All language subtitles for Masked.and.Anonymous.2003.1080p.BluRay.x265-RARBG_English

Man has a body of god

with a body of suffering.

Born of a kind for the same reason,

it was meant to be, from the beginning.

God does not suffer.

He doesn't feel pain.

He is not a courageous god.

Human beings can be
courageous or cowardly.

Neither of these things
are any of god's nature.

Will man destroy the earth to move on?

Is that his destiny?

Ask yourselves a question, people.

Are you humble before god?

He believes in god,

but he does not believe
in the one true god.

Ezekiel saw the wheel,
but what kind of wheel?

The cigar-shaped hubcap
thing from the sky?

Are these the gods that created mankind?

People, there are many gods.

It is written in the Bible
that there are many gods.

Does the Bible lie?

These gods left before
the Bible was written.

Would you swear on a Bible?

I'd swear on a Bible.

A book of treachery and
murder and genocide.

Of course I'd swear on
that, and I'll tell you why.

The false christianity you subscribe to

is nothin' more than
the cult of the virgin.

People, it's time to evaluate
and reflect on your lives.

God has turned his back on his nation.

Think about it.

What did Martin Luther King
get out of the whole thing?

A boulevard?

This is about the end.

- It's the dark princes, the
democrat and Republicans,

workin' for a barbarian

that can scarcely spell his own name.

Hey, the only thing more
pleasant than seein' you

would be seein' the grim reaper himself.

You gentlemen are about
to make a hideous choice.

You two are pitiable
figures, weeping with blood,

and it's gonna be your own blood.

Are you aware, gentlemen,
that this is all a play?

- We don't want paper money.

We want gold and silver.

- Okay, listen, uncle sweetheart

is organizing a benefit concert.

A benefit concert, to
help the real victims

of this revolution.

However, I will be personally siphoning

the majority of the funds into the kitty

of the fattest cat of all, me,

and you gentlemen will be paid in full.

- When?

- Definitely in this lifetime.

Look, you got the money or not?

- I understand you're not accustomed

to staring into the face of god.

- Shut up.
- I can't.

As long as I keep talkin',
I know I'm still alive.

- There's no use talking to you, huh?

- Yeah, ain't no point in
listening, neither, huh?

J' crimson flames tied through my ears I

j' rollin' high and mighty traps j“

j' pounced with fire on flaming roads I

I using ideas as my maps I

- I'm not gonna debate semantics with you.

Look, it's real, it's beyond phenomena.

They're shooting and killing.

I mean, how do you define
war in this day and age?

What are they fighting about?

- I don't know what
they're fighting about.

I mean, do the, do the hindus,
arabs, Jews, Irish, muslims,

Buddhists know what
they're fighting about?

The last person who actually knew that

was killed a long time ago.

They're all religious wars.

I Look, we've got dead aliens

stacked up in warehouses.

What else do you want to know?

We're talking about a war with
no technological spin-off.

It's an uneasy puzzle to solve, gentlemen.

- So why a benefit concert?

- Well, how else do you get rock stars

to do television, huh?

You either give them a cause
or you give them an award.

What happened to you?

- What happened to me?

How far back you want to go?

- So where's my headliner, huh?

I just got off the phone with the network.

They want something to promote.

They need something to promote.

They have some questions
about your ability

to perform services due.

- And I suppose you told them
I was a total show biz stud.

That you have total mystical
knowledge and faith in me

and absolutely no
question about my ability

to perform services due.

- Yeah, yeah, something like that.

So who are we getting, huh?

We getting any important people?

You know, headliners?

Top-of-the-line performers?

- Maybe.

Could be.

You never know.

Should I believe you?

- Of course.
- Yeah?

So, now tell me, are we
screwed, or are we not screwed?

- Oh, I'm not.

Are you?

I don't think you are getting screwed.

That's your problem.

Yeah, yeah.

I can't believe you're
gonna turn this disaster

into a seduction.

- This place bugged?

- Uncle sweetheart, we're
fighting a war here,

- in case you didn't know.
- War?

Don't tell me about war.

I fought in the granddaddy of all wars,

the war to end all wars.

The one to rip your heart out.

Look, honey, honey, I'm on your side.

- My side?

Everyone I've ever met,
I can look in the eye

and tell what side he's on.

So let's stop the spiffy chatter.

I'm on my way to a meeting at the network.

They have a much greater
reach and resonance

than even they themselves might suspect.

- Well, for the love of humanity,
we must limit their power.

- You don't take any of this seriously.

- Yes, I do.

Look at me, being all serious.

- Hmm.
- No, look.

No, wait a minute, here's the thing.

I don't think sting or
Springsteen or Billy Joel

or McCartney is gonna work out,

but, but, but I have a surprise for you.

- I don't understand
what just happened here.

Where are the headliners?

The big waves, big names, superstars?

- Well, what's to understand?

There's nothing to understand.

They're not here, they're not coming.

- Do you mean to tell
me after all this time,

we wind up with Jack fate?

- Jack nobody is more like it.

He was over before he started.

- Are you finished?

- We're all finished.

- You know, ultimately,

We didn't have
the money in the budget

to attract a big name.

You said we did.

- Yeah, well, then, I
was wrong, I'm sorry.

You're sorry?

Something is startin' to smell here.

Something is giving off a very bad odor,

and these fumes are starting to choke me.

Now, we can do some very ugly things.

I could have you killed right now

for the price of a cup of coffee,

and everybody in this room
would turn the other way.

- Hey, can we stop
kidding around here, now?

- I think we should pull the plug.

- Plug?

- There's no plug.

You show me a plug, I'll pull it.

There's no plug, there's
no socket, there's no wall.

- If I'm going down, I'm
taking the wall with me.

By the way, uh, Jack fate,

he isn't a blood relative, is he?

- Shut up, Valentine.

You think you're gonna get
off cheap with Jack fate,

but believe me, the price will be steep.

And one more thing.

If you want to suffer agony
for someone else's happiness,

do it on your own time.

Now, go away.

You're getting out, Jack.

Somebody sprung you.

- Must be my lucky day.

Who'd have done that?

- Some angels must have
intervened on your behalf.

Maybe a bunch of people
put their savings together.

Hell, I don't know.

- I haven't felt free in a long time.

- Keeping people from
being free is big business.

I'll keep it in mind.

- Open it up!

Hey, Jack.

Jack, where you going?

- Roswell.

- You don't seem to understand.

When they heard Jack
fate's name mentioned,

there was complete silence.

- Like reverence.

- Like prayer.
- Yeah.

I was doing the praying.

They wanted to cancel the whole thing.

- Don't they understand who Jack fate is?

- Nobody knows who Jack fate is anymore.

Nobody cares.

I mean, he doesn't make records.

He doesn't go on tour.

He doesn't do interviews.

He doesn't do anything.

- He doesn't have to, he's a legend.

Does Jesus have to walk on
water twice to make a point?

Besides, he's virtually free.

Who else can you say that about?

- Virtually free?

No one is virtually free.

You're either free or you're not free.

