The Strawberry Statement (1970) Movie Script
'In together.'
Out together.
Stroke!
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'In together!'
'Out together!'
'In together!'
Out together!
'In. Out.'
'In. Out.'
'In. Out.'
'In. Out.'
In. In. In.
In. In. In.
Oh, shit!
'Get it on.'
'This place smells like
a public toilet.'
'The garbage is piling up, I'm
sitting there washing dishes'
'taking care of the kids,
sending 'em to school'
'you lazy son of a bitch.'
'You ever see so much
garbage in your life?'
'You're taking out
the front piece of garbage'
'while the blasted bag's
sitting there for four weeks.'
'...probably will be freed
from prison in a few months'
'That was what Faye Senter'
'an attorney for Newton
said yesterday.'
'The state court of appeals'
'reversed the 1968 voluntary
manslaughter conviction'
'against..'
Ugh. Yuck!
You guys. You guys.
You guys are everywhere.
'You're like the Viet Cong.'
'Guerrillas.'
You're Clad, underfed
'dragging off slain bodies
in the night.'
Not afraid of dying.
And winning.
'Eat, go ahead, eat.'
'He did say the event marks
the final step'
'in the island's liberation.'
Eat!
Learn!
Earn!
Love!
Kill!
Pray!
Love your country.
Student! Kill for your country!
Boo!
Student! Learn,
read my books!
Boo!
Pray to the Lord,
for your graduation.
Keep for mama, keep on
pushing for mama.
Help me!
Help!
Strike! Strike!
Good job.
Strike! Strike!
'In together.'
'Out together.'
'In together.'
'Out together.'
'In together.'
'Out together.'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'The Soviet news agency..'
'Not gonna take this
lying down.'
You keep smoking in bed, you're
gonna burn the place down.
- 'You couldn't knock?'
- No. I couldn't knock.
I'm not gonna get into a hassle
over some strange chic...
Woman! I'm not a strange chic.
I'm a strange woman.
Strange woman,
getting balled in my room.
On my bed. Specially,
if I'm not balling her.
Could you knock first?
No. Who is she?
I'm gonna tell you something,
Simon. I'll tell you something.
What? What are
you gonna tell me?
You gotta knock, schmuck.
We gotta deal that we'll knock
when we come through that door.
Not in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, we've a deal
that we've to study.
'We learn things, get big money,
big jobs, am I right?'
- Mmm.
- Hi, I'm Irma.
Hi, Irma.
Charlie's been teaching
me Gaelic.
Charlie is Jewish.
He comes to us from the Bronx.
- You've been had.
- You, bastard.
- Oh, don't listen to him.
- I hate men.
That figures.
Look, he's on the rowing team.
I'm not kiddin',
you're all alike.
- I like to row. What can I say?
- He's a creep.
I gotta go.
- Want me to do this?
- Yeah.
Well, when, uh,
when we gonna see you again?
I'll call you tonight, Irma.
I'm busy tonight.
- She's busy tonight.
- I'll call you tomorrow.
- I'm busy tomorrow.
- She's busy tomorrow.
I heard her.
- I'm on strike.
- She's on strike.
I heard her.
- We're occupying Alvina Krause.
- She's occupying our dormitory.
- What? She's what?
- What?
You're so low on current events.
Name an event, Charlie.
Don't you know that everybody
knows, we're on strike.
So what?
- Where have you been?
- Rowing. My radio's broken.
You, should be sitting in.
I just might.
I find you politically
uninformed.
Look, we know that the
university is very involved
in racism and war.
'So, we're starting
a revolution.'
The only way to make
a revolution is to take
the university and recapture
it for students and people.
Ah, what are we doing?
You know, those kids sitting in
up at the President's office?
Yeah, but sitting
in doesn't mean a revolution.
Yeah, but it's growing fast.
I mean, the university
took away the school
and the playground from
the little black kids, right?
Right.
'And they're gonna use that
for an ROTC headquarters.'
We're not out to destroy it.
We're only out to make what
is ours, ours for all time.
The worst thing is that the
President is calling the city..
I don't believe this.
I feel like the story lady.
Now, listen, children.
'City cops are gonna bust the
children that are sitting in.'
The corporate interest
who control the university
who's probably
calling the Governor
because they got very scared
of what's happening down here
they're calling for militia.
We're trying to get
everybody to sit in
so they'll have to bust
the whole school.
I'd be up there myself, If I
weren't occupying Alvina Krause.
You guys should go up there,
it's gonna be nifty.
'Oh, hey, Irma.'
Thanks.
Later.
Wonder what this strike
will do to rowing practice?
What?
Wonder what the strike
will do to rowing practice?
I think it's dumb myself.
How many kids will show,
do you think?
- It's worth taking a look.
- Hmm.
A lot of kids will show because
of that strawberry statement.
What?
The dean... he said, our telling
him, we got an opinion
is like telling him
we like strawberries.
Oh, I love-I love strawberries.
Oh, that schmuck.
Strawberries? What's he got
against strawberries.
Must be the color.
Hey, let's go over.
Oh. I gotta go back
to the room.
Why?
- These pants are too new.
- What?
- Too new.
- Oh, dangerous right?
- Over there?
- No man, chicks.
That place is gonna be
crawling with chicks.
- These pants are too new.
- Okay. I'll see you over there.
- I gotta go.
- See you at the start.
'Get those legs up! Get 'em up!'
Higher! Higher!
'One, two.
Common.'
- Hey, Simon.
- Yeah, George.
Did you hear what the pukes did?
Took over the President's
office, man.
Tarzan baby.
I think those spades,
nasty-ass creeps..
'Oh, I know. I know.'
...Mafia asses..
...gonna get this
school closed down.
My old man's furious with me
as if I'm running with pukes.
They're gonna get the school
closed down. Then what?
- 'Huh? Then what?'
- What?
There'll be nothing, man.
Nothing but pukes
in this school.
I'd beat the shit
outta every one of 'em.
Now, wait a minute.
Oh, they're not
all freaks, George.
- I mean, I met a girl...
- They're all commie liberals.
I'm a liberal.
You're a commie too.
Move it, girls.
Come on, light asses. Go!
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Number one,
this isn't fun.'
'Number two,
fuck you!'
'Efficient! Row!'
Number three, energy.
'Number four,
give it more.'
'Number five
look alive.'
Number six, you suck!
'Number seven..'
'Number twelve, efficient,
win, concentrate.'
Preach that in your gut pocket
you mothers...
'Stroke!'
Stroke!
Strike for power.
'Stroke!'
Strike to prove you're alive.
Strike.
- Strike because you hate cops.
- Strike!
Strike because you hate war.
Strike to become more human.
Strike to return that playground
and that park to the kids.
Strike, strike, strike.
Strike because there is no
poetry in your lectures.
Strike.
Strike because classes
are a drag.
- Strike.
- Strike to make yourself free.
- Free.
- Strike.
Strike to abolish ROTC.
ROTC!
Strike because there is poverty.
Poverty!
Strike.
Strike to prove yourself alive.
Alive.
Strike! Strike! Strike!
Please deposit what?
I don't have 45 cents.
No, I don't, uh..
Hey, you know what?
I think somebody peed
in your telephone booth.
Food, food. We want food.
Food, food. We want food.
Hey, kid, hey.
- Let go, let go.
- Hey.
You really want to get in
there? Let's see your ID.
- Both of them.
- What is this, France?
Hey, don't give me any crap,
kid. My number's on my badge.
You wanna report me? Report me.
I give a goddamn, huh.
Simon James, that's my name.
Bag number's right.
You really wanna go in there?
You're asking for trouble, kid.
- You know what I mean?
- No, I don't know.
Well, look at these kids.
Look at 'em.
What do they want from us, huh?
They got long dirty hair.
They say, they want the niggers
to have their playground.
And their swimming pool.
Terrific.
As far as I'm concerned
you throw every nigger from
the city in the swimming pool.
I'm with the kids.
- You know what I mean.
- Yeah.
Niggers shootin heroin, anything
they get their hands on.
- Not with a K-9 shot.
- Yeah. They all shoot stuff.
Let's do this thing.
I mean, you really
are a piece of shit.
Food. We want food.
Hey, hey, hey.
Mm-mm.
- Once you're in, you're in.
- Once you're in, you're in.
'The blacks threw the white kids
out, want their own seating.'
'They want their
black continent.'
- 'Where did you get the apple?'
- 'I gotta save it, sorry.'
'Not gonna stand and howl
for food if you got an apple.'
'Yeah, I gotta have
something to eat too.'
- Your name?
- Simon.
Can I go in?
- Your name's not on...
- I'm not on, I'm not on there.
- No, it's not on here.
- No.
Ah, are you on the food patrol?
- What?
- Are you on the food patrol?
No.
You are now on the food patrol.
Will someone get the phone?
Not you, will somebody
else get the phone?
- What is that?
- Simon what?
No, we're sorry. The President
will not be in today.
The university
is under new management.
- Food patrol.
- 'Goodbye.'
- Right here..
- 'Yes, inside, food patrol.'
'I hate to suggest
anything repressive'
'to any of you people,
but we have very few grams now.'
'I hope you don't all eat
them in one large bite.'
'We have no grace.'
'Would someone tell those
gourmets out there to shut up?'
Let's get the meeting in order.
We have a lot to cover.
There's a question whether I
should be the chairman here
'and whether I shouldn't be
chairman of this meeting.'
So I guess the only fair way
to run this is we should
move the question first of all
whether or not to have a vote.
'So right now, we're voting'
'about whether
or not we're gonna vote.'
'If I win that, I should
chair the meeting.'
'Okay? I'll move
the question.'
'How many are in favor
of taking a vote?'
'Okay, clearly
we are gonna vote.'
'Okay. Now, this question
is whether or not'
'I should chair the meeting.
You can count the vote..'
'Actually, there are ashes
in this food.'
'You're eating ashes
in your food, stop it.'
'I'm glad we did everything...
on the up and up democratically'
'we don't have to worry
about that anymore.'
'Okay, the question at hand,
the most important one'
'we have a lot of details
and everything to take care of.'
'But the most important
question is the leaflet'
' "Why we strike?"
to-to explain to the people'
'on the outside of the building'
'why the people in the building
are in the building?'
