Happy birthday to you.
..
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday sweet Addy.
:
Happy birthday to you. Oh.
You think
you know better than the city,
the country, the state
and the federal government.
Will.
Will this affect his college
opportunities?
Be right there, Bob.
Hey, Bob.
Hey, son.
Look at you.
You really going to do it, aren't you?
You are going to graduate college.
Just happened on this year.
A business associate.
Question.
Why the hell are you studying?
Hamlet?
Oh, make the rules, Bob.
They told me I have to take it.
You know, it doesn't matter.
I am so, so proud of you.
Thanks, dad. I know this.
I don't get them.
Don't.
You're supposed to be
a business associate.
And they got you studying friggin hamlet.
I don't make the rules on time.
I just said I have to.
It's like one of
those requirements, I guess.
I'm just,
I'm really proud of you.
I know that.
And here's the moment.
The moment we've all been waiting for.
I thought I had you.
It's, fatherly wisdom.
All right.
I knew it was coming. Advice?
This is serious now.
I've got some details.
We want to commend
something that's important to us.
And that is power.
Be able to control the world.
Be able to take care of our family.
Be able to stand up.
How do you do that?
You get stronger.
Do you get more fierce?
That's the way you lose.
You know, we're real. Power resides
in passivity.
The ability to do nothing.
But we don't know ourselves,
so we have power.
You told me that.
How do you learn?
You're in a conversation
with somebody, right?
You're not your friend,
and they're
speaking to you because they're trying
to persuade you in some way, right?
Yeah.
They're trying to get you
to think about it in their terms.
Right.
Just listen.
You know, what you're going to hear
is that they're going to say their points.
They're going to present their persuasions
and they're going to go boom
boom boom boom.
And you know what.
That's all they got.
And you know how you know it.
And they're going to come back
to the beginning.
You're going to rephrase it
with the same damn thing.
Let them talk selves out.
Now you know what they know.
Let them expose themselves.
Exactly.
It's hard to do keeping your mouth shut.
It's hard to do.
But if you can't keep your mouth
shut and they f*ck with you,
k*ll them
just like that.
It's like that. You go.
Come on.
I think that's the one time I get.
Welcome, everybody, to English 101.
We're going to try
to make this worth your while.
Even though many of you are required
to be here.
But you're not English majors.
It makes one wonder where to start.
You talked about your dad last night.
My dad was Scandinavian literature.
You know, when your parents were.
If it's not together,
the question becomes what?
Why is Western literature?
I don't know. Judaism.
Not everything is a sign.
So Atlantis is 10,000 B.C., approximately.
Literature does not exist yet.
What you have is philosophers.
Know I can't write on the board.
I'm out of board space.
So just put this down in your notes,
because you have
the next 80 years of your life
to try to understand what I'm saying.
Understand this.
So you have an education in literature.
You have philosophers, philosophers,
philosophers, philosophers,
lovers of wisdom.
Philo is love.
Sophia's wisdom.
They are wisdom lovers.
That's what philosophers are
before literature. You have philosophers.
Aristotle talks about how.
Literature is philosophy
plus entertainment.
You want to have philosophy
and entertainment together.
Because if it's just philosophy,
it's too dry for people
and entertainment in and of itself.
Has no
philosophical value
and has no moral value.
It doesn't edify and improve persons.
Indeed, pure entertainment
is the definition of p*rn*graphy.
Oh, I don't know.
What do you think?
Don't give me that look.
You know,
I don't care if this embarrasses you.
I have been through so many boyfriends,
I can't even keep count at this point.
How's this thing even go?
Oh. Oh.
You go.
I have to chauffeur you around.
Well, it's not my fault
you're still working on your license.
At least I graduated, Gertrude.
I graduated,
I got my GED. I've been taught.
Yeah, because dad's principal
of a private school.
You're only my stepdaughter. Don't forget.
Why don't you live with him?
If I'm such a monster?
Princess.
Princess Anne, you're an evil queen.
If I'm so evil,
why do you live with me anyway?
