Out of It (1969) - full transcript
The story of two high school students: one a socially inept intellectual, the other a not-so-bright football hero and lady killer.
(lion roars)
(dramatic orchestral music)
(seagulls crying)
(people chattering)
(waves rolling and splashing)
(camera clicks)
(camera clicks)
(camera clicks)
(waves rolling and splashing)
(girl squeals)
(camera clicks)
(peppy instrumental music)
(car horn blares)
- Where you goin'?
- We, where are we going?
- Where are we going?
- To the sea.
What else is there to do anyway?
- What are we gonna do there?
- Contemplate.
- Oh, you think so.
- [Paul Voiceover] Shouldda
said the Beach Bar.
Belmore Lounge maybe.
Barbara, I wanna kiss you very much.
I would definitely like to.
- [Barbara Voiceover] I hope nobody thinks
I'm going with him.
Oh, god, it's just one date.
- [Paul Voiceover] You
can't come out and say it.
A simple declarative sentence.
You just can't say it.
- [Barbara Voiceover] What if
he wants to kiss me goodnight?
Hmmm?
(waves rolling and splashing)
- I love the sea.
So simple.
Listen, it really is beautiful.
- Yeah, it is.
Most people don't know how
to appreciate it though.
- You must know some poetry about the sea.
- Why me?
- [Barbara] Come on.
- Ah, water water everywhere
and not a drop to drink.
- Come on.
- "Far and few, far and few,
"Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
"Their heads are green,
and their hands are blue,
"And they sailed to sea in a Sieve.
"And their friends said, who saw them go,
"Oh, you'll be drowned you know,
"For the sea is vast and the voyage long
"And happen what may it is extremely wrong
"In a sieve to sail so far."
- It is so vast.
Don't you like it?
- Yeah, I do.
You wanna swim in it?
- You know, Christine said you were deep.
Deep, can you believe it?
- She said I was deep?
- [Barbara] Yeah.
- What else did she say?
- Mmmm, nothing.
- Come on, let's swim in it.
The sea.
- Well, I don't have a suit on.
- Me either.
Who needs clothes anyway?
I've got nothing to hide.
- Hey, you must be kidding.
Oh, I don't believe it.
They'll never believe it.
Hey, hey, oh.
Hey, I'm not looking at you.
- [Paul] Yeah, I can see that.
Come on, the water looks great.
- Oh, you're kidding.
Hey, oh.
(waves rolling and splashing)
- Do you have a key?
Not that I wouldn't want
to meet your mother.
- She leaves it open.
- Look, I'm sorry you can't
go to that play Tuesday.
- Ask Christine to go.
She'd like that sort of thing.
- Come on, she doesn't
even know me really.
- Say, did Chris say
anything else I should know?
- Chris?
- Barbara?
When did she say I was deep?
- Oh, nevermind.
- Night.
I wish he would take me to bed.
Take me, take me.
Paul is deep.
He's deep, so deep.
(car horn blares)
The uglies.
I've got the uglies.
(gas pump dings)
Is that a pistol in your pocket
or are ya just pleased to see me?
- Genius, genius.
(Paul laughs)
Alright, come on.
How come your pants are off, really?
- You're goin' out with
Barbara Tuesday, aren't ya?
How'd you both like to double with me?
Go to a play in the city.
- Come on, how come?
- Alright, I went swimming.
- Bare ass?
- Yeah.
- She didn't go in like that.
- Are you kidding?
She was scared out of her mind.
She didn't even look.
- [Steve] You really went in bare ass?
- How 'bout Tuesday night?
- [Steve] Fantastic.
Yeah, okay.
Who you gonna take?
- Oh, I dunno.
Someone who can appreciate
my sterling qualities.
- Chris?
Russell'd break your neck.
(radio chattering)
- How's Russ?
- How was your date?
- Would you go out with him?
(typewriter clicking)
(typewriter dings)
(typewriter clicking)
- What crap.
(seagull crying)
(dramatic string music)
(radio chattering)
- They pitch to him, that's the game.
Hey, watch it, fella.
- Sorry, Russ.
- Well, watch it that's all, Steve.
- You alright?
Boy, you went in a little fast.
(radio chattering)
- I didn't know Steve was
such a good friend of his.
Since when?
- A while, I think.
- Just watch it, that's all.
- Is he kidding?
- What, what is it?
- What's the matter?
- I dunno.
- What don't ya know, wiseguy?
Thought your kind was
supposed to know everything?
- What kind?
What are ya talking about?
- Come on, Russ, leave him alone.
- Steve, he gave me the finger.
- Would you get your lousy hands off.
- Chris, come over here.
- [Christine] Leave him alone, Russ, huh.
- Apologize to her.
- Who?
- The lady.
- I'm sorry, lady.
- Hey.
Alright, you better stay outta my way.
- Yes sir.
- You want some more?
- No sir, sorry sir.
- [Christine] Let's go, that's enough.
- See ya, Steve.
- [Christine] Bye.
- [Paul Voiceover] What do you want,
you dumb overgrown gorilla?
Why don't you develop that
muscle between your ears.
Stupid moron, mesomorph, delta minus.
You dumb animal.
I could sink that
screwdriver into your stomach
and rip your guts open.
Yeah, but I'd get the
electric chair if I did.
You lucky slob.
- [Christine Voiceover]
Paul, you know so much
about non-violence, Gandhi and Christ,
Martin Luther King.
Oh, how I love you.
How I wanna talk with you.
To tell you how we're the only
two who really understand.
- [Paul Voiceover] Yes, oh yes, yes.
- [Steve] He's too
sensitive for his own good.
- He's just dumb.
Why are there so many
good-looking bastards like him
who are so dumb?
It's not fair.
- Who said the world was fair?
- [Paul] Christine Larson.
- Who?
- [Paul] Christine Larson.
- I haven't heard her name before, have I?
- Yes.
- [Mother] When?
- Just now, twice.
- Don't be sarcastic with your mother.
- She's a cheerleader, Mom.
You know, I'm making a big move up.
I mean, it's a self-willed, existential,
unexpected, cosmic leap, Ma.
- Don't be sarcastic with your mother.
- There's some watermelon
in the refrigerator.
- Where's the drama section?
- It's on the chair.
- Would you mind getting
it for your father, Paul?
- Sure.
Say, Dad, could I use
mom's car tomorrow night?
- You're not using the car
tomorrow, are you dear?
- What would I need it for?
- You may use it then.
- Thanks.
- [Christine] Hello?
- [Paul] Hello, this
is Paul Green calling.
May I please speak to Christine?
- [Christine] It's me.
- [Paul] Oh, hi.
Well this is Paul Green calling.
- [Christine] Hello.
- [Paul] How are you?
- [Christine] Fine.
How are you?
- [Paul] Oh fine.
Say, Chris, would you like to go to a play
in the city tomorrow night?
Romeo and Juliet.
- [Christine] Paul, I'm sorry about
what happened on the beach.
- [Paul] Nevermind.
- [Christine] No, I really am.
- [Paul] Look, what
about Romeo and Juliet?
- [Christine] Well what about them?
- [Paul] The play, tomorrow night?
- [Christine] Okay, I'd
like to go with you.
- [Paul] Really?
- [Christine] Yeah.
- [Paul] Great.
- [Christine] We won't get
back too late, will we?
- [Paul] Oh no, no, not too late.
I'll pick you up at 6:45.
- [Christine] Great.
- [Paul] Eat first.
- [Christine] What?
- [Paul] Eat first.
We wont' have time to eat before the show.
- [Christine] (laughs) That's okay.
- [Paul] Great, see you then.
- [Christine] Goodbye, Paul.
- [Paul] Goodnight, Christine.
(electric shaver buzzing)
(toothbrush buzzing)
(Waterpik buzzing)
- You look ravishing, Christine.
Christine, you look wonderful.
Chris, you look great.
Great, Christine, you look great.
That's it.
Great, Christine, you look great.
Don't worry, Mrs. Larsen,
we'll drive carefully.
Good night.
Don't worry, we will.
You know you really surprised me
you're being able to make it tonight.
- It took some arranging.
- Yeah, I'll bet.
- One more year and
we're out of this place.
- Oh, I've gotta pick them up.
- Pick up who?
- Steve and Barbara.
We're doubling.
- Doubling?
(radio chattering)
(cars honking)
- I dunno, Russ is cool.
- Well, what do you mean?
- I don't know, he's it, isn't he.
Even if I don't know what it means.
Look, I'm detached aren't I?
- That's not what it really means.
- All of you are cool, right?
- Just you against the world?
Rich people are cool.
Ugly people aren't so cool.