'I think, that the problem
with that is our communication'
'to the public. I think it's
a problem of the newspapers.'
'Because they're
talking about..'
'They think this whole thing
is a lack of communication.'
'That's what they call
this-this whole production'
whether if we could let them
know we know what's going on.
You know and what we see stinks
and we don't like it.
But they think, they just chalk
it up to, uh, generation gap
a lack of communication.
I mean this is our problem.
'That's no accident, the-the
people who run the press'
and the TV stations,
radio and the movies
are the same people
who run this university.
The board of trustees,
it's no accident
that we get slanted
coverage like that.
'They have an interest in it
and they can control..'
Alright, does anybody know
how to fix a Xerox 720?
I know.
- Who are you?
- I do.
- What's your name?
- Simon. What's your name?
- Come on.
- Glad to know you.
Be careful of the Ming dynasty.
Ah, ah, you wanna smash it?
- You know where the door is?
- Oh, a little humor.
Hmm. There used to be
a Hieronymus Bosch here.
The cleaning ladies took
it out this morning.
There's nothing wrong
with Hieronymus Bosch.
Come on, come on.
Now, look, I found this..
Hello. Hmm.
I found this beyond one of
the present books on government.
- Sadomasochism.
- Oh, no.
There aren't any pictures.
Presidency did some
pretty heavy stuff.
The Xerox was working
an hour ago.
Here it is.
Now, there is one file.
We need six or seven copies
of anything you find about..
...in the President's
Xerox room.
Anything you find...
about the university
and the children center.
I'll do what I can.
Alright, it was working
an hour ago, I don't know.
'You know they may already
know that, but..'
...the fact that 50% of the
research that's done here
depends on defense money.
'The troops are being trained
right here on campus.'
'Our university..'
'...well, it's producing methods
of human oppressions.'
'No. I wanna to get
to the news meeting'
'maybe that way
we can do something more'
'than just getting it
on the leaflet...'
'that'd get it out
maybe, maybe they'll get it'
'so that the whole public
knows about it.'
'Okay, will you take notes
on this so..'
'Okay, this has been brought
up that we should bring it'
'to the attention of the public
that the university'
'is killing Vietnamese people
in a very real direct way.'
'That's all well and good,
I mean, there's definitely'
'a point of what we're doing'
'the basic point has
to do with racism not war'
'the war itself
is a racist thing.'
'I'd like to make
an announcement.'
- 'Is it really... '
- 'It's immediate.'
'It's immediate,
more immediate than a pamphlet.'
'Everybody's dropping ashes'
''cause there's only four
of us cleaning up..'
'No. I'm serious.'
- 'Keep that crap for later.'
- 'It's not crap!'
'We are all part of a body
of people that is being'
'represented by a college,
which is directly servicing'
'big corporations
and the war machine'
'and you are sitting there
and talking about nonsense.'
'Ashtray.'
'Let's get back
to the discussion.'
'What I was trying... was that'
'the university's involvement
in a war has been like'
'the main point, I think,
of all of the publicities..'
'...we've given out.'
'But I think the basic, the most
important issue is racism.'
'The people that are most
affected by the ROTC building'
'are the black people
in this community.'
'Can I say something,
can I break in here?'
You're very compulsive.
Oh, it's you,
I saw you, uh, before.
What happened to your tooth?
Hmm.
A girl pushed me down a flight
of steps in third grade.
- What were you doing?
- To her?
- Now?
- Now.
Oh, it was getting
into his aftershave.
Good thing, president
likes fluoride.
- I'm Linda.
- I'm Simon, what's your name?
- I just told you.
- Linda, right?
I wasn't paying attention,
I was looking at your face.
I didn't, I wasn't listening.
Well, you smell
like the president.
I'll wash.
Uh, then, how long
are we gotta stay here?
- In the bathroom?
- No, in the sitting.
Till we get busted, you know,
a couple of days, a week..
You're sleeping here?
Oh, I got to fix the Xerox.
Do you know anything
about Xerox?
- No.
- No?
Ah!
The plug.
- Are you gonna stay in here?
- What, in here?
Ah-ha.
Oh, yeah I guess so, uh..
I got assigned to food
when I first got in.
- Should've been on Xeroxes.
- Well, I'm on food too.
We're supposed to sneak
out before it gets dark.
Hm?
Well, I don't wanna sound
un-guerilla or anything
but I mean, who's
gonna give us food?
Oh, well, any store, you see,
they don't wanna help the cops.
We buy their food.
They're on our side.
Even the liquor store.
No grass though.
When we get busted,
we got to be clean.
- Well, I don't smoke anyway.
- What are you, speed?
Well, actually, I don't,
I don't use anything.
I used to snort... everything.
I got tired of it, you know.
I had a couple of bad
experiences with acid.
'And I don't need it anymore.'
Well, I haven't tried
it yet either.
No, I mean really,
I, carbon monoxide
I used to sniff it all the time.
Sit outside the tunnels
I was a carbon mo-head
for three years.
- Excuse me.
- Oh, shit.
I'm Dr. Benton. I-I want
to talk to you kids.
Hey, does anyone
know a Dr. Benton?
He just came
through the ceiling.
Quiet!
Mr. Benton from Humanities.
Just throw the bastard
out the window.
He's a killer.
Let's watch, he's harmless.
Speed freak.
Where do you get
a dumb name like that?
A part of the fabric
of our society.
Cool it, Watt.
Good.
- What's your name?
- Benton.
How did you get in here?
This is students only.
I climbed there through
the hole in the ceiling.
- Oh, clever you.
- I jog.
I hate your face.
Shut up, punk, or you'll
go out the window.
What do you want, Dr. Benton?
'Listen, you
don't know what's going on.'
'It's getting bizarre.'
The goddamn radio's
just announced
that there are mawmaws in here.
I don't see any mawmaws.
The cops are coming in here,
I just came from a meeting.
You know the cops. Now,
you've gotta do something.
Food patrol, go!
'What you're doing,
the food patrol is not doing?'
Now, that would be too liberal.
We're doing, Dr. Benton, we are
not moving until they give that
'playground and that recreation
center back to the kids.'
Right.
Well, now that
the mawmaws are in here
we are gonna need
more orange juice.
'Little like
mission impossible.'
- 'Are you serious about this?'
- 'No.'
'Simon, I'm talking
about the strike.'
'Oh, I thought you
meant the ladder.'
'This university is directly
involved in the war, Simon.'
I know, this chanting
gives me a headache.
Food. Food. Food.
I see some fraternity boys.
'There are some pigs with
balloons and more frat boys.'
And... tread softly.
Frank, get their asses.
Get their asses.
Get out of the way.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- We want some groceries.
- Okay.
We are part of the strike
over at Western.
Please, I don't want
no trouble, uh, I mean..
I mean, I-I just don't
want no trouble.
Will you please
put down your hands?
And my mother is very sick,
she's very sick.
You see those eggs?
They just came in, fresh.
Take anything you want.
Go over to the freezer.
You'll find a lot of nice
things, shrimp, blueberry.
Take whatever it is you want.
Just take anything you want.
Mister, you're sick.
I don't have a gun.
You like oatmeal?
I got all kinds of oatmeal.
You just help yourself.
Take another peanut butter,
those are stale, take the other.
Mister, for Christ's sake, they
told us that you'd give us food.
I'm in the president's office,
they said you'd give us food.
If you don't wanna give us food,
fine, I'm not gonna force you.
Put your hands down.
You're making me nervous.
Take another bag,
what'll you do with one bag?
Also there's a cart
over there, help yourself.
It's okay, take
anything you want.
- It's okay?
- Sure, it's okay.
I just don't want no trouble.
- Neither do I.
- 'Good.'
'You take anything you want,
leave me out, I'm an old man.'
Look, put your hands down
and talk to me.
- I can't.
- Why not?
Don't be stupid.
What did I do wrong?
- Look, you want the groceries?
- I'm losing my mind.
- I got to get robbed.
- Robbed?
Yeah, robbed,
I gotta get robbed.
- I'm not going to rob you.
- You gotta, you gotta rob me.
Why?
My insurance.
See?
See, right?
You got it, right?
- Yeah.
- That's terrific.
Good, very good. Take whatever
you want, it's okay.
'Take the expensive stuff.
Patties, right over there.'
And sesame seed crackers
I mean what's pattie without
sesame seed crackers, right?
Here, lot of donuts,
lot of muffins over here.
See? Don't forget the sausage.
I got sausage up here.
'And all the cheese.
These are nice cheeses.'
'Let's see what you
got there, you got some squash'
you got lettuce, radishes,
you can make a nice salad.
Cucumbers, don't forget
the cucumbers.
Thank you very much.
We really appreciate this.
- Ah, it's my pleasure.
- Really, thank you.
No mention. She's very
pretty, your girl.
Police, robbery!
Police! Police!
Shh!
- You alright?
- Yes.
Keep up with me, baby.
I'm gonna to be killed to death.
Oh, hey.
Hey, mister, you want
to curb your dog. I mean, jeez.
Funny, right?
Yeah.
'You going with someone?'
'Yes.'
- Serious?
- W-well, yes.
- At Western?
- No.
Could you at least
help me steer this?
I am.
Well, anybody for an extra
revolutionary relationship?
Hey, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah!
Shh.
Squat jumps.
'Okay. Now, get 'em down there,
I wanna see bruised asses!'
'Lower!'
'Lower!'
Hey.
Can you shut up about something?
You've got crabs?
- You got a girl pregnant?
- Mmm.
- That'd be nice.
- A local chick?
Yeah. That's
not everything.
Oh, yeah?
I slept with her in the
president's office last night.
- No shit!
- Yeah.
Well, I didn't like, you know..
There were other people there.
Doing what? What the hell
are you talking about?
The strike.
Oh, whoa.
Are you in on that?
Yeah.
- What's it like?
- Come on.
Well, I got into a mild
hassle with a cop.
I hit him
with my Instamatic Super 8.
- No shit.
- Yeah.
Anyway, I met this chick
and slept with her
in the office.
She's going with this
creep or something.
Nothing's gonna come out of it.
Just a big drag.
We're on the same patrol.
You're tripping.
What are you on?
Huh?
What are you on?
Food.
- Food?
- Yeah, food.
I'm on the food patrol.
- Food patrol?
