What's Eating Gilbert Grape Page #4

I forgot that

that was where your dad...

Yep.

I'm-I'm sorry.

No, that's okay.

Don't worry about it.

- No, Arnie! No! No climbing!

- I wanna go up there!

Arnie! No, you're not!

Arnie! Not again!

- Arnie!

- I wanna go up there!

- Get down. Get down.

Get down!

You're not going anywhere!

Not too much fun, is it?

I wanna go up there!

No! We're going home!

We're going home.

Come on.

- Stop!

- Ellen, no! Stop it!

- Stop it!

- I told you, don't touch him.

- What am I supposed to do?

- Don't ever touch him again.

- He was climbing again!

I don't care. Just get out of here.

Get out of here!

Let me see, buddy.

Come on. Let me see.

Let me see. Oh, great.

You made him bleed!

What does Gilbert say?

If anybody ever hits you...

or even just lays a finger on you,

what are you gonna do?

Arnie?

Hmm?

You're gonna tell me, and then I'm

gonna take care of it for you, right?

And why will I take care of it?

- Gilbert.

- Hmm?

- Because you're Gilbert.

- Because I'm Gilbert.

Because nobody hurts Arnie,

right?

Okay. You wanna pick out some candy?

- Can I talk to you for a minute?

- What do you want?

We've got to keep

a closer eye on him.

- What?

- We've gotta do better.

Are you listening to me?

- Mine.

- And you.

- Huh?

- You have to stay here.

You stay right on this porch.

You don't go anywhere.

- Don't go anywhere.

- Don't go anywhere.

We're not going anywhere, Gilbert.

We're not going anywhere, you know?

We're not going anywhere.

We're not going anywhere.

We're not going...

We're not going anywhere.

We're not going anywhere!

We're not going anywhere!

Gilbert, we're not going anywhere.

We're not going anywhere!

We're not going anywhere.

Where are you going?

Hey!

I'm waiting.

Waitin' for that call, Gilbert.

Hey!

Hi, Gilbert.

- Oh, look. Come here.

- What?

- It's a praying mantis.

- Oh.

You know how they mate? The male

will sneak up on the female...

and she'll bite off his head...

and the rest of his body

will keep on mating.

And then when they're done...

she'll eat him.

She'll eat the rest of him.

Grandma, we have company.

So, do you want to eat?

- Help yourself.

- Oh, thank you. Wow.

Well, we missed the rally

in Des Moines.

If we get on the road by Friday,

we'll be able to make Colorado Springs

in time to catch them.

Have you ever been to Colorado?

No, ma'am.

It must be wonderful.

It must be incredibly

frustrating then...

to be stuck here in this place,

in Endora.

This place

is as good a place as any.

Think so?

She should know.

Becky's been just about

everywhere there is to go.

Places I didn't even know existed.

I'm a worldly kind of girl.

Me, I spent most of my whole life

in the same spot.

Why doesn't matter.

Anyway, she encouraged me

to get out.

Now she can't stay put anywhere.

She's the smartest,

most beautiful girl in the world.

Isn't she?

Isn't she beautiful?

Isn't she beautiful?

I'm sorry. She has this thing

with beauty that...

Oh, yeah, I noticed that.

I'm not into that... that whole

external beauty thing, you know.

- 'Cause it... it doesn't last.

- Right.

You're, you know... Eventually,

your face is gonna get wrinkly...

- you'll get grey hair...

- Sure.

- your b*obs might sag.

You know? So what?

It's what you do

that really matters.

- Right?

- Yeah, sure.

So what do you wanna do?

Oh, uh, I don't know. I mean,

there's not so much to do here, really.

You can think of one thing.

Think of one thing that people do here.

Um...

Thank you.

It was nice meeting you.

Be nice.

- Hello.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Can I have yours

and I'll give you mine instead?

No, we want the big one!

You know something?

The one on top of it is fine.

- No, we want the big one!

- Yeah, I like it.

- Let's go.

- Come on! Get us the big one!

- Come on, Mom. Please?

- Here you go, guys.

- l...

- We want the big one.

- Yeah, that's fine.

It's changing.

That's what's wild about the sunset.

It'll just change really,

really slowly in front of your eyes.

I love the sky.

It's so limitless.

It is big.

It's very big.

Big doesn't even sum it up right.

That-That word "big" is so small.

You'd have to get

those really giant words...

to describe the sky.

Oh. Um...

What?

I have to go do this thing.

It's kind of a family thing.

Do you want me to give you a ride

back into town, or do you wanna...

No, actually,

I'm just gonna sit here.

I could come back. I mean, I can...

I can come back and...

- Really?

- Yeah. Will you... You'll be here then?

- Yeah.

- All right.

- I'll just sit here.

All right, I'll be...

I'll be back in a little bit.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- Gilbert.

- Hey, buddy. Come on. We gotta go.

Gotta go. Gotta go. Gotta go.

- Gilbert, where's the duck?

- Where's the duck?

- I can't see the duck anywhere.

- Find him. Look. Where'd he go?

- Where's the duck?

- It's hiding. Find the duck.

- Arnie, I don't have time for this.

Lift up. Okay, good.

- Ducky.

- Good boy. You know what?

- You're such a big boy.

- Yeah.

- You're such a big boy.

- I'm a big boy.

- Hey, you know what?

I bet you could do this all

by yourself if you really wanted to.

- Could you do this by yourself?

- I'm a big boy.

- Yeah, be a big boy.

- Big boy.

- Okay, take this.

- Take this.

- Wash everything.

- Your towels are there...

- Okay.

- and your robe is there.

- Okay.

- Okay?

- The big boy's gonna wash himself.

- Right. Okay.

- I gotta go.

- Okay.

- Gotta go.

- You missed it.

- What did I miss?

- The sunset.

- Really?

- It was beautiful.

- Oh.

Oh, well.

I'd like to see where you live.

- No, you wouldn't.

- Let's go see where you live.

Come on.

My parents split up

when I was a kid.

I go back and forth between them...

'cause they're always moving.

But it's good.

It's my life.

Yeah

We don't really move.

I mean, we'd like to, but...

my mom is sort of

attached to the house.

Attached is, I guess,

not the right word.

She's pretty much wedged in.

- What do you mean?

- That's it. That's the house.

It's really amazing.

I mean, how small it looks

from here, considering the...

the girth of what's inside of it.

I don't know.

Did you ever see

a beached whale on television?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

That's her.

That's my mom.

What about your dad?

Some other day.

Some other day.

I had a nice time tonight.

I know.

- Good night.

- Good night.

Oh, no. Oh, no.

Oh, Arnie. Come on.

I'm sorry, buddy. Come on.

Here, here.

You're okay. You're okay.

You're okay.

You're okay, buddy.

Come on. Get warm.

Oh, God, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, buddy.

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry.

Would somebody please explain?

- Gilbert's in charge of bathing.

- I could have "drownded."

I could have "drownded."

- No more baths.

- But you didn't, honey.

- You could've, but you didn't.

- No more baths, Mama.

It is too much to ask

to see this boy turn 18?

- No.

- It's ready.

Where's your head lately, Gilbert?

Where is your head?

Gilbert?

- Sorry, Mama.

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