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The Long Walk Home Page #6
- PG
- Year:
- 1990
- 97 min
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was silly when it first started.
And if it wasn't
being made into...
such a circus by the coloreds,
I'd still think it was silly. But...
...it's not anymore.
And drivin' Odessa
to work, it...
just wasn't the right thing to do.
You know that.
I think Odessa... has been
a wonderful maid for us,
and when she's here,
that's what she is: A Maid.
And that's not the real Odessa. We don't
know that woman. Can't ever know her.
It's like... a dog knowin' a cat.
It's a different species.
And you drivin' her to work is
tellin' her that she's just like us.
And she's not,
and she never can be.
Even if I thought you didn't
understand that, and I know you do,
I still couldn't let you
drive her to work.
Do you know what would happen to you...
You saw the pictures from Tuscaloosa
when they kicked that niggra out.
There are people here, now,
that are ready to do those things.
Don't go off on your own.
You ask me.
I know what's best.
Mrs. Thompson?
- Mrs. Thompson?
- Odessa. I didn't know if you'd make it.
I did the breakfast dishes.
Mrs. Thompson...
why did you call me at home,
and tell me you couldn't carry
me to work anymore?
Well, if...
If you won't ride the bus,
Mr. Thompson doesn't see
why I should have to suffer.
I ain't asked you to suffer,
Mrs. Thompson.
It wasn't me, Odessa.
It was Mr. Thompson.
He was home with a cold today,
and he found out.
Let me get you somethin' dry.
- Here ya are.
- Thank you.
So, what are you gonna do?
I don't know.
I can't walk,
and I can't ride the bus.
Can't you just walk until
this whole mess is over?
Mrs. Thompson,
you a good woman.
But I gotta find me another job.
I gotta quit.
I gotta be able to take
care of my children.
Well, uh, I understand.
You know, it's... It's funny
the way people are.
This mornin' Norman was actin' so sick,
and then he found out I'd been drivin' you,
and he got so mad,
he jumped out of bed.
I guess that got his blood goin', and he
started feelin' better and went on to work.
Norman's just always been where
everything's segregated. That's...
That's just the way he thinks.
When I was 15, my girls club went
on a bus trip across the country.
It was in the '30s,
but my family had some money, and,
I remember we went
to Portland, Oregon.
It was the middle of the summer,
and it was hot, and,
the bus driver found this public
pool for us. We went swimmin'.
Then these two colored boys came
and got in the water. And let me tell ya,
you've never seen 20 girls get out
of a pool so fast in all your life.
We just...
We just didn't know any better.
But I remember watchin'
those other kids in the water.
And they just kept right on swimmin'
they didn't seem any
the worse for it.
So the rest of the world
around ya is...
livin' that way, and so you
just don't question it.
Years ago...
I decided I'd live with Norman
for the rest of my life.
And part of that means
livin' the way he lives.
But sometimes...
Sometimes Norman says things.
It makes me wonder if he saw as much of the
world durin' the war as he thought he did.
But he's a good man.
He's a good provider.
In a lot of ways, he's a better
husband than I am a wife.
He's better with the children.
He...
You know, he can say a word and
make 'em smile. I can't do that.
Mrs. Thompson, he can't be
a mother to 'em.
Odessa.
You do the motherin'.
I saw the way you held Mary Catherine
when she had the chicken pox,
and you hadn't even had it.
Mrs. Thompson, anybody
would have done that.
I wonder.
Would I have done that
for your daughter?
Mrs. Thompson, I don't want your
children to grow up scared of mine.
It's just that a lot
of the wives are scared.
I'm a little scared.
We all scared.
But what's scarin' you, Mrs. Thompson?
Who you are?
Or who Mr. Thompson
wants you to be?
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Here.
- Oh, thank you.
- Let me take your coat.
- Thank you.
- How's your cold?
- Oh, I'm miserable. I feel like crap.
Well, that's nice, honey.
Odessa walked to work today.
- Oh, you told her she had to?
- In the rain.
From Cobb Street.
But she's not walking again.
- No?
- No.
You have your job, and I
guess you do it just fine.
My job is to run this house. And as
long as it's clean, supper's cooked,
and the laundry... the laundry
gets done, I don't...
I don't think it's any of your
business how it happens.
Wait a second. Aren't you forgettin'
who pays the bills around here?
Well then, what time should
I be ready tomorrow?
Ready for what?
Well, I'm gonna go downtown with you in
the mornin' and help you with your job.
You seem so intent on
helping me with mine.
Or if you don't like that idea,
I do have a college education,
so I'll just go out and
get a job of my own.
It'll probably be somethin' secretarial,
but I'm sure I'll manage.
You will have to take on a lot of
the housework, which will include
finding a maid who
can get out here.
But the money I earn will be my own,
and I'll do with it what I damn well please.
- You're serious...
- And that includes givin' it all to that
Reverend King and the Montgomery
Improvement Association,
so they can put an end to
Now, do you really care
We're havin' pork chops
for supper,
and I told Mary Catherine that you'd
read to her before she went to sleep.
Did you get Mary Catherine
to bed?
Yeah.
What are you doin'?
Oh, are you just not
gonna talk to me?
Honey, there's no reason
to be so mad.
- Norman, talk to me.
- You already made up your mind.
- No need to talk to me.
- Honey, I'm doin' what I think is right.
Where are you going?
Norman, I'm still your wife.
Yeah, that's all you are.
Odessa, come on,
sit up front with me.
Odessa, how does that
carpooling system work?
Well, I don't use it often,
Mrs. Thompson,
but I believe that drivers
come at the end of day,
to places like Cloverdale, and they pick
up the women that need the rides.
It's a little more organized
than that, isn't it?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
They look for the ringleaders
of the boycott,
they pull 'em over
and give 'em tickets.
If they see too many coloreds in the car,
they pull them over too.
I'll probably get
lots of tickets.
You know, Mrs. Thompson,
it ain't just tickets.
Once you step over there, I don't
know that you can ever step back.
But the boycott
needs the help.
Mrs. Thompson, this boycott's
gonna survive without you drivin'.
Odessa, I wanna do this.
I wanna help.
There's a lot of ways you can help, Mrs.
Thompson. You can just write a check.
If I wrote you a check,
it would be Norman's money.
This is somethin' I can do.
This whole mess is just about
ridin' the bus anyway.
That's what it is now.
But we gonna win this thing,
Mrs. Thompson.
When it's all said and done...
people are gonna look at you,
Mrs. Thompson,
and they're gonna say
that you were part of this.
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