- Yeah, I'm on the food patrol.
You mean like the beaver patrol?
You're hostile.
Simon.
You can get kicked off of crew
in about ten seconds flat.
If anybody finds out about this.
Yeah, well, I'm not
making an announcement.
I mean, I'm only
telling you quietly.
James. Are you two
gonna run or knit?
Listen, how many chicks
are sleeping in that office?
Uh, 40, 50
150 tonight probably.
That's an awful lotta
chicks, man.
Maybe 200.
What's, uh, the deal?
Well, uh, if I tell Linda,
I split the crew
you know, she'll never
talk to me again.
I mean, she's really
into this thing.
- You know what I mean?
- Yeah, I can dig that.
Well, she's gonna sneak out
of the president's office
and meet with me
at the playground.
We're havin'
a demonstration there.
Hey, it's really gonna be heavy.
Look, I'm gonna get
into this thing.
Okay.
Oh, I got it.
I'll say that I came to recruit
and I'll come back with you.
We'll come to practice tomorrow
and say we're coming to recruit.
Well, I'll try it.
There better be some action.
What are you doing?
I wanna feel,
what it feels like to..
...litter from
the back of a paddy wagon.
- 'So, how does it feel?'
- 'Nice.'
Not terrific,
not fantastic, but nice.
'I hate this.'
I swear to God,
I really hate this!
Oh, uh, nice.
'Alright, come on.
Move along.'
They'll fingerprint us.
Hey, Charlie,
you deranged anarchist!
How they hangin'?
'No talkin'.'
'No talking up there.'
'Take a look at this'
Man, she bit me.
Up against the wall.
He's gotta be kidding.
Isn't this terrific?
It's the third time today,
I've been up against this wall.
Oh! This is Linda.
This is Charlie, my roommate.
- I'm a political criminal.
- Hi.
- If he touches me..
- I'll handle it.
I wanna female inspector
for my girlfriend.
- I know my rights.
- What?
Ah, I don't want you
to touch the lady.
Who's touching the lady?
You're not gonna touch the lady?
Please, we got a busy day.
Up against the wall.
He said it again.
Okay, each can make
three telephone calls.
Local, we pay for.
Out of town,
reverse the charges.
Don't make a big deal.
We just want names.
There'll be no bail or charges
for first offenders.
After you make
your calls, wait..
...quietly.
I've placed mine already.
I called Joyce.
She impresses easy.
Alright, I'm calling my mother.
Why?
Maybe, I'm being
sentimental, Simon.
But this is my first bust.
Who called Joyce at 6661940?
- That's me!
- No, that's me!
Hey, wait a minute.
That's me.
Dad, what do you mean,
Simon who?
Yeah, good.
How's mom? Good.
Got arrested.
Yeah. Jail.
Well, yes. Yeah, uh..
Well, if my hair has been
growing for two months
I mean, it's got
to be longer, right?
Well, some people
have bad associations
when they see long hair.
And some happen
when they see long Cadillacs.
'Oh, I solved
my identity crisis.'
'Yeah. Hey, let me..
I'll call you later, okay?'
'Bye-bye.'
'You're not really
serious about this.'
'I am too.'
'Your university is
burning babies, killing men.'
'And you're
on the rowing team.'
'Rowing crew.'
'Linda..'
It's a waste.
This strike is part
of something real.
That's better than
being a rowing jock.
Now, look, most of the guys
on the crew aren't jocks.
I mean, our crew doesn't
even have as many wasps
as it should have according
to the population percentage
of wasps in the nation.
Maybe it should be shut down.
Now, look, I mean they have
moustaches and everything.
Simon, if you want to row
a boat, row a boat.
Look, you don't understand
what it's like, I mean, it's..
- It's erotic.
- Oh.
I mean, you should try it.
I mean, it's a commitment.
- It's real.
- It's not real.
It's a game.
The movement is real.
- Linda.
- What?
I am so incredibly confused.
So am I.
I don't want to blow up
any buildings.
I know.
I mean, I slaved my ass off
to get in this school.
I..
I didn't get in
until late August.
I wrote a letter,
uh, somebody dug it
I got an interview
and I got in, and I went insane.
I was so happy,
I was jumping up and down.
I was so glad
to get in this school.
Simon, nobody's
blowing up buildings.
Yeah, well, that will come.
That's next, see.
What the hell?
That's what I'm saying.
'Uh, I'd like to blow
some of this school'
'right off the face
of the Earth.'
I wanna mean something.
I mean, I'm really
gonna hate myself
if I just sit back
and watch all this.
I mean this university stinks.
This whole country
is getting dumb!
Dumb and..
I mean, this country used
to have a dream about, uh
things being different,
you know.
And now, everybody's
just content to sit back
on their asses and leave
things just the way they are.
I don't know, maybe,
they should dream again.
I don't know.
I'm only 20, so I'll give
the country one more chance.
Just one.
'Hey, uh, I only have 43 cents'
'not counting
my Indian Head nickels.'
I'm not gonna buy it.
Alright, come on.
Oh, no!
Okay, you get ready.
Earphones.
- Don't!
- You creep.
- Hey, is it loud enough?
- What?
- Is it loud enough?
- 'Yes, it's loud enough.'
Do you like it?
I'm leaving now.
Come on.
Listen, I thought
we were friends.
I really thought
you're involved in the movement.
'I didn't know,
I think that's what did it.'
Well, tell me what to do,
I'll throw a bomb.
You really don't understand,
do you, Simon?
It's like cheating for me
to be with you. I..
I really think
I could marry my man
and be his wife forever.
Really a bourgeois
thing isn't it?
Yes, it is.
You don't want an
uptight chick like me.
Yes I do. I really do.
If I were going with you,
you wouldn't want me
to go out with someone like you.
That's a very complicated idea.
I have to find out for myself,
I'm vulnerable, you know that.
You could probably
talk me into seeing you.
Maybe even sleeping with you.
But I'd hate you for it.
You're very unhappy.
Yes, I'm very unhappy.
I have to get
the bus at 11:30.
The bus?
I hate this whole night.
Goodbye, Simon.
Goodbye.
Thanks.
RFK might have made a good
President, but we'll never know.
'ROTC condones violence.
It promotes violence.'
It even rewards violence
and you don't have to be
a revolutionary to know
that, that's wrong.
You're goddamned right
and we're fighting
this institution today
to sever..
They can bring all the guns they
have at their fascist disposal..
Act must be taken seriously
and cannot be passed off
as platonic..
...is to get the
liberation schools going.
Need the faculty to really care
to talk about the..
'The very famous quote'
"Destroy villages
in order to save 'em"..
Fuck the CIA..
Five hundred dollars..
FBI.
RFK.
TNT..
'We're not moving until
they give'
'that playground back to the
kids and forget about the ROTC.'
'Ready, ready all.'
'Row!'
You didn't feel good yesterday?
You had the flu?
I felt good yesterday.
You seemed down.
No, I was up yesterday.
I was down Tuesday.
No, yesterday you
seemed kinda slow.
Slow?
Hmm, groggy.
- Which was it?
- Hmm?
Groggy or slow?
Well, you seemed a little
down at the finish.
When I get groggy,
I'll send you a letter.
- Okay?
- Okay.
It's cool, George.
'I've seen calms and doldrums'
'but not one like this
in 40 years.'
They're worn out trying
to pull us in the wind.
Not the way they're pulling.
Call 'em in and put..
I've never seen such
a piece of crap in my life.
You're sitting on my big toe.
Television.
Goddamn society.
It's sick.
Sick.
Talk about sick,
I'll never forget
a-a button vendor,
outside a funeral
at St. Patrick's
in New York.
Screaming, "Remember,
Bobby, 50 cents."
'This movie is a giant bummer.'
We're on page three.
Yesterday we were on page five.
TV coverage is lousy.
The television
reception is lousy.
'Asshole.'
What's sick!
Well, just take a little nap.
What if the Paris Commune
was this dull?
Here it is.
Here's the proof, babies.
'Oh, boy.'
Vitamin E found something.
The whole thing was a tax dodge.
What whole thing, what is this?
The ROTC thing.
Taking over the old playground
in the children center.
Listen, our wonderful university
has made a deal with
the water and power companies.
See, we hold the land tax free
until the water and power
company's ready to build
a new high-rise.
And then the ROTC
building comes down
and Western Pacific
is holding the land
so, goddamn water
and power saves breath.
University is servicing
the corporation?
Yeah, yeah, all of it.
More than that, the chairman
of the board of directors
of the water and power company
is also a trustee
of Western Pacific.
Are you positive?
That's capitalism.
What's a little money
between friends, huh?
"Remember Bobby 50 cents".
Look, enough, George.
I'm not in a mood.
You're a freak.
You're a jock.
Well, let's have a war.
Freak against a jock.
Don't be stupid, George.
Just leave me alone, alright.
'Nothing personal.'
I just don't dig
your politics, man.
Hmm.
Oh.
Oh, God.
Shit.
Oh, that's bad.
God, that's bad.
Oh, that's good.
Hey.
Oh, God.
Now, that's good.
White man speak
with... fucked lip.
'Simon, oh, my God!'
You look fabulous,
did-did you see your mouth?
Oh, well, did-did it hurt?
I know who did it.
Pigs beat you.
Pigs got a run?
- Don't make any noise.
- No.
Come on, come on, come on.
I'm wanna show you to somebody.
- No, not a doctor.
- Come on, shut up. Come on.
My God! If pigs beat on Simon,
they'd beat on anybody.
'I'm sick of your
whining and stalling.'
'Why can't you do anything we
ask, when we want it done, huh?'
- I got kids.
- 'Great.'
A hostage.
Cops got him.
Look at his lip.
- Pigs got him.
- What's with the hostage?
- What hostage?
- Me?
Are we gonna..
Are we gonna torture him?
- Who is that kid?
- What did I say?
We're not gonna hurt anybody.
You crazy or something?
No, well, I heard
him say he had kids.
He's a college
professor on tenure.
'If they found out he's helping,
he's gonna be on the street.'
Sir, we really appreciate this.
You were beaten by the police?
Pigs, a raft of them.
Did you get any in?
- Yeah, I got a few.
- It's not enough.
- The war is hell, man.
- We'll get a camera. A picture.
Nice meeting you guys.
See you later.
