The Decline of Western Civilization Page #9

Synopsis: The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
Director(s): Penelope Spheeris
Production: Spheeris Films
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
93
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
1981
100 min
426 Views


She don't like junkies

She don? like druggies

She just wants my beef bologna

Beef, beef, beef, beef bologna

Beef, beef, beef, beef bologna

Beef, beef, beef, beef bologna

She don't like salami

She don'! want pastrami

She don't want a chicken

She don't want a roast

She just wants her

Double dose of my

Beef, beef, beef, beef bologna

Beef, beef, beef,

Beef bologna

Beef, beef, beef,

Beef bologna

[AUDIENCE CHEERING]

Hey, do you know why

chicks have their

little holes

so close together.

GIRL:
So you can carry

them like a six pack of beer.

So you can carry them

like a six pack of beer.

We just want you to like us.

Really. Here, wait a minute.

I got some money.

[GUITAR DISTORTION]

Here, would you like us?

Here, if you like us,

here's real money.

That's real money.

We want you to like us, yeah.

Really, we just think

you're a bunch of queers

and we don't give a f***

if you like us or not.

F***, we're from Frisco.

MAN:
Just go back to Frisco.

We don't have any ones...

MAN:
Go piss up a rope.

WOMAN:
Fuckface!

For as dumb as you are,

even you will remember this.

If there is any A and R people

in the audience tonight...

Go die.

[WHISTLING]

We are friends.

Once again, it's great to be gay

and to be here.

This is our smash-hit single

from whence we got all the money.

It's great to be filthy rich,

like us.

Buying drugs-

F*** you.

I love livin' in the city

[PLAYING I LOVE LIVIN'IN THE CITY]

I love livin' in the city

I love livin' in the city

I love livin' in the city

Yes,1 do

I love livin' in the city

I love livin' in the city

Yes,1 do

I love livin' in the city

I love livin' in the city

It's great to be gay

here in Frisco.

You know, how many punks

it takes

to screw in a light bulb?

- WOMAN:
Twenty.

- Twenty.

One to hold the ladder.

One to screw it in

And 18 on the guest list.

Yous all suck,

Who don't think so?

WOMAN:
You suck.

This is about how much

we really like you.

We suck what?

It's called Let's Have a War.

We're from Frisco.

Frisco all the way.

We're coming...

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

Let's have a war

So you can go and die!

Let's have a war!

We could all use the money!

Let's have a war!

We need the space!

Let's have a war and

Clean out this place!

It already started

In the city!

Suburbia will be just as easy!

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

Let's have a war!

Jack up the Dow Jones!

Let's have a war!

It can start in New Jersey!

Let's have a war!

Blame it on the middle-class!

Let's have a war!

We're like rats in a cage!

It already started

In the city!

Suburbia will be just as easy!

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

Let's have a war!

Sell the rights to the networks!

Let's have a war!

Give guns to the queers!

Let's have a war!

It can start in New Jersey!

Let's have a war!

The enemy's within!

It already started

In the city!

Suburbia will be just as easy!

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

There's so many of us

There's so many of us

There's so many

[AUDIENCE CHEERING]

Oh, the land of the free

And the homos

Too

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Penelope Spheeris

Penelope Spheeris (born December 2, 1945) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization. She has directed feature films, including Wayne's World, her highest-grossing film. more…

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