September 30, 1955 (1977) - full transcript

Father, I did an awful thing.

And I'm sorry.

Excuse me, Mr. Trask,
but it's awful not to be loved.

It's the worst thing in the world.

Makes you... makes you mean
and violent and cruel.

And that's the way Cal
has always felt all his life.

You never gave him your love.

You never asked him for his.

Cal's going away,
Mr. Trask.

But before he goes, well, you have to
give him some sign that you love him...

Or else he'll never be a man.



He'll just keep on feeling guilty
and alone unless you release him.

Please help him.

Please try.

Come on now. Talk to him
before it's too late.

I can't. I can't.
Please try. Please try.

Can't leave.

Is there coffee around here?

I'll get you some in a little bit.

Is there anything to read
around here?

There's something in me.

Believe it was born in me and I...

I couldn't help it,
but that's not so.

A man has a choice.

You used to say that was where
we were different from an animal.



See, I remember.
A man has a choice,

and it's the choice is what
makes him a man, see?

It's...
See? I do remember.

Look, I can't find any coffee.

Get out!

Look.

Cal.

Do-do something...

For me.
Yes.

That... woman.

The nurse.

Can't stand her.
Get me another.

What did he say?

He said, "don't get
anybody else."

He said, "you stay with me.
You take care of me."

Oh.

Side straddle hops.

Ready? Exercise.

- One, two, three.
- One!

One, two, three.
Two!

One, two, three.

Ready. Hike!

Band, Mark time. March!

Left. Left.
Left, right, left.

Left. Left.
Left, right, left.

Left. Left. Left,
right, left.

You've heard the best
country and western...

Brought to you by wiggins sell barn.

How you feeling?
Oh, I'm feeling pretty good.

What time do you think you're gonna be
through? He said in a couple more hours.

I don't know why it takes
him so long every time.

Well, aren't you supposed
to be out there?

James Dean, movie star... Good night!

I'm gonna get killed
leaning against this.

Was killed late yesterday afternoon.
Huh? Who'd he say?

What?
Who'd he say died?

I wasn't listening.
Aw, something about some movie star.

Listen.

Come on, Jimmy.
Where you going?

Jimmy J.!

Charlotte! Charlotte!

You got a dime? Give me a dime.
Come on. I need a dime.

What's the matter?

I just heard something on the radio.
I can't believe it.

What?
They're saying Jimmy Dean's been killed.

James Dean? Come on.
Give me a dime, will ya?

I don't think I got
any change, Jimmy.

Eugene! Eugene!
You got a dime?

Give me a dime, will you?
Here. Take it.

What is it, Jimmy?
Jimmy!

Eugene, get back in line.

Who ya calling? Billie Jean.
The line's busy.

You promised me you
wouldn't see her anymore.

I wasn't seeing her, Charlotte.
I was just calling her.

Where you going?
The radio station.

Hey, Jimmy. Hey, what's going on?
Howdy, Jimmy.

Hey, Charlotte, what's the matter?
James Dean is dead.

This kcon in the heart of astc.

And here's Tom with the morning news.

New York.
The French delegation walked out

of the united nations
general assembly last night.

The walkout came after the un.
Decided by a one-vote margin...

To take up the highly controversial
issue of Algerian independence.

France bitterly opposed the move.

Denver. James hagerty,
white house press secretary,

says president eisenhower
had a restful night last night,

and his progress after his heart
attack continues to be satisfactory...

Without complications.

Hollywood. Rising young film star
James Dean was killed last night...

When his sports car collided
almost head-on with another car...

At an intersection near
Paso Robles, California.

He was 24 years old.

Turning to sports, the Dodgers won

the third game of the
world series yesterday,

making it Yankees two games,
Dodgers one.

We're supposed to have partly
cloudy weather through tomorrow,

with a high this afternoon near 58.

No rain is forecast.

This is Tom Bonner, and we'll get back
to the music now of campus capers.

Jimmy! Hey!

Hey!

I've been looking all over for you!

I heard about it.
So?

You got two phone calls
back at the dorm.

I don't wanna hear about any phone
calls now. Well, one was from your mama.

She said she's coming
down here this afternoon

with your aunt and little brother...

On their way to see a show in little
rock, and they want you to go...

And to be sure and wear a tie.

And the other call's
from Billie Jean Turner.

Billie Jean?
She's trying to get ahold of you.

Hello. No, this isn't Billie Jean.
It's melba Lou.

Who's this?
Oh, hello, Jimmy J.

I don't know if she can come to the
phone. She can't talk for cryin'.

Billie Jean!
I... oh?

Oh, uh-huh.
She knows all about it.

He uncle, who's just as crazy for movies
as she is, called up from Bakersfield.

Woke us up first thing this morning.

You know, I never did see that movie.

What was it called?
Something about Eden.

Uh-huh. Well, I seen a lot
of pictures of him though.

Yeah, she must have over 200.
He's just as cute as a button.

Oh, I know. The phone's been busy.
I've been talkin' to some friends.

Oh. Okay. All right.

Billie Jean!
What?

I got Jimmy J. On the phone. Now do
you or do you not wanna talk to him?

Oh, I want to. Jimmy, we
haven't seen you in a long time.

You deserted us.
Oh. Here she is. Okay.

Oh, my god, my b... my god,
my beans are boiling over.

Hello, Jimmy.

Did you... did you hear what happened?

Yeah, you were the first one I tried
to call when I found out.

Only one in this whole town. Don't you
talk forever. I'm expecting a call.

What? No, I'm not
all right at all.

Really, I'm about to fall to pieces.

Well, I just been lookin'
at pictures of him,

and, uh, thinkin' about him.

And I've been trying
to contact his spirit.

What? Yeah.

Oh, yes. Oh, Jimmy,
please come and get me.

This is monitor.

From Hollywood, a
special report... yeah.

On the death of James Dean.
Jimmy J., more news.

Charlotte, switch it to NBC...
920 on the dial.

There's more news.
Here's some napkins.

They didn't have a grapette, honey,
so I got orange crush. That's okay.

Turn it up, will you, Charlotte?
Won't you turn it up, damn it?

He was an extreme individual,
a nonconformist who believed...

Barbecued beef, extra sauce.
Coleslaw.

Coleslaw.
I had coleslaw.

Barbecue ham. Jimmy.
Here's your barbecue ham, Jimmy.

...but likable, lovable. I can't tell
which is coke and which is root beer.

However unusual he may have been,

no one will argue his talent
was not outstanding.

Hollywood will be talking about
James Dean... Is he alive or dead?

And what he was and what he could
have been... He's breathing.

For a long time to come.
Here's your coke, Jimmy.

Hanley, can you eat and
drive at the same time? Yep.

I got to go pick up Billie
Jean, Charlotte. Billie Jean?

Yes, pat, Billie Jean.
Is that all right with you?

It's all right with me if it's
all right with Charlotte. Is it?

Do you have to? Charlotte, she admired
him every bit as much as I did,

and you know that. Jimmy, he was
only a movie star. It wasn't like...

What the hell did you say?
I said he was only a movie star,

and it wasn't like he knew him or
anything. There's ice everywhere.

Oh, what the hell? Goddamn.
Barbecued ham all over the car.