I don't know what impression
this is gonna make on TV.
Wait a second.
Thank you very much.
Who's this babe?
- A gun.
- A gun? A what?
Lucas. Right here, this is fine.
Very heavy in Makalu commune.
- Right there.
- Gun.
Don't move. A big deal
in the whole, whole Afro thing.
Oh, a gun.
Wanna make sure
we see some blood.
Alright. Don't talk.
Okay, I gotta go,
I'll see you later.
Hey, baby, did I get into it?
I joined the movement.
Movement? What are you
on prunes now, George?
I stopped by there,
this morning.
You weren't there.
Should be a terrific burst, huh?
What are you living out you're
father's dirty sexual fantasies?
Now, you're gonna be a commie,
so your old man's nightmares
can come true?
Sure.
Bullshit, George. Listen.
Why don't you join the army.
Go kill some babies.
What's your beef with me?
Everybody's joined.
Yeah, well, everybody didn't
punch me in the mouth.
Look at that.
Sorry.
You're putting me on.
- I joined.
- You're a revolutionary now?
Feel different?
I'm with you, okay?
I'm gonna cry, Simon.
What happened?
I'm back.
Thank God.
You really don't care, do you?
No, not really.
Anybody else would
hassle me forever.
I ever tell you about my uncle?
He killed himself.
Anyway, he had a parrot.
And he taught the parrot
how to say, kiss off.
And the parrot
picked it right up.
'Used to say, kiss off
all the time.'
'And my aunt really hated it.'
'She used to keep a brown paper
bag over the cage all the time.'
'And every time she'd lift it
up, the bird would be saying'
'kiss off.'
Shh. So, she kept the bag
over him and finally
the parrot didn't have
much luck expressing himself
so he just dropped dead.
And about seven years
later my uncle
started to look like
this bird, you know
and he was standing on top
of this fantastic bridge
and this guard came up to him,
and says, "What are you doing
you can't stand here."
And my uncle said,
uh, "kiss off."
- What happened?
- He jumped.
Okay, smile, good.
Uh, tiger, you know.
Tigress, okay?
'That's it. Back, back over,
in the side.'
Okay, now, go up
against the tree.
- 'Okay, that's good.'
- I'm going to watch you.
- It's fine, right.
- We came to war. Yes?
- Okay, down, down.
- 'Down.'
That's it, that's it.
Now, the-the Madonna look..
- Mado..
- Yeah.
- Oka-ay, line!
- No!
- Come on, line!
- A-ah!
Now, that I wear Keds sneakers,
I get laid every three minutes.
Uh-ah!
Alright, that's beautiful.
You know, you have
a very dirty mouth?
- I do?
- Mm-hm.
- What's the matter?
- Classic paranoid.
Don't look now, but five
paranoids have just joined us.
Hi! We are in
big trouble.
- What are we going to do?
- Well, you run like hell.
- I'm not leaving you.
- They're not gonna rape me.
My mother told me if I ever
got in a situation like this
not-not to fight 'em.
Where's your mother
now that we need her?
Hi! Anything you want?
- I think I know what they want.
- 'Hate this whole day.'
- 'What?'
- 'I hate this whole day.'
'Now, look, let's just pretend
nothing happened, alright?'
Oh, good thinking. That'll
really scare the shit outta 'em.
Why aren't they talking?
Buzz.
Instamatic.
Man, be cool.
'Look, don't talk to me
about violence.'
I know you're in this thing
but just don't fucking
talk to me about violence.
'Come on, you-you're
freaking on us.'
'Look, I'm as clear as I've ever
been. I'm absolutely lucid.'
You make a commitment, strike,
you march through the garbage
with your magic-marker
band of damned bomb sign
your lily white hands
and nobody gives a shit.
I mean nobody cares.
From the President down
to the local studs.
- Hey, here, listen to me.
- Oh, listen? Tell, tell 'em.
We sort of got into
this thing at the park.
Something. I mean, they laid
my camera out on the ground.
- Oh, man.
- Well, that's not the point.
The point is you try to do
something and nobody cares.
I mean, what kind of bullshit
city is this, in a bullshit
country with the bullshit cops
beating up on the demonstrators
and the protestors, the real
peace makers when they should be
beating up on the war makers
and the haters and the killers?
Oh, it's bullshit, man!
- It's bullshit.
- What? Wait.
Bullshit! Bullshit!
- I'm sorry.
- It's alright.
George is really compulsive.
I've never seen such notes.
Come on, let's go
back to the city.
Simon, anybody who doesn't
take the exam gets suspended.
Geology.
Simon, how do you
identify wolframite?
A-ah, it has a thin scar
running down its cheek.
- Simon.
- Ouch! I'm tired.
- Orpiment.
- Orpiment!
Orpiment is on the page next
to realgar and it's ye-yellow.
- Shh!
- What's the matter?
It's my mother.
Don't answer. Shh!
She'll come and see
us... here. Just..
Yello?
Swatch.
Hi.
What?
'Where is he? Yeah,
I'll go right over.'
- 'Terrific traction.'
- Oh, my Geology notes.
Terrific.
There's another little traction
and... this really hurts, man.
Right under the blanket.
Goddamn!
What happened?
Oh, jocks, man.
About 600 of 'em.
I really got kneed.
If the pigs didn't come along
I'd really be pregnant.
What did the pigs do?
Did you know that jocks
were perverts, man?
Hey, what did the pigs do?
They watched. They put
a little rum, you know.
'Took a shot, nice guys.'
- How do you feel now?
- Shitty.
Jesus jumping Christ.
It's gone too far. I mean,
this is over our heads.
Sons of bitches.
They called my old man.
He's flying in here tonight.
This is absurd.
Ah! Dammit!
Wanna sign my cast?
'Strike! Strike! Strike!'
'Strike because
your roommate was clubbed..'
- The Dean. Is he around?
- Do you have an app...
Is he in? Is that his office?
- He's not in.
- Mm-hm?
'Alright, where
did you put him?'
'Your name?'
1-9-2-3-3-0.
Student.
- You know what you have here?
- Where?
George's leg is broken and I
know you don't give a shit.
But it's your fault
and he's my friend.
'Now, I gotta tell
you something, lady.'
'There are plenty of other legs
and arms around here to break.'
'Plenty.'
'Unless this school gives
the building and the playground'
'back to the neighborhood.'
Unless this school
gives some room
to some jet black faces
around here, unless this school
gives up it's war research
program, unless this school
gives up the
fucking 19th century
and calls off the pigs,
it's gonna be all over.
Now, you've been hearing
about revolution, right?
'You've been watching
it on the television.'
'Reading it in the newspapers.
It's not there, it's here.'
- Here.
- Here. In every room.
In every toilet of this idiot
school there's a, there's a..
I'm sorry. There is a..
There is a kid
waiting for tonight.
And unless you call off
the pigs, it's gonna be a mess.
'And war'
and not because there has to be
but because you started it.
'Hey, did you see
the news rails of Prague?'
'This looks just like it.'
I know who they are.
Who are these guys?
- They're the jocks.
- Jocks anti-strike..
Oh, I see.
- You gotta get Auri on it.
- Al?
So fantastic that the black
Simmons has joined this year.
I'm really moved.
He can't suspend the whole
school, he's not that dumb.
No, he's pretty dumb.
'This is ten times better
than anybody expected.'
- 'Fantastic crowd.'
- 'The press is finally here.'
Yeah, you remember Lucas?
This is the cat
that got bloodied.
Yeah. Yeah, I remember.
- The press is scared shit.
- Not you?
Now, you don't think CBS, NBC
are out here for the practice.
'We are opinion makers, baby.'
No, we've gotta have
the kick. You understand?
You gotta fix it now.
Find out what's wrong with it.
- Hey, lady, get off the cable.
- I don't know.
- 'Get off the cable!'
- 'You're the expert.'
Look at the size of his stick.
There's something happening
here. We've a lady on the cable.
'I don't know. Lady,
get off the cable.'
- Get off the cable, lady.
- 'Just not learning it enough.'
- I think they're learning.
- Isn't that too much?
- We did as much as them.
- No, we didn't.
'Teachers and classes? Sure.
Lots of things in common.'
- Worse.
- Yeah, like what?
- Well, like over population.
- Oh, right. Ecology.
- That's what it is.
- That's the answer.
Students, quite, please.
What's gonna happen?
They're gonna
close the Laundromat.
Students, this
is your president.
'If you do not remove
yourself full swing.'
'The University
will make a complaint'
'to the police department in
connection with your activity.'
'You will face
fraughtful arrest'
and suspension
from the University.
'You will be..'
- Robbed.
- Raped.
...laws of this state.
- 'You willbe..'
- Drafted.
Drafted, murdered, buried,
reborn as politicians.
'At this University.'
The president has just
given them an ultimatum.
This is news.
Al, do you understand?
This is headline time.
Something's gonna happen.
Somebody's either coming out of
the building or somebody's gonna
go in that building.
But nothing's working.
We can't... we're impotent.
We're sitting here impotent.
It's been dry an hour ago.
Boy, this coffee
tastes like shit.
- You want this?
- Yuck.
I want a beer so bad,
that I could taste it.
Hi, good to see
you guys here, huh.
You want to see
some blood tonight?
If there's blood, I hope it's
a day of massive casualties.
Because I don't want to be part
of light to moderate casualties.
I can dig it.
- Are you scared?
- 'Strike t-shirts.'
Well, not while
I'm behind this fence.
'Get your strike t-shirts.'
He left, he left.
He left me standing here.
- Who?
- Al!
If they didn't bust tonight,
there'll be a food problem.
No, the momentum is right.
The National Guard
just got here.
Let's go.
Alright, positions. Get those
tables back. C'mon, everybody.
To our positions,
let's get it. C'mon, c'mon.
C'mon, quickly, quickly.
Fall in positions.
'We've been informed
that the police department'
'and National Guard..'
'Will take all necessary action'
'in connection with our
complaint against you.'
'If you do not remove
yourself from this area'
'within the next five minutes.'
I implore you.
Leave now.
How come we weren't
doing all this stuff?
We didn't know.
Everybody down.
Everybody down
Keep down.
Keep down.
Go, go, go, go.
Come on, go. Get down.
What are you?
Pigs!
Ah!
You motherfuckers!
No! Please.
