That's the second time. - What is?
Where were you two minutes ago? - Here?
You smashed the flying machine again. - Nope.
Because I don't care. - Liar! - I was here. - Prove it!
How? You see me playing, right?
To my turtles. - Why's your hair wet? - Because I just took a bath.
You like these turtles? - Yeah. - If you want these bastards to live,
stay away from that flying machine. - I'm scared. - Are you scared?
I'm scared. - Are you scared?
D'you think it'll fly? - I'm more than sure.
Let's do it then! I can't wait any longer.
I'm flying!
Sometimes you have to crash into a tree to know what to do,
and realize the secret of anything is meaningless.
My English teacher talked about this Russian guy,
who said that if you see a gun in the first half of a book,
you can be sure it'll go off in the second half.
Somebody was going to use that gun. The minute I saw the revolver
in the barn, I started getting nervous, because
I realized it was the revolver from my dream.
Never did I think I'd be an Eskimo in the desert, knowing
I had to kill something to put it out of its misery.
Suddenly, it was all clear to me, like wiping the window in the rain.
I was afraid if I didn't do anything, at any moment something would blow up,
possibly me.
So I decided to do it, just to keep from killing myself.
The only problem was that they were both so miserable,
I didn't know which one to shoot...
I've been waiting for you. - What?
Are you gonna use it?
Don't talk to me. - Do it!
What are you afraid of, Axel?
Nothing.
Do it!
Do it, Axel, do it! - Shut up!
What are you afraid of, Axel? - Nothing.
Do it! - Shut up!
Do it! - Please shut up, Grace. - Do it! Do it! - Shut up!
If you're not going to shoot me, sit down on the bed.
You didn't come to shoot me. You came to make my mother happy. - Don't talk!
Axel. - Turn around! - You know what, Axel?
I had a friend just like you.
When we were little, we would rollerskate on my huge roof,
no people,
and I each time I would get closer to the edge,
and he was standing behind me,
and wouldn't let me go over.
Okay.
It's okay.
I have a game for you.
Okay. - Okay.
Old game, strict rules.
It's your turn. - No.
You don't say no to this game.
Okay, I'll go.
Grace... please!
Don't. - It's a game, Axel.
Stop! Don't do it!
My mother's sleeping.
Okay, Axel, Look. Look at me! - Fuck you!
No!
Here. Take it.
I don't want it.
What are you, afraid? - No. I just don't feel like dying.
That's not fair. - Not fair?
You came in to kill me,
and we're playing a game, and you're breaking the rules!
Axel, what are you, this frightened little boy?
You afraid of everything?
Axel? You're just afraid, huh?
You're just a little boy, you're so scared.
Take the gun!
Take it!
Go!
No!
No, Axel!
You can't do that! That's breaking the rules!
Lt'll be okay.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen!
Our next act, Mr. Paul...
Ledger!
Leger. Paul Leger. - Paul Leger!
My n... Hello. My name is Paul Leger.
You may be wondering what Leger means.
You may be wondering what kind of name it is. Italian?
Swedish?
Well, actually, it's French, and it literally means,
"Born to act." And that's what I'm going to do
this evening. Alfred Hitchcock style,
performing from the classic, "North by Northwest."
The famous scene in which Carey Grant is...
being chased by a crop-dusting plane.
Fuck!
Shit!
Thank you very much, Paul Leger! - I'm not done!
I'm not done!
Thank you!
A one? One? I was brilliant! Can't you see brilliance?
A one! I should have got a ten!
A ten! A one! A one! On amateur night?
Axel, I really have to talk to you. - Hi, Millie. Sit down.
A one? What do you know about art? - Can we go over there? - Sure.
Elaine. This is Elaine. This is Millie. - Hello.
Leo's fiancée.
This is Grace. Grace, this is Millie.
Okay...
Where is he, Millie? Leo!
He's over here. He's locked himself in the bedroom.
Leo, can I come in? - Open the door, Leo!
Open up! - Go away!
Let's go inside. - Alright. One... two... three!
Millie! Get an ambulance!
You okay?
Shouldn't I say something? - To who? - Your parents?
They're dead, Leo.
I know that, but should I say something or not?
Don't talk like that. You'll be fine. - I know, I'm gonna be fine.
Promise you'll take care of Millie. - Don't say that!
Don't talk, just promise.
Alright, I promise.
Good, now that that's taken care of, I want you to...
buy yourself a few nice suits and go back to New York.
I want to stay with you. I want to sell cars.
I don't want you to sell cars! You'll grow up soon enough!
I am grown up, Leo.
I love you.
I'm okay, I'm just...
just stacking cars.
I need you to help me.
It's too late.
They're not driving the big models anymore.
Leo, we can work in the showroom, we can sell cars together,
you and me.