Oh that's right,
because your daddy's a n*zi.
Not surprised. You're not far behind.
Just watch my car.
You mean dad's car?
That's his fault
for not getting a pre-nup.
I think I'm here for a pickup.
All right.
Thanks, ma'am.
We will.
You were.
Oh, I'll be damned.
Do you know me?
Have we dated?
Let's just say
a woman like you.
Should be careful.
Oh. You're not so bad yourself.
Just as beautiful as I remember.
Don't
you know the radiation on those things
is going to k*ll you someday?
Hold that thought quicker in your daddy.
Lift.
Let's go. Why?
So. You work there?
They got food.
We ain't got food.
Why don't you bring home some food?
You know, just because I work there.
It's just.
That's just business.
So all those years in college,
this is what you've learned?
I mean, it's it's game theory.
It's the circle jerk, son.
It's you hard, dad.
So I,
I saw my teacher today at the restaurant.
Oh, that,
an important one that you're learning
hamlet
from.
My grade school teacher.
Goody goody came into your store.
I took care of it. All right.
You took care of it.
How in the world did you take care of it?
I loved her.
Now, after.
I loved her.
And you left her
there. You didn't?
No, you did not.
All in a row.
Nice.
This guy. Everybody hold your books up.
If you brought them today.
All right.
This book is the number one
piece of Western literature ever.
It's a big deal.
This is the book that replaces Sophocles
Oedipus Rex.
Now, if you get into Christianity,
obviously the
the Gospels will be more important.
And if you get into, constitutionalism,
obviously
the Constitution and the Bill of rights
will be more important.
But those nonfiction texts aside,
this is the book that captures
the Western philosophy.
And the reason that this replaces
Oedipus Rex
is because it has everything
Sophocles doing, plus Christianity.
Shakespeare is Sophocles
plus Christianity.
That's why he's number one.
Okay.
As we move into
a new five year, 500 year cycle,
obviously an imperial one
and international one, we can try to deny
we can try to dismiss
Shakespeare as one more dead white man.
We've heard it a thousand times. That's,
That's fine,
except just know that when the empire,
when the waters of the Empire, recede
and we're back in a republic in the year
2500, this is exactly where
we're going to be again.
So I would just study this rock right
here.
Shakespeare.
On the board, I have Shakespeare's
other major tragedies.
Hamlet's number one,
Macbeth, is considered
the second most famous tragedy in schools.
Like a prison.
The world's one
true.
And this mental is one of the worst.
Those are a lie to myself.
Would be his tragedies and mean
they tend to use more antisemitic works.
I know that's painful subject
in an imperial
and international age,
but that's just the way it is.
So let's talk
about what Shakespeare has to offer,
us in our
lives, that's more important than money.
That gives us wisdom
as the ancient Greeks want us to have.
This one you have is, which addition is.
This horse was the same. He.
Hi. Yes.
I'd like to place an order for delivery.
A.D., I got a delivery for you.
Wonder, where is Persephone?
Wrong address is on the back, man.
You know the routine.
I had no problem.
No graduation.
All because I know that's life.
That you going?
Hey, Princess
Leia, come do my back.
All over.
Please.
Don't think
he won't be just like me someday.
Well, if I can make it.
Is that.
Oh, I got it.
I do my top. Do you? My top.
But you. So, I know I'm going.
Come on. I'm going.
Oh my gosh.
Goodness.
Oh, yeah. Quicker.
Got it.
A special delivery for me.
Just can't get rid of me,
That's 6161 a tip, don't you
follow me.
I don't need to tip that bad.
There is a tip I want to give to you,
daddy.
Right, Alison?
You said 69, right?
No, I'm just kidding.
Madison.
You know what?
Keep the change.
Inflation's b*tch.
It's a nice place.
You got yourself. Yeah.
You don't want to know
what I had to do for it,
but a queen should have her castle right?
What about you?
Me? What?
Where do you live?
Just stop and listen.
I'm divorced.
It's okay.
Do you recognize me?
Of course I recognize you.