Shit. Look at that. Shoot.
I just washed my hair last night.

That's just the kind of thing
Jimmy Dean would've done.

Hey! You sure made a mess of
the interior of my car, roomie.

I did? Well, I guess
I couldn't help myself.

If you figure out why I did it,
you let me know, all right?

Did you promise Billie Jean
you'd pick her up?

Charlotte, she's over there.

She's got nobody to talk to.
She's all upset. She's crying.

I don't care if you don't care,

'cause I don't consider her
the least bit of competition.

I feel sorry for her with a reputation
like that and a mama like that.

I'm sorry about your car, hanley.

It's okay.

Billie Jean?

You can just turn right around
and keep on goin'.

- She's not goin' anywhere.
- Mama!

She is not goin' anywhere
till she cleans up her room...

And vacuums that house
from top to bottom.

She was out last night till all hours
with some boy I never even heard of.

Took a brand-new dress of mine
without even asking.

Then she comes home looking like
she's been mauled to death.

She's not goin' out when she can
help me. I don't care who died.

Mama! Jimmy!

I've locked the door,
and I've got the key.

- You let me out of here!
- Oh, you hush up.

- I'll call ya after a while.
- Mama, you're a pissant!

Don't you call me that. A pissant!
Did you hear me? A pissant.

You call me that one more ti...
oh. Pissant!

Pissant!
Oh.

When I see someone
with a mama like that,

I thank my lucky stars that's not me.

She had her when she was 13 years old.
How do you know?

I was at the glitterin' Jesus one night

and heard her tellin'
some truckers about it.

They didn't believe she had a daughter
17 years old. Where to now, Jimmy J.?

Well, let's go to palarm.
I feel like getting drunk.

Jimmy, wait!

So what's happening?
Sig tau, phi lamb pledges are having...

A beer-drinkin' contest this
afternoon over at doyne hall.

How about selling us a couple of
six-packs? You don't have I.D.?

No.
Okay.

I don't want beer.
I want old crow.

Jimmy J., did Eugene ever find you?
He was looking for you in the bookstore.

Eugene? No.
Coach was looking for you too.

Hey, Jimmy, will you get
me some cigarettes? Yeah.

Charlotte, I don't see
how you put up with him.

As sweet as he is, I couldn't do it.
I'm always nervous around him.

You never know what he's gonna do.

He'll outgrow that. But that's what
I don't like about Billie Jean.

She just eggs that on.

Can I help you?

Uh, yeah, I got to get some Coca-colas.

Um, give me about half dozen cokes,
all right?

Some paper cups. And the cokes are
real cold, yeah? They sure are.

Okay, then give me about a half
dozen cokes and some paper cups...

And the log cabin democrat
and a pint of old crow.

And one pint of old crow.

You old enough?
Huh?

John law stays parked out there on
that highway about 70% of the time...

Trying to catch my ass
selling liquor to adolescents.

Well, I'm not an adolescent.
Show me the I.D. That says you're a man.

I left it at school.
Then I can't let you have the old crow.

You still want the cokes and the
paper cups and the log cabin?

Yeah, and give me two packs
of marlboros.

I shouldn't even let you
have the cigarettes,

but you'll just get them
somewheres else.

How much I owe you?
2.25.

Here's two dollars
and 25 cents right there.

Midnight,
don't y'all come in here unless you

got some cash.
I ain't giving you more credit.

I got some cash, Mr. Thomas.
Midnight just rollin' in money.

I got a job at the rendering plant
driving around picking up dead animals.

Is that what I smell? Get that rendering

plant truck out from
in front of my store.

What in the world do you mean?
Good grief!

Bringing that thing in
here smelling like that.

Start the car, hanley.

Open the door, frank. Come on.
Open the door, frank.

Come on, hanley. Let's go!
Let's get out of here! Come on! Hey!

Officer henson!
Officer henson!

You stole that.

Come on, hanley!
Can't you go any faster than this?

I'm driving as fast as I can.
Oh, my god.

You're a thief! Frank, he's a thief!
Well, get down, pat.

I don't want anybody to see us.
Rum! Rum! Three bottles of rum!

Hey, come on, hanley! Turn off
the first road down to the river!

Let's go down to toad suck ferry!

Whoo-hoo!

Hey. Here you go.

I'm gonna pass out.

All right, I'm up. Little rummy-tummy
there for you, honey, huh?

That's not enough.
I want more than that. Jimmy.

Oh, thank you, hanley.

Here it is. They put it on
the second page.

"Actor James Dean meets death
in automobile crash."

A lot of people say he was just
an imitation Marlon Brando.

A lot of people are jealous
and full of shit, pat.

- Everybody got a drink?
- Yeah.

Yeah.

How many movies did he make?

East of Eden's
only one been released.

And then I read in the paper where
rebel without a cause is gonna be out...

In Memphis in about a month.

And then they just finished
making giant.

Ah, you sure are making a big
fuss about a neurotic movie star.

- You ever see the movie?
- No.

You saw it, didn't you, pat?
Yeah, I liked it.

- I loved it.
- Me too.

I've seen it four times.

Changed my life, frank.

Billie Jean's seen it 22 times.

Jimmy, I don't see how a
movie can change your life.

- Well, it did.
- Well, what's it about?

Well, it comes from a book.

And, uh, it's about two brothers.

One of them's good
and one of them's bad.

Except the bad one isn't really bad.
They just don't understand him at all.

And, uh, well, while
I was watching the picture,

I realized that the whole thing
is really about Cain and Abel.

You know, being your
brother's keeper and all that.

'Cause the title
comes from the Bible...

From the part, uh,
where after Cain kills his brother...

And the lord sends him away.

"Cain went out from
the presence of the lord,

dwelt in the land of nod
on the east of Eden."

Now, what does all that
have to do with him?

I don't know.

Jimmy?

Jimmy!

Crazy. I feel like someone I've
known all my life has died,

and I never even met the man.

It's so dumb.

I don't think so.

You don't?
No.

I remember how my father behaved
when president Roosevelt died.

Oh, I must have been about...
About nine years old.

He went into his room, closed the door
and threw a chair against the wall.

Over and over he just kept throwing
this chair against the wall.

And he never cried.

He just kept throwing this
chair against the wall...

I know. Believe me.

I could throw something too
right now.

'Cause you know how I feel?
I feel cheated.

I just feel cheated of
all the great things

he would've done that
I'm never gonna see.

Everything I've ever
read about that man,

we were so alike in so many ways,
it's incredible.

He was a basketball player.
Grew up on a farm.

He never knew his mother.
I never knew my father.

I'll tell you how dumb it is.

I was even thinking about going out for
a play this year. That's how dumb it is.

Oh, I don't think that's... And I
wish that they'd just stop laughing,

'cause it's not nice
to laugh at people.

Jimmy, they're not laughing...
Yes, they are! They're laughing!

And why don't you just stop laughing?
Huh? Why don't you just stop laughing?

Hey! What you kids
doing down there?

Here. Hide the rum.
Yeah.

Uh, we're just having a little picnic.
Just having a little wienie roast.

Looks to me like you're trespassing.

Mr. Phillips?
Who knows my name down there?