You know, if he's gonna play this concert,

then he's gonna play
exactly what we tell him.

- Hey, prospero.

What's happening, man?

- Hey, you missed it.

Two eagles just killed a pregnant rabbit.

- Hmm, rabbit must have done something.

- You leaving town?

Yeah.

- Oh.

By choice this time?

- Not really.

Eh, nothing ever really is.

Where you heading?

- That way.

- That's a good direction.

I've done that a lot.

One of my favorites.

You know what else is good?

That way.

- Hmm.

Maybe next time.

- Think there's gonna be a next time?

- For you, maybe.

So, you ever coming back?

- I did come back.

I how does it feel I

This bus going across the border?

No, sir,
you're going the wrong way.

All right.

I with no direction home I

I like a complete unknown I

I like a rolling stone I

I b-b-baby I

j' b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-baby j”

- What are you drinking?

- What am I drinking?

I'm drinking my life away.

Why?

You want some?

Make you forget that you're poor.

- Yeah, but I'm not gonna have any.

So what's up?

- What's up?

Isn't that an interesting
question to ask me?

I've got reporters wounded.

I've got reporters that are
held captive, held hostage.

I've got two reporters dead.

I've got reporters on the front lines.

I've got reporters that are, uh,

undercover with the insurgents,
with the counter-insurgents.

I've got people inside the capitol,

even in the office of
the president himself.

- Yeah, I've done all that.

- Yeah, you've done all that,

and people are still dying
out there, my friend.

- Everybody's doing the killing now.

Everybody's doing the dying.

- Where does that leave you?

Are you still a journalist,
or are you a novelist?

- Same thing out here.

So, what's this all about, huh?

I've got things to do.

I've got my awards, I've got my scars.

I've got nothing to prove to you.

- You'll never change.

There's a benefit concert.

- A benefit concert?

- For medical relief.

It's gonna be broadcast on the network.

Government controls the network.

I just want to make sure
it's not a PR thing,

that they're not trying to

make themselves look compassionate,

or that it's not some kind of a set-up,

or a nefarious ploy to
weed out the rebels.

But I will tell you this,
there is a story there.

- That's no story.

That's no story.

That's every story.

That is the story.

- Make something out of it.

And if you can't do that,
sir, then make it up.

- Uh, how much time do I have to do this?

I don't have a lot of time.

- Jesus Christ, man.

You don't have a lot of time?

Abraham Lincoln, listen to me,

Abraham Lincoln gave the
famed gettysburg address

in five minutes.

Five, so don't ever talk to me about time.

There's something else.

Only one performer.

- Only one?

- Yeah.

Try that on.

You don't need more than that performer.

I changed my mind.

- About what?

- About what?

About everything.

Everything?

- Everything.

Enjoy it, because
this is your last shot.

- Arise, o lord, save me.

Arise, o lord, save me.

What's the matter?

You look disturbed.

Yeah, 'cause there's
always something the matter.

Right?

- I don't want there to be.

You don't understand.

You can't stay honest out there anymore.

Ah, shit.

- Why, what's changed?

- I'm gonna be gone for a couple of days.

Maybe you shouldn't be
here when I get back.

Where are you going?

I want to go.

Don't we always have a good time?

- Yeah, good times don't last long.

- You are making everything so tragic.

- Tragic?

I'm not making it tragic.

Every period in history has
been more or less tragic.

- I don't know what you're saying.

- Don't you read the paper?

The pervert's gonna be the top man now.

The man of the hour.

- Tommy, if you had to kill
somebody, how will you do it?

With a gun or with a knife?

- With my bare hands.

Look, it's an overcrowded world.

It's hard to get to the top.

There's a long line at the elevator.

- Doesn't matter.

We'll take the stairs.

Let me go with you.

I you must leave now, take what
you need you think will last I

I whatever you wish to keep,
you'd better grab it fast I

- I come from a small
village in the mountains.

We don't even have a doctor.

So I joined the rebels.

I didn't know what the
answers were, I still don't.

I just knew you had to take sides.

I suffered sickness and wounds.

My whole family turned against me.

They disowned me.

I tried to explain, but-but,

but they just wouldn't listen to me.

Pretty soon, I saw the
rebel movement was corrupt.

The leadership were lying to the people.

They wanted to replace the old government

with a new government,
which was just as bad.

They were taking people's money.

They were, they were,
they were making promises

with no intentions of keeping them.

And then a small army of
counter-revolutionaries

battled the rebels in the mountains

where the government
forces were ineffective.

I changed sides.

No one ever noticed.

This new movement was-was
fighting for the truth

the rebels supposedly believed
in, but really didn't.

And then I realized that this
movement was being funded

by the very government I wanted to topple.

At that point, I realized,

I didn't want the government to fall.

It would only be replaced with anarchy.

I-I started believing in
preserving the republic,

so I joined the government forces.

I fought bravely for the cause.

And then one day, we
wiped out a small village.

They-they-they told us something about

the rebels having infiltrated.

It was a lie.

All the men were, uh, either dead or old,

and there were...

There, uh, there was nothing
but women and children left.

It was my village.

And, uh some-sometimes,
uh, when I, when I dream,

my dreams become my reality.

And I wish I could live in my dreams.

Do you ever dream?

- Yeah, I dream.

My dreams are walking through fire,

with intense heat.

I don't pay any attention to my dreams.

- Does he know about the concert?

Of course not.

- Shouldn't we tell him?

- Of course not.

- Did you hear who the headliner is?

- Oh, look, I like Beethoven.

Stravinsky.

Chopin's really good.

Modern music doesn't do much for me.

Quite frankly, it doesn't do
much for the president, either.

- At least it's not some banjo player.

Anything we should do?

- If they would have gotten a big star

to headline the concert,

we might have had to
take action, you know?

But they didn't get a big star.

Big stars think it's too dangerous here.

Big stars, you know,
they like doing benefits,

but only if the benefits
are held in places

where they won't get shot at.

Oh, man, let me ask you.

You ever met any big
stars with a set of nuts?

With any big balls?

Any goddamn brains or charisma, huh?

No.

My man, big stars, they
like, uh, they like it safe.

They don't like to put
their life on the line

for a cause that they don't understand.

I mean, who does, huh?

- What do you want to do about Jack fate?

- Nothing.

Hey, Jack fate doesn't
understand anything.

Besides, he ain't a big star.

- What's going on?

Who are those guys?

- They're the, uh,

they're the, uh, counter-revolutionaries.

They've stopped the bus.

- Not now, what do they want with the bus?

- Well, anything they can,

anything they can get their hands on.

They, uh, you know, they
might just harass us.

They might, uh, they might, uh, let us go,

they might, uh, they might kill us.

They might, uh, make us join them.

They might drug us, I don't know.

You know, you know, it's-it's-it's,

it's violence is the only thing they know.

It's-it's the only tool in their box.

And-and-and you can't build
a house with one tool.

I've got a tool too.

- They have no ideology.

They push both Jesus and Judas aside.