Don't hurt him!
Out together.
Stroke!
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'In together!'
'Out together!'
'In together!'
Out together!
'In. Out.'
'In. Out.'
'In. Out.'
'In. Out.'
In. In. In.
In. In. In.
Oh, shit!
'Get it on.'
'This place smells like
a public toilet.'
'The garbage is piling up, I'm
sitting there washing dishes'
'taking care of the kids,
sending 'em to school'
'you lazy son of a bitch.'
'You ever see so much
garbage in your life?'
'You're taking out
the front piece of garbage'
'while the blasted bag's
sitting there for four weeks.'
'...probably will be freed
from prison in a few months'
'That was what Faye Senter'
'an attorney for Newton
said yesterday.'
'The state court of appeals'
'reversed the 1968 voluntary
manslaughter conviction'
'against..'
Ugh. Yuck!
You guys. You guys.
You guys are everywhere.
'You're like the Viet Cong.'
'Guerrillas.'
You're Clad, underfed
'dragging off slain bodies
in the night.'
Not afraid of dying.
And winning.
'Eat, go ahead, eat.'
'He did say the event marks
the final step'
'in the island's liberation.'
Eat!
Learn!
Earn!
Love!
Kill!
Pray!
Love your country.
Student! Kill for your country!
Boo!
Student! Learn,
read my books!
Boo!
Pray to the Lord,
for your graduation.
Keep for mama, keep on
pushing for mama.
Help me!
Help!
Strike! Strike!
Good job.
Strike! Strike!
'In together.'
'Out together.'
'In together.'
'Out together.'
'In together.'
'Out together.'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'The Soviet news agency..'
'Not gonna take this
lying down.'
You keep smoking in bed, you're
gonna burn the place down.
- 'You couldn't knock?'
- No. I couldn't knock.
I'm not gonna get into a hassle
over some strange chic...
Woman! I'm not a strange chic.
I'm a strange woman.
Strange woman,
getting balled in my room.
On my bed. Specially,
if I'm not balling her.
Could you knock first?
No. Who is she?
I'm gonna tell you something,
Simon. I'll tell you something.
What? What are
you gonna tell me?
You gotta knock, schmuck.
We gotta deal that we'll knock
when we come through that door.
Not in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, we've a deal
that we've to study.
'We learn things, get big money,
big jobs, am I right?'
- Mmm.
- Hi, I'm Irma.
Hi, Irma.
Charlie's been teaching
me Gaelic.
Charlie is Jewish.
He comes to us from the Bronx.
- You've been had.
- You, bastard.
- Oh, don't listen to him.
- I hate men.
That figures.
Look, he's on the rowing team.
I'm not kiddin',
you're all alike.
- I like to row. What can I say?
- He's a creep.
I gotta go.
- Want me to do this?
- Yeah.
Well, when, uh,
when we gonna see you again?
I'll call you tonight, Irma.
I'm busy tonight.
- She's busy tonight.
- I'll call you tomorrow.
- I'm busy tomorrow.
- She's busy tomorrow.
I heard her.
- I'm on strike.
- She's on strike.
I heard her.
- We're occupying Alvina Krause.
- She's occupying our dormitory.
- What? She's what?
- What?
You're so low on current events.
Name an event, Charlie.
Don't you know that everybody
knows, we're on strike.
So what?
- Where have you been?
- Rowing. My radio's broken.
You, should be sitting in.
I just might.
I find you politically
uninformed.
Look, we know that the
university is very involved
in racism and war.
'So, we're starting
a revolution.'
The only way to make
a revolution is to take
the university and recapture
it for students and people.
Ah, what are we doing?
You know, those kids sitting in
up at the President's office?
Yeah, but sitting
in doesn't mean a revolution.
Yeah, but it's growing fast.
I mean, the university
took away the school
and the playground from
the little black kids, right?
Right.
'And they're gonna use that
for an ROTC headquarters.'
We're not out to destroy it.
We're only out to make what
is ours, ours for all time.
The worst thing is that the
President is calling the city..
I don't believe this.
I feel like the story lady.
Now, listen, children.
'City cops are gonna bust the
children that are sitting in.'
The corporate interest
who control the university
who's probably
calling the Governor
because they got very scared
of what's happening down here
they're calling for militia.
We're trying to get
everybody to sit in
so they'll have to bust
the whole school.
I'd be up there myself, If I
weren't occupying Alvina Krause.
You guys should go up there,
it's gonna be nifty.
'Oh, hey, Irma.'
Thanks.
Later.
Wonder what this strike
will do to rowing practice?
What?
Wonder what the strike
will do to rowing practice?
I think it's dumb myself.
How many kids will show,
do you think?
- It's worth taking a look.
- Hmm.
A lot of kids will show because
of that strawberry statement.
What?
The dean... he said, our telling
him, we got an opinion
is like telling him
we like strawberries.
Oh, I love-I love strawberries.
Oh, that schmuck.
Strawberries? What's he got
against strawberries.
Must be the color.
Hey, let's go over.
Oh. I gotta go back
to the room.
Why?
- These pants are too new.
- What?
- Too new.
- Oh, dangerous right?
- Over there?
- No man, chicks.
That place is gonna be
crawling with chicks.
- These pants are too new.
- Okay. I'll see you over there.
- I gotta go.
- See you at the start.
'Get those legs up! Get 'em up!'
Higher! Higher!
'One, two.
Common.'
- Hey, Simon.
- Yeah, George.
Did you hear what the pukes did?
Took over the President's
office, man.
Tarzan baby.
I think those spades,
nasty-ass creeps..
'Oh, I know. I know.'
...Mafia asses..
...gonna get this
school closed down.
My old man's furious with me
as if I'm running with pukes.
They're gonna get the school
closed down. Then what?
- 'Huh? Then what?'
- What?
There'll be nothing, man.
Nothing but pukes
in this school.
I'd beat the shit
outta every one of 'em.
Now, wait a minute.
Oh, they're not
all freaks, George.
- I mean, I met a girl...
- They're all commie liberals.
I'm a liberal.
You're a commie too.
Move it, girls.
Come on, light asses. Go!
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Stroke!'
'Number one,
this isn't fun.'
'Number two,
fuck you!'
'Efficient! Row!'
Number three, energy.
'Number four,
give it more.'
'Number five
look alive.'
Number six, you suck!
'Number seven..'
'Number twelve, efficient,
win, concentrate.'
Preach that in your gut pocket
you mothers...
'Stroke!'
Stroke!
Strike for power.
'Stroke!'
Strike to prove you're alive.
Strike.
- Strike because you hate cops.
- Strike!
Strike because you hate war.
Strike to become more human.
Strike to return that playground
and that park to the kids.
Strike, strike, strike.
Strike because there is no
poetry in your lectures.
Strike.
Strike because classes
are a drag.
- Strike.
- Strike to make yourself free.
- Free.
- Strike.
Strike to abolish ROTC.
ROTC!
Strike because there is poverty.
Poverty!
Strike.
Strike to prove yourself alive.
Alive.
Strike! Strike! Strike!
Please deposit what?
I don't have 45 cents.
No, I don't, uh..
Hey, you know what?
I think somebody peed
in your telephone booth.
Food, food. We want food.
Food, food. We want food.
Hey, kid, hey.
- Let go, let go.
- Hey.
You really want to get in
there? Let's see your ID.
- Both of them.
- What is this, France?
Hey, don't give me any crap,
kid. My number's on my badge.
You wanna report me? Report me.
I give a goddamn, huh.
Simon James, that's my name.
Bag number's right.
You really wanna go in there?
You're asking for trouble, kid.
- You know what I mean?
- No, I don't know.
Well, look at these kids.
Look at 'em.
What do they want from us, huh?
They got long dirty hair.
They say, they want the niggers
to have their playground.
And their swimming pool.
Terrific.
As far as I'm concerned
you throw every nigger from
the city in the swimming pool.
I'm with the kids.
- You know what I mean.
- Yeah.
Niggers shootin heroin, anything
they get their hands on.
- Not with a K-9 shot.
- Yeah. They all shoot stuff.
Let's do this thing.
I mean, you really
are a piece of shit.
Food. We want food.
Hey, hey, hey.
Mm-mm.
- Once you're in, you're in.
- Once you're in, you're in.
'The blacks threw the white kids
out, want their own seating.'
'They want their
black continent.'
- 'Where did you get the apple?'
- 'I gotta save it, sorry.'
'Not gonna stand and howl
for food if you got an apple.'
'Yeah, I gotta have
something to eat too.'
- Your name?
- Simon.
Can I go in?
- Your name's not on...
- I'm not on, I'm not on there.
- No, it's not on here.
- No.
Ah, are you on the food patrol?
- What?
- Are you on the food patrol?
No.
You are now on the food patrol.
Will someone get the phone?
Not you, will somebody
else get the phone?
- What is that?
- Simon what?
No, we're sorry. The President
will not be in today.
The university
is under new management.
- Food patrol.
- 'Goodbye.'
- Right here..
- 'Yes, inside, food patrol.'
'I hate to suggest
anything repressive'
'to any of you people,
but we have very few grams now.'
'I hope you don't all eat
them in one large bite.'
'We have no grace.'
'Would someone tell those
gourmets out there to shut up?'
Let's get the meeting in order.
We have a lot to cover.
There's a question whether I
should be the chairman here
'and whether I shouldn't be
chairman of this meeting.'
So I guess the only fair way
to run this is we should
move the question first of all
whether or not to have a vote.
'So right now, we're voting'
'about whether
or not we're gonna vote.'
'If I win that, I should
chair the meeting.'
'Okay? I'll move
the question.'
'How many are in favor
of taking a vote?'
'Okay, clearly
we are gonna vote.'
'Okay. Now, this question
is whether or not'
'I should chair the meeting.
You can count the vote..'
'Actually, there are ashes
in this food.'
'You're eating ashes
in your food, stop it.'
'I'm glad we did everything...
on the up and up democratically'
'we don't have to worry
about that anymore.'
'Okay, the question at hand,
the most important one'
'we have a lot of details
and everything to take care of.'
'But the most important
question is the leaflet'
' "Why we strike?"
to-to explain to the people'
'on the outside of the building'
'why the people in the building
are in the building?'
'I think, that the problem
with that is our communication'
'to the public. I think it's
a problem of the newspapers.'
