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Matinee Page #5
- PG
- Year:
- 1993
- 99 min
- 618 Views
And you say...
"Here I am!
What have you got for me?"
Hey, Larry.
Where do you want me
to put this thing?
Put it next to the ax
on the floor up there, sweets.
What ax?
Isn't that --
Ruth corday.
She's somethin', huh?
She's got that...
Bearing.
All the real stars
have that,
whether they're movin'
big equipment...
[Clicking]
Or whatever.
They got it.
[Sigh]
Yeah.
Hey, don't!
Don't touch that part.
I'll get that later.
Just leave it.
Is all this
stuff yours?
Yeah!
"Atomo vision,"
"rumble rama."
It takes a lot more
Too much competition.
Give me them pliers,
will ya, kid?
Now they got bombs that'll
kill a half a million people.
Nobody's had a
good night's sleep in years.
So, you gotta have
a gimmick, you know?
Somethin' a little extra.
Hey, that thing's live!
I'm sorry!
I'd better go.
Um, I'll see you Saturday.
Yeah, God willing.
[Electrical current
crackling]
[Ringing]
Hello?
Sherry, it's Stan.
Hello, Stan.
Um, listen, uh...
I'm not gonna be able
to go with you on Saturday.
Oh, no?
How come?
Well, uh,
coach Burnett called,
and they want guys to put
sandbags up in front of
the all-purpose room...
In case there's
a missile attack.
Oh, Stan,
the all-purpose room?
Yeah, 'cause it
faces South.
all day, unfortunately.
I'm sorry.
[sigh]
I understand.
That's important.
So, we'll just
do it next weekend.
Uh, yeah.
I'll see you at school.
Bye, Stan.
Johnny angel
johnny angel
hey, Sherry.
Dwight, you little brat.
Go back
and knock first.
Uh-uh.
You weren't supposed to write
to that guy in jail!
Gimme those!
Boy, these are dirty.
His poems don't rhyme.
They're not supposed to rhyme.
I'm gonna show mom.
You are not!
What do you want?
You to take me to the
horror movie Saturday.
It's got a guy
that turns into an ant.
Some people
throw up at it.
How wonderful!
Okay.
Okay, okay.
Okay, okay.
Neat!
This one's real hot!
Better hold onto it.
[Sighing]
["The great pretender"
performed by the platters]
oh yes [Man]
We should've elected Nixon.
He put those bombs
in Russia.
I'm the great pretender
this whole thing
would be over.
pretending
that I'm doing well
blow each other up.
my need is such
they don't even
have religion.
I pretend too much
how ya doin'?
I'm lonely
but no one can tell
we're doin' fine, my friend.
Except for this big truck load
of sociopathology...
That's just about to be dumped
out here on duval street.
We're just dandy.
Socio what?
This so-called monster movie
that's coming on Saturday.
I never heard
about that.
Maybe it's time you took
a good look at what's going on
in your own town, mister.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Smell the wreckage
of young minds.
Gag on it.
What's your name, friend?
Harvey.
Do you know they let
children see these things?
What's the message
they put out?
That atomic power
is nothing but trouble?
And it's all right for
mutations to rip the clothes
off of young women?
That's what they teach
the youngsters, harv.
That's a long way from
George Washington and
the cherry tree, isn't it?
Yeah.
This is our
organization, harv:
Citizens for
decent entertainment.
Gee, can I keep this?
Sure. Keep it
and read it, harv.
Yeah, I will.
Harv, I don't think you'll mind
if I take this back from you.
You must get caught
pretty often, harv.
You ever do any time?
Yeah, opa-locka
boys' reformatory.
I just got out.
I did seven months.
Not long enough.
You didn't learn very much.
It was supposed
to be a year,
but, you see, I write poems,
and this guy in New York
got me out early.
Poems?
Yeah, you wanna
hear one?
I don't think so, harv.
You guys really
from that, uh --
it's a funny world, harv.
Almost nobody's
what they seem to be.
And the ones that are,
you really have
to watch out for.
Can we give you
some advice?
Get yourself
a square job, harv.
You're not very good
at this.
Hold 'im.
And at one hour, twenty-eight
minutes, "the end" comes up,
count five,
house lights up.
Those doors open.
That's the timetable.
Those are the facts.
That's not
the whole story.
I know some of you have
never been in the motion
picture business before,
and some of you have been
at it a long time.
But I want all of you
to look at the faces out here...
During this picture.
There's gonna be room in their
heads for only one thought:
Don't let it get me.
They know we can't hurt 'em,
scared half to death.
And all of you,
when you thread the projector,
when you tear the tickets,
when you sell
the jujubes,
you're all a part of it.
And just when it gets the worst,
when they're sitting there...
like trapped animals
out here in the dark,
we save them.
And they say,
"hey, it's all right!
Thank God! Hey,
can I see that again?"
P.S., no, they can't.
That was wonderful, Larry.
I'm all a-tremble.
Thanks.
Where are the guys
applying for the job?
Only one showed up.
I sent him to try
the suit on.
Only one?
How many people
in a rubber "mant" suit?
Hey, not bad.
Lawrence woolsey.
Harvey starkweather.
Take your head off.
Harvey starkweather.
What kind of job exactly --
it's just
a one-day thing.
Some of it's
running electrical stuff,
switches and things
back here behind the screen.
But the other part,
you have to scare people!
Really shake 'em up.
Think you could do that?
Yeah, I could do that
real well.
Good.
Because, when you
put the suit on,
when you hit these switches,
those people --
this is where
I came in.
Those people out there
in the dark --
[mother]
Fred! Oh, my God!
[Dad]
Shh. You'll wake
the kids up.
Are you kidding?
I'll wake them up right now.
No, honey.
to say it was over,
but they want
to keep a lid on it.
Dad?
[Explosion]
[Thunder rumbling]
[Sighing]
[Rattling noise]
[Woman]
See the nurse
before the show.
[Radio]
Major Rudolph Anderson, a navy
pilot from South Carolina,
was shot down by a russian
missile over Cuba earlier today
and is presumed dead.
Anderson, the first-known
casualty of the showdown,
was one of the pilots
whose reconnaissance...
First revealed the presence
I hope this thing closes
faster than it opens.
Thirty seconds.
All right,
let's add it up.
Office to stairwell,
fifty-eight seconds.
Stairwell to shelter,
eleven seconds.
Zero hour checklist,
fifteen seconds.
Check air-intake level,
eight seconds.
Automatic door,
twenty-eight seconds.
Sixteen and five is
twenty-one, twenty-two --
Stan, how's it going?
Hey, any of you guys
seen gene?
So!
Sherry!
Neat!
So this is how you're spending
your day, not sandbaggin'
the all-purpose room.
Down here at
the monster show?
No!
See, I --
that's very immature,
Stan.
Who's that?
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