Too late, Axel, the dream's over. - I've been practicing my "Hellos."
You want to hear my "Hellos"?
I got to start climbing.
It's a long way, Axel.
It's a long way to the moon.
You never came back.
There was a lot of legal stuff to take care of. I'm sorry.
So not even a phone call?
I know, Elaine. I just got caught up in what was going on.
I'm really sorry. I wanted to call a thousand times.
I'm really sorry.
So you just decided to pop over for a quick cup of coffee?
You can just waltz over here? - Please, it's your birthday tomorrow.
What do you care? - My uncle died. I'm sorry I didn't come sooner,
I had to take care of the funeral. - There's no sympathy here!
Is that okay with you?
Please, let's celebrate your birthday.
What do you care?
You know what you should do? Turn around and go back.
Just go back where you came from, OK?
How's Millie, huh?
Where are you going? - What did you just say? I should go.
Are you going? Are you just going to go now? How long are you going for?
Are you going forever? - Do you want me to stay or go?
I want you to go! - Fine! - I want you!
I want you to come!
So what do you want to do? You want to go or stay?
I want to stay.
I don't think you need this right now.
She'll be okay. She just gets like this.
Alright, but I'm not staying in there tonight, okay?
It's going to be okay...
Nothing is going to be OK!
Come on!
Elaine, wait! I brought you a present.
I don't want it! - You don't even know what it is!
Elaine, you don't know what it is.
Come on, Elaine, please. Take it.
I don't want it. - It's a present!
Thank you for the wad of paper. - It's two tickets for Shishmaref.
It's right on the Bering Sea.
Train tickets? - Yeah. - You expect me me to go all the way to Alaska
by train? - You said you didn't want to fly again... - No, I didn't!
Yes, you did! - No, I didn't! - Yes, you did! - No, I didn't!
I want to fly there. - Okay.
I'm gonna cancel the train tickets and make a plane reservation, okay?
Alright. - Stop!
What? - You think I'm old, don't you?
No! - Yes, you do. - Don't tell me what I think.
That's why the train, you're ashamed! - No, I'm not! I'm going to
trade these tickets in. - I don't mind. You're right.
I'm old, you're young. It's disgusting!
Just stop it! - Can't you find someone your own age?
Why me? - I want to be with you! - I don't need your pity!
It's not pity, Elaine. I'm trying to give you love. - Love!
What do you know about love? - What do you know? - You're a child!
What you need is someone sweet...
and beautiful...
and young! - Like who?
Like Millie.
She's like Switzerland, beautiful but dumb. - Listen.
She was my uncle's fiancée. I don't want her. I want you!
This is crazy! - Ronny used to say that, and Grace still says it,
"Take your medication, Mother, or you'll be crazy."
But he hurt her, and I killed him,
and I'm not crazy! - And I'm not your husband!
Do you understand? You are fucking crazy! - Get out!
I'm not damn leaving! - Get out of my house!
You asked me to stay! - I did not! I want you to go!
Go! - I'm fucking tired of this game. What do you want?
- I want you to understand me!
You know something? - What? - Paul was right.
Paul was right? - Paul was right.
Paul was right?
You listen to him? What did he say?
Nothing. - What?
Not a fucking thing! - I'm going to find out... who I am.
You're going nowhere! Where are you gonna go?
Let me go! - Elaine, come on, you're not crazy.
Show me you're not crazy! - Let me go!
I don't think you're old. I think you're beautiful. Don't say it again.
Let me go!
Stop!
Elaine! - Get out of my life! - Put it down!
Put it down! - Get out of my house!
That's enough! - No!
That's enough!
I can't believe she did it!
I'm going to fly!
You fucked my wife?
Oh, fuck!
Come on!
Listen! That is Mexico! This is America.
We speak English. - Yes. - Look at his face!
What do you mean?
Shit!
Paul, will you quit it? - I'm having a nightmare!
You're distracting her. She's trying to fly the plane.
Please! - This isn't happening!
I hate this film!
Life is beautiful.
I think what you did is beautiful.
Thanks.
I'm sorry about your uncle.
Yeah, me too.
Where d'you think he is right now?
Right now?
He's probably on the moon, driving a golden Cadillac.
Life is beautiful.
Grace? - Yeah.
D'you think it would be really bad if...
I kissed you? - No.
No?
You want to hear it?
I'm sorry. - Are you going to listen? - Yes. - Alright.
Elaine is like a blueberry pie. The pie is good, but it's very messy.
She's a kind of trick. - Oh my gosh! - Let's say she's a blueberry pie.
She looks good. She smells good.
Probably even tastes good, but there's one problem:
When you take a bite, you've got pins poking you in the mouth.
Choking you in the mouth. You understand what I'm telling you?
