Beasts Of The Southern Wild Page #3

Synopsis: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink's tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he's no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack, temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink's health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.
Director(s): Benh Zeitlin
Production: Fox Searchlight
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 92 wins & 123 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
PG-13
Year:
2012
93 min
$12,784,397
Website
2,113 Views


Look what we got!

Look what we got!

Gotcha. We got it! Say, "I gotcha!"

- I gotcha!

- Yeah!

Hold him down.

You hold him down like this...

...and you whack him good

with your fist.

Go ahead, whack him!

You whack him good.

Hold him like that and whack him.

Hold it.

Ow!

Don't worry about that.

That's all a part of it.

Come on, you want to try it again?

Come on, one more time.

Mama?

Is that you?

I've broken everything.

Strong animals know

when your heart is weak.

That makes them hungry,

and they start coming.

Yo, Walrus.

Hey, man.

Come on, I gotcha. All right, partner.

I knew you wasn't gonna leave.

I must've passed out.

Little Jo..

- Hey.

- You okay, huh?

What happened to you? Get up.

Come on.

He been talking all night long

how it's the last night on earth.

Don't worry about him.

Trying to touch my titties and sh*t...

...right in front of Peter T over there.

- Oh, Peter T, my man.

- Hello.

Good to see you, man!

I knew you wasn't gonna leave me.

- Oh, no. Oh, no.

- That's one classic dude right there.

You a titan, man.

Yeah! Glad you stayed, man.

If I had a pair of wings,

I know I could have flown in that bad boy.

Almost blew off

Walrus' panties, ha, ha, ha!

But I would probably

have bounced off a tree.

Hushpuppy.

Did I ever tell you the story

about your conception?

Jesus.

One day, when me and Hushpuppy

mama first met...

...we were so shy,

we used to sit around...

...and drink beer

and smile at each other.

One day, I got so shy, I just napped.

Back when Daddy

used to talk about Mama...

...he said she was so pretty,

she never even had to turn on the stove.

She'd just walk into the room...

...and all the water starts to boil.

Your mama battered that gator up

and set it to frying.

And Hushpuppy popped into the universe

about four minutes later.

I got it under control.

Miss Bathsheeba!

Come on, y'all. Come on, girlie! Come on!

Yeah, yeah! Come on!

- That's it.

- Thank you.

- Thank you. Very nice.

- Look what we got.

We got the fresh catch today.

You like that, babe?

Yeah! Come on!

Come on, children,

I got some for y'all too.

Yeah! Let's go. Time to eat.

For the ones we never find,

we make a funeral the Bathtub way.

Yeah, tastes like more.

Come on. All right.

With no crying allowed.

Yes, to the water!

Come on, boy! Come on!

Pick that goddamn thing up!

Let's go!

Okay.

So I say to myself...

...I'm gonna pee in my pants just a little.

Hell, when the water goes down...

...I'm gonna French kiss the dirt.

The water ain't going down, man.

That's my beautiful place

under that water.

Everything beautiful is gone.

Man, you know they got salt in that water,

done ate everything up.

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Lucy Alibar

Lucy Alibar (born Lucy Harrison in 1983) is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild with Benh Zeitlin. more…

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