- You know, I once wanted to
write a movie about ugly girls.
I mean, how miserable they must be.
- Not anymore.
I mean, with all the
makeup and clothes you get,
there's no need for that.
- I don't think so.
I mean, what about Alice the Ass?
- Well, I think Russ is really cool.
- He's too dumb.
- No he's not, Paul.
There's a lot more to human
beings than you suspect.
- Yeah, yeah, well sure.
I've got a lot to learn.
I'm really very ignorant.
Like Socrates.
- Turn up the radio.
- No, I think this is important, Steve.
- Turn it up.
- Hey, we're coming to the toll.
You want them to think
we're some underage
kids driving illegally?
Better get some classical
music, Chris, 1560.
- I know.
- Most people don't, Chris.
- [Steve] How come your father
let you drive into the city?
- He likes me.
Do you have 50 cents for the toll?
- [Steve] Here.
- Kennedy.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- Hey.
Hey, it's 25.
You gave me 50 cents, it's only 25.
- Say, could I have the
half dollar back, please?
I have a quarter right here.
Thanks a lot.
(mellow rock music)
♫ Everything is bright.
♫ Electric days
♫ And flowered flowered nights
♫ Yesterday is fading
with its weary people
♫ What matters is today
♫ Electric days
♫ Flowered nights
♫ Electric days
♫ Flowered nights
♫ Flying motels
♫ Kaleidoscopic halls
♫ Cities of light, where
petals break down walls.
♫ Tomorrow seems so far away
♫ Then suddenly it turns into today
♫ And then I know that I have found my way
♫ And I see a different day.
♫ Electric day and
flowered flowered nights
♫ Look at the lights
(audience chattering)
- Steve, would yo like a Bonbon?
Barbara?
Christine, would you like one?
- [Narrator] "Two households,
both alike in dignity,
"In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
"Where civil blood makes
civil hands unclean.
"From forth the fatal
loins of these two foes,
"A pair of star-cross'd
lovers take their life;
"Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
"Doth with their death bury
their parents' strife."
- [Tybalt] "Art thou drawn
among these heartless hinds?
"What, draw then talk of peace?
"I hate the word, as I hate
hell, all Montagues, and thee.
"Have at thee, coward."
(actors shouting)
- [Juliet] "And bring in
cloudy night immediately.
"Spread thy close curtain,
love-performing night,
"That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo
"Leap to these arms,
untalk'd of and unseen."
- [Romeo] "What lady is that,
which doth enrich the hand
"Of yonder knight?"
- [Servant] "I know not, sir."
- [Romeo] "O, she doth teach
the torches to burn bright!
"It seems she hangs
upon the cheek of night
"Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
"Beauty too rich for
use, for earth too dear!
"So shows a snowy dove
trooping with crows,
"As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
"The measure done, I'll
watch her place of stand,
"And, touching hers, make
blessed my rude hand.
"Did my heart love till
now? forswear it, sight!
"For I ne'er saw true
beauty till this night."
- [Tybalt] "This, by his
voice, should be a Montague.
"Fetch me my rapier, boy."
- [Friar] "What, Chequering
the eastern clouds
"With streaks of light,
"And flecked darkness
like a drunkard reels
"From forth day's path
and Titan's fiery wheels:
"Now, ere the sun advance
his burning eye..."
(speech becomes slurred and slow)
- [Rome] "It is my
lady. Oh, it is my love.
"Oh, that she knew she were!
"She speaks yet she says
nothing: what of that?
"Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
"I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
"Two of the fairest
stars in all the heaven,
"Having some business, do entreat her eyes
"To twinkle in their
spheres till they return.
"What if her eyes were
there, they in her head?
"The brightness of her cheek
would shame those stars,
"As daylight doth a
lamp; her eyes in heaven
"Would through the airy
region stream so bright
"That birds would sing and
think it were not night.
"See, how she leans her
cheek upon her hand!
"O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
"That I might touch that cheek!"
- [Prince Escalus] "and some punished:
"For never was a story of more woe
"Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
(audience applauds)
- [Christine] Paul, I'm not feeling well.
We better go right home.
- [Steve] Locked it in the car.
- [Barbara] Can you believe it?
- [Steve] Too cool.
- How you feeling?
- Alright.
- How come you spend
so much time with him?
- Car, boat.
No, he's alright.
- Well, he's interesting.
- Do you think so?
- Yeah.
- You really think so?
- Yeah.
- I guess he is kind of.
- [Paul] Hey.
- In a little trouble, kid?
- A little.
- You're lucky you got a convertible.
No center post.
- Where'd you guys learn how to do that?
- We do it a couple of times a week.
- Well, that's a relief.
Thanks a lot.
- Not at all, drive carefully now.
- [Christine] You won't make it.
- [Paul] Sorry, I thought I could.
- [Steve] You're lucky they
didn't ask you for your license.
- [Christine] We were all lucky.
- [Paul] No cars on the road
and we're here like jerks
waiting for a traffic light to go blip.
- [Steve] It won't kill
you to obey the law.
- [Paul] Who makes the law?
Cops can break into cars.
Soldiers are allowed to kill civilians.
It's all legal.
- [Christine] How can you say that?
- [Paul] It's not so hard.
Anyway, you know I didn't mean anything
against those cops in particular.
- [Christine] You mean negros?
- [Steve] You don't see many in Belmore.
- [Paul] Yeah, that's true.
- [Christine] Let's forget it.
The light's green, Paul.
- [Paul] Oh, good.
(girls gasp)
- [Paul] I know how
unpredictable stomachs can be.
- [Christine] Forget it, Paul.
I'll be alright.
- [Paul] Look, do you have
any Pepto Bismol maybe?
- [Christine] Maybe, I'll take something.
- I hope you feel better.
- I'm sorry, Paul.
- It's okay.
- Well, am I gonna see you again soon?
- Sure, sure.
Well, I'll call ya.
- We'll talk.
- Take your time, guys.
- I'll see you at the beach tomorrow.
- Good.
- We've got football practice tomorrow.
- Huh, after that.
- We've gotta go around the side.
(radio chattering)
Do you think Paul's deep?
- Sure.
(radio chattering)
- Do you really think he's deep?
- Yeah, yeah.
A regular Grand Canyon.
- Goodnight.
- [Steve] Let's get out of these clothes
and get a drink, huh.
(swanky rock music)
Seven and seven.
- [Paul] The same.
(bar patrons chattering)
- Ah, ah, ah.
- Take 'em both.
- Thanks.
- Hey, Steve.
What are you doing here?
Stevie bring ya?
- Steve, I gotta get back.
Do you want a lift?
- No thanks, I think
I'll hang around a while.
- So long, Chris.
- Bye, Paul.
- Hey, you wanna dance or what?
- No thanks, I don't feel like it.
- Beauty.
(upbeat rock music)
(fast-paced instrumental music)
- Now on the snap, you
come off the line fast
and you pop 'em, really pop 'em.
That just about winds
up what I have to say.
Just remember the
scrimmage with Amityville
is just around the corner.
And we officially start
practice the day school opens.
Just remember these preseason practices
are because you want them,
because you've got the desire to win.
Now, I know some of you guys
have been breaking the training rules.
Just remember, it'll catch up with you
when we really get going.
Now, you've got what it takes.
Just remember, you pull in a thoroughbred,
he gives you all he's got.
You pull in a jackass and he kicks.
- Christ, that was in Reader's Digest.
I think the next one's gonna be
when the going gets tough,
the tough get going.
- Green, hey Green, sit up.
You got something to
say, say it all of us.
To most of us, football means something.
Okay, guys, I want you to get
out there and really work.
Now, huddle around here, come on.
Just remember guys, when
the going gets tough,
the tough get going.
Let's go.
(players cheer)
- [Paul Voiceover] Here we are folks,
at the world championship
of high school football.
It's the Chiefs of Belmore
versus the Orange Devils of Oceanside.
The Oceanside team has a
balanced T-formation attack,
while the Chiefs will be counting on
their super-sensational, triple-threat,
singlewing back, Paul Green.
A roar from the crowd.
This is an NBC Cavalcade of
Sports presentation, folks.
And now back to the game, folks.
Well, we're in on the closing minutes
in one of the greatest
contests I've ever seen.
Oceanside 13 on runs by
McGovern and O'Connor.
Belmore scoreless as Green
was out with an injury
early in the game.
Wait a second.
Green is up off the stretcher.
He's just smashed through
the Oceanside line.
There must be three men
hanging on his back.
He's dragging all of them with him
to the 30, the 25, the 20.
What desire.
He's still going.
What determination.
To the 10, to the five.
He's over, wild cheering.
Now the kick, the snap.
