The People vs. Larry Flynt Page #5

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I think you and I could

teach each other a lot.

So are you free

for dinner tomorrow night?

You know, I have a hectic schedule.

You know what's nice about people

like you and me, Mr. Flynt?

- What's that?

- We can do anything we want.

Do you go to church, Larry?

Yeah, church.

Particularly, you know,

the big holidays

Christmas and Easter

and New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve?

Well, that

They don't have church

on New Year's Eve. Okay, well

we've proven I'm a liar and

- I never go.

- It's not important.

That's only a ritual.

And I believe in going straight

to the teachings of Jesus.

And does she love that man.

So would you call yourself

a faith healer?

Goodness, no.

I do spiritual healing.

I don't mend bones.

I mend troubled souls.

That's a relief. I thought you might

be like those tent revival fakes

you know, that used to come

scare the kids with snakes

and, you know, "Wicked this,

wicked that," and

Hellfire? Damnation?

- That sort of thing?

- Yeah.

That kind of talk

is almost unforgivable.

Well, then, I'd say we have

something in common.

Actually, Larry, there's something

else you and I have in common.

What's that?

We're both trying

to release people

from sexual repression.

Really?

I'm sorry, Mrs. Stapleton.

So tell me, is your brother, Ji

Mr. President

- Jimmy. Jimmy will be fine.

- Okay. Jimmy

You think he ever read

my publication?

You remember that interview he gave

Playboy magazine?

The one where he admitted

that he had lust in his heart?

You know, I was especially

proud of that.

I'm sure you were. But Oral Roberts

wasn't, and Billy Graham wasn't.

And they took out after him in public.

So I don't think he's a big

fan of adult magazines.

But you know, Larry, I'm more

ambivalent about what you do.

Because I think that sexuality

is a God-given gift.

I have to agree with you.

When I counsel Pentecostal women

in bad marriages

I don't take the Bible out.

I say to them, "Get some makeup.

Get yourself some curlers.

Make yourself beautiful.

- Jesus wants you to be beautiful."

- Yeah, well, that

You're something.

You surprise me.

Larry, what was your childhood like?

You know, sometimes

things happen to us

when we're very young

that can hurt for many years after.

You know, I think we're all

born into this world

Why? Why?

- Because I had an epiphany, okay?

- A what?

- An epiphany.

- Where'd you learn that damn word?

She's crooking you so hard,

she's teaching you English now?

She ain't crooking me.

- It was more an acid flashback.

- Don't belittle it like that!

It was a serious thing!

Do you think that I wanted Jesus

to tap me on the shoulder?

I'm the last guy who wanted that.

I'm getting laid six times a day.

I got limos and a jet, and I'm sitting

on a mountain of money.

You think I wanted God tapping me

on the shoulder? I didn't want that.

- I had an epiphany once, Larry.

- What was that?

When my daddy shot my

entire family in the head

and I was the only one

to identify the bodies.

I got sent to an orphanage full of good,

Christian nuns, who shoved my face

into their pussies with their crucifixes

on for eight goddamn years!

- I'm sorry for you, but that does not

- Don't be! Be sorry for yourself.

- Don't start throwing that ring at me.

- We're gonna be broke. You'll need that!

Come on. It's okay.

Just get behind me on this, okay?

That's all I'm asking.

I feel like it's me against the world.

You're all I got, baby.

Say you ain't gonna do this.

Promise me you ain't gonna do it.

- I'm doing it! I'm doing it!

- No, Larry, you ain't gonna do it!

Now I'm baptised too, is that it?

F*** you, Larry! F*** you!

Hi. How you doing?

Do you accept the Lord Jesus Christ

as your saviour

and reject Satan and all his works?

I do.

In obedience to the will of God and upon

the confession of this our brother

we baptise you in the name of the

Father and in the name of the Son

and in the name of the Holy Spirit.

Hallelujah!

There will be no more

photo spreads

of women alone.

From now on, sex will be presented

in a more natural setting

with the man in the picture, you know,

a Genesis pictorial

with Adam and Eve getting it on

in the Garden of Eden.

Then next month, I'd like to have

pretty girls all floating

on big, glass crucifixes.

Yeah.

Marjoe Gortner could shoot that.

Larry, I plead with you not to do this.

If you do this, this company's

gonna be worth nothing.

You're all looking at me like

I'm growing horns out of my head.

Look around you.

We are living in Roman times.

It is It is time to feed

the lions to the Christians.

This is a joke.

You're just doing this

to help our circulation.

Arlo

I love you, brother.

But please don't ever, ever, ever

doubt my sincerity.

This is making people sick.

They're going up to the newsstands,

and they're puking. They're vomiting.

Baby, I'm just trying to illustrate

that I am no longer willing

to exploit the female body.

You failed miserably at that.

Nobody on this planet wants their

religion and their porn mixed together.

Well, you know,

Ruth says that sex

Get your friend Ruth to buy 2

f***ing million of these magazines

because nobody else

is gonna f***ing do it.

Larry, I'm not gonna pretend that

I understand what you go through

what this spiritual thing is to you.

I never have.

But I've always been

supportive, always.

And, honey, you're just

taking this too far now.

It's going too far.

It's like you're losing your mind.

Hey!

My mind is fine.

God is working through me. Don't you

see that? I could accomplish anything.

I could move mountains

with God's help.

You see that wall? I could make it come

tumbling down with sheer willpower.

God, do it.

Just do it, then. Do it.

- Do it?

- Yeah.

He's gonna be thrilled

about this, really.

Hey, Larry. Yeah, it's Alan.

I'm here with the eminently reasonable

district attorney of the state of Georgia.

He's very impressed by your conversion

and wants to cut us a plea bargain.

A plea bargain because I found God.

Larry, listen to me for a second.

Don't argue with me on this, okay?

Just say yes because I pulled a lot

of strings to make this happen, okay?

- Is he sitting right there with you?

- Yeah.

Could you do me a favour?

Just tell that miserable, old, grey-haired

bastard to go f*** himself.

We're going to trial.

- Okay, right.

- And praise the Lord.

Right. I got it. Okay.

The Gwinnett County Court

is now in session.

Mr. Flynt, how can you, as a good

Christian, defend this filth?

I don't have to.

It may be wrong in some

people's opinion

to portray women the way

I have, but it's not illegal.

It may not be the smartest thing

to drink too much, but it's not illegal.

You know, abortion may be morally

repugnant, but right now it's not illegal.

If we want to change the laws,

that's another discussion.

But our right to decide for ourselves

cannot be restricted.

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