The Trotsky Page #8

how to strike properly.

You don't learn it

through osmosis.

You know what l mean?

- You don't.

- Listen, when l organized

my first be-in against the war,

a lot was expected of us

at erkeley, baby.

That was ground zero.

- You went to erkeley?

- erkeley in those days

was ground zero.

- Ooh!

Can you spell "clich"?

- Right in the middle

of the ennedy administration,

so the kids weren't used to

those massive demonstrations.

- You are so old!

Wow, l didn't realize that...

Old man!

- Shut up, Julian!

- You are an old--

You are a geez-- a geezer.

- Okay, that's enough.

l think it's time for bed...

What do you say, Julian?

- O.., O... l'm gonna go, guys.

l'm gonna--

Gotta be up tomorrow.

- Au revoir.

- O...

- l got the chair.

- Please continue.

- Huh?

- Your erkeley-ennedy

demonstrators. Please continue.

- This was before Patty Hearst

and the DNC in Chicago,

lt was before all that stuff.

very time l would try to pull

a demonstration together,

it was, uh, just a disaster.

Unless we had some fascist

on the campus that we could yell at,

it would turn

into some gigantic sock hop.

l'll explain that to you later.

l'll tell you what that means.

ut the point is, everybody came just

to be part of the scene, you know,

just to--

just to be in the club.

nd then, one day l realized,

it's never real

until it stops being fun.

ll of these people,

everyone one of them

has to be as serious

as you are about it.

Not that it's realistic that

anybody would ever be as serious

as you are about anything.

That was a little joke, Leon.

"jokitations".

Leon?

- ll right. Here's the deal.

We f***ed that strike up.

- lt wasn't that bad.

- lt wasn't awesome.

- Well, we're moving on.

ut before we do, you all need

to ask yourselves one question:

How far are you willing to go?

- ll the way.

- Yeah.

- Well, good.

Faith without deeds is dead.

The time has come for a coup.

veryone follow?

- F***in' !

- Remind me what a coup is again.

- l can't go any further

without saying this:

We are changing territories here.

We are going from the defensibly legal,

to the indefensibly illegal.

- Uh, what?

- We could go to jail. For real.

That being said, Skip and Sarah,

l need you guys at

the movie theatre on Friday.

You need a solid alibi

hiding in plain sight.

Meanwhile,

when you're in the theatre,

start texting your friends.

Get them to text their friends.

Send out the word that there's

something happening at school.

- l don't know.

Texting in the theatre?

- That's just not cool.

Why can't l really help?

l'm already in so much trouble

with dad.

What's the worst

that can happen now?

- l heard the word "jail" again.

Um, why don't l just

take Sarah to the movies?

- No. No, you will not.

Skip will.

This is the biggest favour

you can do me right now.

- Well, um, Sarah, l heard

there's a new Zack fron movie

coming up this weekend?

- nd l think there's, um,

there's a new en Loach retrospective

at the Cinmathque.

- ither way.

- Who were those kids

in the nimal Farm outfits

at the dance?

- Oh, l know one of them.

Her name is Mlanie.

- Uh, her name is

actually Marie-Soleil.

- Mmm.

l've told you, l know every

French person's name.

- ring me those heads.

So you're ready

to go to the movies?

- Oh my god! Stop yelling.

Yes, let's go.

O... Sorry.

Yeah

Come

Go go go go go go go

Let's go

Fire

Bundle up

My whole style is so cold

I glow like old guys

who go bald

My flow got no front

in the vocal

Your flow got no button

its so old

I don't mean to sound

like a showboat

But it's true my persona's

no joke

I stepped into

some kind of portal

I'm legend

and sometimes I'm noble

I'm from the most risky zone oh

No place

is more shifty global

More pistols

Russian revolvers

We shootin' all that is normal

But it ain't just

because we want to

We ain't got nowhere

we can run to

Somebody please press the undo

They only teach us

the things that guns do

They don't teach us the ABCs

We play on the hard concrete

All we got is life on the streets

They don't teach us the ABCs

We play on the hard concrete

All we got is life on the streets

They don't teach us the ABCs

We play on the hard concrete

All we got is life on the streets

- See me go over the counter?

- Hello?

You real

But my real is tenfold

My rhythm make yours a rental

Gangsta if at ease essential...

- What in God's name

is going on here?

They don't teach us the ABCs

We play on the hard concrete

All we got is life on the streets

They don't teach us the ABCs

We play on the hard concrete

All we got is life on the streets

Come...

- O.., we're good.

- Mr. ronstein, l know

it's you in that pig mask.

- lt's time for you guys

to get the hell out of here.

- What do you mean?

- Well, there's nobody left.

We've secured the office.

There's no other reason

for you to stick around

- You have any idea

how long it took me

to figure out how

to barricade these doors?

- You sure you don't need us?

- No, l'm positive.

No, what l need you guys to do

is go find Skip and Sarah

and spread the word, O..?

l need a really big crowd

out front and quick.

We really need that crowd.

- Understood, comrade.

- Yeah, man.

- Spasibo.

ll, police?

xcuse me,

but l've forgotten how to say

"hostage negotiation"

in French.

Ah, d'accord.

Merci beaucoup.

l actually just got off

the phone with the cops

just this second.

They're on their way down now.

l told them that

l wasn't armed technically,

but that l could still

do lots of damage.

- Stop talking to the cops!

- l thought it was cool.

- Don't say anything else

till I get there.

- l'm re-enlisting.

Do l have a cell phone?

- ey, uh, it's Leon.

Um, I'e taken

my principal hostage

so I'll probably be

on the news soon.

So, if you miss me at all

you can see me there.

And I still love you.

That's it. Goodbye.

- ey, uh, it's Leon.

Um, I'e taken

my principal hostage

so I'll probably be

on the news soon.

No cops yet.

l guess people don't actually

care what happens to you.

- What exactly do you hope to

accomplish today, Mr. ronstein?

ecause the almost

certain outcome of this

is you going to prison.

- Yeah, l think that

was pretty obvious by now.

- Why are you deliberately

sabotaging your own life?

- Hey, hey, hey.

Listen to me.

l am not sabotaging my own life.

How dare you?

nd if l was, it would be

for the sake of my ideals.

- Oh, please! Your ideals?

You want to better the existence

of your fellow man?

- Yes! Yes!

That's exactly it!

- Let me tell you what l learned

after teaching public school.

They don't want your help.

They don't want it better.

They want the same sh*t.

lf they didn't,

this wouldn't be hard for you.

- You wanna know what's hard?

What's hard for people like me

is the very existence

of people like you!

- You make me sad, Mr. ronstein.

revolutionary sans a revolution.

You're a real Russian tragedy.

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