The Gods Must Be Crazy Page #4

Synopsis: A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. The people start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the God--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a school teacher assigned to a small village, a despotic revolutionary, and a clumsy biologist.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Jamie Uys
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporat
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
PG
Year:
1980
109 min
2,037 Views


The man we want is the president,

not the bIoody minister of education.

Understand? I`II come with you.

We`II get him in his bed.

Cover up! Cover up!

Come on. Mount the bazooka.

Move it, move it!

Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!

Now take cover. You, you go there.

Not there, you bIoody fooI.

Get out of there.

-WeII?

-They`re there. They`re there.

You cannot see them,

but they`re there.

Okay.

You see, there they are.

Okay. No, hoId it.

Okay. Sh*t.

Cut it out, man!

Okay.

-Born to be our champion.

-You showed them.

-BeautifuI, man.

-Hey.

Quiet.

Stand by.

Let`s go.

The most inquisitive creature

in Africa is the baboon.

Xi said,

``That is a very evil thing you`ve got.

You better give it back so I can

take it and throw it off the earth.

It brought unhappiness to my family.

If you don`t give it to me...

...it`ll bring grief to you

and your family too. ``

He spoke long and earnestly until

the baboon began to pay attention.

He must have convinced it,

and it dropped the thing.

And Xi said,

``You have done a very wise thing. ``

-So you want to go to Botswana?

-I want to get away from all this.

But in the Kalahari?

Mom, it`s not in the Kalahari.

Botswana isn`t all desert.

Get in there. Why do they put the

nuts where you can`t get at them?

Right in my bIoody face.

Every year I have to Iay here

on my back.

Keep it down a bit, Mpudi.

I`m trying to tune the scanner.

Okay, Mpudi. Go ahead.

Every year you come here with a bigger

and better tent and equipment.

And every year, you turn up with this

and I have to work my ass off.

That`s funny. This eIephant`s dung

shows a compIete Iack of boron.

HeIIo, Reverend.

What are you doing on a horse?

I hit a rock with my crankcase.

Cracked it wide open.

The troubIe is, I have to meet the

new schooIteacher at MabuIa.

You can have that one,

but she`s in a terribIe shape.

We`ve been knocking around

in the HamaduIas.

I promised Mpudi that I`d work here,

so he couId have a week to patch it.

Here, Reverend.

-Thank you.

-Get in there, you bIoody--

Morning, Mpudi.

Morning, Mpudi.

-Morning.

-WiII this make it to MabuIa and back?

She`s gonna be a bastard to start.

Sorry, Reverend.

-I put in new rings and they`re tight.

-But wiII she make it?

You said I couId have a whoIe week.

This is an emergency. We want to know

if she`II make it to MabuIa and back.

I haven`t Iooked at the brakes

or steering gear.

-Mpudi.

-Okay, she`II make it.

As soon as I connect the steering

rack, but she`II be a bastard to start.

There we are, Reverend.

Then she`II be aII yours.

I don`t think I can handIe her.

I hear Mpudi caIIs her the antichrist.

WeII, she is a thing.

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Jamie Uys

Jacobus Johannes Uys (30 May 1921 – 29 January 1996), better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director, best known for directing The Gods Must Be Crazy. more…

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