School Daze Page #5

Synopsis: In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the opponent.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director(s): Spike Lee
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
R
Year:
1988
121 min
3,275 Views


When will you jigaboos ever learn

what it is to do it by the book?

Who're you calling jigaboo?

You call people in your family jigaboo?

Look, I am sick of you n*ggers!

Every day the same sh*t!

- Damn, Virg.

- Such profanity.

- "N*ggers"?

- Calm down, killer.

All right, chump.

What do you gentlemen want to do?

Kill each other?

- No, no. It's not like that at all.

- You gonna kill each other?

- Take the banner. Let it go. Give it to him.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Can we still follow the float?

- You can follow.

- Thank you.

- Yeah, on the side.

- Stay in the back.

- Stay on the side.

- Bye, Virgil.

See you, Monroe.

- You happy now?

- I'm very happy.

Good. Now we'll follow you

whenever you get ready.

- In the back.

- We'd be glad to let you follow us. Let's go.

- Jig.

- Shut up, Chucky Cheese.

- I'll smack you into next week.

- Whenever you're ready.

- Watch your mouth.

- We should kick their ass, man.

Hold it, hold it. Coach has something to say.

Gonna win it, Coach.

Men.

We have gathered here today to do a job.

God told and explained to Jonah...

that the essence of love

is to labour for something.

- That's right.

- To make something grow.

That love and labour are inseparable.

- Yes, sir.

- That's right.

One loves that for which one lives...

- and one labours for that which one loves.

- All right!

When we get out on that gridiron...

it's what we have laboured for all week.

All right!

Now...

I want every man to think...

about his responsibilities, his role.

This is a team made up of 65 players...

and it will take a total effort...

by a committed, dedicated,

never-say-die, never-give-up group...

of 65 individuals

who have come together as one!

Yeah!

Go!

We don't have to be told, sir!

To do this job, to win this battle.

- I don't have to tell you...

- No, you don't.

- The stands are packed with your friends...

- Right.

...classmates, your families.

- That's right.

- Alumni has travelled from near and far.

- Talk to me.

I won't even mention

that your lady friends...

- will be watching you.

- Yeah!

Hear, hear.

- Do you want to let them down?

- Hell, no!

Do you want to make a bad representation...

of Mission College?

Hell, no!

Do you want to lose Homecoming...

for the fourth year in a row?

Hell, no!

Do you want me to lose my job?

Hell, no!

- Do you like the devil?

- Hell, no!

- Well, the devil is in that other locker room!

- Make us feel them.

The devil is wearing black jerseys.

- Can I get a witness?

- Yes!

- I want intensity!

- Oh, yeah!

- I want reckless abandon!

- Oh, yeah!

I want you to remember that...

this is Mission College!

And then, by the name of all that is holy...

go out there and kick some butt!

Yeah!

Let's go!

Come on! That's the way!

It's just the first quarter.

Mission Tigers, take it on out

Take it on out

Mission Tigers, take it on out

Fire it up, Mission, fire it up

Fire it up, Mission, fire it up

All right, defence! All right, steady!

Tigers in the front! Yeah!

Let me hear you grunt!

Tigers in the middle, all right!

Let me hear you sizzle

Hold them!

Tigers in the rear

Let me hear you cheer, all right!

Where's the blocking?

- Tigers!

- Tigers!

Wag your tails!

Go back and get the goal!

Come on, man!

Red, right, red, right!

Oops, upside your head

Say oops, upside your head

Oops, upside your head

Say oops, upside your head

Oops, upside your head

Say oops, upside your head

Oops, upside your head

Say oops, upside your head

- This doesn't look good.

- Mission never says die.

Yo, yo, what the f*** is going on?

I've been here four years.

We've lost every Homecoming.

- You play like a bunch of pussies.

- Man, down in the front!

Take your hat, your coat

And leave, motherf***er

Whoever said that sh*t

ain't got no mother, man.

Vaughn Dunlap.

Yeah, President McPherson.

How'd you get the name "Dap"?

Just a nickname. That's all.

Anyway, Vaughn, you've been

a good student these past four years...

- and you've grown into a fine young man.

- Thank you, sir.

That's why I'm so surprised

at your recent activities.

Activities?

You've become a disruptive force

on this campus.

You're hindering other folks

from an education.

Let me make it plain.

Hey, man, you don't really have a choice.

If you continue these antics,

you'll be expelled.

Plain and simple, short and sweet.

This is Cedar Cloud,

Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

- What he says is true.

- True?

With all due respect, President McPherson...

I don't believe

this man knows the meaning of the word.

So what?

You marched with King in the '60s. Big deal.

That was over 20 years ago.

Black people still catching hell

all over the world, you know.

- Sit down, son.

- We have made progress.

Says who?

There is no way you can defend

not divesting completely.

- No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

- It's your programme we don't like.

You cannot hinder other students

from getting an education.

I'll do what I have to do.

So will I.

You know... Look at me!

You've got a lot of living to do.

I had classmates here at Mission

just like you.

And now they're old and bitter.

- You still don't understand, do you?

- Make us understand.

- Is there anything else?

- You may go.

Thank you.

- We'll be watching you.

- You do that.

- Sorry about the game, man.

- Hey, that's all right, man.

We gave it

the old Mission College try, right?

- No, we didn't.

- So I lied.

We got stomped, man. What was the score?

What, 52 to 7?

I don't know, man. I was looking

at the honeys in the fourth quarter, man.

- Hey, Rachel call, man?

- Not since I've been here.

- Bet you it's Dap.

- Let him call.

Miss Life, does that sound like the President

of the Dap Dunlap Fan Club to you?

It does not to me, Witherspoon.

Well, the President

handed in her resignation.

I told him about me pledging

and he went off on me.

- Did I hear right, Rachel?

- Yeah.

Did I just hear that you're going to pledge?

Thanks for telling us. It's a big surprise.

It shouldn't be a surprise.

I've always wanted to pledge.

- Since when?

- Since I got here.

Oh, since you got here.

That's great. So now you feel

you have to belong to something.

You have to go up

and join up with some people, huh?

The Gamma Rays

have certainly gotten to you.

Come on, y'all. I have a sense of who I am.

- Then why wait till your senior year?

- Yeah.

- I was afraid of what Dap would think of me.

- What Dap would think of you?

Well, I'm glad you came around.

'Cause these boys will run your life.

Just give them one chance.

Dap, the word is out, brother.

McPherson called you in on the carpet.

Dag, man. Who told you, man?

You can't hide nothing

from your boys, man.

Holding out on us again, huh?

So what's up with that?

McPherson is on me

about the South African thing, man.

- What'd I tell you?

- You see? I knew it. I knew it.

- What else? I know there's more. What else?

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