Oh, uh, frank Martin,
Mr. Phillips.

Uh, Pete Martin's boy.

Yeah, frank, I didn't recognize you.

My old eyes are goin'.
How's your mother and dad?

Oh, well, they're fine.
They're both just real fine. Uh...

Uh, you want a cold beer,
Mr. Phillips?

Sounds mighty good, frank.
Sounds mighty good.

We got some cold beer down here.
Hanley, give me a beer.

Here you go.
Open this bugger up for you.

Get this out.

Ah! Wow. There you are.
Wet your whistle.

It's good stuff. We're just down
here having a little picnic.

We're not trespassing anymore.
I wish we had some wieners.

Well, I got one, pat.
A big, nice fat one.

Did you buy some?
Where'd you get some?

You're nasty!
That's not nasty.

You know that's nasty.
Frank, hanley's being nasty again.

Hey! Frank sure made old man Phillips
happy with a single can of beer.

Don't you wish it took so little?
You laughin' at me?

Hey, he wasn't laughing at you.
Were you, Frank?

You weren't laughing at Jimmy J.,
were you?

Shit, no. I wasn't
laughing at you.

Let's make a fire.

#I don't hurt anymore

#all my teardrops are dry

#no more walking the floor.

Pass me the church key, frank.

Shit.

You gonna mix rum and
coke and beer? Yep.

Well, if you're gonna get sick...
I'm gonna have a good time doing it.

Shit, the fire's hot!

What's he doing? I can't tell.
Can you see what he's doing?

Hey, Jimmy J.!

Jimmy J., what are you making?
Something out of mud.

Mud? We gotta watch the time.

I don't want to have to rush
to get ready for tonight. Oh.

Now, what in the world is that?

- What's it look like?
- It looks like a man to me.

- I know.
- I do too.

It's Oscar.
I knew it.

It's academy award.

This isn't Hollywood, Jimmy.

This is a sandbar on toad suck
ferry at the Arkansas river.

I think you've gone crazy.

God, I'm so drunk I can't
even feel my lips anymore.

Billie Jean says we oughta try
and get in touch with him.

What?

Just as soon as this here dries we're
gonna have ourselves a ceremony.

I wish you had brought
those wienies, Jimmy.

Just look at that fire going to
waste and not a wienie in sight.

I told you, pat.
You wanna see mine?

- No! I don't wanna see that!
- Mine can be in sight in a jiffy.

Go get her, frank!
Get her good!

Whoo-ooh! Go get her!

Let me get... frank, help me!

- Charlotte.
- Charlotte!

That's not fair! Two against one. No!

You leave me alone! I gotta get
ready to go to the phi sig dance!

Frank!

Frank, get her!

Look.
Huh?

What's he doing?

Beats the shit out of me.

I think he's turning himself
into one of those mud natives...

We saw in t national geographic.

It has to do with funerals and grief.

He's just doing it to be different.

It's time.

I gotta get back to the dorm.
I gotta wash and set my hair.

Shh. Shh, Pat, come on, please.

All right, everybody,
let's join hands.

Form a circle of prayer.

Prayer? We're gonna
say some prayer?

Yeah.

The lord giveth
and the lord taketh away.

Blessed be the name of the lord.

Our father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread...

And forgive us our trespasses...

As we forgive those
who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom and the
power and the glory, forever and ever.

Amen.

Dear god, be with the loved ones and the
friends and the relatives of James Dean.

Give them strength and courage
in this hour of need.

He will never die.

He is immortal.

Jimmy.

Jimmy, if you're with us,
give us a sign now.

Give us a sign, Jimmy.

Give us a sign, Jimmy.

That's it.

That old dog?
I swear to god, that's it.

It was chasing a rabbit. That was
a sign. We gotta get back to town.

I gotta tell Billie Jean.
Oh, my god. Look.

- Oh, that's real trouble.
- Frank.

Grab the stuff.
Here. Quick.

Come on. Move!

Move!

Come on!

Come on, hanley. Let's wait for
'em to see us. Get in. Get in.

I hope you're sitting on something
so you don't wreck the seats.

Shut up! Shut up! Just drive slow.
Don't make any dust.

Okay, where can we go now? For what?

For what? We gotta keep going.
He gave me a sign. I can't stop now.

Well, I can! Frank and I are
going to the phi sig dance.

Take me straight
to the dormitory, please.

And stop looking at me like that. Frank,
make him stop looking at me like that!

Hey, Jimmy, will you stop
looking at her like that?

Look! There they are!
They're right over there!

Step on it. We're gonna get caught.
Serves you right.

Oh, shut up.

I think you're sick,

and I think you're affected,
and I think you're weird,

and I think Charlotte oughta have
her head examined for going with you.

And I think exactly the same thing.

You got that?
Ditto. You got that?

It's always a shock when you find out
that somebody you think understands...

Doesn't really understand
anything at all.

How about your house, Charlotte? Your
mom and daddy still in Russellville.

We can hold the rest
of the wake there.

Well, you can't come in
looking like that.

Well, we'll just drop you off
and go take a shower, all right?

Come on, hanley.
Let's get out of here.

Y'all come back
just as soon as you can.

I think we ought to go back
to palarm. Don't you, Jimmy?

Don't you want some more to drink?
We can't go back there.

You get the police.
My folks got a cabinet full.

I know where they hide the key.

So get cleaned up and get back here.

I'm gonna invite
Billie Jean, Charlotte.

Jimmy, I can't have Billie
Jean in my mama's house.

Oh, all right.
If she has to.

I guess she has to.

Just hurry back and I'll make
some supper. Great. I'm starving.

Let's go.

Hanley?

Do you think I'm sick
and affected and weird?

A little bit.

Everybody is a little bit.

Hanley! Jimmy J. Oh, good night.
It's my mama.

And my aunt Ethel. Hanley,
what are you doing? Wait a minute.

We been waiting for over half an hour.
I told him you called.

Hanley. Hanley.
Uh... Jimmy, uh...

I'm gonna park around the back.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Let me walk...

Jimmy J.?

Howdy, mama.

What on earth have you been doing?
Is that Jimmy J.?

Howdy, aunt Ethel.
Howdy.

Is that you?
What have you been doing?

You look like a pig.

Have you been taking
classes to look like a pig?

Don't put your hands on my white suit.

I'm not gonna put my hands on
your new white suit, Dickie.

You better not.

What are you all doing down here?

I told hanley to tell you
to be ready to go with us.

We're driving over to little rock to
see a show at the Robinson auditorium.

If we don't leave now we're gonna be...
Stop that.

Jimmy, just go on.
Get cleaned up.

Mama, I can't go anywhere.
Not tonight. What's the matter?

Jimmy J., have you
been drinking?

Have you?
Have you been drinking?

Just a little bit.
That's all. Drunk pig.

Drunk pig! Drunk pig! Drunk pig!
Drunk pig! Shut up, Dickie.

Shut up, Dickie!

Is that what we sent you to
college to learn? How to drink?

No, ma'am, it's not.
To be a drunken mud pie?

Come on. Shut up, Dickie.
Have you got any shorts underneath?

Oh, stop. Now just calm down, Dickie.
Calm down.

I am very disappointed.