'Because they're
talking about..'
'They think this whole thing
is a lack of communication.'
'That's what they call
this-this whole production'
whether if we could let them
know we know what's going on.
You know and what we see stinks
and we don't like it.
But they think, they just chalk
it up to, uh, generation gap
a lack of communication.
I mean this is our problem.
'That's no accident, the-the
people who run the press'
and the TV stations,
radio and the movies
are the same people
who run this university.
The board of trustees,
it's no accident
that we get slanted
coverage like that.
'They have an interest in it
and they can control..'
Alright, does anybody know
how to fix a Xerox 720?
I know.
- Who are you?
- I do.
- What's your name?
- Simon. What's your name?
- Come on.
- Glad to know you.
Be careful of the Ming dynasty.
Ah, ah, you wanna smash it?
- You know where the door is?
- Oh, a little humor.
Hmm. There used to be
a Hieronymus Bosch here.
The cleaning ladies took
it out this morning.
There's nothing wrong
with Hieronymus Bosch.
Come on, come on.
Now, look, I found this..
Hello. Hmm.
I found this beyond one of
the present books on government.
- Sadomasochism.
- Oh, no.
There aren't any pictures.
Presidency did some
pretty heavy stuff.
The Xerox was working
an hour ago.
Here it is.
Now, there is one file.
We need six or seven copies
of anything you find about..
...in the President's
Xerox room.
Anything you find...
about the university
and the children center.
I'll do what I can.
Alright, it was working
an hour ago, I don't know.
'You know they may already
know that, but..'
...the fact that 50% of the
research that's done here
depends on defense money.
'The troops are being trained
right here on campus.'
'Our university..'
'...well, it's producing methods
of human oppressions.'
'No. I wanna to get
to the news meeting'
'maybe that way
we can do something more'
'than just getting it
on the leaflet...'
'that'd get it out
maybe, maybe they'll get it'
'so that the whole public
knows about it.'
'Okay, will you take notes
on this so..'
'Okay, this has been brought
up that we should bring it'
'to the attention of the public
that the university'
'is killing Vietnamese people
in a very real direct way.'
'That's all well and good,
I mean, there's definitely'
'a point of what we're doing'
'the basic point has
to do with racism not war'
'the war itself
is a racist thing.'
'I'd like to make
an announcement.'
- 'Is it really... '
- 'It's immediate.'
'It's immediate,
more immediate than a pamphlet.'
'Everybody's dropping ashes'
''cause there's only four
of us cleaning up..'
'No. I'm serious.'
- 'Keep that crap for later.'
- 'It's not crap!'
'We are all part of a body
of people that is being'
'represented by a college,
which is directly servicing'
'big corporations
and the war machine'
'and you are sitting there
and talking about nonsense.'
'Ashtray.'
'Let's get back
to the discussion.'
'What I was trying... was that'
'the university's involvement
in a war has been like'
'the main point, I think,
of all of the publicities..'
'...we've given out.'
'But I think the basic, the most
important issue is racism.'
'The people that are most
affected by the ROTC building'
'are the black people
in this community.'
'Can I say something,
can I break in here?'
You're very compulsive.
Oh, it's you,
I saw you, uh, before.
What happened to your tooth?
Hmm.
A girl pushed me down a flight
of steps in third grade.
- What were you doing?
- To her?
- Now?
- Now.
Oh, it was getting
into his aftershave.
Good thing, president
likes fluoride.
- I'm Linda.
- I'm Simon, what's your name?
- I just told you.
- Linda, right?
I wasn't paying attention,
I was looking at your face.
I didn't, I wasn't listening.
Well, you smell
like the president.
I'll wash.
Uh, then, how long
are we gotta stay here?
- In the bathroom?
- No, in the sitting.
Till we get busted, you know,
a couple of days, a week..
You're sleeping here?
Oh, I got to fix the Xerox.
Do you know anything
about Xerox?
- No.
- No?
Ah!
The plug.
- Are you gonna stay in here?
- What, in here?
Ah-ha.
Oh, yeah I guess so, uh..
I got assigned to food
when I first got in.
- Should've been on Xeroxes.
- Well, I'm on food too.
We're supposed to sneak
out before it gets dark.
Hm?
Well, I don't wanna sound
un-guerilla or anything
but I mean, who's
gonna give us food?
Oh, well, any store, you see,
they don't wanna help the cops.
We buy their food.
They're on our side.
Even the liquor store.
No grass though.
When we get busted,
we got to be clean.
- Well, I don't smoke anyway.
- What are you, speed?
Well, actually, I don't,
I don't use anything.
I used to snort... everything.
I got tired of it, you know.
I had a couple of bad
experiences with acid.
'And I don't need it anymore.'
Well, I haven't tried
it yet either.
No, I mean really,
I, carbon monoxide
I used to sniff it all the time.
Sit outside the tunnels
I was a carbon mo-head
for three years.
- Excuse me.
- Oh, shit.
I'm Dr. Benton. I-I want
to talk to you kids.
Hey, does anyone
know a Dr. Benton?
He just came
through the ceiling.
Quiet!
Mr. Benton from Humanities.
Just throw the bastard
out the window.
He's a killer.
Let's watch, he's harmless.
Speed freak.
Where do you get
a dumb name like that?
A part of the fabric
of our society.
Cool it, Watt.
Good.
- What's your name?
- Benton.
How did you get in here?
This is students only.
I climbed there through
the hole in the ceiling.
- Oh, clever you.
- I jog.
I hate your face.
Shut up, punk, or you'll
go out the window.
What do you want, Dr. Benton?
'Listen, you
don't know what's going on.'
'It's getting bizarre.'
The goddamn radio's
just announced
that there are mawmaws in here.
I don't see any mawmaws.
The cops are coming in here,
I just came from a meeting.
You know the cops. Now,
you've gotta do something.
Food patrol, go!
'What you're doing,
the food patrol is not doing?'
Now, that would be too liberal.
We're doing, Dr. Benton, we are
not moving until they give that
'playground and that recreation
center back to the kids.'
Right.
Well, now that
the mawmaws are in here
we are gonna need
more orange juice.
'Little like
mission impossible.'
- 'Are you serious about this?'
- 'No.'
'Simon, I'm talking
about the strike.'
'Oh, I thought you
meant the ladder.'
'This university is directly
involved in the war, Simon.'
I know, this chanting
gives me a headache.
Food. Food. Food.
I see some fraternity boys.
'There are some pigs with
balloons and more frat boys.'
And... tread softly.
Frank, get their asses.
Get their asses.
Get out of the way.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- We want some groceries.
- Okay.
We are part of the strike
over at Western.
Please, I don't want
no trouble, uh, I mean..
I mean, I-I just don't
want no trouble.
Will you please
put down your hands?
And my mother is very sick,
she's very sick.
You see those eggs?
They just came in, fresh.
Take anything you want.
Go over to the freezer.
You'll find a lot of nice
things, shrimp, blueberry.
Take whatever it is you want.
Just take anything you want.
Mister, you're sick.
I don't have a gun.
You like oatmeal?
I got all kinds of oatmeal.
You just help yourself.
Take another peanut butter,
those are stale, take the other.
Mister, for Christ's sake, they
told us that you'd give us food.
I'm in the president's office,
they said you'd give us food.
If you don't wanna give us food,
fine, I'm not gonna force you.
Put your hands down.
You're making me nervous.
Take another bag,
what'll you do with one bag?
Also there's a cart
over there, help yourself.
It's okay, take
anything you want.
- It's okay?
- Sure, it's okay.
I just don't want no trouble.
- Neither do I.
- 'Good.'
'You take anything you want,
leave me out, I'm an old man.'
Look, put your hands down
and talk to me.
- I can't.
- Why not?
Don't be stupid.
What did I do wrong?
- Look, you want the groceries?
- I'm losing my mind.
- I got to get robbed.
- Robbed?
Yeah, robbed,
I gotta get robbed.
- I'm not going to rob you.
- You gotta, you gotta rob me.
Why?
My insurance.
See?
See, right?
You got it, right?
- Yeah.
- That's terrific.
Good, very good. Take whatever
you want, it's okay.
'Take the expensive stuff.
Patties, right over there.'
And sesame seed crackers
I mean what's pattie without
sesame seed crackers, right?
Here, lot of donuts,
lot of muffins over here.
See? Don't forget the sausage.
I got sausage up here.
'And all the cheese.
These are nice cheeses.'
'Let's see what you
got there, you got some squash'
you got lettuce, radishes,
you can make a nice salad.
Cucumbers, don't forget
the cucumbers.
Thank you very much.
We really appreciate this.
- Ah, it's my pleasure.
- Really, thank you.
No mention. She's very
pretty, your girl.
Police, robbery!
Police! Police!
Shh!
- You alright?
- Yes.
Keep up with me, baby.
I'm gonna to be killed to death.
Oh, hey.
Hey, mister, you want
to curb your dog. I mean, jeez.
Funny, right?
Yeah.
'You going with someone?'
'Yes.'
- Serious?
- W-well, yes.
- At Western?
- No.
Could you at least
help me steer this?
I am.
Well, anybody for an extra
revolutionary relationship?
Hey, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah!
Shh.
Squat jumps.
'Okay. Now, get 'em down there,
I wanna see bruised asses!'
'Lower!'
'Lower!'
Hey.
Can you shut up about something?
You've got crabs?
- You got a girl pregnant?
- Mmm.
- That'd be nice.
- A local chick?
Yeah. That's
not everything.
Oh, yeah?
I slept with her in the
president's office last night.
- No shit!
- Yeah.
Well, I didn't like, you know..
There were other people there.
Doing what? What the hell
are you talking about?
The strike.
Oh, whoa.
Are you in on that?
Yeah.
- What's it like?
- Come on.
Well, I got into a mild
hassle with a cop.
I hit him
with my Instamatic Super 8.
- No shit.
- Yeah.
Anyway, I met this chick
and slept with her
in the office.
She's going with this
creep or something.
Nothing's gonna come out of it.
Just a big drag.
We're on the same patrol.
You're tripping.
What are you on?
Huh?
What are you on?
Food.
- Food?
- Yeah, food.
I'm on the food patrol.
- Food patrol?
- Yeah, I'm on the food patrol.