I seen the arrow on the doorpost I

I sayin' this land is condemned I

I all the way from New Orleans I

I to Jerusalem I

I I traveled through east Texas I

I where many martyrs fell I

I and I know no one can sing the blues I

I like blind Willie mctell I

Once he was a real father,

full of love, compassion, and forgiveness.

That didn't last too long.

After a while, being a
father didn't amount to more

than an official title.

He sacrificed everything he ever wanted

to reach his destiny, to rule
his empire with an iron fist.

From the cathouses and gambling joints,

he Rose to the top rung of civilization,

president of this godforsaken nation.

- Hey, do I need to ring
a bell to get a refill?

You see, my glass is empty.

- Yeah, the glass is always empty.

So is the spot on the counter

where the money's supposed to be.

- Tell me, who in the hell
is presiding over this,

this slaughterhouse, huh?

You or me?

- Look, tough guy.

You want the world to be flat?

It's flat.

You want it to be round?

It can be round.

- You son of a bitch.

I know some things too.

- Yeah, the more you know,
the more you'll suffer.

- You've got that right.

- Hello?

What?

Jack?

How am I doing?

Man, I didn't think I'd
ever hear from you again

after that night.

I thought that...

No, I'll leave now.

I'll be there by morning.

Is this for real?

I'm on my way.

- Hey, man, no hard feelings,

but I'm sure the next guy
that serves you a drink

is probably gonna draw
the same conclusions.

It's on the house.

- He's not here.

- How do you know?

- Because I don't see him.

- How do you know he's
not like Claude rains

in that movie the invisible man?

- Who?

He doesn't show up, you'd
better get invisible.

This place looks familiar.

I think I stayed here before.

- Well, welcome back.

- Your pen's still out of ink.

- Not a problem, sir.

You here for the concert?

- Yeah, isn't everybody?

- Oh yeah.

Will you be in need of a woman, sir?

- What kind of woman?

- We've got all kinds.

Slave women, immigrant women.

Black women, white women,
young women, old women,

rich, poor, middle-class, free women.

Western women, northern
women, southern women.

Intellectual.

Radical women, modern.

They run the gamut.

Which kind would you like?

- I'm just tired, can you give me a room?

- I'm gonna give you the
same room Nixon slept in

the night before he made that
famous speech to the press.

Oh you-you won't have Nixon
to kick around anymore.

I'm gonna give you that room,

because it's got the most
comfortable bed in the house.

- Okay, I'll take that room.

- All right.
- By the way,

what side of the political
fence are you on?

- I do not belong to any
political party, sir.

I guess you could call me a feminist.

Sir, your pen?

It's filled.

You have reached
the official residence

of the president.

Built in 1714, burned down in 1809,

rebuilt in 1818, burned
down again in 1841.

- Hello?

Hello?

Some of us pursue
perfection and virtue,

and, if we're lucky, we'll catch up to it.

But happiness can't be pursued.

It either comes to you or it don't.

You can always say, if
only this, or if only that,

but if only is a state
of mind that we get into

when we feel deprived.

In my father's world, you
do not take what is his.

Not his gold, not his
silver, not his woman.

I thought I was doing it for my mother.

I thought I was doing it for my country.

Ultimately, I knew I was doing it for me.

In the end, it's the strongest
arm that stretches the bow.

- Hey, give your uncle sweetheart a hug.

Hey, you're all skin and bones.

- Aren't we all?

Anyway, I don't have to
throw my weight around.

Look at you.

You must have put on a few pounds.

- Eatin' from the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.

Let me show you this place.

I own a piece of it.

Which piece?

- It changes every day.

Come on, sit down.

There's a chair, plant your ass in it.

You look good.

You've got the jail pale.

It suits you.

- So what do you got
cooked up, sweetheart?

What's your angle?

- This is gonna be a
patriotic rhapsody, Jack.

Here's the deal.

You'll be working for the people,

the peasants, the children.

Imagine yourself being reincarnated

in the civil war in Babylon.

- Civil war in Babylon?

- Come on, son, snap out of it.

You've got to stand up on your
tiptoes to see the future.

Look, man, this is our big chance.

- Another big chance.

- Yeah, that's right.

You do this show, this benefit,

it'll be seen all over the world.

You put your career back on track,

maybe a tour, maybe a record, maybe both,

make a little money and save
the world all at the same time.

It's all politics, Jack,

and money is the mother's
milk of politics,

and we'll be a-raking it in.

- You know you're not gonna
make any of them things happen.

- So what?

So, will you play?

- Of course I'll play.

You know I'll play.

- Well, good, I already
told 'em you would.

- You couldn't get
anybody else, could you?

- That didn't even cross my mind.

It didn't even occur to me.

Nobody could be like you,
and a great many have tried.

I just know this is gonna come off.

- I need some boys who can play.

- I got some musicians right here.

Feast your eyes on simple twist of fate.

The best, and only, Jack
fate cover band in the world.

Ladies and gentlemen,

we have a special treat
for you this evening.

Not only do we possess the twist of fate,

we possess the cha-cha, the boogaloo,

and the watusi of fate, Jack fate!

Yeah!

I crash on the levee,
water's gonna overflow I

I swamp's gonna rise,
no boat is gonna row I

I train on down to Williams point I

I you can bust your feet,
you can rock this joint I

I but ain't, ain't you gonna
miss your best friend now I

I you're gonna have to find yourself I

I another best friend somehow I

I high tide's rising, mama,
don't you make a sound I

I there's a crash on the levee I

I and mama don't you let me down I

I sugar for sugar, salt for salt I

I if you go down to the flood,
it's gonna be your fault I

I oh, ain't you gonna miss
your best friend now I

I you're gonna have to find yourself I

I another best friend somehow I

The only
power the government has

is to crack down on criminals.

When there aren't enough
criminals, you make them.

You make so many things a crime

that it becomes impossible to
live without breaking laws.

- How'd they ever get you to do this?

They must be scraping
the bottom of the barrel.

- I might have a few songs left.

You wouldn't
try anything, would you?

- I got a lot of respect for a gun.

You create
a nation of lawbreakers,

and then you cash in on guilt.

That's the system.

That's the game.

Once you understand that,
you'll sleep a lot easier.

Remember, life is like riding in a taxi.

Even if you're not going
anywhere, the meter is ticking.

Beautiful animals.

- Oh, thank you.

But it's god deserves the credit.

They don't have time to bother
with success or getting rich.

They don't have fantasies of glory.

They don't borrow money to buy things

that decrease in value while they own it.

See, they're beautiful
because they just are.

They do what they do.

A lion don't try to be a tiger.

Rabbit don't try to do an
impression of a monkey.

They don't try to be what they're not.

Unlike us, us human beings.

The cheetah, the tiger, the
snake, the monkey, the baboon,

the muskrat, the bobcat,

the pig that's fat, the
hippo, the rhino, the dodo,

the honey badger, the slithy toad.

Each one, each perfect in
their own original forms.

Then man came in.

Who created him and for what purpose?

Still a mystery.

Why is he here?

It's a mystery.

We know he's trespassing.

