Jesus Christ,
and by continually mortifying
our corrupt affections,
we may be buried with him.
Through... the grave and gate of death,
we may pass to our joyful resurrection.
By his merit...
...who died the same...
Good god!
A muse lingers in the room
and dangles a melody in the air
like a ripe fig.
And we eat our summer soup
around the great table,
humming into our plates
some court phrase
then dropping it for a second,
till a bird in the window
sings it clearly
- There's your father.
- Dad!
Enrico! What a surprise,
no one told me you were coming.
- How are you, son?
- Fine.
- How's school going?
- Fine. Never been better.
- Yes? And French?
- Ca Va bien.
Ca Va bien? Formidable...
- Did you get something to drink?
- Nope.
- What would you like?
- Anything.
- Some ginger ale?
- Yeah.
- Archie?
- Yes?
- Can we get a ginger ale?
- But of course, sir.
'All right, I'll do it.'
'When, baby?'
Today.
Today when?
I mean, like in this hour...?
I promise you we'll
make a big take today.
Yeah, a big one. I can feel it.
This is the love movement, man!
Where you comin' from?
Be cool, bro. Cool it.
- I'm gonna help you.
- When, baby?
Today.
When today, is what I wanna know.
See, my time is money.
Soon! I mean...
Be cool, be cool, be cool...
Hey, look at y'all.
- Nothin' here but a slick brother...
- How d'you know, man?
This sort of thing...
If we're going to the Derby,
we need some cash.
All right!
There...
Well, I'll take care of that soon.
That's what you been sayin'
for the past hour.
Well, ain't nobody been in here.
I mean...
Come on, move it.
Do you know a girl named
Dolores Kincaid?
No.
Dolores Kincaid?
No.
Well, you know, you look
just like the boyfriend she had
before she moved to Seattle.
I do?
Yes. I saw him with her once
at the Apollo.
- And you look just like him.
- I see.
There's this strung-out child lives
downstairs from her, you know?
And she was just screaming and yelling,
and I didn't know
what in the world to do.
So I said,
"Well, I have to put a stop to this."
So I decided to call the police.
So I called them and they came
and got her, you know, and...
Sit down, girl.
I said sit down.
I know what I'm gonna do...
Yeah.
Help! Kill him!
'Hello?'
Hello, is my husband there?
I haven't the slightest idea
who your husband is, madam.
George Meda is my husband, and I wanna
speak to him. Put him on the phone!
'Do you hear me talking to you?'
He's not here now.
Hello?
I called the museum
and they told me George was there.
'Now you put him on the phone.
I don't want no more of his sh*t!'
Look, Mrs Meda, I have had
a very difficult morning and if...
I have had a very difficult
f***ing six months!
- It's not possible to talk to Mr Meda now.
- What do you mean, it's not possible?
- He has disappeared.
- 'Disappeared?'
'George freaked out on you?
'He ain't disappeared. He'll show up.
that's what's happened. He'll be back.
'All right, man,
I'll put it to you straight.'
I just got in from Amsterdam and I do not
have enough money for a decent hotel.
Now since he already has a room there,
if I could come to your place
and stay there
for just a few clays
and wait for him...
Where are you, Mrs Meda?
I'm at the goddamn airport,
that's where I am!
Tell me where you are exactly
and I will send a limousine for you.
I'm standing in front of Pan American
and the driver can't miss me,
cos I'm that evil!
Tell your boss I'm here.
I am Dr Green.
Could you tell me where I could change?
I haven't changed since I left
Amsterdam. I'm very tired.
I have a friend who's a ballet dancer.
And he went to Mexico to dance
at the Palace of Fine Arts.
That's where he scored this stuff,
from Mexico.
And, er...
I think he came up with a really
fantastic, ingenious thing to do.
He puts the grass in a prophylactic,
and rolls it up so that
it's like a suppository, you know?
And then he just... you know?
And then he puts on all
these shorts, right?
Like four pairs, he pulls them on.
Cos they've got these clogs at Customs,
you know when you go through?
And they can smell anything.
Well, almost anything!
And... hey, man,
I think it takes a very heavy cat
to come up with that, I really do.
Don't you think so?
Come...
Hess? Hess!
Hess!
Hess?
Thank you.
Why do you live
in a house this size alone?
That's an impolite question.
A-... they're the
only ones worth asking.
- What do you want now?
- This instant? Or now?
Now.
Money.
May I get you fresh coffee?
No, thank you.
I would like some, Archie.
Do you sometimes feel overworked,
Archie?
Good heavens, no, madam.
No, never.
Another impolite question.
I told you,
I specialize in impolite questions...
"They're the only ones
worth asking."
They are!
When people answer them I know more
about them then than I did before.
- What do they know about you?
- Nothing.
They know that you ask
impolite questions.
Yes.
What is there to know about Ganja?
Archie, when you get
the grape jelly...
And you are gonna get the grape jelly,
right?
Of course, madam.
Well, then, why don't
you get the grits...
...at the same time?
The grits?
Grits. Harmony grits. You know
what harmony grits are, don't you?
- Harmony grits?
- Harmony grits.
to ask you about is,
I need an extension cord.
I have a record player
that I wanna play downstairs.
For a record player?
For a record player.
You understand "a record player"?
And you understand "extension cord"?
we got some grape jelly, some
harmony grits and an extension cord.
- Don't we?
- Yes, madam.
- Thank you so much.
- But of course, madam.
Archie, how long you been here?
Madam, I came with the house.
- You came with the house?
- Yes, ma'am.
You mean the plumbers
came in and put you in?
- Precisely where...?
- Right there!
- Good heavens!
- You blew your peach.
- Archie!
- That was rather humorous, madam.
Is red one of your favorite colors?
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