That hurts me, Jimmy J.,
that you've been drinking.

It doesn't surprise me.
It just disappoints me.

Well, somebody very close to me
died last night, mama.

Who? Do I know them?
No, ma'am, you don't.

Well, who died?
Who?

Do you have any shorts on
underneath that jacket? Shh. Hush.

James Dean died, mama.

Did I know him?
No, ma'am, you didn't know him.

You don't mean that actor
James Dean, do you?

Well, we heard about that.
Heard it on the radio driving down here.

That's exactly who I mean.

Well, I'm very sorry
when anybody dies.

But I don't understand for the
life of me what that death...

Clear across the country
has to do with you.

No, ma'am, I know you don't.

Son of a... boys!

Come back here! I'm gonna
pinch your damn head off! Boys!

Mama!
Give me it!

Jimmy, don't you touch him.

I've got you now,
you little son of a bitch. Come here.

You crazy, dirty slob!
Jimmy, you put him down.

Jimmy, stop that!

Mama! Look what he did
to my new suit!

Mama, look!
Oh, goodness. Oh!

We're gonna have to stop at a filling
station and get you cleaned up.

Sister, see what you can
do with him, will you?

Just look at you.

I'm just gonna pretend
like this never happened.

I hope you're not starting
to take after your father.

I look at you and I see him
written all over you.

This is your allowance
for this month.

I didn't mail it 'cause I
knew we were coming down here.

I spent the whole morning baking a pound
cake and making a batch of cookies.

And I put the leather patches
on the sleeves of this jacket.

I'll just lay it on the bench.

In the bottom of this sack is a jar
of chili sauce from your grandmama.

I am not gonna tell her
I caught you like this.

Oh, Jimmy J.,
why can't you be good?

- Good? Why can't I be good?
- That's right. Good.

What do you mean by good? Little Dickie?
Is that what you mean by good?

I have always taught you the
difference between right and wrong.

Mama, look at my new white suit.
Oh, shush, Dickie.

Right and wrong? What the hell
has that got to do with good?

You are just being perverse, Jimmy J.

I wanna know what you mean by good. If I
can't be it, I wanna know what that is.

- I want you to talk to me right now.
- You commie! You communist!

- Shut up!
- Now that is enough.

I think you better go
get yourself some coffee.

Let's go, Ethel.

You go to church in the mornin',
and you ask the lord to forgive you.

Move, Dickie.

Jimmy, you need some help?

I'm all right.

Just fine.

Thank you, Eugene.

Jimmy,
I was looking for you all morning long

right after band.
Even in the bookstore.

I owe you a dime.
Some old dime. I don't care.

You fall into a mudhole?

You don't have to tell me if you
don't want, 'cause I understand.

He's my favorite movie star too. I was
listening to the radio this afternoon,

and people all over the country
are going crazy 'cause he's dead.

They just can't believe it.
Somebody even tried to kill themselves.

Is there anything I can do?
Have some cookies, Eugene.

Gee, thanks, Jimmy.

Come on!

What the hell is going on here?

Sig taus, phi lamb pledges are
having a beer-drinking contest.

I think it's disgusting.
Sig taus are winning.

Shit from greasy valley's drunk 43
so far and no sign of letting up.

How crude.
What the hell happened to you?

Put these in my room, will you, please?
I gotta call Billie Jean.

Billie Jean? Yeah, Billie Jean.

Come on. Come on. And bring me
something to drink, will you?

You don't mean coffee. I mean a drink
drink. I'm not talking about beer.

I don't approve of alcohol, Jimmy.
Come on, Eugene.

There's gotta be bottles
everywhere with the dance tonight.

I'll see what I can do.

Hello? Hi. It's me. Can you talk now?

Yeah. She's taking a bath.
Where'd you go? I wanted to go so bad.

We went down to the river,
and I got drunk.

I got so drunk, I just acted crazy.

I did whatever I felt like,
whatever come into my head.

Billie Jean, he gave me a sign.

Well, what kind of sign?
I made an academy award out of mud.

Oh, how wonderful.

And I said, "give me a sign, Jimmy.
Give me a sign, Jimmy."

And at that very same moment
a dog started to bark.

Oh, my god. I'm gettin'
all goose bumps.

Listen, we got to get together,

'cause I said, "give me a sign.
Give me a sign," too.

And a dog started barking outside
my window. Now where are you?

I'm at the dorm. Listen.

Charlotte Smith is having a wake at her
house just as soon as we can get there.

We? She said "we"? Am I invited?
Can you get out?

Yeah, if she gets her call.
I'll see you in a half hour.

- Jimmy?
- What?

This has to be a very special night.

I have to think and give myself
up to my own imagination.

See you later.
Bye for now.

Bye.

Where's Jimmy J.?
He's down in the shower.

B.o.'s got a bottle of gin. Jimmy asked
me to find him something to drink.

I brought you a coke.

Uh, we need a couple of cokes.
Go get us another one, Eugene.

Come on in, Bo.

Let me out. Let me out.
Let me out.

How many did you drink? Forty-nine.
I can't drink any more.

Well, you all right, Billy Bob?

Oh, hi, coach. Oh, my god.
There's coach haynes.

Coach haynes! Coach haynes!
Push in. Push in.

Yeah, who is it?

Coach haynes. Jimmy J.? Damn.

He'll bust my tail off if he
catches me with this gin. B.O.

Jimmy J. Is down
in the shower, coach.

Ah, I'll wait.

Jimmy.
What?

Here. I brought your drink.
What's that?

It's hot black coffee.
I don't want that.

You need to sober up.
Hold out your hand or open your mouth.

What is this? It's sen-sen.
Coach haynes is in your room.

Hi, coach.
Jimmy.

See you later.
I'll be down in my room.

Thanks for the coffee, Eugene.

Uh-huh.

Hanley was telling me about
this guy... this movie star.

What's his name? James what? Dean.

Yeah. It's terrible.

Remember seeing this spread life.

Whatever.

That still doesn't excuse the
way you behaved this morning...

Running off the field like that
without any explanation.

Now, what if everybody felt like they
could just run off the field like that?

We wouldn't have any team, would we?

You know what I'm saying?

Yes, sir, I think I do.

Now, you know I can't tolerate...

I can't permit that kind of behavior,

particularly from somebody with
leadership ability like you.

Well, it gives the others,

well, not ideas, but...

Well, it gives the others
the attitude that,

well, if he can act that way,
I can act that way,

and that's not good for team spirit.

Now, on a team everybody has a job,

and they do that job for the team.

And the team wins together.

Not one man, Jim, but the team.

Now, that's the way we won the war,

and that's the way we keep the peace.

I'm gonna put you on probation.

You'll apologize to me in front
of the team in the morning.

You'll run five extra laps
for the next two weeks.

Oh, shit. Pat and frank are down
there talking to the police.

That's another thing.
The boys on my team don't cuss.

They don't cuss, and they don't
drink, and they go to church.

- State law, hanley.
- Jesus Christ.

- What?
- Jimmy!

Police are downstairs looking for you.

Frank told them it was
you stole that rum.

Son of a bitch.
Let's get out of here.

Where y'all going?
Can I come too?

Hello?
Who's out there?