You mean like the beaver patrol?
You're hostile.
Simon.
You can get kicked off of crew
in about ten seconds flat.
If anybody finds out about this.
Yeah, well, I'm not
making an announcement.
I mean, I'm only
telling you quietly.
James. Are you two
gonna run or knit?
Listen, how many chicks
are sleeping in that office?
Uh, 40, 50
150 tonight probably.
That's an awful lotta
chicks, man.
Maybe 200.
What's, uh, the deal?
Well, uh, if I tell Linda,
I split the crew
you know, she'll never
talk to me again.
I mean, she's really
into this thing.
- You know what I mean?
- Yeah, I can dig that.
Well, she's gonna sneak out
of the president's office
and meet with me
at the playground.
We're havin'
a demonstration there.
Hey, it's really gonna be heavy.
Look, I'm gonna get
into this thing.
Okay.
Oh, I got it.
I'll say that I came to recruit
and I'll come back with you.
We'll come to practice tomorrow
and say we're coming to recruit.
Well, I'll try it.
There better be some action.
What are you doing?
I wanna feel,
what it feels like to..
...litter from
the back of a paddy wagon.
- 'So, how does it feel?'
- 'Nice.'
Not terrific,
not fantastic, but nice.
'I hate this.'
I swear to God,
I really hate this!
Oh, uh, nice.
'Alright, come on.
Move along.'
They'll fingerprint us.
Hey, Charlie,
you deranged anarchist!
How they hangin'?
'No talkin'.'
'No talking up there.'
'Take a look at this'
Man, she bit me.
Up against the wall.
He's gotta be kidding.
Isn't this terrific?
It's the third time today,
I've been up against this wall.
Oh! This is Linda.
This is Charlie, my roommate.
- I'm a political criminal.
- Hi.
- If he touches me..
- I'll handle it.
I wanna female inspector
for my girlfriend.
- I know my rights.
- What?
Ah, I don't want you
to touch the lady.
Who's touching the lady?
You're not gonna touch the lady?
Please, we got a busy day.
Up against the wall.
He said it again.
Okay, each can make
three telephone calls.
Local, we pay for.
Out of town,
reverse the charges.
Don't make a big deal.
We just want names.
There'll be no bail or charges
for first offenders.
After you make
your calls, wait..
...quietly.
I've placed mine already.
I called Joyce.
She impresses easy.
Alright, I'm calling my mother.
Why?
Maybe, I'm being
sentimental, Simon.
But this is my first bust.
Who called Joyce at 6661940?
- That's me!
- No, that's me!
Hey, wait a minute.
That's me.
Dad, what do you mean,
Simon who?
Yeah, good.
How's mom? Good.
Got arrested.
Yeah. Jail.
Well, yes. Yeah, uh..
Well, if my hair has been
growing for two months
I mean, it's got
to be longer, right?
Well, some people
have bad associations
when they see long hair.
And some happen
when they see long Cadillacs.
'Oh, I solved
my identity crisis.'
'Yeah. Hey, let me..
I'll call you later, okay?'
'Bye-bye.'
'You're not really
serious about this.'
'I am too.'
'Your university is
burning babies, killing men.'
'And you're
on the rowing team.'
'Rowing crew.'
'Linda..'
It's a waste.
This strike is part
of something real.
That's better than
being a rowing jock.
Now, look, most of the guys
on the crew aren't jocks.
I mean, our crew doesn't
even have as many wasps
as it should have according
to the population percentage
of wasps in the nation.
Maybe it should be shut down.
Now, look, I mean they have
moustaches and everything.
Simon, if you want to row
a boat, row a boat.
Look, you don't understand
what it's like, I mean, it's..
- It's erotic.
- Oh.
I mean, you should try it.
I mean, it's a commitment.
- It's real.
- It's not real.
It's a game.
The movement is real.
- Linda.
- What?
I am so incredibly confused.
So am I.
I don't want to blow up
any buildings.
I know.
I mean, I slaved my ass off
to get in this school.
I..
I didn't get in
until late August.
I wrote a letter,
uh, somebody dug it
I got an interview
and I got in, and I went insane.
I was so happy,
I was jumping up and down.
I was so glad
to get in this school.
Simon, nobody's
blowing up buildings.
Yeah, well, that will come.
That's next, see.
What the hell?
That's what I'm saying.
'Uh, I'd like to blow
some of this school'
'right off the face
of the Earth.'
I wanna mean something.
I mean, I'm really
gonna hate myself
if I just sit back
and watch all this.
I mean this university stinks.
This whole country
is getting dumb!
Dumb and..
I mean, this country used
to have a dream about, uh
things being different,
you know.
And now, everybody's
just content to sit back
on their asses and leave
things just the way they are.
I don't know, maybe,
they should dream again.
I don't know.
I'm only 20, so I'll give
the country one more chance.
Just one.
'Hey, uh, I only have 43 cents'
'not counting
my Indian Head nickels.'
I'm not gonna buy it.
Alright, come on.
Oh, no!
Okay, you get ready.
Earphones.
- Don't!
- You creep.
- Hey, is it loud enough?
- What?
- Is it loud enough?
- 'Yes, it's loud enough.'
Do you like it?
I'm leaving now.
Come on.
Listen, I thought
we were friends.
I really thought
you're involved in the movement.
'I didn't know,
I think that's what did it.'
Well, tell me what to do,
I'll throw a bomb.
You really don't understand,
do you, Simon?
It's like cheating for me
to be with you. I..
I really think
I could marry my man
and be his wife forever.
Really a bourgeois
thing isn't it?
Yes, it is.
You don't want an
uptight chick like me.
Yes I do. I really do.
If I were going with you,
you wouldn't want me
to go out with someone like you.
That's a very complicated idea.
I have to find out for myself,
I'm vulnerable, you know that.
You could probably
talk me into seeing you.
Maybe even sleeping with you.
But I'd hate you for it.
You're very unhappy.
Yes, I'm very unhappy.
I have to get
the bus at 11:30.
The bus?
I hate this whole night.
Goodbye, Simon.
Goodbye.
Thanks.
RFK might have made a good
President, but we'll never know.
'ROTC condones violence.
It promotes violence.'
It even rewards violence
and you don't have to be
a revolutionary to know
that, that's wrong.
You're goddamned right
and we're fighting
this institution today
to sever..
They can bring all the guns they
have at their fascist disposal..
Act must be taken seriously
and cannot be passed off
as platonic..
...is to get the
liberation schools going.
Need the faculty to really care
to talk about the..
'The very famous quote'
"Destroy villages
in order to save 'em"..
Fuck the CIA..
Five hundred dollars..
FBI.
RFK.
TNT..
'We're not moving until
they give'
'that playground back to the
kids and forget about the ROTC.'
'Ready, ready all.'
'Row!'
You didn't feel good yesterday?
You had the flu?
I felt good yesterday.
You seemed down.
No, I was up yesterday.
I was down Tuesday.
No, yesterday you
seemed kinda slow.
Slow?
Hmm, groggy.
- Which was it?
- Hmm?
Groggy or slow?
Well, you seemed a little
down at the finish.
When I get groggy,
I'll send you a letter.
- Okay?
- Okay.
It's cool, George.
'I've seen calms and doldrums'
'but not one like this
in 40 years.'
They're worn out trying
to pull us in the wind.
Not the way they're pulling.
Call 'em in and put..
I've never seen such
a piece of crap in my life.
You're sitting on my big toe.
Television.
Goddamn society.
It's sick.
Sick.
Talk about sick,
I'll never forget
a-a button vendor,
outside a funeral
at St. Patrick's
in New York.
Screaming, "Remember,
Bobby, 50 cents."
'This movie is a giant bummer.'
We're on page three.
Yesterday we were on page five.
TV coverage is lousy.
The television
reception is lousy.
'Asshole.'
What's sick!
Well, just take a little nap.
What if the Paris Commune
was this dull?
Here it is.
Here's the proof, babies.
'Oh, boy.'
Vitamin E found something.
The whole thing was a tax dodge.
What whole thing, what is this?
The ROTC thing.
Taking over the old playground
in the children center.
Listen, our wonderful university
has made a deal with
the water and power companies.
See, we hold the land tax free
until the water and power
company's ready to build
a new high-rise.
And then the ROTC
building comes down
and Western Pacific
is holding the land
so, goddamn water
and power saves breath.
University is servicing
the corporation?
Yeah, yeah, all of it.
More than that, the chairman
of the board of directors
of the water and power company
is also a trustee
of Western Pacific.
Are you positive?
That's capitalism.
What's a little money
between friends, huh?
"Remember Bobby 50 cents".
Look, enough, George.
I'm not in a mood.
You're a freak.
You're a jock.
Well, let's have a war.
Freak against a jock.
Don't be stupid, George.
Just leave me alone, alright.
'Nothing personal.'
I just don't dig
your politics, man.
Hmm.
Oh.
Oh, God.
Shit.
Oh, that's bad.
God, that's bad.
Oh, that's good.
Hey.
Oh, God.
Now, that's good.
White man speak
with... fucked lip.
'Simon, oh, my God!'
You look fabulous,
did-did you see your mouth?
Oh, well, did-did it hurt?
I know who did it.
Pigs beat you.
Pigs got a run?
- Don't make any noise.
- No.
Come on, come on, come on.
I'm wanna show you to somebody.
- No, not a doctor.
- Come on, shut up. Come on.
My God! If pigs beat on Simon,
they'd beat on anybody.
'I'm sick of your
whining and stalling.'
'Why can't you do anything we
ask, when we want it done, huh?'
- I got kids.
- 'Great.'
A hostage.
Cops got him.
Look at his lip.
- Pigs got him.
- What's with the hostage?
- What hostage?
- Me?
Are we gonna..
Are we gonna torture him?
- Who is that kid?
- What did I say?
We're not gonna hurt anybody.
You crazy or something?
No, well, I heard
him say he had kids.
He's a college
professor on tenure.
'If they found out he's helping,
he's gonna be on the street.'
Sir, we really appreciate this.
You were beaten by the police?
Pigs, a raft of them.
Did you get any in?
- Yeah, I got a few.
- It's not enough.
- The war is hell, man.
- We'll get a camera. A picture.
Nice meeting you guys.
See you later.
I don't know what impression
this is gonna make on TV.
