Monday, December 10, 2007

little miss sunshine

watched little miss sunshine yesterday. was a very funny and heartwarming show, about this little girl olive who wants to win the little miss sunshine pageant, so her eccentric, dysfunctional family (mum is a smoker and pro-honesty, dad is a motivational speaker but is in fact a loser, uncle is gay, a proust scholar and sucidal, grandfather is a heroin addict, and brother is a follower of nietzsche and takes a vow of silence) takes a road trip to california to make her dreams come true. very beautiful story. there's a really hilarious funny part in the story where the grandfather gives advice to dwayne (olive's older brother) about sex, but of course i can't write about it cos my new town students read this blog.

anw, i like this part of the film, so i actually copied the words from the subtitles played in the dvd, the transcript, very uplifting and encouraging. in this scene, grandpa and olive are together and olive questions her grandfather about winning the pageant:

grandpa: time for your beauty rest. get in there.
(tucks olive into bed)
there you go. goodnight.


olive: grandpa?

yeah?

i'm kinda scared about tomorrow.

are you kidding me? you're gonna blow 'em out of the water. they're not gonna know what hit 'em.

grandpa?

yeah?

am i pretty?

olive... you are the most beautiful girl in the whole world.

you're just saying that.

no, i'm not. i'm madly in love with you, not because of your brains or your personality. it's because you're beautiful, inside and out.

grandpa?

what?

i don't wanna be a loser. (starts to tear)

you're not a loser. where'd you get the idea you're a loser?

because daddy hates losers. (cries)

back up a minute. you know what a loser is? a real loser is somebody that's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try. now you're trying, right?

yeah.

then you're not a loser. we're gonna have fun tomorrow, right?

yeah.

we can tell 'em all to go to hell. goodnight sweetie. i love you.

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