Good boy. Do you understand?
Do you understand? - Yeah. - Okay.
These philosophies, with pies and bananas
and Q-tips and...
I'm an artist.
You're a bullshit artist. - Bullshit artist, artist, whatever.
Art is art. - Axel, it's my birthday. Dance?
Run! Beautiful.
Sure.
I was right. - What time is the train for Alaska?
You mean the plane? - No, the train.
We're flying. Didn't you fly all day?
You can't take that all the way to Alaska, it's too cold.
I don't want to fly there. - I already changed the reservations.
We have to take the train. It's safer.
So you want me to switch the plane reservations
into train reservations? - Yes. - Okay.
It's time.
37, 38, 39, 40...
Stairs, stairs, stairs...
Wall... Axel?
Axel, here, here.
I'm sorry.
Don't touch me. Watch my face.
Axel? - Watch my face. Wait.
Wait.
Stairs! - Stairs!
Axel! - Stairs!
Tree!
Tree and table!
I can't see nothing. Axel!
I can't see!
Wait for me!
I found it!
What? - Here!
She found it! - Here! - She found it! - Wait for me!
I found it!
Come on, I found it!
Paul! - Axel! I can't see nothing!
Axel? - Where are you?
Here? Okay everybody?
It's raining!
Come on, it's raining.
It's raining.
It's fucking raining!
Mom! Mother! - Yes!
I'm coming over, mom!
Here we go! Happy Birthday! - I love you. - I love you!
Happy Birthday! - I love you.
I'm going in!
Go play.
Did I tell you about when Axel treated me for my 21st birthday dinner?
My good pal? - No. - Can I tell her the story?
Or would you like to? - Go ahead. - Anyway, he decided
he was going to take me out for dinner and pay for it himself.
He'd saved up some money. We go to this restaurant.
This place we used to go with Leo. We drove up there together...
and we had this great big meal.
I knew it would be expensive, but he said, "The sky's the limit."
After dinner I went to the bathroom, and when I come out,
I see him standing by the door, and he looks unusually nervous.
And the waiter is standing by our table, flapping the check,
kind of pointing at the check. And I look at Axel... - You coming?
I go up to him, "What's going on? Did you pay?"
Will you help me wrap the presents?
"You said you were paying." He made me bring no money.
I say, "Whaddya mean you have no money, Axel?"
Next thing I know, we're being chased by our waiter,
who was fifty, but, like, mean...
Hi! - Hi!
What's that?
No!
Very nice!
I want you to have something.
For me? - Uh huh.
It's beautiful. - I want you to have the world.
Thank you.
I was thinking about what you said. - What did I say?
That I was supposed to be with you. - Hand me that tape?
Yeah.
When I first met her I felt something,
kind of strong.
I didn't know what it was.
I didn't know what to call it.
Now everything's turned around, and she's like...
She's like this cloud
that I can see through, and on the other side I see you.
And I feel something very strong.
I think I know what to call it.
That make any sense?
Put your finger here?
Yup. What do you think?
About what? - About us, kind of...
belonging together.
Will Paul like this lamp?
He'll love it. What do you think?
I think 2 wrongs don't make a right.
Meaning what? - Meaning us. Two wrongs.
What if we're two rights, and everybody else is wrong?
Either way, we're going to be screwed. - But screwed together.
I wish I could take you with me. - Let's go right now! No trains,
no planes, no fucking doors. We'll go right out the window!
I have to take care of some business.
The house? - Yes.
Last night I dreamt I'm in the desert, and my house is tied around my neck,
and my body's breaking under its weight, and it's engulfed in flames.
The flames are climbing the rope, and
they almost reach my neck, and before they do, I wake up, and I know
that I have to get rid of this house.
I want you to promise me something. - What?
When you're done with the house, we can go away.
Come on!
I promise.
You promise? - Yeah.
I promise.
Good.
It's a funny story.
I have a lot of funny stories.
Here they are!
Is this is for me? You bought this for me? Very nice.
Here.
Thank you.
You open yours first.
Look what I got from her.
I feel like a clam, right?
I've always wanted to be a big sea turtle. They're always happy.
How do you know that it's happy? - Because they're always smiling.
Turtles don't smile. - They do. - They don't.
I don't think turtles smile. - They do, and they live forever.
Who wants to live forever? I'd like to die when I'm 35.
You want to die when you're 35? - Yes. - How?
How? I'd take off all my clothes and get into a bathtub of ice-cold vodka.
I'd have the TV in the room, watching "North by Northwest,"
when the airplane scene comes, I'd pull the TV into the tub.
I hate that film!
I'd like to die as a little girl.
I'd go up on the roof and jump off, and I'd be flying.
I'd look down and see all the people, but instead of falling, I'd just fly,
higher and higher.