Wait a second.
Thank you very much.
Who's this babe?
- A gun.
- A gun? A what?
Lucas. Right here, this is fine.
Very heavy in Makalu commune.
- Right there.
- Gun.
Don't move. A big deal
in the whole, whole Afro thing.
Oh, a gun.
Wanna make sure
we see some blood.
Alright. Don't talk.
Okay, I gotta go,
I'll see you later.
Hey, baby, did I get into it?
I joined the movement.
Movement? What are you
on prunes now, George?
I stopped by there,
this morning.
You weren't there.
Should be a terrific burst, huh?
What are you living out you're
father's dirty sexual fantasies?
Now, you're gonna be a commie,
so your old man's nightmares
can come true?
Sure.
Bullshit, George. Listen.
Why don't you join the army.
Go kill some babies.
What's your beef with me?
Everybody's joined.
Yeah, well, everybody didn't
punch me in the mouth.
Look at that.
Sorry.
You're putting me on.
- I joined.
- You're a revolutionary now?
Feel different?
I'm with you, okay?
I'm gonna cry, Simon.
What happened?
I'm back.
Thank God.
You really don't care, do you?
No, not really.
Anybody else would
hassle me forever.
I ever tell you about my uncle?
He killed himself.
Anyway, he had a parrot.
And he taught the parrot
how to say, kiss off.
And the parrot
picked it right up.
'Used to say, kiss off
all the time.'
'And my aunt really hated it.'
'She used to keep a brown paper
bag over the cage all the time.'
'And every time she'd lift it
up, the bird would be saying'
'kiss off.'
Shh. So, she kept the bag
over him and finally
the parrot didn't have
much luck expressing himself
so he just dropped dead.
And about seven years
later my uncle
started to look like
this bird, you know
and he was standing on top
of this fantastic bridge
and this guard came up to him,
and says, "What are you doing
you can't stand here."
And my uncle said,
uh, "kiss off."
- What happened?
- He jumped.
Okay, smile, good.
Uh, tiger, you know.
Tigress, okay?
'That's it. Back, back over,
in the side.'
Okay, now, go up
against the tree.
- 'Okay, that's good.'
- I'm going to watch you.
- It's fine, right.
- We came to war. Yes?
- Okay, down, down.
- 'Down.'
That's it, that's it.
Now, the-the Madonna look..
- Mado..
- Yeah.
- Oka-ay, line!
- No!
- Come on, line!
- A-ah!
Now, that I wear Keds sneakers,
I get laid every three minutes.
Uh-ah!
Alright, that's beautiful.
You know, you have
a very dirty mouth?
- I do?
- Mm-hm.
- What's the matter?
- Classic paranoid.
Don't look now, but five
paranoids have just joined us.
Hi! We are in
big trouble.
- What are we going to do?
- Well, you run like hell.
- I'm not leaving you.
- They're not gonna rape me.
My mother told me if I ever
got in a situation like this
not-not to fight 'em.
Where's your mother
now that we need her?
Hi! Anything you want?
- I think I know what they want.
- 'Hate this whole day.'
- 'What?'
- 'I hate this whole day.'
'Now, look, let's just pretend
nothing happened, alright?'
Oh, good thinking. That'll
really scare the shit outta 'em.
Why aren't they talking?
Buzz.
Instamatic.
Man, be cool.
'Look, don't talk to me
about violence.'
I know you're in this thing
but just don't fucking
talk to me about violence.
'Come on, you-you're
freaking on us.'
'Look, I'm as clear as I've ever
been. I'm absolutely lucid.'
You make a commitment, strike,
you march through the garbage
with your magic-marker
band of damned bomb sign
your lily white hands
and nobody gives a shit.
I mean nobody cares.
From the President down
to the local studs.
- Hey, here, listen to me.
- Oh, listen? Tell, tell 'em.
We sort of got into
this thing at the park.
Something. I mean, they laid
my camera out on the ground.
- Oh, man.
- Well, that's not the point.
The point is you try to do
something and nobody cares.
I mean, what kind of bullshit
city is this, in a bullshit
country with the bullshit cops
beating up on the demonstrators
and the protestors, the real
peace makers when they should be
beating up on the war makers
and the haters and the killers?
Oh, it's bullshit, man!
- It's bullshit.
- What? Wait.
Bullshit! Bullshit!
- I'm sorry.
- It's alright.
George is really compulsive.
I've never seen such notes.
Come on, let's go
back to the city.
Simon, anybody who doesn't
take the exam gets suspended.
Geology.
Simon, how do you
identify wolframite?
A-ah, it has a thin scar
running down its cheek.
- Simon.
- Ouch! I'm tired.
- Orpiment.
- Orpiment!
Orpiment is on the page next
to realgar and it's ye-yellow.
- Shh!
- What's the matter?
It's my mother.
Don't answer. Shh!
She'll come and see
us... here. Just..
Yello?
Swatch.
Hi.
What?
'Where is he? Yeah,
I'll go right over.'
- 'Terrific traction.'
- Oh, my Geology notes.
Terrific.
There's another little traction
and... this really hurts, man.
Right under the blanket.
Goddamn!
What happened?
Oh, jocks, man.
About 600 of 'em.
I really got kneed.
If the pigs didn't come along
I'd really be pregnant.
What did the pigs do?
Did you know that jocks
were perverts, man?
Hey, what did the pigs do?
They watched. They put
a little rum, you know.
'Took a shot, nice guys.'
- How do you feel now?
- Shitty.
Jesus jumping Christ.
It's gone too far. I mean,
this is over our heads.
Sons of bitches.
They called my old man.
He's flying in here tonight.
This is absurd.
Ah! Dammit!
Wanna sign my cast?
'Strike! Strike! Strike!'
'Strike because
your roommate was clubbed..'
- The Dean. Is he around?
- Do you have an app...
Is he in? Is that his office?
- He's not in.
- Mm-hm?
'Alright, where
did you put him?'
'Your name?'
1-9-2-3-3-0.
Student.
- You know what you have here?
- Where?
George's leg is broken and I
know you don't give a shit.
But it's your fault
and he's my friend.
'Now, I gotta tell
you something, lady.'
'There are plenty of other legs
and arms around here to break.'
'Plenty.'
'Unless this school gives
the building and the playground'
'back to the neighborhood.'
Unless this school
gives some room
to some jet black faces
around here, unless this school
gives up it's war research
program, unless this school
gives up the
fucking 19th century
and calls off the pigs,
it's gonna be all over.
Now, you've been hearing
about revolution, right?
'You've been watching
it on the television.'
'Reading it in the newspapers.
It's not there, it's here.'
- Here.
- Here. In every room.
In every toilet of this idiot
school there's a, there's a..
I'm sorry. There is a..
There is a kid
waiting for tonight.
And unless you call off
the pigs, it's gonna be a mess.
'And war'
and not because there has to be
but because you started it.
'Hey, did you see
the news rails of Prague?'
'This looks just like it.'
I know who they are.
Who are these guys?
- They're the jocks.
- Jocks anti-strike..
Oh, I see.
- You gotta get Auri on it.
- Al?
So fantastic that the black
Simmons has joined this year.
I'm really moved.
He can't suspend the whole
school, he's not that dumb.
No, he's pretty dumb.
'This is ten times better
than anybody expected.'
- 'Fantastic crowd.'
- 'The press is finally here.'
Yeah, you remember Lucas?
This is the cat
that got bloodied.
Yeah. Yeah, I remember.
- The press is scared shit.
- Not you?
Now, you don't think CBS, NBC
are out here for the practice.
'We are opinion makers, baby.'
No, we've gotta have
the kick. You understand?
You gotta fix it now.
Find out what's wrong with it.
- Hey, lady, get off the cable.
- I don't know.
- 'Get off the cable!'
- 'You're the expert.'
Look at the size of his stick.
There's something happening
here. We've a lady on the cable.
'I don't know. Lady,
get off the cable.'
- Get off the cable, lady.
- 'Just not learning it enough.'
- I think they're learning.
- Isn't that too much?
- We did as much as them.
- No, we didn't.
'Teachers and classes? Sure.
Lots of things in common.'
- Worse.
- Yeah, like what?
- Well, like over population.
- Oh, right. Ecology.
- That's what it is.
- That's the answer.
Students, quite, please.
What's gonna happen?
They're gonna
close the Laundromat.
Students, this
is your president.
'If you do not remove
yourself full swing.'
'The University
will make a complaint'
'to the police department in
connection with your activity.'
'You will face
fraughtful arrest'
and suspension
from the University.
'You will be..'
- Robbed.
- Raped.
...laws of this state.
- 'You willbe..'
- Drafted.
Drafted, murdered, buried,
reborn as politicians.
'At this University.'
The president has just
given them an ultimatum.
This is news.
Al, do you understand?
This is headline time.
Something's gonna happen.
Somebody's either coming out of
the building or somebody's gonna
go in that building.
But nothing's working.
We can't... we're impotent.
We're sitting here impotent.
It's been dry an hour ago.
Boy, this coffee
tastes like shit.
- You want this?
- Yuck.
I want a beer so bad,
that I could taste it.
Hi, good to see
you guys here, huh.
You want to see
some blood tonight?
If there's blood, I hope it's
a day of massive casualties.
Because I don't want to be part
of light to moderate casualties.
I can dig it.
- Are you scared?
- 'Strike t-shirts.'
Well, not while
I'm behind this fence.
'Get your strike t-shirts.'
He left, he left.
He left me standing here.
- Who?
- Al!
If they didn't bust tonight,
there'll be a food problem.
No, the momentum is right.
The National Guard
just got here.
Let's go.
Alright, positions. Get those
tables back. C'mon, everybody.
To our positions,
let's get it. C'mon, c'mon.
C'mon, quickly, quickly.
Fall in positions.
'We've been informed
that the police department'
'and National Guard..'
'Will take all necessary action'
'in connection with our
complaint against you.'
'If you do not remove
yourself from this area'
'within the next five minutes.'
I implore you.
Leave now.
How come we weren't
doing all this stuff?
We didn't know.
Everybody down.
Everybody down
Keep down.
Keep down.
Go, go, go, go.
Come on, go. Get down.
What are you?
Pigs!
Ah!
You motherfuckers!
No! Please.
Don't hurt him!