Green kicks, up, over, it's good.
Oceanside 13, Belmore seven.
Here's the kick.
Wait a minute, it's an onside kick.
It's dribbling down the field,
only 20 seconds left in the game,
this is going to be the last play.
McGovern of Oceanside got it.
He's at the 40, the 45, the 50.
No, no, Green of Belmore
wrestled the ball from McGovern.
Green, a roar from the crowd.
Green is racing toward the goal.
It looks like an upset
victory for Green, um Belmore.
He's across the midfield stripe.
The 40, the 30, the 20.
- Paul.
Paul.
Hey, toad.
Hey, what are ya daydreaming about?
Come on.
- Let's go, come on.
Hey Green, come on over.
Kick one with a little pressure.
- When you call in a jackass, he kicks.
(whistle blasts)
- [Coach] Come on, Russ.
Look smart, Russ.
- [Russ] On three, on three, let's go.
Signal's on.
Blue, one, two, three, four.
(players yelling and grunting)
- Time, coach.
Hey, time, hey coach, time.
- Green, you okay?
You okay, Green?
Here, put this on your nose.
Alright, make room.
Don't stand around.
Make room.
Key on the ball, not the man.
On the ball.
That tie with Bethpage couldda been a win.
(Russ mumbling)
- Yeah.
- Key on the ball, not
the man, on the ball.
- Key on the ball.
Key on the ball.
- What's so funny, Green?
Come on, you're next.
Come on.
- What the hell am I being paddled for?
- Talk to your family like that, Green?
- Aw come on, what for?
- You don't call time without a whistle.
Now, come on.
Haven't got all day.
Take 'em out, take 'em out.
Come on.
Whistle.
Alright, let's get back to work.
Let's go.
- Go for a swim later, huh?
(slow instrumental music)
- It's not the heat, it's just the pain.
- Hey, look at that.
- What?
- Where?
- Green, over there.
- [Russ] Oh, the sand's
too hot for his feet.
- Don't point.
Oww! (giggles)
(radio chattering)
- [Paul Voiceover] "That
revolt gives life its value.
"Spread out over the
whole length of a life
"It restores its majesty to that life.
"To a man devoid of blinders
there is no finer sight
"than that of the intelligence
"at grips with a reality
that transcends it.
"The sight of human pride is unequal.
"No disparagement is of any use."
This must be a joke I'm missing, huh.
- I wanted to apologize to ya.
- Oh, ya did?
- I'm sorry if I hurt you.
I was a little rough I guess.
That's the way you have to
play the game, that's all.
That's all, I apologize to you.
- Well, forget it.
Just the fury of battle.
- Yeah, that's what I said.
See ya, Steve.
- So long, Russ.
- I apologized.
Made ya feel better?
- "She lay about on the front lawn,
"exposed to the road in
the briefest of bikinis,
"trying to attract men.
"When she was not doing this,
"she would spend hours
telephoning anyone she knew.
"Finally, she got engaged
to a theological student
"and rapidly seduced him.
"Her parents became (mumbling).
"This was the real case of nymphomania.
"Her desire was uncontrollable
"and she was willing to make herself
"the scandal of the neighborhood.
"She seduced the most religious
"and well brought up young man.
"No doubt had she not been in
"such a circumscribed environment,
"she would have behaved
even more scandalously.
"And since her desire was not satisfied,
"would have had intercourse
with anyone she could meet.
"As it was, it could not
be said to be her fault
"that she did not distribute
her favors more widely.
"It was merely she had
little chance to do so."
- It give her address?
- You know, I'd really like
to meet someone like that.
Look at them.
Half the goddam beach
wishing they could look
just like that.
- Is that what they're thinking?
- You know, I really wonder
what's gonna happen to them
like five years from now.
I mean, faceless members of the mass,
locked in, content with their position.
They don't have the slightest
idea why they do anything,
they just do it.
- Happened this morning.
But I might not feel
something happens to me,
I'm not sure what it is.
I just feel at home.
The guys, the gear, the
plays, the adjustments.
And when things begin to happen out there,
I know what to do.
I can see a play shaping up
before I even think about it.
When a ball's snapped,
I just start to move.
(Christine gasps)
Hey, brains.
It's alright, I fell in too, see?
See, I move, I move, I move, I move.
Concentrate on the hips.
Now, I smash the guys on the line
and I really pop the block in (mumbles)
and I take out the man with the ball.
Get the key on the ball,
not the man, you understand?
I mean, from where I
stand, I always get my man.
You can ask the coach about that.
I feel like a radar machine.
I feel like, it's a
terrific feeling, really is.
Really terrific.
You gotta play it.
- Do you really think she's a virgin?
- I dunno, I'd still go to bed with her.
You gonna marry a virgin?
- I dunno, I'd like to.
- Oh, no, not me.
The girl I marry will
have had a dozen lovers.
- And how many will you have had?
- Oh gross 144 at least.
- You're just having a
late start, is that it?
- Sure.
- See what I'm talking about, football?
- Are you finished?
- Let's go, Russ.
- Hey, where you going?
- To get something to eat.
(radio chatters)
- Hey, why don't we go
over and get a bite to eat?
I'm starved.
- Why not.
- [Coach] Good morning, guys.
I know you guys are dedicated to this team
and to this game.
You gotta be to get up
this early in the morning.
Now, look boys, I want
ya to do me a favor.
Lay off the broads until
after scrimmage tomorrow.
I mean it.
And be careful.
Alright, now we're gonna get to work.
Where's Green?
What's the matter with him?
- [Player] Who knows.
Maybe his toe's infected.
- [Coach] Alright, come over here.
Come on, let's go.
- [Paul] You wanna go for a swim?
- [Christine] Here?
- [Paul] We can go off the dock.
- [Christine] Sure, great.
- [Paul] Makes it easier
to talk, have you noticed?
- [Christine] What does?
- [Paul] Noise, radio.
- [Christine] Why is that, do you think?
- [Paul] Noise leads to more noise.
And in the middle of
all the noise we make,
sometimes there's a real
bit of communication.
- I met Johnny Wilm at
the beginning of summer.
- He graduated a couple
years ago, didn't he?
- Yeah, he goes to Rutgers now.
He's a philosophy major.
He really thinks about things.
- What's he doing this summer?
- Bumming around Europe.
- [Paul] Mm, great.
- [Christine] Isn't it?
- Well, look, I think about things.
I mean, what about me?
- What about you?
- Aren't I deep?
- No, you're impossible.
- No, I'm quite possible.
I can be had.
Did you know that I keep a journal?
- Like a diary?
- Not really, mostly thoughts.
- I'd like to read that sometime.
- Mmm-hmmm, after we swim.
- Alright, you first.
- Well, you go on in.
I'm gonna watch your form.
The way you dive, really.
(gentle instrumental music)
(Christine gasps)
(water splashing)
- How'd you like that?
I thought you were gonna read to me.
- I don't believe how bad this is.
Really, it's incredible how anyone
but a pretentious jerk could ever...
This stuff is so bad, I can't believe it.
Christ, you know, I never
realized how bad this stuff was.
- Well, there must be
something you can read to me.
- This is ridiculous.
I mean, it's really embarrassing.
- What's that?
- It's just a carbon I wrote to my sister.
- A carbon?
- Of a letter.
- Oh, I'd like to hear that.
- I guess parts of it are good.
- Well, I'd love to hear
anything you wanna read to me.
- Yeah, well you see,
it's about the future.
Dear Elizabeth, oh that's nothing.
Let me get to the good stuff.
The future?
What would I like to happen?
Well, first I finish a modest screenplay
called High School Story,
which tells the way it
really is in Belmore,
the stupid truth a lot of
kids have been waiting for.
So then I must decide which movie company
will handle the film most sensitively.
But just before it gets into production,
I get called up for Vietnam.
Luckily, the local board
discovers I'm unacceptable,
4F, unbalanced nostrils.
I return to New York City,
I left Belmore long ago,
and begin the production
of High School Story.
Then Julie Christie hears about it
and insists upon costarring with me
and the movie is a huge success.
Of course, there's the
embarrassing Oscar ceremony,
where Julie gets one and I get several.
But Julie is really upset
when I return to my nymphetic mistress.
I try to avoid the nonsense
of being a celebrity
and the frequent campus
requests for my speech
about Orson Wells and the
achievements of young directors.
What is really important to me
is the opportunity afforded
by the new freedom and power
of being able to do whatever
I want to do artistically.
I get right back to writing
and I begin my next film,
The Man Who Killed Men.
It's a good title, isn't it?
- Yeah.
- Which I then make.
- It's a smash success.
- That's putting it mildly.
