Vietnam War vet Costner must deal with a war of a different
sort between his son and their friends,
and a rival group of children. He also must deal with his own personal and
employment problems that have resulted from his Vietnam experiences. In this
scene Costners Film daughter in class witnesses how her black friend, Evaldine,
gets harassed by her teacher and the responds by telling her off right good. In
her monologue the thirteen year old girl mentions that she was once paid by her
uncle, for allowing him to spank her naked ass.
This is the dialogue:
[Elvadine was falsely
accused of interrupting the teacher]
Elvadine: Alright, I'll tell you. I was sayin'
"Elvadine, what's YOU gots to write about? Been in the sixth grade your
whole good-for-nuthin' life. Ain't GOT no daddy. Never goes anywhere but where
your feets take you. Onliest money that ever belong to you in the whole world
was twenty dollars you gots yourself in a birthday card, from your uncle last
year." But it really wasn't for my birthday. Really, it was for layin'
over his lap and letting him spank me with my underpants down. And now here you
come along, shovin' me in the back of the room, where I can't even see too
good, which means I'm prob'ly not gonna graduate this summer neither, Just 'cuz
you read how some white man say Life be like a bowlful o' cherries, I've gotsta
come up with some big hit sayin' Well, fine. I'll just write down how happy I'm
gonna be to get 20 more dollars on my birthday. Never mind what he's got planned
for me THIS year. And I'm gonna write, how maybe the new man my momma been
seein' might stop drinkin', and treat me nice, and maybe he's gonna adopt me,
and take us off th e welfare. And at the end, I'm gonna be sure put:
[sarcastically]
Elvadine: 'Life Sure is a bowl full of Cherries.'
[back to normal]
Elvadine: But to tell you the truth, Miss
Strapford, I think you, and that book, and this whole class, be a bowl full of
shit!
reported and sent to me by Mark Shark
talker:
LaToya Chisholm
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