Billie Jean here?
Is that you, Jimmy J.?

Yes, ma'am. Oh.
Billie Jean expecting you?

Yes, ma'am. Oh. Okay, come on in.

I want you to meet
Mr. Brown.

Jimmy J. And Billie Jean
are just exactly alike.

All they do is talk about movies

and movie stars till you
think there's nothing else.

They go off to the movies.
They come back and act out the movies.

Life imitates art around
here, let me tell you.

And today, this Jimmy Dean...

A sweet little thing you just
want to hold and cuddle...

Dyin' so tragic like that.

I thought Billie Jean
was gonna follow suit.

She sure gave one of
her better performances.

When her uncle called from Bakersfield,
she's standing right here on that phone.

She starts gaspin' for air
like she's a fish out of water.

I was in the kitchen preparing the
hors d'oeuvres for this evening,

and I hear this...

I said, "Billie Jean, what on earth?
What on earth?"

I thought her uncle was dead.

So she drops the phone, leaves the
receiver danglin', runs up the stairs,

gets to the top step, drops,
kicks her feet, lays there a minute...

I threatened to call a doctor...
She gets up makin' awful kind of noises,

runs into her room, slams the door,

won't talk to anybody
unless the phone rings.

Where you going tonight?

I'm going to Charlotte
Smith's house for supper.

Charlotte Smith?
Yeah.

I didn't know she knew Charlotte Smith.
Oh, yeah.

The girls' football queen last year.

Yeah, and this year too. Two years
in a row... Some kind of record.

When's homecoming this year?

About three weeks, I think.

Isn't that nice?
Smith.

Isn't he the state senator?
Yeah, that's right. That's the one.

Isn't this nice?
Well, all right.

Well, now this pleases me to death.
You go right up there. Go get her now.

Isn't that nice?

He's a real fine boy. I always told
Billie Jean to run with the best.

So what they imitate the movies?
I did. Didn't you?

Heck, half the time
I thought I was Betty grable.

You remind me more of Jane Russell.
Whoa. Mr. Brown.

Billie Jean?
It's Jimmy J.

I don't know if I can stand it.

I... I just can't imagine
livin' in a world without him.

When did you do all this?

Since the last time we talked.

I just couldn't stand my
regular old room after he died.

My regular old room
with the regular old me.

So I just let
my imagination run wild.

And I read in a magazine
how much vampira loved him.

So I just did this.

They're waiting for us
down in the car.

Billie Jean.

I even let my imagination
go so far...

As to think maybe
they'd just go on waitin'.

And before we get to Charlotte's,

what happened between us... What she
suspects... Has happened already.

Better not.

Well, up above
you say you better not,

but down below
you're contradicting yourself.

Billie Jean, your mama's downstairs.

You're scared.

I'm not scared.
They're waiting for us.

Well, I don't think James Dean
would've pulled away.

But you never know.

No. No, he wouldn't.

Because he was bad too, like me.

He said that you have to
experience everything in life,

because when you start
saying no to life,

life starts saying no right back.

Listen, if you're really serious,

I'll leave that window open
all night,

and you can come to me
just like James Dean

come to Julie Harris in east of Eden.

We can get down to brass tacks.

Billie Jean, we better go now.

Okay.
Turn on the lights.

Your mama's gonna have a fit when
she sees what you done to this room.

Hey, don't forget those bongo drums.

Act like nothing's unusual.

Bye, mama. Have a good time, honey.

Don't you misbehave
at Charlotte Smith's.

She didn't even look.

- Look at that.
- It's turnin' into Halloween.

It's not funny, hanley.

You know these two, don't you?

Well, who's that back there?
Oh, hi, Eugene. Hi.

What's he doin' here? It's all right. He
wanted to come. He understands about it.

Take one frankfurter, hollow it
out and what have you got?

Ohh!

Hollow weenies!

- Where's that coke bottle?
- I think you look divine.

Why, thank you. Thank you very much.
You couldn't be more welcome.

- Here you go.
- What is this?

- Gin and coke.
- Fabulous.

Gin tastes just like perfume smells.

Oh, lord!

Well, how drunk are you?
Maybe I better drive.

Nobody drives this car but me.

Hey, stop. Stop the car.
Let me out.

Look at all those lights!

Charlotte Smith understands
nothing about anything.

Uh, you park the car, fellas.

Billie Jean, Jimmy, wait for us!

Hanley, come on.
Hurry up, will ya? I'm comin'.

I hope she made some supper.

What'd y'all do that for?
Why'd you turn out all the lights?

Shh. Don't worry about it,
Charlotte. It's all right.

We have to have light.
I'm gonna need light to cook.

I got to have somethin' to eat.

Why don't you light some candles?
Are candles all right?

Candles are okay, aren't they,
Billie Jean? Is that Billie Jean?

Candles are not only okay,
but candles are beautiful.

There should not be any
electric light tonight.

I think electric lights
disturb the spirits.

I think since the invention
of electricity,

we've had less communication
with the other world.

Now turn out the lights.

- Did you find the key?
- What key?

The key to the liquor cabinet.
Oh, I made this bowl of punch.

Punch? I made exactly those things...

I can't remember their names...

That my sister served three
weeks ago at her wedding.

There was champagne and cognac
or Brandy or somethin'.

And you just pour it out again,
and you float fruit on top.

Are you supposed to be somebody?

Uh, don't you recognize her?

She's vampira.

Isn't that good? But be careful.
It's insidious.

Aren't you gonna have some, Eugene?

French 75 is what it's called.

Come on, Eugene. Wet your whistle.
I don't approve of alcohol.

- Put hair on your chest.
- I already have hair on my chest.

Turn 'em red.
No, thank you.

It'll lower your voice.
My voice is just fine.

Come on, Eugene.
Have a sip right here. Just a sip.

Jimmy, I don't... It's not gonna
hurt you. Just take one little sip.

Come on.

Not bad, is it?

Pretty good, isn't it?

I'll just have half a drink.
Yeah, I thought you would.

Now that's what I call punch!

You know what I'd like to do?

I'd like to go to his funeral.
Yeah, so would I.

Hey, maybe in the mornin'
we can find out where it is...

And when it is and how we
might possibly get there.

Hanley, we could use your car.
I'd help you pay for the gas.

I'd have to call home and ask.

Hanley, you just help yourself.
I made more than enough.

You know what I'd like to do?
I'd like to watch a television set.

You all got one of those?

We got one just last week,
but I'm not supposed to touch it,

'cause daddy's the only one
who knows what knobs to turn.

Where is it?
In the den.

Well, I've watched it, and it's
not nearly as good as the movies.

It's just this little ol' box
with all this snow on it.

I wouldn't have one in the house.

We're going to have to move
all furniture out of this room.

What?

Well, if we're going to try
and communicate with 'im,

we've got to simplify this room.

There're just too many things in it.

There should be only one chair
in here... One chair for him.

Absolutely right, Billie Jean.

We can't do that.
My mama'll die!

Charlotte, don't worry about it.
I'll take the blame for it.

Well, just as long as we put everything
back exactly like it was before.

Come on, fellas.
Give me a hand with this, will ya?

When are we gonna get somethin' to eat?
We haven't had any supper.

