Mystery Train Page #6

Synopsis: A Japanese couple obsessed with 1950s America goes to Memphis because the male half of the couple emulates Carl Perkins. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: Orion Home Video
  1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1989
110 min
1,336 Views


- That room?

That room.

Don't make no noise.

Thanks, man.

Thanks a lot.

I'm gonna remember this.

Sh*t. I'm sorry, man.

Man, you got a curse on you...

as sure as the moon

rolls around the world.

It was just an accident.

I'm sorry.

You gotta clean that up.

F*** is the light in this place?

Here's a light.

Damn, Charlie.

I'm glad you don't cut my hair.

No TV?

Hey, Will, what's this chain for?

That's 'cause...

you in the kinky sex room, Charlie.

Really?

Christ. There he is again.

I - I can't get rid

of that f***ing guy.

Turn it around, Charlie, would ya?

It's just giving me the creeps.

There's a chair over there.

I mean, sh*t,

why is he f***ing everywhere?

It's a black hotel...

a black neighborhood.

There's black dudes workin' on the desk.

You know, why don't they

have a portrait of...

Otis Redding or...

Martin Luther King?

Huh?

That's 'cause this a white-owned hotel.

They just got the brothers

workin' here.

Yeah, I see what you mean.

Don't worry.

Next time, Johnny, we gonna ask

for the Malcolm X suite.

That's right.

Hey. I hope you dropped

the empty one.

- Way to go.

- All right, Charlie.

Say, do you have any more

of those Japanese plums...

or any other exotic fruits

from around the globe?

You ate my only plum.

Remember?

Mmm. Yeah.

Hey, Will.

You know, until that -

that bellboy was teasing you...

it never occurred to me.

You're Will Robinson.

You know, just like that kid

on the Lostin Space show.

No sh*t, Einstein.

What's the Lost in Space show?

Oh, man, it was this -

Y - They had -

You didn't have that

on television in England?

Great show.

It was a really stupid show...

with these dumb white people

marooned on another planet...

with this robot that kept sayin',

"Danger, Will Robinson!"

And this fruity professor or somebody.

Dr. Smith.

Yeah. Dr. Smith.

And June Lockhart was on it.

You know. Lassie's mother.

Anyway, it was this family -

the Robinsons.

Get it? Like Robinson Crusoe?

And the main kid was named

Will Robinson.

I guess I missed

that bit of American culture.

Well, you damn sure

didn't miss much!

What? You didn't like that show?

That used to be one of my favorites.

Figures.

That's how I feel in this place...

with you two f***in' snowflakes

hidin' in this place.

Lost in space!

Sh*t.

F*** you, Will.

You gonna start that racist sh*t again?

It ain't our fault.

We didn't choose to be white.

Right, Charlie?

Yeah.

I mean, no.

Sh*t.

...Vance Liquor Store manager Mitch D'Annunzio...

was critically wounded in the shooting.

He was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital

shortly after midnight.

Police are on the lookout for three suspects

described as male, in their early 30s...

two white and one black.

The suspects are armed

and extremely dangerous.

And now the weather update.

Oh, sh*t. Where are we?

Oh, damn.

I was hoping I dreamed all this sh*t.

Hey, Johnny...

where do you think Dee Dee went?

I don't know.

She said something about

a girlfriend in Natchez.

Where is Natchez?

Louisiana?

No, its, uh -

It's in Mississippi, I think.

Right down there on the river.

It's really too bad.

You know, I mean, with your wedding

anniversary coming up and everything.

Look, Charlie...

there's something I gotta tell you.

Me and Dee Dee...

you know, we were

never actually married.

What?

She never told me that.

I wanted to marry her...

but you know Dee Dee.

She always said we'd have to wait

and see how things went.

Great.

You mean after all this sh*t,

you ain't even my f***ing brother-in-law?

Jesus Christ.

Do you know, uh -

What am I, f***ing stupid?

We'd better get rid of that gun, man.

Yeah.

Jesus!

Damn. That's just gotta be Room 22.

I just know it.

- Check it out.

- Yeah, but that sounded like a gunshot.

Check it out.

- You want me to go check it out now?

- Yeah. Check it out right now.

You f***in' shot me!

I don't believe this!

You're not even my brother-in-law,

and now you f***in' shot me!

Uh, excuse me.

Wow.

We saw Graceland this morning...

and by tonight we'll have seen

Fats Domino's house in New Orleans!

Uh, excuse me.

Is this the train to Natchez?

Oh, yes! Matches!

One moment, please!

Hey.

Oh, uh -

No. Never mind.

Thanks anyway.

Thanks anyway!

Attention, passengers.

This is the final boarding call

for Flight 607.

Final call for Flight 607 to Rome

now departing from Gate 6.

Shut up, man.

Oww!

Are you f***in' stupid? Oww!

You got him?

Oww, it hurts!

I need a - I need a doctor.

Don't worry, Charlie.

A lot of doctors in Arkansas.

Arkansas?

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

You hear that?

What, the train?

No. Sirens.

I can hear a train.

I hear the sirens.

Sh*t.

Oww! Sh*t!

All aboard.

# Train I ride #

# Sixteen coaches long #

# Train I ride #

# Sixteen coaches long #

# Well, that long, black train #

# Carry my baby from home #

# Train, train #

# Comin' on round the bend #

# Train, train #

# Comin' on round the bend #

# Well, it took my baby #

# It's gon' do it again #

# Train, train #

# Comin' on down the line #

# Train, train #

# Comin' on down the line #

# Well, it's bringin' my baby#

# 'Cause she's mine, all mine #

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. more…

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