No, not that I have.
What is it? My.
It's my face, what I want.
I get punchline boxing like,
does it make me look older?
What are you talking about?
I was your student.
No, that is not plausible.
You were my teacher. I'm
no teacher, Eddie.
I mean, I tried it once,
but then started in my boss.
Yeah, which husband was that?
What was it before or after you tried?
My dad to.
Your dad? What do you remember?
I lived too much life
to remember everything.
Okay?
We'll remember you
even if you don't remember us. We.
Me and my dad.
What is the racket, Gertrude Lee?
Addie. Addie. Leah.
My daughter.
You said daughter.
Well, step daughter.
Daughter.
Well, I think of her like a sister.
What do you do now, Gertrude?
Don't call me Gertrude.
Call me Mom or Gertie.
Gertrude, make me sound so old.
You're old enough to be his mother.
That does not make him
young enough to be my son.
I did not have him in middle school.
Do you think anything over 27 is old?
Well, I'm a teen,
so anything past 30 is pretty much death.
Oh, I see, because he's between our age.
Suddenly you think he's yours is what?
That is not the point.
The point is that you are shameless
and you are just
what you have your youth.
What is an age?
Just r*cist with age.
Oh, so you're making up words now?
I'll have you know it is the mileage,
not the wear.
What does that phrase even mean?
What does it even matter?
I thought you were g*y.
I just haven't met the right guy.
Okay? God, don't embarrass me.
Oh, you always run.
Hey. You're not.
I can't believe what happened the day upon
what happened.
This girl, he hit on me.
She hit on you?
She called for a special delivery.
Oh, she did another one.
Sure took care of that.
You're sick. Oh.
So, she fell in love with you?
That woman can't love.
She is in love with one thing.
And it's herself.
There's a problem.
Actually, I really like her daughter.
Well.
What are.
Maybe.
Maybe
there's something we can do with that.
Are you f*cking serious?
How much?
Putting
no more revenge than stop with this sh*t.
Okay.
I'm. Hi.
Hey. You have another order?
I just came to say sorry.
Sorry for.
You came from your side of the town.
Just for that? Yes. I took the bus.
No amplifiers.
My thank.
You're in a band.
I'm in a band there.
Have been able to call up my pink
phone from the movie Existenz.
The Cronenberg film.
You know it, I know it.
I was so bad at school, I turned to film.
It's like literature for the illiterates.
I wouldn't say that. You seem smart to me.
I mean, they're school smart,
and then they're street smart.
You know?
Well,
anyone who knows Cronenberg's my friend.
I hope to see you there.
What's the matter of the bus?
See you on a ride, don't you?
Do you mind? Not I don't mind.
I was special delivery, George.
You know how you do.
Have fun.
You don't have to drive.
But you know, you know.
Listen, I'm working on my permit.
That's going better than I do.
Yeah. Very music.
I was hoping you'd ask.
Can I be ordered too?
Orderly.
Eddie.
What do you want, pop?
I ate already at the restaurant.
Okay.
So that's that.
That's what we're talking about here.
We're talking about food.
Don't you think
maybe some more of what
you've been talking about?
Don't you think
maybe we should be talking about us?
You only want to talk about
one thing that I like.
This girl.
Of course you do.
But you have a
you have decision to make.
You have a choice that you have to make.
It. It's about loyalty, son.
It's about where your heart is, what?
What you really care about.
And far as I can tell right now,
it's not about me.
Okay.
Come on.
Food's up.
You. And.
I doubt that
the earth is round you
doubt that the sun will move.
I doubt that the truth ever lies.
Don't doubt that I love you.
I'd rather stand beside the younger you.
f*ck you.
What's wrong?
You didn't like my song?
It's not that.
I don't understand
women usually home.
What do you mean?
I hope you like the show.
You don't want
to know. Make me feel better.
I don't understand what you're saying.
Call me and we'll go to a movie.
Okay?
Help me!
He's more than mad.
Go tell him, Iris,
that I have slain myself.
Say that.