Don't you have any hot dogs
in this house?

I'm makin' peanut butter and
bacon sandwiches on the broiler.

We don't have time for peanut
butter and bacon sandwiches.

We don't have time for food.
When someone dies,

their spirit is only earthbound
for a very little while.

You know what you need, Billie
Jean, is one of those ouija boards.

You can contact spirits
real fast with one of those.

We got one. Brand-new!
Cellophane's still around it.

As much as I hate to admit that you
had a good idea, that is a good idea.

Well, go get it, Charlotte.

What's the matter, Charlotte?

It's in the closet. I can't reach
and hold the candelabra too.

All right.

She sure is puttin' on a big show.

I wish you hadn't brought her.

What about this piano?
You want us to move the piano?

Stop that.

Stop what?

Lookin' at her like that.
Like what?

Like there was somethin' between you.

Or about to be,
and you know what "somethin'" I mean.

Charlotte?

What is it?

I'm no good, Charlotte.

Have you?

I just can't help it.
I'm bad.

My mama says
I'm just like my daddy was.

You have, haven't you?

But you're so good.
So fine, so sweet.

Just everything a girl oughta be.

Have you done it with Billie Jean?

Cross your heart and hope to
die you never did it with her?

I cross my heart and hope to die.

I never did it
with Billie Jean, Charlotte.

I believe you.
You can kiss me if you want to then.

What?

Am I scary?

I'll bet I am sometimes,
'cause sometimes I scare myself.

The things I think of,
the things I wanna do.

You don't scare me at all.

I don't?
No.

You're just a normal boy who's
goin' through a phase. Yeah.

Stop that!
I'm not Billie Jean.

Come on.
Give me a kiss.

No!

Jimmy.

The room is ready.
We must begin.

James Dean, are you in this room?

James Dean, are you in this room?

Together.

James Dean, are you in this room?

James Dean, are you in this room?

James Dean, are you...

Yes.

You were pushin' it.
I was not.

Someone was pushin' it.
No one was pushin' it, hanley.

It's the second sign today.

The first sign was the dog
barkin' down by the river.

And now he's in the room with us.

I felt him!

He's sittin' right there,
right there in that chair.

Oh, you're just tryin' to scare us.
There's nothin' to be afraid of.

What is it? What do you feel?
It's colder right here. Here.

My god, you're right.
It is colder. Gimme your hand.

Uh-uh. Not me.
What did you feel at first? Tell me.

I felt his eyes. I felt 'em burnin'
a hole in the back of my head.

And then I began to get goose
bumps all around my shoulders.

And then, I turned.

And as I turned real fast,
I thought I saw those eyes.

No face, just eyes, for one mad
second, then they faded away.

Well, what are you doin'?

I thought these candles were dripless
candles, but just look at the carpet.

My mama's gonna
snatch me bald-headed!

This is a Christmas present
she'd been beggin' for for years!

It'll come off, Charlotte.
Get some of these ice cubes.

Aw, that ice is all melted.
Never mind them.

Describe it to me again.
What did you see?

Well, you know how cats'
eyes glow in the dark?

Like that.

Starin' at us, but like his eyes in
the last scene from east of Eden...

When he begs his father to forgive
him for all the bad things he's done.

I can't wait to see rebel without
a cause... To see his eyes in that.

Don't worry. We're gonna be the
first ones in line, just like before.

Hey, Billie Jean.
Why don't we do somethin' else?

Somethin' a lot more fun,
you know what I mean?

While Charlotte isn't
lookin' or go somewhere else?

Hanley, you're not man enough for me.

We could all take turns.
Hey, hanley, watch your step!

You're gross! Maybe Eugene would
like to put my dingus in his mouth.

Cut it out.
Wanna have a picnic, Eugene?

Come on, hanley!
Leave me alone.

I got a hot dog for you, Eugene.
Goddamn it! Cut it out!

What's the matter with you anyway?
What the hell you think you're doin'?

How can you act that way tonight?
Don't you know what's goin' on here?

You're actin' just like
pat and frank!

I don't think you understand
any more than they understand.

I think you oughta just go on
down to phi sig dance with them.

They're all down there
havin' a good time.

Just goin' on with it.
Just actin' like nothin' ever happened.

Actin' like this was
like any other night.

Boy, I'd like to let them
know what's goin' on.

- What time is it, hanley?
- I don't know.

I'll bet you the dance
is over by now.

I'll bet you they're
already parkin' down

by criss-cross Meadow by the cemetery,

neckin', pettin', carryin' on.

You wanna do somethin' fun?

I know what let's do.

Let's go down there and shake 'em up.

And I mean shake 'em up. It's just the
kind of thing James Dean would've done.

Well, if he's in the room,
maybe he give me the idea.

- Charlotte, where's your make-up kit?
- Which make-up kit?

The one you use for your theater
arts classes. Where is it?

What do you want with
my make-up kit, Jimmy?

I wanna scare 'em.
I wanna scare 'em good.

I only found three flashlights.
Is that enough?

You got another one in your
car, don't you, hanley? Yep.

Y'all, this is just like the
make-up they use on Broadway.

Did you find the spirit gum?
And there's clown white.

Oh, could I have the white?

Okay.

And there's all kinds of hair
and just everything.

I'm perfect.
I'm exactly who I want to be.

Don't you want these vampire teeth?
Don't you want these fangs?

Well, they just tie it all together.

No, I don't want any fangs.

I wanna try.
Give 'em to me.

Hey, hanley.

I'll put your dingus in my mouth now.

No, thank you very much.

You look like oedipus.

Let me see.

I know who you are.
So do I.

Oh, my goodness, someone's here.

Doesn't look like
Charlotte's home, mama.

That's a strange car too.

Oh, my goodness,
it's my mom and my daddy,

and we haven't put the
furniture back yet!

What are we gonna do?

There's somethin' wrong.
No, now calm down, mama.

There's nothin' wrong.
You be careful.

You stay here, and I'll go turn
the lights on. Be careful, daddy.

Just stay right there and
just calm down. Nothin' wrong.

What the hell's goin' on here?

Watch out! It's all right, mama.
It's all right.

Charlotte sue, come back.

What in the hell is goin' on?

Let's get inside and see what...
See what's wrong.

We scared the living daylights
outta my mama.

- I was real proud of you, Charlotte.
- Proud of me?

What are you doin' with
my mama's silver candelabra?

This is part of my getup.

Jimmy told me to take 'em.
I'll bring 'em back.

Oh, my goodness.
They'll call the police.

They'll think they've
been robbed, Jimmy.

Stop that,
hanley. You'll get us killed.

Oh, I don't care.
This is the darkest night of my life.

I might as well die too.

Oh, my goodness!

Jimmy! Jimmy!
Stop it!

Stop it, Jimmy J.!
Come on. That's not funny.

Come on. Dim those lights!
Dim 'em! Come on! Dim 'em.

Our headlights are too bright, dad.

Them folks want us to dim our
lights, so dim 'em.

I can't.
The damn thing's still broke.

Dim 'em!

Duck!

Jesus Christ almighty. There wasn't
nobody at all in that car, dad.

That car was just
as empty as it could be.