What did I get?
What is this thing? - Lava lamp. - Nice.
Axel, what about you? - It's very nice.
I'd like to be...
I'd like to be thrown off a cliff, and my body could smash into the rocks.
But I wouldn't want a lot of people at the funeral, looking at me.
You'd be smashed up. Why would you want them to look at you? - I don't
want to be in the box, people staring at me.
You'll wind up living forever. - No.
Grace, what about you?
Me? I'm not gong to die.
I'm going to live forever, until one day I'll wake up and I'll be a turtle.
Turtle-Grace!
Sing it!
Night. - Good night.
I love you.
Good night. - Why "Good night"? We just got by the fire.
We're having a good time. - I have to get up and do things.
Stay a little while. - Come on.
Come on! - Okay, I'll see you. "Good bye."
Come on, Grace!
Is something wrong? Did I say something?
Come on!
Axel, I'm tired too. - In the middle of the song!
Are you coming, Axel? - Yup. Good night.
Just leave me in the middle of a song! I had a great moment!
Go up and sleep, leaving me soaking wet here!
Good night, Paul. - Night, Elaine. Wasn't that a funny story I said?
What do you know about funny? Throw your dinner on the floor.
No one wants to cut the birthday cake. Well, I'll cut the cake, thank you.
Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to Paul!
That's me! Paul!
Looks like she left about 45 candles off the cake.
Alright! Good! Enough, guys. Enough!
Stop! Come on.
I've got to work. Time is money. Have a drink.
You need a drink.
Go home, suffer with your families. Suffer like animals!
Why do I have to talk to four fake artists? That's my day!
So good!
"The Godfather"!
...big deal, and there was something in it for me if I could help him out.
He said you were being tough on the negotiations,
but if they could get a little help and close the deal fast,
it'd be good for the family. - Do you believe that?
Do you believe that? - He said there was something in it for me!
On my own! - I've always taken care of you.
Taken care of me?
You're my kid brother! You take care of me?
You ever think about that? You ever once think about that?
Send Freddo off to do this!
Let Freddo take care of... ...some Mickey Mouse night club.
Send Freddo to pick up somebody at the airport!
I'm your older brother, and I was stepped over! - Pop wanted it.
It ain't the way I wanted it!
I can handle things, I'm smart!
Not like everybody says, I'm smart and I want respect!
Tell me about the investigation.
The Senate lawyer,
he belongs to Wroth.
Freddo,
you're nothing to me now,
not a brother, not a friend.
I don't want to know you, or what you do.
I don't want to see you in hotels. I don't want you near my house.
When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance,
so I won't be there.
Understand?
Mikey!
I don't want anything happenin' to ya, not while our mother is alive.
Grace!
Go home!
Grace! No! Grace!
You promised!
For the last time, I heard a voice that wasn't my mother's,
whispering, "Good morning, Columbus."
It didn't bother me. Then the voice became lower and turned into a wind
that sent the peaceful smell of cheap cologne.
And I realized, like Columbus, I had to live in a world of cheap cologne,
and I wasn't sure any discovery in America was possible anymore.
Smoothing roads and counting fish wasn't science,
but somehow it prepared me for the ocean...
I don't know why, but my father's words jumped back into my head,
that work was like a hat on your head,
and even if you didn't have any pants, you shouldn't be ashamed of your ass,
because you had a hat.
And even though my uncle Leo worked for everything he got,
I'm not sure he got what he needed.
Elaine and Grace were really one person,
too big for one body, no matter how much they loved or hated each other.
After the storm, I couldn't say life was beautiful,
but all I kept hoping for was the Eskimo boy in my dream
to run out of one of these doors and hug me.
Though I no longer felt like a fish, and realized I knew nothing,
I was happy to be alive...
What a wonderful fish. - What a wonderful fish!
Yes, wonderful.
We have to catch it today. We will catch it today.
Do the eyes start on either side of the head?
Yes, it's a very strange fish.
When it becomes an adult, one eye moves across, joins the other.
Why do they do that? - Maybe it's like a...
A badge of maturity. They passed through the nightmare. - Nightmare?
The nightmare that separates children from adults.
Come. - Quickly.
We got it! We got it!
We got it! Slowly.
Slowly!
Don't move! Don't move!
Look, its color changes to match the ocean floor. - Camouflage.
If one Arrowtooth Halibut sinks on top of the head of another,
the bottom one doesn't make a fuss, but waits until the other one moves.
I wouldn't like anyone to sit on my head. - You are still young.
One eye begins to move to the other side.
Then it's better to have both eyes on the same side? - No. Different.
What do you lose?
Your other side. You lose something, but you also gain something.
Subtitles Jeffrey McGuire
Film und Video Untertitelung Gerhard Lehmann AG