My last word said was Anthony.
And say it pitifully.
I beg.
You tell me how he takes it.
Go now.
So in 1995, their silence.
Then in 1927, there were talkies and dogs.
Then during the w*r,
there was the musicals.
And after the w*r there was noir, new wave
horror, porn action in the graphic novel.
After 2001, when corporations, Disney
now questions
whether or not animations film.
I just don't get
why Shakespeare made her bad.
And the film we just saw at the theater,
she was the biggest
female snake in history.
She wasn't a female like you.
She was more like wolf.
What do you mean?
Cleopatra was a feminist icon.
She was a village bicycle.
Okay, well, well-behaved
girls seldom make history.
You ever heard that phrase?
Yes, I have heard that phrase. But
I'm truth, ma'am, not schools.
Ma'am, you always say that.
Why do you put yourself down?
I listen well, especially
schools are geared toward girls now.
Schools are geared towards girls.
Boys like me get medicated.
Pretty. Do you sensitive about that?
Yeah, mine seems like it.
You know, arbitrary. Such a
what does arbitrary mean?
You know, your choice.
And all this boxing fighting.
What's it prove?
Besides the fact that I won't get my a*s
kicked again?
Yeah. Besides that, what's it for?
Look,
I have to prove something to me, okay?
I'm. In fact, I'm asked to explain.
My manhood just shows that this day and
age is geared toward women.
You think this day and age is geared
towards women?
Today's Friday, right?
Today's Friday.
You know, Friday comes from Friday. No.
All the days a week are named
after German gods
that represent the seasons of history.
Tuesday, Odin's day.
There's Thor's day and today, France Day.
So you think the times where it is
Freya's day.
It's the day of the woman.
Well, what comes next
Saturday?
You don't want to know about him.
Did you get all this from film?
It's all it, Well, you might have more.
Maybe you'll see.
So why see a Shakespeare on our date?
I have a Shakespeare class.
I learn more visually.
I had to watch Macbeth to fall
with Denzel.
Playboy production by Polanski, Playboy.
They sponsor lots of art.
And who is Polanski?
Director of Rosemary's Baby. Who?
The perv whose wife,
Charles Manson k*lled?
It's Charles Manson.
It's in the Criterion Collection.
You know, I like film, but I think
you know it a lot better than I do.
More, of course, to share with each other.
Oh. Cypress.
Oh, you know them too, I feel this.
How do you know all these guys?
I think there's no way she's my favorite.
No way is. It.
I actually think I do know the Smiths.
You have to you have to know the Smiths.
I know that's a fighter.
John Cale.
I was never good at expressing myself.
Know that I like you more than what?
And who?
You better believe.
I'm yours.
If you want me.
As long as they don't make me crazy.
Who? You
know how I feel about boys in your room.
I don't need you spying on me.
Gurdy is my way or the highway.
And what's that supposed to mean?
You want to date him? Then move out.
Especially him.
Move out.
You want me homeless?
Well, there's always your daddy's.
Where have you been?
Hamlet.
The number one piece of been dating.
The most famous play
by the most famous play.
Right.
About time you stop your moody, brooding.
I hope that I'm good for you,
too. You. How?
Shakespeare has taken
the ancient Greek tradition of philosophy
added the Roman tradition of Christianity
and. The.
Compressed it in a modern way.
So that we don't we don't
necessarily
have to read the ancient Greeks,
and we don't really have to read
the Gospels.
We can get a sense of at least everything
up to Shakespeare's age
in Shakespeare,
because his tragedies
are essentially exploring
the seven deadly sins.
Every play is,
is essentially studying
one of the seven deadly sins.
What are the seven deadly sins?
Which ones can you guys remember?
The top of your head? Lust.
Lust.
Greed. Greed.
Envy, envy.
May I ask you a question, professor?
Sure.
You said hamlet is about revenge.
Can you explain what he's so angry about?
That's a very good question.
Well, first
let me say that hamlet is the original
angry young man's story.
Did you guys read catcher in the Rye?