Gimme some of that, will you, hanley?

- Where did you get that thermos?
- In the kitchen.

This is even better.
It's not so sweet.

It's cognac.
Good.

Where did you get that?
Did you take that off the bar?

My daddy'll skin me alive!
Now give that back. Charlotte!

Quiet everybody.

We're almost there.
Hanley, I got an idea.

Listen, when we get there, let's park
on this side of the cemetery, all right?

And walk through the graveyard?
Why not?

Yeah! Yeah, let's do.

Stay down, Charlotte.

Okay, close it, hanley, quietly.

Shh. Perfect.

I never seen so many cars at
criss-cross Meadow in my whole life.

Okay, look.
I think we oughta split up,

and then attack all at once,
then get back here quick,

before they know what hit
'em, all right?

- Okay.
- Jimmy, I'm scared.

Well, then you come with me, all right?
Okay.

Everybody know what they're gonna do?

I know what I'm gonna do.

Okay, let's go.
But stay low.

Y'all, this is spooky.

Shut up, Charlotte.
Hey, get off my cape.

You shut up.
I'm not on your cape.

Shh, come on.

I'm so proud of
my little Patty-cakes.

Winnin' the phi sig sweetheart,
just like that.

You knew it all the time, didn't you?
I did not.

You did too!
Did not.

Oh, yes, you did.

I just told those boys if
they didn't choose you,

I was gonna beat the shit out of 'em.

Frank, I love you. Oh, baby.

Hey, stay down.

Hanley.
Hanley.

Stay real low on this one,
all right? Real low.

Okay, let's go.

Eugene, gimme that other candelabra.

I'm gonna stay right here.

Shh.

Hanley, keep goin'.

#please help me, I'm fallin'

hey, I think my uncle Jack
is buried here.

Ooh, that's not funny.

#temptation
don't let me walk through #

Shh. Hanley, come on.
Don't. Stop.

Okay, listen. I want pat
and frank for turning us in.

For callin' me affected and weird.

Okay, you ready?
Yeah.

Let's go.

# jailhouse now

that was "I'm in the jailhouse
now" by Webb Pierce.

This is "makin' believe"
by miss Kitty Wells.

Mmm.

Watch that barbed wire on the fence.

- Look at my skirt.
- Shh! Look out.

- Oh, shit.
- Ow!

Be careful.

Mmm, you're crushing my corsage.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

How much further can I go?

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. You've gone
as far as you can go. Oh, come on.

Pat, pat, it's okay. It's all right.
I got protection.

Yeah, protection from you
is what I need.

Now, sit down.
It feels good, don't it?

My body says go.
But my daddy says no.

Don't. Stop it.
Your daddy ain't here.

Oh, my god! Oh!

Hanley, let's get outta here.
Eugene, come on!

Watch that wire.

- Charlotte.
- What was that? Look!

It's Jimmy J. And them
trying to scare us!

Come on, y'all.
Let's go get 'em!

Come on. Let's go!

Jimmy!
Oh, stop it!

Stop it!

I'm in a grave!

I'm in a grave!

Hanley!

Jesus.
What the hell you doin'?

What's goin' on out there?

The cops are comin'.
Get the hell outta there.

- Come on. Hurry up.
- You hear me? Get outta there!

That grave was dug for ol' man suggs.

Jimmy!

Oh, my god.
Billie Jean.

Jimmy!

Go, bears, go! Go, bears, go!
Go, bears, go!

Jimmy.

Charlotte, you sure look pretty up
there. Don't tear the float, Jimmy.

I got your letter. My mama made
me write that letter, Jimmy.

Didn't sound like you at all.

Jimmy, get off the float.
People are lookin'.

Please get off the float, Jimmy.

Hey, listen, where you gonna be
after the parade?

I'm gonna be out at the game.
Can I see you there?

Hey, please, Charlotte.
Can I see you there?

What are you lookin' at?
Don't look at me that way, Jimmy.

You're gonna make me cry.

Oh, Charlotte.

Jimmy J.?

Jimmy J.

Thought that was you. Yeah. Hey!

I thought you got kicked outta school!
Serves you right!

Hey, pat.

Frank, did you see that?

Howdy.
Howdy.

Is that your motorcycle?
Yeah. You wanna see it?

I sure do.
Come on.

Sold my war bonds to buy it.

It's a beauty.
Yep.

Aren't you gonna see
the rest of the parade?

No, I got to go see Billie Jean.
They're bringing her home today.

How is she? Well, she got different
degrees of burns all over her body.

But the problem is, she won't talk.

She hasn't said a word
since the night it happened.

That's what I heard.
I tried to go in to see her twice.

But they wouldn't let me.
They said it'd be better to wait.

Look, how's everything been with you?
Okay? Pretty good.

Good. I'm on foot though.
My folks took my car away.

At least till the rest of the year.
Mmm.

You still livin' at home?
Nope. Not since last night.

Comin' to the game?
I don't know.

Why don't you come by the room right
before the game? I got a bottle of gin.

I'm not gonna get a new roommate till
I find out what's happenin' to you.

I'll see you later, hanley.

Okay.

Look at that. Isn't that somethin'?
It's gettin' clearer.

It's gettin' better.
You adjust with this knob right here.

Oh, I'm so excited I can't stand it.

Jimmy J.

Can I see her today?

We're getting her
situated in her room.

Got her a television set.
First one on the block.

Thanks to Mr. Brown,
it's Christmas in October.

Mr. Brown, will you
take charge down here?

Has she said anything yet?
No, she's just the same.

She won't talk.
Called up the preacher.

He's comin' over this afternoon,
see what he can do.

We may have to resort
to shock treatments.

It just makes me sick.
Jimmy, see if you can get her to talk.

See if you can get her
to say something.

Billie Jean, look who's here.

It's Jimmy J.
He's come to visit you.

Guess what's come downstairs,
honey? A television set!

First one on the block!

Oh, is that a band I hear?
Is that a band out there?

Yes, ma'am.
It's the homecomin' parade.

Oh.

Mrs. Turner?
Mm-hmm?

Could I visit with Billie Jean
for just a minute?

Oh, surely.
I'll go downstairs.

I'm expectin' a call...
From the preacher.

Well, it's so weird.

It's just like the last scene
from east of Eden.

I expected that nurse out there to start

lookin' around askin'
for somethin' to read.

Um, I bought you every magazine
I could find on him.

Um, about his life,

and, uh, about his death.

Everything they're sayin' about him.

Some of 'em are even sayin' he's
not dead... That he's just, uh...

Just hidin' out somewhere.

Well...

A lot happened in the last three weeks.
I tell you.

Uh, let's see. My mother and stepfather
had to come down to jail that night...

To, uh, bail me out
for stealin' the rum.

And then they took me home with them,

and that's where I've
been most of the time.

Oh, I, uh... I went down to little
rock to see you twice, you know.

But they wouldn't let me in.

They said it would be better
to wait till you got home.

But I picked you some flowers.

You must've got the flowers.

You know what I did? I sold my war
bonds, bought myself a motorcycle.

It's right there. Right-right-right
under the tree right out there.

It's a...

I went to Memphis
last night, Billie Jean.

I saw rebel without a cause
last night.