The Man Who Killed Men sweeps the globe,
even bigger than The Sound of Music.
Naturally, by acclimation,
I am pressured into
accepting the presidency.
But then, the Earth's billions,
realizing that my film
points the way to the
salvation of mankind,
insists that I become emperor.
I rule with rational, cynical goodness,
except that everything gets fouled up.
I sacrifice the public for
my own private interest.
Finally, in the arms of my lover,
I probably get shot in the
head like Lincoln or somebody.
- Is there a part for me in this movie?
- Well, not exactly.
I threw over Julie Christie for ya.
(light instrumental music)
- Parts of that letter
were beautiful, Paul.
- What do you want?
- Carbon paper.
(door chimes)
- [Shop Boy] Sorry, we're all out of it.
- You went swimming with my
girl this morning, right?
- Hmmmm?
- I said, you went swimming
with my girl this morning, right?
- Yeah, what about it?
- I'm gonna burn your jacket,
that's what's about it.
You wanna give me that cigarette, please?
Thank you.
Don't do that again.
Wanna pick that up, please?
Thank you again.
Now if you go swimming
with that jacket on,
you're gonna get yourself wet.
Ha, ha, ha.
- Why do you think I asked
you to come with me tonight?
- Don't you ever stop analyzing things?
I think you asked me 'cause you wanted to.
- Yeah I did.
But I wanted to discuss
some things with you,
talk about them, you know.
- Yeah, I think so.
Our senior year's gonna be great.
- Are you kidding?
- The prom, senior day,
look down on the juniors?
- Were you surprised when I called?
- A little.
I mean, I didn't have a
nervous breakdown though.
I like you.
Oh, Russ zapped you, big deal.
There are more important things.
- That's not it, not really.
It's just that I've been
thinking a lot lately,
about where everything is at.
Thinking about you, Barbara.
About you and me.
What's wrong?
- Are you kidding?
(mellow rock music)
♫ I've watched the world turn
♫ And there's nothing left I can learn.
♫ But you surprise me.
♫ You surprise me.
♫ Nothing I see is the
way I thought it would be.
♫ But you surprise me.
♫ You always surprise me.
♫ You know you've hurt
me many, many times.
♫ You were ready to go.
♫ Then I turned around and
see you there beside me,
♫ Saying hello.
♫ I thought I knew everything
♫ All about you.
♫ But you surprise me.
♫ You surprise me.
♫ There's a key to open every secret.
♫ And an answer I know.
♫ But though I see you day after day,
♫ Your mystery grows.
♫ I've watched the world turn
♫ And there's nothing left I can do...
- Now,
you got something to
say, I'm listening to ya.
- All I wanted to say
was, was that I was sorry.
- What was that?
- I said I was sorry.
Don't you even believe me?
- I believe you.
Let's make it.
- Okay.
- Okay?
- Owww, ow, ow.
(waves rolling and splashing)
- Barbara...
I...
I, I really don't know how to say this.
I...
I love you, Barbara.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you, Barbara.
- What is it?
- I don't know.
All I have to say is I love you,
and everything's okay.
I don't understand it.
Maybe I'm cynical but
I just never thought--
- I knew you didn't mean it.
- I don't know.
It's just that when
everything is said and done,
I really can't analyse it.
I guess you're right.
All this rationality bit
and problem-solving stuff
just doesn't work when it comes to love.
Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons
but wise men never try.
All I know is Barbara, when I look at you,
my mind says yes
and my body says yes,
and what can I say?
Yes.
I do love you, I do.
Wait a second.
There.
See?
I could just say anything
and you'll believe me.
Barbara?
Barbara, you're not gonna cry.
(Barbara sobs)
Oh, please Barbara, don't cry.
Please.
Look, how the hell do I know anything?
I might love you, I might, really.
I could love you and not even know it.
Please, Barbara look at me.
I know I'm here with you now
and I'm very attracted to you.
And I want you Barbara, I do.
Christine got to me because
of Russ, that's all.
Jesus, Barbara, I can't get away from you.
- Oh, forget it.
- I don't wanna forget it.
I don't wanna.
I wanna make it up to you, Barbara.
I do need you.
I do love you.
It's not right, it just
can't be like this.
- You don't know what you want.
You're not deep, you're just horny.
I'm sorry, I just got carried away.
- You're sorry.
No, I deserved that.
- Oh, Paul, let's try--
- Barbara, why don't--
- There's a beer in there.
- No.
No, I think we should
go to Howard Johnson's
and talk things out.
(Christine squeals and giggles)
- [Christine] Russ?
- [Russ] Yeah.
- [Christine] Are you chewing gum?
- [Russ] Yeah, you want
me to throw it out?
- [Christine] Yeah.
- [Russ] Yeah, okay, fine.
- [Waitress] Will that be all?
- Yes, thank you.
I'd like to see you tomorrow.
- Are you sure?
- Sure I'm sure.
- Are you still sure?
- (Laughs) Come on.
- Hi, Chris.
- We're just leaving.
- See you tomorrow, Barbara.
(car engine revving)
- I'm really sorry.
I didn't realize my car
was so temperamental.
It wants to apologize to you.
- I'll see you after the scrimmage.
- Each team gets the ball for 10 plays
and then they switch.
There's no kicking.
Maybe, well mayve I'll go check
on the car tomorrow instead.
Look, we'll be seeing each other.
- Oh?
- Really.
I'll give you a call.
I'd like to see you.
I think this year we could--
- I wanna see you too.
(slow instrumental music)
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
(airplane engine roars)
(gunshot fires)
- Nice shot.
Hey, that's wild.
Where'd you get that?
- My dad gets dozens from work.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, keep it.
- Thanks.
- Listen, Al's giving me
a ride to the scrimmage.
You want a lift?
- Yeah, I'd appreciate that.
Do you see that bird anywhere?
- I think it came down in the water.
- I guess we'll have to forget it then.
- You went out with Barbara, didn't you?
- Yeah.
- How'd you do it?
- Alright, I guess.
- Who wouldn't?
- Hey Steve, did you ever talk to Barbara?
- Does she talk?
Come on.
(players chattering)
- You guys get any birds?
- Yeah, one.
- Did he shoot him or kick him?
- Steve got it.
- Russ here yet?
- Yeah I saw him a second ago.
- (Mumbles) back there?
- Diane Faucet.
- What about her?
- She goes down.
- How would you know?
- I know, jerko.
Got a butt?
- Sorry, I don't smoke.
- Coach'll get your ass if he catches you.
- In there.
- Who's got a light?
- Hey.
Hey, don't fool around, huh (whistles).
Is that thing loaded?
Hey, this is no joke, Green.
Fooling around with a loaded
weapon before scrimmage.
Hey, what's the matter with you, huh?
Heh, fell in the urinal there.
What's the matter, you
mad about something?
Oh, I know what, you're
mad about the car, right?
It was just a little friendly joke, Green.
Just like a wire, I took the wire out.
You put the wire back,
car'll run like new.
No damage, no big deal.
Green.
I like you, Green, more or less.
I've always spoken very
highly about your kicking.
Ask the guys, some of the guys.
Well, what do you want, Green?
You want my girl?
You want Christine?
You can have her.
My blessing go with the both of you.
You want me to miss scrimmage?
We'll take off, we'll go
somewhere, we'll talk it over.
We'll go to Howard Johnson's
and talk it over man to man.
Whaddya say, Howard Johnson's, Green?
Look, Green, we can work this thing out.
You're a smart boy.
I noticed that.
You've been around, right?
I've seen you.
I'm smart, you're smart.
Green, you're a smart boy.
Please, please.
Green.
(lighter snaps)
It's a cigarette lighter.
- Hey, that was cool.
Really cool.
It was beautiful, it was beautiful.
- Hey, I'll see ya later, okay.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hey, good luck.
(lively rock music)
♫ There they go all in a row
♫ Smiles and suntan toes are running
♫ Down to the beach.
♫ Waiving to us as they float
♫ On their big ball.
- Hi, what are you laughing at?
I've been waiting for you all day.
- Come on, get in.
♫ We've got better things to do.
♫ Think it's time we got away.
♫ Think we'll miss that boat today.
♫ We're all above it today.
♫ There they go I know those
people frozen in a movie pose
♫ With sunglasses on.
♫ If they'd open up their eyes
♫ I have a surprise.
♫ I'm just standing on the shore,
♫ I'm the one they're waiting for.
♫ Think it's time we got away.
♫ Think we'll miss that boat today.
♫ We're all above it today.
♫ I'm just standing on the shore.
♫ I'm the one they're waiting for.
♫ Think it's time to get away.
♫ Think we'll miss that boat today.