Catcher in the Rye is the angry
young man's story of the post-modern age
that we're in, which started in 1945
and will probably continue
500 years.
Hamlet is the original catcher in the Rye.
It is the catcher in the Rye of 1600
Renaissance.
In that time period.
Well,
let me ask you in catcher in the Rye,
what do you think Holden was so angry
about?
A disciplined society,
he doesn't know his purpose in society.
He feels the need to separate
from somewhere
others can't figure out where he fits in.
Submission.
Confrontation.
That's the question.
If suffering is better, instead,
it's better to fight bullshit
deaths. Just sleep.
But in that sleep of death, nightmares
might come
when I might make my peace
with this knife.
Here.
Because who'd complain and sweat life
so tired.
Except the fear of our lives after death.
That undiscovered country born into.
Or we vacationers do not return.
Just makes me tolerate the pains
I have to lead to more that
I do not know yet.
Some morals make us coward to ourselves.
And so the way of life
making choices
becomes overcast with the storm
clouds of thought
and opportunities for our ambitions
don't need to action.
Just leave.
Dutifully.
In our eyes.
Everything I wanted.
Always.
I have these things to give back to you.
What's this?
Makes me sad to keep a gift that I can't.
How are you doing this?
Please take it.
Why not give it to your mother?
Say something.
It's what I want, not what my mom wants.
It's what you want.
Yes, daddy.
It's what I want.
And beauty and honesty don't match.
What can we pay for the two together?
Because pretty girls
like you turn into liars more often.
The truth.
Beautiful.
I wanted to like you.
You made me think so.
Don't listen to me.
This is hurting me.
You may as well be g*y or not even have
kids.
Kids say your mother would approve of.
All right, but I'm angry. I'm pissed off.
I have all these thoughts
that I can't even act on.
What you guys do
if they're not good and they're not bad.
I mean, all guys are assholes,
but I don't listen to me.
Where is your mother?
She's is at home.
We should lock her up right now
so she can't poison other young,
naive girls like you.
I think you need professional help
if you get married.
Here's my advice.
Even if you were a goody girl, there's
still going to be calamity in life.
So don't take guys.
But if you must stay guys, then
data chump.
Because smart guys know the monster
that girls like you turn it into.
So start dating girls
soon. Now go on, get out! Go!
Oh my God, he's making the hobby.
Boys, keep your face. I mean, look at this
girl.
Sing and dance and baby talk
and act stupid to get guys attention.
I think this this makes me sick.
It makes me crazy.
I can't.
I think all relationships
should be banned.
What a cool guy that is.
Lost his mind.
My friend, my my athlete,
my student, my bodyguard.
And I'm the fool who believed him.
I believed his bullshit.
How can a girl and see what she's seen?
And that baby.
And now.
Ernie.
38. Yeah!
Go inside now!
30. You f*cking b*tch!
Goody!
You here?
Give me that. Now. I am.
You've offended me.
You offended me.
That's bullshit.
It's bullshit to say that's bullshit.
Why don't you think of me
until
I think of you?
I think of you all the time.
I think of you more than you.
I don't know why I can't stop.
I can k*ll you, my dad.
You ruined my life!
You're f*cking ruining lives. Life!
f*cking b*tch!
Look.
Look at the f*cking water,
you f*cking see what I see?
What is that? Why?
Who the f*ck is that?
Oh, there's another guy.
You're f*cking.
What? Master sh*t is this? Dad is dead.
Just like your f*cking feminist
bullshit is.
What the f*ck you look.
Just f*cking look.
Look in the water. Look.
Do you f*cking see yourself?
You're f*cking sick.
You you you f*cking
f*ck!
What you f*ck did you do?
You f*cking
do you f*cking hear me stutter at all?
Yes, you.
Now you remember that I used to stutter.
What do you want for me?
I just want you just.
I just want you.
I just want you to see this.
I just need you to know I'm like, look,
look, take it, take it, look at it, look,
look at him, look at him.
I need you to remember his face.
That's my f*cking dad.