Doesn't know his own place.

Of course he doesn't know his
own place, he don't have one.

Man, the bear-hunter, the
fur-trapper, the deer-chaser.

Man, the bear-hunter, the deer-trapper,

the-the man, the bear-hunter,
the f-fur trapper.

Man, the-the-the deer-chaser.

Baby seal-clubber.

The dolphin-snagger.

Lowest form of existence,
lowest form of existence.

He's a rabble rouser, he's
a stirrer-upper, agitator,

goes around sticking his
nose where it don't belong.

The zoo, the-the aquarium,

they are, they are the
prisons for the animals.

These animals cannot learn
anything from mankind.

Man doesn't have, man doesn't
have a thing to teach them.

I abhor looking at human beings.

Disgust me so much with their atom bombs

and blow dryers and automobiles.

They build hospitals as shrines
to the diseases they create.

Human beings alone with their
secrets, masked and anonymous.

No one truly knows 'em.

If I see a crack in the sidewalk,

it's more beautiful to
me than any human being.

A crack in the mud at the
bottom of a sun-dried dead lake,

I count that more beautiful
than any human being.

You know what I mean?

- I know what you mean.

Kind of like a curse,
isn't it, being born?

- You got that right.

Yeah, 'cause we live in fear.

'Cause we know we're gonna die.

Animals don't know they're
gonna die, they got no fear.

They live content in the moment.

Holds us back, knowledge of death.

I-I say amazing grace indeed.

Oh, man.

- I'll tell you something else.

Ancient cultures, civilizations,
used to sacrifice animals,

like cattle and rabbits and goats and such

instead of human beings.

Now, today, we do it the other way around.

We sacrifice the human
being, like the incas,

like the aztecs, like
the big corporations.

Amazing grace indeed.

- Hey.

Howdy.

What was that all about?

The guy's into animals, I guess.

- Oh, that's, come on inside.

I want to show you this
place, you'll like it.

- Sure.
- Right up your alley.

Oh, the networks are really behind this.

They're putting up a lot
of money for this deal.

It's a bitched-up world, Jack.

The only way we can protect
ourselves is by going mad.

I I once was lost, but now I

I'm not gonna kill you.

- Some famous star from the jazz age

was disfigured right here on
this stage during a live show.

Uh, what the hell was that sucker's name?

I can't remember that guy's name.

- I don't know, stagger Lee?

- No.

- You want to know what really,
really gets my goat, though?

I mean, all this talk
about race this, race that,

ethnic this, ethnic that.

I mean, when-when you
come right down to it,

there's really only two
races, workers and bosses.

That's it.

- Amen.

- You hear what I'm saying?

- Yeah, you said the same thing last week.

See, I told you he was here,

and you were worried.

Miss Veronica, meet Jack fate.

- Oh, yeah.

I had one of your first albums.

It's a shame.

It's one of the things my
husband took during the divorce.

So, are you ready for this?

- I'm as ready as I'll ever be.

Uh, look, uh, I've got a few things to do.

I'll see you later, maybe.

- I hope you've got this
cat's priorities in order.

Have you explained the
restrictions, the limitations,

the boundaries, huh?

The rules?

- We talked about it.

- I hope you know we're
dealing with the here and now.

You can't compare the here and
now with the there and then.

I don't care what he's done in the past.

- Calm down, everything's under control.

- Are his songs gonna be recognizable?

That's what I want to know.

- All of his songs are recognizable

even when they're not recognizable.

Don't worry about it.

We know right where we are,
where everything else is.

We don't chase after things
that are out of reach.

- Ooh!

Ooh!

You're so spontaneous.

- Howdy.

I diamond Joe, come and get me I

I my wife done quit me I

I diamond Joe you better
come get me, diamond Joe I

I gonna buy me a jug of rum,
gonna give my baby some I

I diamond Joe, you better
come and get me, diamond Joe I

I diamond Joe, come and get me I

I my wife done quit me I

I diamond Joe you better come
and get me, diamond Joe I

- troubles.

I don't talk about my troubles
while they're happening,

I'll tell you about
them when they're over.

Anyway, oh, I slept like a log last night.

I got so much shit happening, man,

I'm gonna turn this here thing
into Woodstock, altamont,

the Beatles at shea, live aid,

and the Elvis comeback
special all rolled into one.

- We'll see, we'll see.

- I know what you think, man,
but I feel good about this.

I feel like someone who's lived
10,000 years, has 17 senses,

and is standing ankle-high
in the Atlantic.

- Well, I hope you pull it off.

I gonna buy me a sack of flour,
cook hoe cakes by the hour I

I diamond Joe, you better
come and get me, diamond Joe I

I diamond Joe come and get me I

- wait a minute.

- Who's that?

- Just the greatest human menagerie

since the stone age at our services.

No mediocrity here,
totally beyond criticism.

I got all the acts here who
are gonna round out this show

and fill up the bill.

Come on in, come on in;

Jean darkness,

Dolly, the rubber girl,

Eddie quicksand with Milo,

the great El mundo with
Ella the fortune teller,

and our shooting gallery
of beloved world leaders,

Jean Paul deuce, Mahatma Gandhi,

and our own beloved Abraham Lincoln.

Come on in, come on in.

Hey, you put on a couple of pounds.

Don't call that home
number I gave you, Dolly.

I diamond Joe, you better
come get me, diamond Joe I

- here they are, Jack.

Friends, thank you all so much for coming,

but Mr. Fate and I have some
fiscal business to discuss.

So if you could all step
out to the holding area,

there's refreshments out there.

Just see Ollie, our stage manager.

- Thank you so much.
- Hey, cookies.

- On, Milo.

Oh, iookee here, iookee
what the cat drug in.

Bobby cupid, how'd you get in here?

Jack, did you know he was coming?

Where's your passport?

- I don't need no stinking passport.

The land's too big out there, man.

After a while, it starts
to swallow you up.

- A billion years of weather and wind.

- I got a surprise for you.

Wait 'til you see this.

What's that?

- That, my friend, is
blind lemon's guitar.

- Where'd you get this from?

Well, I've
been saving it for you.

- How do you know it
belonged to blind lemon?

- 'Cause, uh, I got it from
this old boy's house in Dallas

down on the fifth ward near
where lightning used to live.

Blind lemon gave it to him
when he was leading him around.

- Looks like the only thing
you could play on that guitar

is solitaire.

- This is one of the
guitars that started it all.

- Looks like something I could go out

to the corner pawn shop and
buy something just like it.

- Well, maybe you could, but
it wouldn't be like this one,

'cause this is the one that
played "matchbox blues".

- Oh, "matchbox blues".

I sitting here wondering would
a matchbox hold my clothes I

I ain't got so many matches
but we got so far to go I

just like me and you,
Jack, we got so far to go.

- Yeah.

I'm gonna go and put
some new strings on this.

- See you later!

The later the better.