Billie Jean, he's even better
than we ever thought he was.

I mean... I mean,
I'm just gettin'... look.

I'm just gettin' chill bumps
just thinkin' about it.

I'm gonna tell you about it,
all right? I...

Could I tell you about it? Okay, I'm,
uh... I'm gonna tell you about it.

Uh, but first, there's somethin'...
I got somethin' for you.

I wanna show you somethin' all right?

Um, it's right here.

Look at that.

You know what?
I stole it for you.

I waited till everybody was
gone from the front of the show,

and then I broke the glass
and I stole it for you.

Can you see it pretty good?

See, that's him right there.
And-and-and the jacket...

And the pants and the boots
just like these here.

The red jacket and the... And the...
and the... And the boots.

They're just like the ones he wears
in the movie. Just exactly the same.

Now the movie is about
juvenile delinquents.

Now, to start out with,
his name in the movie is Jim.

Just like mine.
Just like his in real life.

You think there's
any meaning to that?

Well,
the picture starts out with him drunk.

He's just as drunk as
I can be sometimes.

And he's lyin'
in the middle of the street,

and he's playin' with
a little toy monkey.

Curlin' up around it like a baby.

He's coverin' it with a piece of paper
like he's tryin' to keep it warm.

They pick him up, and they take
him down to the police station,

and they search him.

But he's ticklish, so he starts to
laugh right there in the police station.

And then his parents
come down to get him.

And right away you see
what his problem is.

I mean, it's just like the night
at criss-cross Meadow...

When my mother and my stepfather
come down to get me.

Billie Jean, so much of this movie
is like my life, it's incredible.

I mean, his parents acted
exactly the way mine acted.

I felt like sayin'
just like what he says in the movie.

"You're tearin' me apart."

I know you've felt that way,
haven't you?

There's a scene with
a juvenile officer,

where he says somethin' that I've said
a hundred times if I've said it once.

He says that sometimes he just
feels like hittin' something.

How he doesn't wanna
be like his father and he...

And I saw it three times,
Billie Jean,

just so I could memorize
certain parts of it to tell you.

He says, "if only I could have one
day when I wasn't all confused."

And when I wasn't ashamed
of everything.

And when I felt like
I belonged someplace.

Now that was exactly word for word what

I said to you that first
night that we met.

When we hitchhiked to morrilton to
see east of Eden. You remember that?

Word for word, and Billie Jean,
that's just the beginning.

I mean, scene after scene hit home.

There's a scene in the movie
with a girl named Judy.

And he says to her that he never
thought he'd live to see 18.

Now how many times have I said to you
that I never thought I'd live to see 21?

I just understood so much
by just lookin' at it.

There's a guy in the movie
named Plato.

Now, Plato's kinda... Well, he's kinda
in love with James Dean, you know.

Well, he's not really in love with
him, he just... He likes him, you know.

He's, uh... He likes him
kinda the way Eugene likes me.

And kinda the way
I like James Dean, you know.

And the movie ends
with Plato gettin' killed.

It's kinda James Dean's fault, see,

'cause James Dean talks
him into givin' up,

'cause he's got this gun.

But the police just shoot him down
without askin' any questions about it.

And, uh, so...
At the end of the picture,

James Dean is kinda
responsible for Plato...

Like the way I'm responsible
for what happened to you.

I am.

I am, Billie Jean.
I truly am.

I don't have to tell you how sorry
I am about it, but I want to.

And I have to.

I mean, I can't even sleep nights...

For thinkin' how it was my idea
to go down to criss-cross Meadow.

And it was my idea, Billie Jean.

Billie Jean,
if you blame me for this...

I mean, if you're harborin'
anything against me about this,

then I want you to tell me,
all right?

And I want you to
communicate it to me.

Because I wouldn't hurt you
for anything in the whole world.

Because you were the only person in
this whole town who understood me.

Who understood anything.

So if you blame me for this,
you got to forgive me right now.

Because my plan is to go directly
from this room to California.

I have to go, 'cause you see,
I got to be where he was.

And I gotta talk to
his friends about him.

And I gotta find out about him, 'cause,
you see, I never had a hero before.

I mean, I never had anybody
I looked up to.

Somebody I admired like I admire him,

someone who changed my life
the way he changed my life.

Someone I never even met before!

So I gotta go there,
and I gotta be there where he was.

And I gotta get it all
right in my mind.

Don't you s... don't you see that?

I, uh... Billie Jean,
I wish you'd talk to me!

I wish, if you blame me,
blame me for it,

that you'd forgive me for it,
and that you'd tell me this.

That you would tell me this, 'cause...

'Cause if you don't talk,
they're gonna...

They're gonna bring a preacher here,

and they're gonna send you
down for shock treatments.

And I mean, that's what your mama said.
That's according to what she said.

Billie Jean, please talk to me.
Please just...

Please just don't keep accusin'
me with your eyes like that!

I can't stand it!
I'm not gonna forget about you!

I'm gonna write you letters.
I'm gonna send you postcards.

I'm gonna tell you everything
I find out about him! Stop it!

Billie Jean.
I don't wanna know any more!

Oh, yes, you do. Yes, you do now!
I don't wanna hear any more!

No, I don't!

I want... I want you
to break the mirrors!

Break 'em with... break 'em now!
Break all of 'em! What?

Break... break all the mirrors
in the room. Break 'em now!

All right! All right,
I'll break the mirrors.

Hurry!

I'm scarred!
I'm scarred for life.

Billie Jean, no, you're not.
Yes, I am! I'm scarred!

No, you're not! I know how much
you like to look at yourself.

They can do wonders
for that kinda thing!

You better get outta here

before they send you to little
rock for shock treatments!

What's goin' on in here?

Jimmy J., what have you done to her?
I got her to talk.

Look at that. She's talkin' Mrs.
Turner. Right now, she's talkin'.

Mama, I'm scarred!

I'm scarred for life!

Oh, baby, don't cry.
I can't stand it when you cry.

Mama, please don't send me down to
little rock for shock treatments.

Did... did he tell you...
Did you tell her that?

Billie Jean?
Billie Jean, I got to go now.

This whole thing is startin'
to feel like a movie.

I mean, you know, my life
does that to me sometimes.

Sometimes I feel like
I'm movin' in a big, big movie.

This ain't no movie, Jimmy J.

Oh, yeah? Well, you're the first
person who ever told me that!

You're the first one who said that
you feel like that half the time.

Just like you're in a movie!
Like nothin' is real.

But it's more real than anything
else in the whole world!

Get out!
You can't stay here!

Will you leave her alone, please?

That's exactly what I mean. It's like
the last scene of a movie, Billie Jean!

Will you stop actin'?
This isn't a movie!

Billie Jean!

#what so proudly we hail

# at the twilight's last gleaming #

#whose broad stripes
and bright stars #

#through the perilous fight

# o'er the ramparts we watched #

#were so gallantly streaming

Jimmy J.! Jimmy!
#and the rocket's red glare

#the bombs bursting in air

- #gave proof through the night #
- Eugene! Get back in line!

# that our flag was still there #

#o, say does that star-spangled
banner yet wave #

#o'er the land of the free

# and the home of the brave

all right! All right!