Julien Donkey-Boy Page #3

Synopsis: "O, mio babbino caro" plays as a woman skates gracefully. In contrast, little is graceful and daddy is not dear in Julien's world. His father listens to blues wearing a gas mask; dad prods, lectures, and derides Julien as well as Julien's brother and pregnant sister, while grandma attends to her dog. Julien is different, schizophrenic. He wears gold teeth. He bowls, sings, worships, and chats with a group of young adults with disabilities. His sister's child is probably his own. He talks on the phone, imagining it's his mother, who died in childbirth years before. He may be a murderer of children. From his point of view (perhaps), the film follows this odd family for a few weeks.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Harmony Korine
Production: Fine Line Features
  3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
26%
R
Year:
1999
94 min
1,132 Views


Don't you move!

Don't you move!

Sit down have a cup of tea.

I'm only joking.

Come on in.

Meet my friends.

Hey, this is Julien.

King Julien.

Hey, Julien.

How are you doing, King Julien?

Hey, my good friend,

how are ya doing?

This is Adolf.

Adolf.

He ate my mother's titties,

but hey, he's a friend.

He's a friend.

He's a good friend of the family.

He ate my mother's titties.

Come in.

Come in, Adolf.

Julien?

King Julien?

Yes, sir.

What is it you want

with me?

I want you to make this man

a guest in your own home,

and make him feel

like he can use a place--

and don't feed him to Mommy.

Don't feed him to grandmother.

Don't feed him to Joyce.

Okay. I promise.

Okay.

So, Adolf,

sit down.

Now, one of the things

we want to get clear in here

is, at which point did you

come into the Bible,

and at which point

did you leave?

Because in the New Testament,

it says

that you came into the Bible

and met with some of the disciples

at just before

the Feast of Steven.

And it stated that you--

you took--

you turned your left cheek to one

of the disciples and said,

"Never hit me

on my left side,

because if you hit me

on my left side, it hurts."

Anyway, that's all

I wanted to ask.

Anyway, while I make

your acquaintance,

I'd just like to point out

a few things.

When you want

to come in this house,

you've got to--

you've got to--

you've got to stay with me

at all times,

and not upset anyone else

in my family,

because they don't know

that I consort with known Nazis.

That's all.

It's my only condition,

so be at peace.

Another hard day

in the jungle.

Another hard day at the zoo.

Another hard day

at the jungle.

Another hard day at the zoo.

Punky.

Punky. Come on.

Come on, hurry up.

Come on, angel.

Come on.

Go down.

Go down. Go down.

You don't come?

Okay, bye bye.

Come on.

Come on. Here.

Come on, Punky.

Here!

Punky! Punky!

Okay, bye bye.

Come on!

Come on.

Come on this time.

Come on. Hurry up.

Come on.

Come on!

Right away!

Stupid f***ing trash can.

I'll f***ing--

Number one-- I don't want all

this plastic in my garden.

Do you feel like a winner?

Plastic, plastic, plastic.

I was just playing.

Yeah, but that's not

an opponent.

You've got to be tougher.

Real tough.

You've got to out-gut them,

out-tough them,

outwrestle them.

Outplastic them.

You should be a winner.

There's no winner

around in the house.

I am a winner.

I am a winner!

Here is the subject

of the essay.

Make sure you've marked...

Dance for me!

Yeah!

Oh, I love that!

Oh, yeah!

Well, see, I've got a problem,

Anthony, in my left eye.

I don't even know what you call

the vision in the left eye.

It's not shadows,

it's not anything.

It's just like--

imagine looking through...

a futon plastic bag.

That's how my sight is.

It's really weird.

But I thank God

that I'm healthy--

I can walk--

I pray at night.

Do you ever think,

why God did that?

Why God let it happen?

No.

But there's no reason why

He can't fix it.

No.

The future has a lot of things

in store for us,

for these young

blind people.

God gave me

the intelligence.

My parents-- my grandparents

on both sides are ministers,

and we always argue

about God,

because I don't really believe

in church at all.

I don't--

I don't necessarily believe

that anybody can tell you

how to relate to God.

Nobody can tell you.

It's all up to you.

- He tells you.

- Yeah, that's right.

He tells you.

All he says is,

"Live just, live right,

follow these commandments

and you'll be--"

"Live honestly,"

He says. "Be honest.

Be honest about

who you are."

I say,

when I talk to him,

I've got to thank him

for the day,

'cause I live day by day.

Jesus said in the Bible...

"Cursed be he

who obstructs a blind man--

who obstructs

a blind man's path--

who puts an obstacle

in the path of a blind man."

"Cursed be he who puts an obstacle

in the path of a blind man,

and cursed is he

who sleeps with his sister."

"Cursed be he who sleeps

with his sister."

You know what you were saying

about the commandments?

No, but,

he also says that,

"Present yourself honestly--"

"Present yourself honestly

about who you are,

because if you don't, I'm gonna

make things really bad for you."

"Once upon a time,

there was a young man..."

Yeah.

"For your mind.

Dedicated."

"Victor's a nice man.

Yeah."

"Go, Victor.

Go, Julien."

- "Go, James..."

- Yeah.

"I'm a black albino

straight from Alabama,

way down south."

"You know, I'm a black albino,

straight from Alabama

way down south."

"Then you know

that I'm a black albino,

straight from Alabama.

Yeah."

"Check it out.

Well, salutations from Polk,

it's the up above.

There's no mistaking about the name,

- because it couldn't be..."

- Yeah!

All right! All right!

"...black albino,

straight from Alabama..."

- Go, James!

- "...way down south.

Then you know

that I'm a black albino

straight from Alabama,

way down south.

Then you know

that I'm a black albino

straight from Alabama,

way down south.

Then you know

that I'm a black albino

straight from Alabama.

You've got to be smooth.

Oh-- smooth!

What does it mean?

I feel just like the E.F. Hutton

of the hip-hop scene.

I can kick a rhyme

other MCs might miss,

and it goes a little something

like this--

Hit it-- a long time ago,

I couldn't even flow,

you know? I had an Afro,

and I rapped slow.

But I took a look

inside a book,

to find my nook in society.

I'm tired of my piety.

The plan, understand,

was to become the grand man

on the rap stand, and dish out

my own brand of justice,

'cause it seems

that when I bust this,

people gather 'round

and say, "Aw nuts!"

This Polky bust rhymes

the public never heard before.

The suckers bag the mike

and start heading for the door.

...then you know

it's a black albino

straight from Alabama,

way down south.

Then you know

that I'm a black albino

straight from Alabama,

way down south..."

Go, Franklin!

Yeah!

Back in the 50s, they had this

world championship

of talking birds.

And they sent all these parrots

and beals--

it's a starling type of bird

from Borneo--

and boy, do they speak well.

But the championship back then

was won by a parakeet,

a little parakeet.

And the parakeet would say,

"Birds are smart,

but they can not speak."

and that really made him

Boy, was that bird good.

You can still buy a record which

repeats and repeats his sentence,

"Birds are smart,

but they cannot speak."

and you can teach your own bird.

Maybe even dogs

are gonna talk one day.

When we were kids arriving

at the breakfast table,

we had to say a poem

and it went like this...

"...Schlup, schlup, schlup,

milch ist gut..."

Then we were allowed to have

our cereal

and coffee and whatever

there was.

He loves me,

he loves me not.

He loves me,

he loves me not.

He loves me...

He loves me not.

He loves me,

he loves me not.

He loves me,

he loves me not.

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Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for writing Kids and for writing and directing Spring Breakers, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Mister Lonely. more…

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