Kill Your Darlings Page #2

Synopsis: In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever.
Director(s): John Krokidas
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  5 wins & 13 nominations.
 
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Year:
2013
104 min
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No, Mom, he's not here.

Look, I will be there as soon as I can.

I need you tonight.

I need you to promise me.

I promise. I love you.

Bye.

Coming?

Welcome to the edge of the world.

Allen in Wonderland.

- Do you know her?

- No, and I don't plan on it.

She tasted like imported

sophistication and domestic cigarettes.

Dave, where's the liquor'?

I'll be right back.

You are pinching.

- You are pinching.

- I'm sorry.

You okay?

What's that?

Nitrous oxide for narco analysis.

Know thyself and beshit thyself.

You ever done that?

No thanks. I don't do the cannabis.

Show me the man who is

both sober and happy,

and I will show you the crinkled anus

of a lying a**hole.

Allen, Willy. Willy, Allen.

Lucien, reefer.

Nice meeting you.

- Is he a criminal?

- He wishes he were a criminal.

The Burroughs family is richer than God.

- Well, he looks like a criminal.

- He's a Harvard man.

He's going to be an amazing artist.

His current medium is himself.

- What's that?

- It's bunk for school.

Come on. I want you to meet our host.

What we have, darlings and

demoiselles, is a circle.

Life is round.

Patterns, routines,

a wheel of self-abuse.

Margaret, don't even deny it.

- He sounds like you.

- Because it was me first.

Until the disruption

we long for comes along

and the circle is broken.

He used to be my guardian angel,

but he said I was too much work.

Take this unbloomed stalwart.

And you are?

Allen.

Allen.

Play nice, David.

- Who comes uninvited to my apartment.

- Actually, I invited him.

No one notices him.

Look at him. Why would we bother'?

So the pattern of our lives holds.

But who knows?

Under the right circumstances,

even he might change the world.

In the distance I heard a sound

The sound of marching men

So you met Lucien in the lunch line,

and now he's all that you can see.

Why don't you like me?

Because David was in the

same godforsaken line.

And then

Some ear job at the

bar just called me kid,

so I stole his drink.

That's Ogden Nash.

Who's Ogden Nash? - The

best-selling poet in the country.

Perhaps you've heard this one.

"The girl who is bespectacled

she may not get her nectacled

"But safety pins and bassinets... "

"Await the girl who fassinets. "

And that's what he's

selling? I'll kill him.

Aim for the throat.

No. We're not going to kill him.

Even better, we're going to

make sure nobody remembers him.

How many men started the Renaissance?

- Two.

- And the Romantics?

More, I suspect, than

this theory accommodates.

We're sending millions to Europe to

fight the fascists, but they're here.

- Metre and rhyme...

- And Professor Steeves.

Yes!

They're all guards in some prison.

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