Sling Blade

Hey, Sheriff.

A Mercury... is a real good car.

That was the car I was driving that day.

I have a lot of cars.

Yeah. Different kinds.

A lot of different kinds of cars.

She was standing, this girl,

where there was this chicken stand.

It wasn't the Colonel,

but a chicken stand nevertheless.

I pulled the Mercury

right up alongside,

and I rolled down the window,

see, by electric power.

And she had this leather skirt on.

And she had a lot of hair on her arms.

I like that, I like that a lot.

It means a big bush. I like a big bush.

So she says, "Are you dating?" You know?

I said, "Sure." So she gets in.

And we pull off

into this remote location, you know,

that was comfortable for both she and I.

And she says to me,

"How much do you wanna spend?"

I said, "Whatever it takes to see

that bush, 'cause I know it's big."

And she says to me, "$25."

That's not chicken feed,

you know, to a working man.

So I produce the $25

and she sticks it down into her shoe

and pulls up her skirt.

And there before me lay this thin,

crooked, uncircumcised penis.

You can imagine how bad

I wanted my $25 back.

I don't know why you're weirded out.

This is not San Quentin.

It's a nuthouse.

These people don't know where they are.

They're not gonna hurt you.

We're gonna be in a room with a killer.

That doesn't bother you?

You're the one

that wanted to major in journalism.

These are the people

from that newspaper.

- Yeah. From the college?

- Yes, sir.

- Jerry Woolridge.

- Nice to meet you. I'm Marsha Dwiggins.

This is Theresa Evans.

She's here to take the pictures.

Y'all sit down.

There was a young man

named John Legit Hunter

who was in a good

filling station business.

But he was one of these young men

we run across, I'm sure you have,

who didn't deserve what he had.

And one of the things he had was this...

beautiful young bride,

Sarah.

She was a Georgia peach.

In fact, she was more like

the picture I had in my mind

than any woman I had ever seen.

So I took it upon myself

to take her away from John Legit Hunter,

who did not deserve her, you know?

I don't know if I told you,

but he was a Frenchman

who claimed to be an Englishman.

Took a lot of strong nylon cord

to get her away from him,

'cause she was a fighter

as well as being a Georgia peach.

I think there must

have been a little mix-up.

I talked to your sponsor or teacher,

or whoever he is,

and I told him that

there couldn't be any pictures.

It's supposed to be an article or story,

something like that, isn't that right?

Well, it's for the school newspaper,

but it has pictures.

I mean, it's a regular paper.

Karl's real sensitive

about having his picture made.

He wouldn't even be on the

bulletin board for the Easter collage.

Now...

a shovel just makes

too goddamn much racket.

All I can do is talk to him,

see what he says.

You gotta make something explode

to truly understand it,

examine all those little tiny particles

while they're still on fire.

Karl, I've gotta take you

down to the old classroom.

Mr. Woolridge has some people

for you to see down there.

Come on, let's go.

You remember me telling you about

those people from that newspaper?

They wanna ask you some questions

about your release.

They think it'll make a good story.

Will you talk to 'em?

Get interviewed?

Now, they're women.

Think it'd be good for you, too.

You're gonna be seeing all kinds

of people when you get on the outside.

This'll help, I believe.

Now, here's the thing.

He'll only talk to you,

Now, here's the thing.

He'll only talk to you,

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