I I wish I was in the land of cotton I

I old times there are not forgotten I

I look away, look away I

I look away, dixieland I

I in dixieland where I was born I

I early on one frosty morn I

I look away, look away I

I look away, dixieland I

I I wish I was in Dixie, away, away I

I in dixieland, I'll take my
stand to live and die in Dixie I

I away, away I

I away down south in Dixie I

I away, away I

I away down south in Dixie I

I in dixieland, where I was born I

I early on one frosty morn I

I look away, look away I

I look away, dixieland I

I I wish I was in Dixie away, away I

I in dixieland, I'll take my
stand to live and die in Dixie I

I away, away I

I away down south in Dixie I

I away, away I

I away down south in Dixie I

- Did you ever notice when you dream,

the dream seems to span several hours,

but actually only lasts a few moments?

- No, not really.

- I'm looking for Jack
fate, is he in there?

- Who's looking for him?

- The name's friend, Tom
friend, I'm with the press.

Who are you, what do you do?

- I'm a mechanic.

- Well, I'm a writer.

I got an assignment to cover
this so-called fundraiser.

I'm looking for Jack fate.

- Hey, you ever read "for whom
the bell tolls", Hemingway?

Now there's a guy that
could write, you know?

- Yeah, I read it.

I need to see Jack fate.

Are you gonna make my
job easy or difficult?

- Well, I-I don't know
anything about any fundraiser.

- Get word to him that I
was here, can you do that?

I'll be back.

- I don't know.

- This say anything to you?

- Not a thing.

No.

I'm hungry, Tommy.

Are you hungry?

Let's go get something to eat, okay?

Thank you very much.

He seems like a good person.

Yeah, pretty much.

- They want you to sing
that song, “revolution...

You know, the Beatles' song?

The slow version, the in-and-out one.

- Oh, "revolution".

What else do they want me to play?

- I got the play list right here.

Let's see, where's my glasses?

Okay, here we go.

“Revolution", "street fighting man",

"I won't get fooled again",

"cell block number nine",

“Ohio", "Eve of destruction“,
"kick out the jams".

You could do all those.

- No, no, no, sweetheart.

Sounds like a lot of songs.

- Look, son, you blew it before.

This is your big chance.

I'm trying to get your
career back on track.

There's people out there giving
prizes to people like you.

- Prizes?

Yeah, people are impressed

by people who win things, don't you know?

- Ain't that the truth?

- Look, son, I'm trying
to be on your side.

Just let me.

- You've got to be born
on my side, sweetheart.

- Oh, behold, the dreamer cometh.

What's going on, dreamer?

- Well, there's some guy
out there snoopin' around.

- He looking for me, what's he look like?

- What's he look like?

Well, he's got a fu manchu goatee.

He's with some weird half-breed chick.

Looks like a leech, a bleeder,

some kind of two-faced monster, a spy.

- Well, that's a good attitude.

You can tell all that just
by looking at somebody?

- Yeah, well, a guy
does all kinds of things

to give himself away.

He said he was with the press.

He probably would have had him shot.

Sherman would have hung him.

- Well, maybe we should talk to him.

We could use some publicity.

Who does he want to talk to?

- He wants to talk to Jack.
- Well, maybe you ought to

talk to him, Jack.

Exposure can't hurt.

- Well, if you ask me,
his pen's sweating blood.

- Well, nobody's asking you.

Look, Jack, I'm doing my best.

I'm trying my hardest.

I'm only human.

- I know.

It ain't easy being human.

- No, sir.

Where have you been?

Well, they bumped
off another taxi driver.

Had to walk.

- What's going on out there?

- Eh, police are trying to bust
out some political prisoner,

or bust in and take some
damn child molester out

and hang him from the lamppost.

Hell, I don't know.

- What is it, Tommy, what's bugging you?

- What's bugging me?

The absurdity of a
lifetime of futile labor,

that's what's bugging me.

Condemned to some pointless task.

I'm trying to track down some guy,

ask him the meaning of life.

Look at that crowd down there.

Life is the meaning of life.

- Your problem is that
you're always looking at

the bug on your windshield.

And if you keep looking at it,

you're gonna miss the whole
scenery and have an accident.

You've got to look through
the windshield, not at it.

- What's that?

The dictatorship, it's
getting worse day by day.

And newspapers, they're just
a false map of the world.

Did you ever hear of
the aids epidemic, huh?

What if I told you it was
cooked up by some mau mau men

in Africa and they gave
it to British sailors?

What about the Vietnam war, huh?

You ever hear of that?

What if I told you it was lost
in the whorehouses of Saigon

instead of on the battlefield?

- How do you know that?

- Never reveal your sources.

- Be careful, Tommy.

The light in your brain will go out.

- Ah, I never thought I
had a brain until now.

I I'll remember you I

I when I've forgotten all the rest I

I you to me were true I

I you to me were the best I

I when there is no more,
you cut through the core I

I quicker than anyone I knew I

I when I'm all alone,
in the great unknown I

I I'll remember you I

I I'll remember you I

I at the end of the trail I

I I had so little time to fail I

I there's some people
that you don't forget I

I even though you've only
seen 'em one time or two I

I when the roses fade,
and I'm in the shade I

I I'll remember you I

I didn't I try to love you I

I didn't I, didn't I try to care I

I didn't I sleep and
didn't I weep beside you I

I when the rain was blowing in your hair I

I I'll remember you I

I when the wind blows
through the piney wood I

I it was you who cut right through I

I it was you who understood I

I through I would never
say that I did it the way I

I that you would have liked me to I

I in the end I

I my dear sweet friend I

I I'll remember you I

- Hey, Jack.

Tom.

Ffiend.

Tom friend, I'm with
the, uh, with the press.

- Oh, I know who you are,
I know who you're with.

- Great, long time, huh?

Uh, you mind if I ask you a few questions,

clear up a few things?

- Not at all, I don't mind.

Uh, ask away.

You got a smoke?

- Uh, no, no, I don't.

- What do you want to know?

- What do I want to know?

I want to know a lot of things.

- Like what?

- Well, I know you, uh,
you had a twin brother.

What ever happened to him?

- Uh, a hunting trip.

- Yeah, well, Jack, that
doesn't explain anything.

Well, he never came back.

- Wait a minute, wait a minute,

now, it won't hurt you to
answer a few questions.

- Nobody has to answer any questions.

- No, this will do us a lot of good.

Let's just keep it simple.

Just tell him what he wants to know.

- What does he want to know?
- Can we keep it short?

- Yeah, we can keep it short.

Okay, Jack.

I've got a few things here.

What about, uh, mothers
of invention, Jack, hmm?

Zappa?

Now, there's a guy, he
wouldn't take no for an answer.

He did that whole movie, uncle meat,

16 hours long, totally unedited.

He let it all hang out, didn't he?

What about you, huh?

You ever let it all hang out?

- It always has been hanging out.

- You know, that singer in
the group, uh, the Bee Gees?

Yeah, he uh, sounds a lot like,
uh gene pitney, doesn't he?

As opposed to who?

- As opposed to who?

Town without pity.

You remember that, Jack, hmm?

That place where they'd lock
you up for doing something

you haven't even thought about doing yet?