♫ We're all above it today.
♫ All above it today.
(lion roars)
(dramatic orchestral music)
(seagulls crying)
(people chattering)
(waves rolling and splashing)
(camera clicks)
(camera clicks)
(camera clicks)
(waves rolling and splashing)
(girl squeals)
(camera clicks)
(peppy instrumental music)
(car horn blares)
- Where you goin'?
- We, where are we going?
- Where are we going?
- To the sea.
What else is there to do anyway?
- What are we gonna do there?
- Contemplate.
- Oh, you think so.
- [Paul Voiceover] Shouldda
said the Beach Bar.
Belmore Lounge maybe.
Barbara, I wanna kiss you very much.
I would definitely like to.
- [Barbara Voiceover] I hope nobody thinks
I'm going with him.
Oh, god, it's just one date.
- [Paul Voiceover] You
can't come out and say it.
A simple declarative sentence.
You just can't say it.
- [Barbara Voiceover] What if
he wants to kiss me goodnight?
Hmmm?
(waves rolling and splashing)
- I love the sea.
So simple.
Listen, it really is beautiful.
- Yeah, it is.
Most people don't know how
to appreciate it though.
- You must know some poetry about the sea.
- Why me?
- [Barbara] Come on.
- Ah, water water everywhere
and not a drop to drink.
- Come on.
- "Far and few, far and few,
"Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
"Their heads are green,
and their hands are blue,
"And they sailed to sea in a Sieve.
"And their friends said, who saw them go,
"Oh, you'll be drowned you know,
"For the sea is vast and the voyage long
"And happen what may it is extremely wrong
"In a sieve to sail so far."
- It is so vast.
Don't you like it?
- Yeah, I do.
You wanna swim in it?
- You know, Christine said you were deep.
Deep, can you believe it?
- She said I was deep?
- [Barbara] Yeah.
- What else did she say?
- Mmmm, nothing.
- Come on, let's swim in it.
The sea.
- Well, I don't have a suit on.
- Me either.
Who needs clothes anyway?
I've got nothing to hide.
- Hey, you must be kidding.
Oh, I don't believe it.
They'll never believe it.
Hey, hey, oh.
Hey, I'm not looking at you.
- [Paul] Yeah, I can see that.
Come on, the water looks great.
- Oh, you're kidding.
Hey, oh.
(waves rolling and splashing)
- Do you have a key?
Not that I wouldn't want
to meet your mother.
- She leaves it open.
- Look, I'm sorry you can't
go to that play Tuesday.
- Ask Christine to go.
She'd like that sort of thing.
- Come on, she doesn't
even know me really.
- Say, did Chris say
anything else I should know?
- Chris?
- Barbara?
When did she say I was deep?
- Oh, nevermind.
- Night.
I wish he would take me to bed.
Take me, take me.
Paul is deep.
He's deep, so deep.
(car horn blares)
The uglies.
I've got the uglies.
(gas pump dings)
Is that a pistol in your pocket
or are ya just pleased to see me?
- Genius, genius.
(Paul laughs)
Alright, come on.
How come your pants are off, really?
- You're goin' out with
Barbara Tuesday, aren't ya?
How'd you both like to double with me?
Go to a play in the city.
- Come on, how come?
- Alright, I went swimming.
- Bare ass?
- Yeah.
- She didn't go in like that.
- Are you kidding?
She was scared out of her mind.
She didn't even look.
- [Steve] You really went in bare ass?
- How 'bout Tuesday night?
- [Steve] Fantastic.
Yeah, okay.
Who you gonna take?
- Oh, I dunno.
Someone who can appreciate
my sterling qualities.
- Chris?
Russell'd break your neck.
(radio chattering)
- How's Russ?
- How was your date?
- Would you go out with him?
(typewriter clicking)
(typewriter dings)
(typewriter clicking)
- What crap.
(seagull crying)
(dramatic string music)
(radio chattering)
- They pitch to him, that's the game.
Hey, watch it, fella.
- Sorry, Russ.
- Well, watch it that's all, Steve.
- You alright?
Boy, you went in a little fast.
(radio chattering)
- I didn't know Steve was
such a good friend of his.
Since when?
- A while, I think.
- Just watch it, that's all.
- Is he kidding?
- What, what is it?
- What's the matter?
- I dunno.
- What don't ya know, wiseguy?
Thought your kind was
supposed to know everything?
- What kind?
What are ya talking about?
- Come on, Russ, leave him alone.
- Steve, he gave me the finger.
- Would you get your lousy hands off.
- Chris, come over here.
- [Christine] Leave him alone, Russ, huh.
- Apologize to her.
- Who?
- The lady.
- I'm sorry, lady.
- Hey.
Alright, you better stay outta my way.
- Yes sir.
- You want some more?
- No sir, sorry sir.
- [Christine] Let's go, that's enough.
- See ya, Steve.
- [Christine] Bye.
- [Paul Voiceover] What do you want,
you dumb overgrown gorilla?
Why don't you develop that
muscle between your ears.
Stupid moron, mesomorph, delta minus.
You dumb animal.
I could sink that
screwdriver into your stomach
and rip your guts open.
Yeah, but I'd get the
electric chair if I did.
You lucky slob.
- [Christine Voiceover]
Paul, you know so much
about non-violence, Gandhi and Christ,
Martin Luther King.
Oh, how I love you.
How I wanna talk with you.
To tell you how we're the only
two who really understand.
- [Paul Voiceover] Yes, oh yes, yes.
- [Steve] He's too
sensitive for his own good.
- He's just dumb.
Why are there so many
good-looking bastards like him
who are so dumb?
It's not fair.
- Who said the world was fair?
- [Paul] Christine Larson.
- Who?
- [Paul] Christine Larson.
- I haven't heard her name before, have I?
- Yes.
- [Mother] When?
- Just now, twice.
- Don't be sarcastic with your mother.
- She's a cheerleader, Mom.
You know, I'm making a big move up.
I mean, it's a self-willed, existential,
unexpected, cosmic leap, Ma.
- Don't be sarcastic with your mother.
- There's some watermelon
in the refrigerator.
- Where's the drama section?
- It's on the chair.
- Would you mind getting
it for your father, Paul?
- Sure.
Say, Dad, could I use
mom's car tomorrow night?
- You're not using the car
tomorrow, are you dear?
- What would I need it for?
- You may use it then.
- Thanks.
- [Christine] Hello?
- [Paul] Hello, this
is Paul Green calling.
May I please speak to Christine?
- [Christine] It's me.
- [Paul] Oh, hi.
Well this is Paul Green calling.
- [Christine] Hello.
- [Paul] How are you?
- [Christine] Fine.
How are you?
- [Paul] Oh fine.
Say, Chris, would you like to go to a play
in the city tomorrow night?
Romeo and Juliet.
- [Christine] Paul, I'm sorry about
what happened on the beach.
- [Paul] Nevermind.
- [Christine] No, I really am.
- [Paul] Look, what
about Romeo and Juliet?
- [Christine] Well what about them?
- [Paul] The play, tomorrow night?
- [Christine] Okay, I'd
like to go with you.
- [Paul] Really?
- [Christine] Yeah.
- [Paul] Great.
- [Christine] We won't get
back too late, will we?
- [Paul] Oh no, no, not too late.
I'll pick you up at 6:45.
- [Christine] Great.
- [Paul] Eat first.
- [Christine] What?
- [Paul] Eat first.
We wont' have time to eat before the show.
- [Christine] (laughs) That's okay.
- [Paul] Great, see you then.
- [Christine] Goodbye, Paul.
- [Paul] Goodnight, Christine.
(electric shaver buzzing)
(toothbrush buzzing)
(Waterpik buzzing)
- You look ravishing, Christine.
Christine, you look wonderful.
Chris, you look great.
Great, Christine, you look great.
That's it.
Great, Christine, you look great.
Don't worry, Mrs. Larsen,
we'll drive carefully.
Good night.
Don't worry, we will.
You know you really surprised me
you're being able to make it tonight.
- It took some arranging.
- Yeah, I'll bet.
- One more year and
we're out of this place.
- Oh, I've gotta pick them up.
- Pick up who?
- Steve and Barbara.
We're doubling.
- Doubling?
(radio chattering)
(cars honking)
- I dunno, Russ is cool.
- Well, what do you mean?
- I don't know, he's it, isn't he.
Even if I don't know what it means.
Look, I'm detached aren't I?
- That's not what it really means.
- All of you are cool, right?
- Just you against the world?
Rich people are cool.
Ugly people aren't so cool.
- You know, I once wanted to
write a movie about ugly girls.
I mean, how miserable they must be.