Look,
I need you to remember his face. Look.
Use everything.
Look, look. Don't look at me.
Look at this.
I need you to remember.
Please don't look at me.
Look at this.
He was everything.
He was everything to me afterwards.
What do you want me to see?
I want you to f*cking know
what you did to me.
I want you to know
what you did to my life.
He was everything to me.
You're worth
anything. You're worth anything.
You're worth anything
next to my father. Addison.
I would drown you.
Not f*cking Addie
if and when I could get him back to you.
Do you hear me? Look. Look at you.
Look at you.
Look what you doing?
I thought that's what you wanted.
What are you going to do?
I do do do you really want to k*ll her?
Maybe
Sandy somewhere.
Why are you doing
all of this f*cked up sh*t?
Maybe you can find
just a little compassion.
Kyle, you psychotic.
I, I, I don't know, I.
Do you don't hear anything.
Okay. Hey.
Back.
To more moves. We.
And I'm that girl.
Outside your window.
Paint.
You let me in.
The locked the door when you left.
How can I tell one man from another man?
Only by their shoes.
Clothes?
Who's to blame?
Boys or their private parts?
You like the kid
so much you won't press charges.
You cannot allow insanity
to run rampant like this.
If he's in any way, shape, or
form the way you say,
then he should do time.
I cannot guarantee that
if I see him out there,
I won't do everything in my power
to bring them to justice.
Yeah. We.
Yeah. 000.
Oh. Dream
about your dad again.
No more.
I knew I find you
here at your dad's grave.
He can rest in peace.
And you?
We missed you at the dorms.
What have you been up to?
You're lucky your father left
you life insurance.
What do you mean?
Life is too short?
What do you mean?
Some freshman k*lled herself.
Yeah.
What's her name?
Her name was Leah Elsinore.
What was her name?
Leah.
What was Henry.
Leah. Leah. Elsinore.
Elsinore.
What?
You know.
You know.
I lost my mother.
I lost my father.
And Leah to.
Was death
have any part in life?
And there are more reasons
than we can comprehend.
Sweets to the sweet.
I would have thought
you would have been married at a bridal,
not a deathbed.
You fought for.
You cried for you.
Hurt yourself.
You took her sh*t.
Don't you swear? That's not.
I would have way more than you. Got.
Why would you let this little sparrow
fall?
You can't teach people like that anything.
But they can teach you
to stay away from them.
Let's go get the car, please.
I'll be right out.
Let her go.
My family comes from Boston.
General electric,
McDonald's, South American masters.
Since President Roosevelt,
Egyptian got an Ivy League, Dartmouth
College, Andre's Hall.
My father came here for work.
And what did you do? What did you do?
He put me in a special ed.
You know what that's like?
I did what I thought was best.
You expect everybody be Jesus Christ,
I quit.
What more do you want from me?
You talk to my father back to school.
I do remember that.
I needed me.
You know, my mother left because of that.
It takes two to make or break a marriage.
And you want to blame me?
I'm so selfish.
Why don't you take some responsibility
for once?
Do you know how hard it is
to be a teacher, a parent?
Why don't you try?
And I know you never see me for who I am.
I didn't come from a family of leaders
like you
out here.
For your world, it's about survival.
I was Matty.
I'm really sorry.
I could talk.
Listen, you're going to punish me.
It's your job, I get it, all right?
I was out of my f*cking mind.
All right?
You talk about your dad.
You're the kid. Who's that?
You screwed at school, aren't you?
You heard that story, man.
You're not the only one. She screwed.
We are the problem.
She's just being
herself.
You know what?
Get the hell out of here.
I don't ever want to see your face
in this town again.
Go get.
I took care of a man.
My hero.
Every
we met before.
I don't think so, miss.
Just in my job.
We'll get you k*lled in San Francisco.
Send Dan. I'll get your stuff.
I'll get your motorcycle, your car,
and I'll help.
You saw your dad's place.
Edison.
You're so lucky
you're dead of your life insurance.
I wish
my dad had paid for his life insurance.
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