It's a, it's a pretty lonesome
world, isn't it, Jack?

Hey, this
here's supposed to be about

a charity fundraiser, right?

- Yeah.

Yeah, okay, let's wrap it up.

- What about, uh, Hendrix?

Remember, remember, uh,
remember Hendrix at Woodstock?

I'm just curious, you
weren't there, were you?

You weren't at Woodstock.

You weren't up there with Hendrix.

Why, where were you, huh?

You should have, you should
have seen Hendrix, man.

He-he was was all business.

Didn't mix business with pleasure.

Playing "the star spangled banner" through

two lousy speakers to a half
a million people in the mud?

Ooh, what a cry that was.

Cry forlorn.

Yeah, one desperate cry for freedom

up there with that screaming guitar.

Now, what was he, what
was he saying, Jack, hmm?

That "star spangled banner" trip?

Now, what was that all about, huh?

Revolution?

No, I don't think so.

You could hear tears in
every note he played,

saying, "love me.

"Love me.

"I'm not a traitor, I'm a native son."

He took that glorious anthem,
he dropped drug bombs on it.

You could hear that cry
around the world saying,

"hey, I'm an American citizen."

He was calling out to his
forefathers, yeah, the pilgrims.

Pilgrims, they didn't need any, uh,

stinking passports, did they, hmm?

Hendrix, Jack.

Yeah, he was the last man standing.

Pride and honor, right?

That's what it's all about.

But, um, no, they didn't hear him.

One sad cry of pity in
a town without pity.

Now, what about you?

What do you, what do you think about that?

That's what I want to know, huh?

Would you, would you reach
out to a drowning man?

Would you think while you were doing it

that he might pull you in?

- I think this guy is way out of line.

- Hey, hey, hey, who
wants a drink here, huh?

Anybody want a drink?

I want a drink.

- Tommy.

Tommy!

Tommy, I've lost something.

Hey, w-wait a minute!

Maybe we could still work this out?

- This, this...
- Whoa, whoa, whoa,

hey, hey, hey, we can work this out.

- I got my story.

We ain't working nothin' out.

Come on.

- That was all off the record, you know?

- Nothing's off the record.

Come on.

- Here, have a drink,
become part of the club.

Have a swizzle, become a
member in full standing.

- Thank you very much, I don't drink.

I don't drink alcohol, I don't drink.

- Oh, I get it.

You're one of them hot
corn girls, ain't you?

You got a lot of self-control.

Freedom is only for those who
practice self-control, right?

Ain't that what you're thinking, right?

There he is, go on.

Come on, he won't bite you.

It's a pleasure
to meet you, Mr. Fate.

- Who's this?

- This is Mrs. Brown, and
she's got a lovely daughter.

My daughter has
memorized all of your songs.

- Why did she do that?

Because I
made her do it, that's why.

What do you think of that, Jack?

Used to be she'd be sweating
away in some factory underage,

and now we got child labor laws.

All these kids, we took
them out of the factories,

put them in the streets, how about that?

Anyway, she wants to sing for you.

She wants to sing her little heart out.

Go ahead and let her.

Go ahead, darling.

I come gather round
people, wherever you roam I

I and admit that the waters
around you have grown I

I and accept it that soon
you'll be drenched to the bone I

I if your time to you is worth savin' I

I then you better start swimmin'
or you'll sink like a stone I

I for the times, they are a-changin' I

I come senators, congressmen I

If I know nothing else,

I know at least one thing is true:

That the sacred is in the ordinary,

the common things in life.

They tell you that everything is nonsense,

that the laws of nature are nonsense,

gravity is nonsense,
relationships don't exist,

jobs don't exist,
everything is up for grabs,

and there's no cause of anything.

That's what they'd like you to believe.

I guess you could say that
I was pushed downhill,

but my fall from grace

didn't end at the bottom of those stairs.

It went on, and it
seemed to go on forever.

Expect the worst, and you'll get it.

That's about all he ever taught me.

All of us in some way
are trying to kill time.

When it's all said and done,
time ends up killing us.

I it'll soon shake your
windows and rattle your walls I

I for the times, they are a-changin' I

I the line, it is drawn I

I the curse, it is cast I

I the slow one now will later be fast I

I as the present now will later be past I

I the order is rapidly fadin' I

I as the first one now
will later be last I

I for the times, they are a-changin' I

- Isn't she precious?

Come along, Mr. Fate has work to do.

Come along.

I lord, it's hot in here I

I the air conditioner
must be on the blink I

- get out of my chair, man.

Jesus.

All right, so...

Here are the lyrics for "jailhouse rock".

The executives are insisting
that this song be sung, okay?

- "Jailhouse rock", why
they want to hear that?

- Well, look at the lyrics, man.

Here, give it to me.

Uh, where is it?

I don't know, it's something about, uh,

a party that the, uh,

the warden's gonna throw
in the county jail.

They see it as a song of hope, you know?

Some, uh, some Some
kind of egalitarian thing.

They want to plant the seeds of hope.

- Hmm, hmm.

A lot of people try to
plant the seeds of hope.

- Yeah, but the seeds won't
grow if you plant them

on the carpet, or a hardwood floor.

You've got to put them in the earth.

- "Jailhouse rock",
Jack, what do you think?

I don't know, sweetheart.

You ever heard of cellulose?

- Cellulose?

- Yeah, cellulose.

It's in the grass.

Cows can digest it.

But you can't.

And neither can I.

- Jack, I screwed up.

I screwed up big time.

- That's one thing about you, sweetheart.

You don't do nothin' small-time.

- Shut up, I'm not talking to you.

I got a couple of guys chasing me down.

I made them some promises.

- Promises are hard to fulfill.

- Well, I had to borrow money, Jack.

I-I did a stupid thing.

I borrowed money to buy something

that's been decreasing in
value ever since I bought it.

Ain't that a bitch?

You live and learn.

- Don't you understand?

I'm trying to get clear of my mistakes.

I've got a family, Jack.

I'm not gonna be a burden on my children.

Oh, don't leave, Jack.

Look ou know I'm not some vicious erson
I y

in a position of wealth and power.

- You're like a chemist
who invents a new drug

and doesn't care about the side effects.

- I'm in over my head, Jack.

- You're nothing but a piker, man.

A-A door-to-door encyclopedia salesman.

You'd-you'd commit treason
against your own self.

- Who's talking to you?

Common sense.

The voices inside my head, that's who.

I mean, screw this
so-called concert, Jack.

These cats here, they're just
addicted to lights and sound.

Man, let's go some place where we can see

the earth and the sky.

Let's go to the south seas.

Let's go where Gauguin went
and just disappear for a while,

'cause this guy here, man,
he's like a praying mantis.

He don't kill his victims, he just...

- Hey, I don't know
which one of these voices

is coming out of your mouth,

but tell it to shut the fuck up.

Gauguin was a stockbroker.

Let me borrow the
keys to your car for a while.

- Yeah?