- Not anymore.
I mean, with all the
makeup and clothes you get,
there's no need for that.
- I don't think so.
I mean, what about Alice the Ass?
- Well, I think Russ is really cool.
- He's too dumb.
- No he's not, Paul.
There's a lot more to human
beings than you suspect.
- Yeah, yeah, well sure.
I've got a lot to learn.
I'm really very ignorant.
Like Socrates.
- Turn up the radio.
- No, I think this is important, Steve.
- Turn it up.
- Hey, we're coming to the toll.
You want them to think
we're some underage
kids driving illegally?
Better get some classical
music, Chris, 1560.
- I know.
- Most people don't, Chris.
- [Steve] How come your father
let you drive into the city?
- He likes me.
Do you have 50 cents for the toll?
- [Steve] Here.
- Kennedy.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- Hey.
Hey, it's 25.
You gave me 50 cents, it's only 25.
- Say, could I have the
half dollar back, please?
I have a quarter right here.
Thanks a lot.
(mellow rock music)
♫ Everything is bright.
♫ Electric days
♫ And flowered flowered nights
♫ Yesterday is fading
with its weary people
♫ What matters is today
♫ Electric days
♫ Flowered nights
♫ Electric days
♫ Flowered nights
♫ Flying motels
♫ Kaleidoscopic halls
♫ Cities of light, where
petals break down walls.
♫ Tomorrow seems so far away
♫ Then suddenly it turns into today
♫ And then I know that I have found my way
♫ And I see a different day.
♫ Electric day and
flowered flowered nights
♫ Look at the lights
(audience chattering)
- Steve, would yo like a Bonbon?
Barbara?
Christine, would you like one?
- [Narrator] "Two households,
both alike in dignity,
"In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
"Where civil blood makes
civil hands unclean.
"From forth the fatal
loins of these two foes,
"A pair of star-cross'd
lovers take their life;
"Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
"Doth with their death bury
their parents' strife."
- [Tybalt] "Art thou drawn
among these heartless hinds?
"What, draw then talk of peace?
"I hate the word, as I hate
hell, all Montagues, and thee.
"Have at thee, coward."
(actors shouting)
- [Juliet] "And bring in
cloudy night immediately.
"Spread thy close curtain,
love-performing night,
"That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo
"Leap to these arms,
untalk'd of and unseen."
- [Romeo] "What lady is that,
which doth enrich the hand
"Of yonder knight?"
- [Servant] "I know not, sir."
- [Romeo] "O, she doth teach
the torches to burn bright!
"It seems she hangs
upon the cheek of night
"Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
"Beauty too rich for
use, for earth too dear!
"So shows a snowy dove
trooping with crows,
"As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
"The measure done, I'll
watch her place of stand,
"And, touching hers, make
blessed my rude hand.
"Did my heart love till
now? forswear it, sight!
"For I ne'er saw true
beauty till this night."
- [Tybalt] "This, by his
voice, should be a Montague.
"Fetch me my rapier, boy."
- [Friar] "What, Chequering
the eastern clouds
"With streaks of light,
"And flecked darkness
like a drunkard reels
"From forth day's path
and Titan's fiery wheels:
"Now, ere the sun advance
his burning eye..."
(speech becomes slurred and slow)
- [Rome] "It is my
lady. Oh, it is my love.
"Oh, that she knew she were!
"She speaks yet she says
nothing: what of that?
"Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
"I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
"Two of the fairest
stars in all the heaven,
"Having some business, do entreat her eyes
"To twinkle in their
spheres till they return.
"What if her eyes were
there, they in her head?
"The brightness of her cheek
would shame those stars,
"As daylight doth a
lamp; her eyes in heaven
"Would through the airy
region stream so bright
"That birds would sing and
think it were not night.
"See, how she leans her
cheek upon her hand!
"O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
"That I might touch that cheek!"
- [Prince Escalus] "and some punished:
"For never was a story of more woe
"Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
(audience applauds)
- [Christine] Paul, I'm not feeling well.
We better go right home.
- [Steve] Locked it in the car.
- [Barbara] Can you believe it?
- [Steve] Too cool.
- How you feeling?
- Alright.
- How come you spend
so much time with him?
- Car, boat.
No, he's alright.
- Well, he's interesting.
- Do you think so?
- Yeah.
- You really think so?
- Yeah.
- I guess he is kind of.
- [Paul] Hey.
- In a little trouble, kid?
- A little.
- You're lucky you got a convertible.
No center post.
- Where'd you guys learn how to do that?
- We do it a couple of times a week.
- Well, that's a relief.
Thanks a lot.
- Not at all, drive carefully now.
- [Christine] You won't make it.
- [Paul] Sorry, I thought I could.
- [Steve] You're lucky they
didn't ask you for your license.
- [Christine] We were all lucky.
- [Paul] No cars on the road
and we're here like jerks
waiting for a traffic light to go blip.
- [Steve] It won't kill
you to obey the law.
- [Paul] Who makes the law?
Cops can break into cars.
Soldiers are allowed to kill civilians.
It's all legal.
- [Christine] How can you say that?
- [Paul] It's not so hard.
Anyway, you know I didn't mean anything
against those cops in particular.
- [Christine] You mean negros?
- [Steve] You don't see many in Belmore.
- [Paul] Yeah, that's true.
- [Christine] Let's forget it.
The light's green, Paul.
- [Paul] Oh, good.
(girls gasp)
- [Paul] I know how
unpredictable stomachs can be.
- [Christine] Forget it, Paul.
I'll be alright.
- [Paul] Look, do you have
any Pepto Bismol maybe?
- [Christine] Maybe, I'll take something.
- I hope you feel better.
- I'm sorry, Paul.
- It's okay.
- Well, am I gonna see you again soon?
- Sure, sure.
Well, I'll call ya.
- We'll talk.
- Take your time, guys.
- I'll see you at the beach tomorrow.
- Good.
- We've got football practice tomorrow.
- Huh, after that.
- We've gotta go around the side.
(radio chattering)
Do you think Paul's deep?
- Sure.
(radio chattering)
- Do you really think he's deep?
- Yeah, yeah.
A regular Grand Canyon.
- Goodnight.
- [Steve] Let's get out of these clothes
and get a drink, huh.
(swanky rock music)
Seven and seven.
- [Paul] The same.
(bar patrons chattering)
- Ah, ah, ah.
- Take 'em both.
- Thanks.
- Hey, Steve.
What are you doing here?
Stevie bring ya?
- Steve, I gotta get back.
Do you want a lift?
- No thanks, I think
I'll hang around a while.
- So long, Chris.
- Bye, Paul.
- Hey, you wanna dance or what?
- No thanks, I don't feel like it.
- Beauty.
(upbeat rock music)
(fast-paced instrumental music)
- Now on the snap, you
come off the line fast
and you pop 'em, really pop 'em.
That just about winds
up what I have to say.
Just remember the
scrimmage with Amityville
is just around the corner.
And we officially start
practice the day school opens.
Just remember these preseason practices
are because you want them,
because you've got the desire to win.
Now, I know some of you guys
have been breaking the training rules.
Just remember, it'll catch up with you
when we really get going.
Now, you've got what it takes.
Just remember, you pull in a thoroughbred,
he gives you all he's got.
You pull in a jackass and he kicks.
- Christ, that was in Reader's Digest.
I think the next one's gonna be
when the going gets tough,
the tough get going.
- Green, hey Green, sit up.
You got something to
say, say it all of us.
To most of us, football means something.
Okay, guys, I want you to get
out there and really work.
Now, huddle around here, come on.
Just remember guys, when
the going gets tough,
the tough get going.
Let's go.
(players cheer)
- [Paul Voiceover] Here we are folks,
at the world championship
of high school football.
It's the Chiefs of Belmore
versus the Orange Devils of Oceanside.
The Oceanside team has a
balanced T-formation attack,
while the Chiefs will be counting on
their super-sensational, triple-threat,
singlewing back, Paul Green.
A roar from the crowd.
This is an NBC Cavalcade of
Sports presentation, folks.
And now back to the game, folks.
Well, we're in on the closing minutes
in one of the greatest
contests I've ever seen.
Oceanside 13 on runs by
McGovern and O'Connor.
Belmore scoreless as Green
was out with an injury
early in the game.
Wait a second.
Green is up off the stretcher.
He's just smashed through
the Oceanside line.
There must be three men
hanging on his back.
He's dragging all of them with him
to the 30, the 25, the 20.
What desire.
He's still going.
What determination.
To the 10, to the five.
He's over, wild cheering.
Now the kick, the snap.
Green kicks, up, over, it's good.
Oceanside 13, Belmore seven.
Here's the kick.
Wait a minute, it's an onside kick.
It's dribbling down the field,
only 20 seconds left in the game,
this is going to be the last play.
McGovern of Oceanside got it.
He's at the 40, the 45, the 50.
No, no, Green of Belmore
wrestled the ball from McGovern.
Green, a roar from the crowd.
Green is racing toward the goal.
It looks like an upset
victory for Green, um Belmore.
He's across the midfield stripe.
The 40, the 30, the 20.
- Paul.
Paul.
Hey, toad.
Hey, what are ya daydreaming about?
Come on.
- Let's go, come on.
Hey Green, come on over.
Kick one with a little pressure.
- When you call in a jackass, he kicks.
(whistle blasts)
- [Coach] Come on, Russ.
Look smart, Russ.
- [Russ] On three, on three, let's go.
Signal's on.
Blue, one, two, three, four.
(players yelling and grunting)
- Time, coach.
Hey, time, hey coach, time.
- Green, you okay?
You okay, Green?
Here, put this on your nose.
Alright, make room.
Don't stand around.
Make room.
Key on the ball, not the man.
On the ball.
That tie with Bethpage couldda been a win.
(Russ mumbling)
- Yeah.
- Key on the ball, not
the man, on the ball.
- Key on the ball.
Key on the ball.
- What's so funny, Green?
Come on, you're next.
Come on.
- What the hell am I being paddled for?
- Talk to your family like that, Green?
- Aw come on, what for?
- You don't call time without a whistle.
Now, come on.
Haven't got all day.
Take 'em out, take 'em out.
Come on.
Whistle.
Alright, let's get back to work.
Let's go.
- Go for a swim later, huh?
(slow instrumental music)
- It's not the heat, it's just the pain.
- Hey, look at that.
- What?
- Where?
- Green, over there.
- [Russ] Oh, the sand's
too hot for his feet.
- Don't point.
Oww! (giggles)
(radio chattering)
- [Paul Voiceover] "That
revolt gives life its value.
"Spread out over the
whole length of a life
"It restores its majesty to that life.
"To a man devoid of blinders
there is no finer sight
"than that of the intelligence
"at grips with a reality
that transcends it.
"The sight of human pride is unequal.
"No disparagement is of any use."
This must be a joke I'm missing, huh.
- I wanted to apologize to ya.
- Oh, ya did?
- I'm sorry if I hurt you.
I was a little rough I guess.
That's the way you have to
play the game, that's all.
That's all, I apologize to you.
- Well, forget it.
Just the fury of battle.
- Yeah, that's what I said.
See ya, Steve.
- So long, Russ.
- I apologized.
Made ya feel better?
- "She lay about on the front lawn,
"exposed to the road in
the briefest of bikinis,
"trying to attract men.
"When she was not doing this,
"she would spend hours
telephoning anyone she knew.
"Finally, she got engaged
to a theological student
"and rapidly seduced him.
"Her parents became (mumbling).
"This was the real case of nymphomania.
"Her desire was uncontrollable
"and she was willing to make herself
"the scandal of the neighborhood.
"She seduced the most religious
"and well brought up young man.
"No doubt had she not been in
"such a circumscribed environment,
"she would have behaved
even more scandalously.
"And since her desire was not satisfied,
"would have had intercourse
with anyone she could meet.
"As it was, it could not
be said to be her fault
"that she did not distribute
her favors more widely.
"It was merely she had
little chance to do so."
- It give her address?
- You know, I'd really like
to meet someone like that.
Look at them.
Half the goddam beach
wishing they could look
just like that.
- Is that what they're thinking?
- You know, I really wonder
what's gonna happen to them
like five years from now.
I mean, faceless members of the mass,
locked in, content with their position.
They don't have the slightest
idea why they do anything,
they just do it.
- Happened this morning.
But I might not feel
something happens to me,
I'm not sure what it is.
I just feel at home.
The guys, the gear, the
plays, the adjustments.
And when things begin to happen out there,
I know what to do.
I can see a play shaping up
before I even think about it.
When a ball's snapped,
I just start to move.
(Christine gasps)
Hey, brains.
It's alright, I fell in too, see?
See, I move, I move, I move, I move.
Concentrate on the hips.
Now, I smash the guys on the line
and I really pop the block in (mumbles)
and I take out the man with the ball.
Get the key on the ball,
not the man, you understand?
I mean, from where I
stand, I always get my man.
You can ask the coach about that.
I feel like a radar machine.
I feel like, it's a
terrific feeling, really is.
Really terrific.
You gotta play it.
- Do you really think she's a virgin?
- I dunno, I'd still go to bed with her.
You gonna marry a virgin?
- I dunno, I'd like to.
- Oh, no, not me.
The girl I marry will
have had a dozen lovers.
- And how many will you have had?
- Oh gross 144 at least.
- You're just having a
late start, is that it?
- Sure.
- See what I'm talking about, football?
- Are you finished?
- Let's go, Russ.
- Hey, where you going?
- To get something to eat.
(radio chatters)
- Hey, why don't we go
over and get a bite to eat?
I'm starved.
- Why not.
- [Coach] Good morning, guys.
I know you guys are dedicated to this team
and to this game.
You gotta be to get up
this early in the morning.
Now, look boys, I want
ya to do me a favor.
Lay off the broads until
after scrimmage tomorrow.
I mean it.
And be careful.
Alright, now we're gonna get to work.
Where's Green?
What's the matter with him?
- [Player] Who knows.
Maybe his toe's infected.
- [Coach] Alright, come over here.
Come on, let's go.
- [Paul] You wanna go for a swim?
- [Christine] Here?
- [Paul] We can go off the dock.
- [Christine] Sure, great.
- [Paul] Makes it easier
to talk, have you noticed?
- [Christine] What does?
- [Paul] Noise, radio.
- [Christine] Why is that, do you think?
- [Paul] Noise leads to more noise.
And in the middle of
all the noise we make,
sometimes there's a real
bit of communication.
- I met Johnny Wilm at
the beginning of summer.
- He graduated a couple
years ago, didn't he?
- Yeah, he goes to Rutgers now.
He's a philosophy major.
He really thinks about things.
- What's he doing this summer?
- Bumming around Europe.
- [Paul] Mm, great.
- [Christine] Isn't it?
- Well, look, I think about things.
I mean, what about me?
- What about you?
- Aren't I deep?
- No, you're impossible.
- No, I'm quite possible.
I can be had.
Did you know that I keep a journal?
- Like a diary?
- Not really, mostly thoughts.
- I'd like to read that sometime.
- Mmm-hmmm, after we swim.
- Alright, you first.
- Well, you go on in.
I'm gonna watch your form.
The way you dive, really.
(gentle instrumental music)
(Christine gasps)
(water splashing)
- How'd you like that?
I thought you were gonna read to me.
- I don't believe how bad this is.
Really, it's incredible how anyone
but a pretentious jerk could ever...
This stuff is so bad, I can't believe it.
Christ, you know, I never
realized how bad this stuff was.
- Well, there must be
something you can read to me.
- This is ridiculous.
I mean, it's really embarrassing.
- What's that?
- It's just a carbon I wrote to my sister.
- A carbon?
- Of a letter.
- Oh, I'd like to hear that.
- I guess parts of it are good.
- Well, I'd love to hear
anything you wanna read to me.
- Yeah, well you see,
it's about the future.
Dear Elizabeth, oh that's nothing.
Let me get to the good stuff.
The future?
What would I like to happen?
Well, first I finish a modest screenplay
called High School Story,
which tells the way it
really is in Belmore,
the stupid truth a lot of
kids have been waiting for.
So then I must decide which movie company
will handle the film most sensitively.
But just before it gets into production,
I get called up for Vietnam.
Luckily, the local board
discovers I'm unacceptable,
4F, unbalanced nostrils.
I return to New York City,
I left Belmore long ago,
and begin the production
of High School Story.
Then Julie Christie hears about it
and insists upon costarring with me
and the movie is a huge success.
Of course, there's the
embarrassing Oscar ceremony,
where Julie gets one and I get several.
But Julie is really upset
when I return to my nymphetic mistress.
I try to avoid the nonsense
of being a celebrity
and the frequent campus
requests for my speech
about Orson Wells and the
achievements of young directors.
What is really important to me
is the opportunity afforded
by the new freedom and power
of being able to do whatever
I want to do artistically.
I get right back to writing
and I begin my next film,
The Man Who Killed Men.
It's a good title, isn't it?
- Yeah.
- Which I then make.
- It's a smash success.
- That's putting it mildly.
The Man Who Killed Men sweeps the globe,
even bigger than The Sound of Music.