I shadows are fallin' I

I and I been here all day I

I it's too hot to sleep I

I and time is runnin' away I

I feel like my soul
has turned into steel I

I I've still got the scars
that the sun didn't heal I

I there's not even room
enough to be anywhere I

I it's not dark yet I

I but it's getting there I
- hey, whoa.

Don't threaten me.

Lucius, why are you hassling me?

I told you, we're in this thing too deep

to make a change like
this on such short notice.

Hey, sweetheart.

- Well, well, well, well,
it's two scavengers.

Somebody must have left some
food scraps lying around.

Your bones break easy, you know?

I your breath is sweet
and your eyes are like I

I two jewels in the sky I

I your back is straight,
your hair is smooth I

I on the pillow where you lie I

I but I don't sense affections,
no gratitude or love I

My father
controlled a lot of things,

a lot of people, but he
couldn't control my mother.

I can tell you one thing,
she never loved him either.

It wasn't a marriage, it was a masquerade.

She could love no one, not even herself,

and he loved somebody else.

My mother tried to love me,

but I think she was trying to kill me.

I don't think she
recognized me as her son.

It was like I had become
a symbol of everything

that had gone wrong in
her life, in her world.

I to the valley below I

I to the valley below I

- I wondered if you'd ever return.

I wondered if
I'd ever seen you again.

You were pretty beaten
and banged up that night.

- That was a bad night.

- You never resolved it with him, did you?

- Nothing to resolve.

- You gonna try to
straighten it out with him?

You think you can?

- Oh, it can't be straightened out.

Will never be straightened out.

Not by me, anyway.

- Then what you coming back for, Jack?

He's on his deathbed.

- I got to see him.

I'm tired of not seeing him.

I want him to see me.

- You gave it all away, didn't you?

You gave all the best of you away.

- Yeah, I did.

I gave it all to them sons of bitches,

either unwilling or unable to accept it.

- Yeah.

We all did.

You want to go see him, you better go now.

I hope it's not too late.

- Me too.

- Look, don't you forget.

A home is a refuge.

A warm place for the heart and mind.

What can I do for you?

I want to do something
for you, what can I do?

- It's been a long time, Jack.

- Yeah, it's been a while.

So much happens in such
a short time, don't it?

- Seems like only yesterday.

- Maybe to you.

- Remember when we were kids,

we used to play in the back out there?

My mother cleaned this house.

My father took care of the grounds.

Oh, we were illegal back then.

We ain't illegal anymore.

We're in charge now, Jack.

- I remember your ma.

Wonderful lady.

Used to ask permission
before she did anything.

- Yeah, before she cut
a leaf off a flower,

she'd ask permission.

- Couldn't wash away
the real dirt, though.

- No, nobody could.

I'm the man your father
always wanted you to be.

I'm the next president of this country.

- Yeah, that's something, isn't it?

You seem pretty convinced of that.

- Well, you know how it is, Jack.

When inferior people
want to revolt, they do.

When they become equal,
they want to be superior.

You're looking at the top man now, Jack.

This ain't no dog and pony show.

We're not just a couple of
macho men from the flea market.

I senor I

I let's disconnect these cables I

I overturn these tables I

I this place don't make
sense to me no more I

I can you tell me what
we're waiting for, senor I

- Sweetheart, that's it.

I'm pulling the plug, I'm
not gonna wait any longer.

- Wait a little longer.
- No.

What harm will it do

to wait a little longer?

- I'm pulling the plug.
- He'll show up.

- I know he'll show up.
- Let her pull the plug.

What the hell's the difference anyways?

- Who asked...
- What's going on?

Are you canceling the concert?

I get my exclusive, sweetheart, right?

You made promises.

I don't remember, I got amnesia.

- Hey, big promises, buddy.

Get the hell out of my face.

Hey, hey...

Hey, I got one for you.

What'd the monkey say to the
leopard at the card game?

I thought you were a cheetah.

I help me in my weakness,
I heard the drifter say I

I as they carried him from the courtroom I

I and were taking him away I

I my fate hasn't been a pleasant one I

I and my time, it isn't long I

I I still don't know what it was I

I that I've done wrong I

- oh, he's good.

He's great.

I love his songs, because they are not,

they are not precise.

They are completely
open to interpretation.

I well, the judge he cast his robe aside I

I a tear came to his eye I

I you fail to understand, he said I

I why must you even try I

- you got any idea what
that song was about?

- Yeah, it's about
trying to get to heaven.

You got to know the route
before you start out.

- No, it's not about that at all.

What strikes you about the song

is the Jekyll and Hyde quality.

The song is written from
Hyde's point of view.

That's what you like.

It's about doing evil and
trying to kill your conscience,

if you can.

It's not like those other songs of his,

the ones about faithless
women and booze and brothels

and the cruelty of society.

It's not like those.

This one's right up your alley.

It's about doing good by
manipulating the forces of evil.

It's just like you.

I this is 10 times worse I

I just then, a bolt of lightning I

I struck the courthouse out of shape I

I as everybody knelt to pray,
the drifter did escape I

Geologists in Trenton

are digging the world's deepest hole

and have reached the depth of 30 miles.

Scientists have measured
the temperatures down there.

They have lowered microphones into the pit

and heard the sounds of
millions of suffering souls.

Dr. Samosa at the
project management center

has determined that the
center of the earth is hollow.

"Hopefully," he says,
“whatever is down there

"will stay down there."

In the west, rains...

- What have I been doing,
pissing and missing the ball?

I owe you an apology.

You've been avoiding me, man.

You don't need to avoid me.

I just want to know a few things.

I want to ask you a few questions.

Who's making the money
on the concert, hmm?

You know, whose pockets is it lining?

Remember, uh, Janis joplin, huh?

The Judy garland of rock 'n' roll?

Now, she took it all the way, didn't she?

Lord, all she wanted was a Mercedes benz.

You know, what, uh, what pipe
of power you smoking from?

Come on, man, tell me,

you're supposed to have all the answers.

What makes you tick, man?

You like people to fall
on their knees, right?

And fall all over you, huh?

I don't do that, that's why
you don't like me, right?

How much they paying you
to trot around the ring?

What about, uh, the king of the
sexual revolutionaries, huh?

Hefner, the son of a
Bible-thumping baptist?

Now how does that guy
figure into this, huh?

You're supposed to have
all the answers, man.

Come on, huh?

Sexuality is, uh, more
revolutionary than any ideology,

and you know it.

What, you think good
and bad are irrelevant?

Tell me why.

Who's your true companion?

Who makes your life easier?

Can you at least answer me that?

I'm on your side, okay?

I'm gonna put your story on the cover

of the London times, man.

You need, you need the publicity.

You know that.

You been to england lately?

It ain't so English anymore.

The empire is finished.

Hey, you know, they got, uh,

the big Ben and the tower,
but it's just a theme park.

Jeez, you got your start there, man.

How does that make you feel,
that the empire is finished?

Huh, what do you think about that?

That's what I want to...

Hey, man, I'm on your side.

- It depends on your point of view.

- Hey, I don't want to be
here any more than you do.

- I doubt it.

I gonna walk down that dirt road I

I until somebody lets me ride I

I gonna walk down that dirt road I

I until somebody lets me ride I

I if I can't find my baby I

I I'm going to run away and hide I

- hello, Jack.

Do you know me?

- You look familiar.

- I was the star of the show
here, one of the biggest stars.

I was one of your father's
favorite performers once.

Everything was going great,

as long as you kept your mouth shut.

But he was doing things that
were wrong, your father.

His desire for retaliation
and revenge was too strong.

I was the only one who was in
any position to say anything.

Everybody else was too scared.

I had the show, I had a
forum, so I spoke out.

It's not what goes in the mouth,

it's what comes out that counts.

They said it was an accident.

Some even said it was a suicide.

Some people choose to
die in all kinds of ways.

Some people jump out of buildings

and slit their wrists on the way down.

Some fall on their own swords.

I opened my mouth.

Do you remember?

My name is Oscar Vogel.

- Oscar Vogel.

Well, I've got to get back to the stage.

- The stage.

Ah, yes.

The stage.

The whole world's a stage.

- What's the matter, huh?

Come on, we're behind schedule.

- We've got a problem here.

Too much electrical load.

The voltage at the output terminals,

they're undergoing a decrease.

- So, can we do this?

Can we start on time?

- We're all over that.

- We're gonna, yeah.
- Yeah.

We're all over it.

- 30 seconds.
- All right.

We're going in 30.

Tell him to, George, pull back.

Five.

- And three.
- One, two, three.

- One again, come on.
- I don't know about that.

- The president is dead.

I I'm beginning to hear voices I

I there's no one around I

I I'm all used up I

I and the fields have turned brown I

I I went to church on Sunday I

I and she passed by I

I my love for her I

I is taking such a long time to die I

I but I'm waist-deep I

I in the mist I

I it's almost like I don't even exist I

- the president was a
brave and strong man.

His principles and beliefs never wavered.

And which we must continue
to strictly adhere to

and carry out in accordance
with his last wishes.

I and the walls of pride I

I they're high and they're wide I

- at the moment, we are
giving people a new identity

and erasing the collective memory.

We are rewriting the history books.

Nothing was more
important to our president

than bringing peace to
this war-torn country.

Peace, a lasting peace,

that can only be achieved
through strength.

So in my first act as the new president,

as the leader of this new
government, of this new regime,

we will begin immediately to deploy troops

in the southern region.

We will resume bombing in the jungle.

There will be no more violence
from the organized media.

Real, actual violence

will take the place of
manufactured violence.

We will empty the prisons,

and we will build the football stadiums.

And the evildoers from the prisons

will be trampled by wild elephants,

mauled by uncaged bears,

and pecked to death by screaming eagles.

Furthermore,

we will alert the rebel leaders

that the negotiation's finished.

There will be no more
compromises, no more concessions,

just complete and utter
unequivocal surrender.

We have learned a valuable lesson:

Great nations do not fight small wars.

There will be no more
stupidity, no more mistakes.

It's a new day.

God help you all.

I I'm 20 miles out of
town in cold irons bound I

I 20 miles out of town
in cold iron bound I

We are living in a tawdry

and vulgar age.

What do you think?

- Yes, we are.

You know,
when the Roman empire fell,

you know what Caesar and the
rest of them romans were doing

when the barbarians was at the gate?

- What?

They were
shooting craps and gambling.

- Oh.

Gambling is a waste of time and energy.

- Yeah, you know, if you build a casino,

you've got build it like a fortress

in case there's a police raid.

- I suppose.

- Can I offer you a drink?

- You want to be sociable?
- No.

I don't drink, I don't
drink, I don't drink.

- Just one little sip of nectar?

- I don't drink, I told
you before I don't drink.

- Come on, you're not on duty.

- I said no.

- Come on, you can get
to the truth of things.

Discover the riches of
a wise and good life.

- Well, I stay as I am.

- Don't you want to live forever?

Put a little liquor in your blood.

- Come on.
- No, no!

- She don't want a drink.

- Oh, look who it is!

The sultan of sleaze!

The thing that came from outer space!

Where'd you come from, the world's fair?

We're having a conversation here!

Your day's over,
there's no more conversation.

- Look, son, I was selling porno books

out of the trunk of my
car before you were born.

Don't tell me I've had my day.

You're the scum of all scum.

You never should have been
born, you pickled punk!

- Maybe it is your day.

- Tommy, let's go home.

It's not too late, let's go.

- No.

Yeah, it's always been too late.

Look, I won the jackpot.

The booby prize, huh?

A dead dog!

- He's done nothing to you.

- You're gonna try to protect him?

You're gonna try to kill me?

That sack of shit?

I wouldn't spit on him, him
and his monkey lying tongue.

He's screwing you over like...

Once when I was passing a cathedral,

a white dove came flying by

and dropped a twig it was
carrying in its beak at my feet.

- This guy's gone.

Somebody better call the meat wagon.

You better get out
of here. Go out the back way.

- You coming too?

No, I'm not.

I'll see you later.

- Oh, man, I had no idea
it'd come down like this.

- How could you?

- All right, anybody see anything?

Anybody?

- Yeah.

I saw it, I saw it all.

I was right there.

He did it.

- What?
- Shut up.

- He did it.

I was right there, I saw it all.

He's responsible.

I mean, it might have been a random act,

but I'll tell you what.

You could put his whole life on trial.

- For everything in
life you do, sweetheart,

there's a price.

You pay it up front, in the beginning,

or you pay it at the back end.

- Oh, yeah.

I was always the singer,

and maybe no more than that.

Sometimes it's not enough to
know the meaning of things.

Sometimes we have to know what
things don't mean as well,

like what does it mean to not know

what the person you love is capable of?

Things fall apart,
especially all the neat order

of rules and laws.

The way we look at the world
is the way we really are.

See it from a fair garden,
everything looks cheerful.

Climb to a higher plateau,

and you'll see plunder and murder.

Truth and beauty are in
the eye of the beholder.

I stopped trying to figure
everything out a long time ago.

I how many roads must a man walk down I

I before you call him a man I

I how many seas must a white dove sail I

I before she sleeps, sleeps in the sand I

I and how many times must
the cannonballs fly I

I before they're forever banned I

I the answer, my friend I

I is blowin' in the wind I

I the answer is blowin' in the wind I

I how many years must a mountain exist I

I before it is washed, washed to the sea I

I how many years must some people exist I

I before they're allowed,
allowed to be free I

I how many times must
a man turn his head I

I and pretend that he just doesn't see I

I the answer, my friend I

I is blowin' in the wind I

I the answer is blowin' in the wind I

I how many times must a man look up I

I before he can see the sky I

I how many ears must one man have I

I before he can hear, hear people cry I

I how many deaths will it take I

I 'til he knows too
many people have died I

I the answer, my friend I

I is blowin' in the wind I

I the answer is blowin' in the wind I

I the answer, my friend I

I is blowin' in the wind I

I the answer is blowin' in the wind I