Naturally, by acclimation,
I am pressured into
accepting the presidency.
But then, the Earth's billions,
realizing that my film
points the way to the
salvation of mankind,
insists that I become emperor.
I rule with rational, cynical goodness,
except that everything gets fouled up.
I sacrifice the public for
my own private interest.
Finally, in the arms of my lover,
I probably get shot in the
head like Lincoln or somebody.
- Is there a part for me in this movie?
- Well, not exactly.
I threw over Julie Christie for ya.
(light instrumental music)
- Parts of that letter
were beautiful, Paul.
- What do you want?
- Carbon paper.
(door chimes)
- [Shop Boy] Sorry, we're all out of it.
- You went swimming with my
girl this morning, right?
- Hmmmm?
- I said, you went swimming
with my girl this morning, right?
- Yeah, what about it?
- I'm gonna burn your jacket,
that's what's about it.
You wanna give me that cigarette, please?
Thank you.
Don't do that again.
Wanna pick that up, please?
Thank you again.
Now if you go swimming
with that jacket on,
you're gonna get yourself wet.
Ha, ha, ha.
- Why do you think I asked
you to come with me tonight?
- Don't you ever stop analyzing things?
I think you asked me 'cause you wanted to.
- Yeah I did.
But I wanted to discuss
some things with you,
talk about them, you know.
- Yeah, I think so.
Our senior year's gonna be great.
- Are you kidding?
- The prom, senior day,
look down on the juniors?
- Were you surprised when I called?
- A little.
I mean, I didn't have a
nervous breakdown though.
I like you.
Oh, Russ zapped you, big deal.
There are more important things.
- That's not it, not really.
It's just that I've been
thinking a lot lately,
about where everything is at.
Thinking about you, Barbara.
About you and me.
What's wrong?
- Are you kidding?
(mellow rock music)
♫ I've watched the world turn
♫ And there's nothing left I can learn.
♫ But you surprise me.
♫ You surprise me.
♫ Nothing I see is the
way I thought it would be.
♫ But you surprise me.
♫ You always surprise me.
♫ You know you've hurt
me many, many times.
♫ You were ready to go.
♫ Then I turned around and
see you there beside me,
♫ Saying hello.
♫ I thought I knew everything
♫ All about you.
♫ But you surprise me.
♫ You surprise me.
♫ There's a key to open every secret.
♫ And an answer I know.
♫ But though I see you day after day,
♫ Your mystery grows.
♫ I've watched the world turn
♫ And there's nothing left I can do...
- Now,
you got something to
say, I'm listening to ya.
- All I wanted to say
was, was that I was sorry.
- What was that?
- I said I was sorry.
Don't you even believe me?
- I believe you.
Let's make it.
- Okay.
- Okay?
- Owww, ow, ow.
(waves rolling and splashing)
- Barbara...
I...
I, I really don't know how to say this.
I...
I love you, Barbara.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you, Barbara.
- What is it?
- I don't know.
All I have to say is I love you,
and everything's okay.
I don't understand it.
Maybe I'm cynical but
I just never thought--
- I knew you didn't mean it.
- I don't know.
It's just that when
everything is said and done,
I really can't analyse it.
I guess you're right.
All this rationality bit
and problem-solving stuff
just doesn't work when it comes to love.
Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons
but wise men never try.
All I know is Barbara, when I look at you,
my mind says yes
and my body says yes,
and what can I say?
Yes.
I do love you, I do.
Wait a second.
There.
See?
I could just say anything
and you'll believe me.
Barbara?
Barbara, you're not gonna cry.
(Barbara sobs)
Oh, please Barbara, don't cry.
Please.
Look, how the hell do I know anything?
I might love you, I might, really.
I could love you and not even know it.
Please, Barbara look at me.
I know I'm here with you now
and I'm very attracted to you.
And I want you Barbara, I do.
Christine got to me because
of Russ, that's all.
Jesus, Barbara, I can't get away from you.
- Oh, forget it.
- I don't wanna forget it.
I don't wanna.
I wanna make it up to you, Barbara.
I do need you.
I do love you.
It's not right, it just
can't be like this.
- You don't know what you want.
You're not deep, you're just horny.
I'm sorry, I just got carried away.
- You're sorry.
No, I deserved that.
- Oh, Paul, let's try--
- Barbara, why don't--
- There's a beer in there.
- No.
No, I think we should
go to Howard Johnson's
and talk things out.
(Christine squeals and giggles)
- [Christine] Russ?
- [Russ] Yeah.
- [Christine] Are you chewing gum?
- [Russ] Yeah, you want
me to throw it out?
- [Christine] Yeah.
- [Russ] Yeah, okay, fine.
- [Waitress] Will that be all?
- Yes, thank you.
I'd like to see you tomorrow.
- Are you sure?
- Sure I'm sure.
- Are you still sure?
- (Laughs) Come on.
- Hi, Chris.
- We're just leaving.
- See you tomorrow, Barbara.
(car engine revving)
- I'm really sorry.
I didn't realize my car
was so temperamental.
It wants to apologize to you.
- I'll see you after the scrimmage.
- Each team gets the ball for 10 plays
and then they switch.
There's no kicking.
Maybe, well mayve I'll go check
on the car tomorrow instead.
Look, we'll be seeing each other.
- Oh?
- Really.
I'll give you a call.
I'd like to see you.
I think this year we could--
- I wanna see you too.
(slow instrumental music)
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
(airplane engine roars)
(gunshot fires)
- Nice shot.
Hey, that's wild.
Where'd you get that?
- My dad gets dozens from work.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, keep it.
- Thanks.
- Listen, Al's giving me
a ride to the scrimmage.
You want a lift?
- Yeah, I'd appreciate that.
Do you see that bird anywhere?
- I think it came down in the water.
- I guess we'll have to forget it then.
- You went out with Barbara, didn't you?
- Yeah.
- How'd you do it?
- Alright, I guess.
- Who wouldn't?
- Hey Steve, did you ever talk to Barbara?
- Does she talk?
Come on.
(players chattering)
- You guys get any birds?
- Yeah, one.
- Did he shoot him or kick him?
- Steve got it.
- Russ here yet?
- Yeah I saw him a second ago.
- (Mumbles) back there?
- Diane Faucet.
- What about her?
- She goes down.
- How would you know?
- I know, jerko.
Got a butt?
- Sorry, I don't smoke.
- Coach'll get your ass if he catches you.
- In there.
- Who's got a light?
- Hey.
Hey, don't fool around, huh (whistles).
Is that thing loaded?
Hey, this is no joke, Green.
Fooling around with a loaded
weapon before scrimmage.
Hey, what's the matter with you, huh?
Heh, fell in the urinal there.
What's the matter, you
mad about something?
Oh, I know what, you're
mad about the car, right?
It was just a little friendly joke, Green.
Just like a wire, I took the wire out.
You put the wire back,
car'll run like new.
No damage, no big deal.
Green.
I like you, Green, more or less.
I've always spoken very
highly about your kicking.
Ask the guys, some of the guys.
Well, what do you want, Green?
You want my girl?
You want Christine?
You can have her.
My blessing go with the both of you.
You want me to miss scrimmage?
We'll take off, we'll go
somewhere, we'll talk it over.
We'll go to Howard Johnson's
and talk it over man to man.
Whaddya say, Howard Johnson's, Green?
Look, Green, we can work this thing out.
You're a smart boy.
I noticed that.
You've been around, right?
I've seen you.
I'm smart, you're smart.
Green, you're a smart boy.
Please, please.
Green.
(lighter snaps)
It's a cigarette lighter.
- Hey, that was cool.
Really cool.
It was beautiful, it was beautiful.
- Hey, I'll see ya later, okay.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hey, good luck.
(lively rock music)
♫ There they go all in a row
♫ Smiles and suntan toes are running
♫ Down to the beach.
♫ Waiving to us as they float
♫ On their big ball.
- Hi, what are you laughing at?
I've been waiting for you all day.
- Come on, get in.
♫ We've got better things to do.
♫ Think it's time we got away.
♫ Think we'll miss that boat today.
♫ We're all above it today.
♫ There they go I know those
people frozen in a movie pose
♫ With sunglasses on.
♫ If they'd open up their eyes
♫ I have a surprise.
♫ I'm just standing on the shore,
♫ I'm the one they're waiting for.
♫ Think it's time we got away.
♫ Think we'll miss that boat today.
♫ We're all above it today.
♫ I'm just standing on the shore.
♫ I'm the one they're waiting for.
♫ Think it's time to get away.
♫ Think we'll miss that boat today.
♫ We're all above it today.
♫ All above it today.
(lion roars)