Fierce People (2005)

Anton Yelchin: Finn Earl

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• [last lines] 

  Finn Earl : We are the sum of all of the people that we have ever met. You change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

• [first lines] 

  Finn Earl : [narrating]  There's this tribe in South America called the Ishkanani. That means "Fierce People". They're - they're the meanest people in the world. They'll cut off your thumbs and they'll shit in your hammock just like we say hello.

• Finn Earl : [final statement of the introductory narration]  This is my story of my time amongst the Fierce People. During the summer of 1980, in deepest, darkest, New Jersey.

• Liz Earl : This is my son, Finn. And this is Dr. Leffler.

  Dr. Leffler : You can call me Dick.

  Finn Earl : Nice to meet you, Dr. Dick.

• Finn Earl : There's this really nice big retard in the woods who draws dirty petroglyphs.

• Finn Earl : Mom liked to brag that Ogden C. Osborne, seventh richest man in America, once gave her a $1,000 tip and all he got was a one-hour back rub.

• Finn Earl : What's the chivalrous thing to do when you make out with a girl with her comatose father laying next to you like a big root vegetable? I mean, I knew I should call her. But what do I say? "Hi. I like kissing you. Thanks for letting me touch your boob. Can I do it again?"

• Bryce : I think the Ishkanani have it all figured out.

  Finn Earl : What do you mean?

  Bryce : It's fuck, kill. Unlike us domesticated creatures, they like something, they fuck it. If they don't, they kill it.

• Maya : Bryce, do you always have to say "fuck"?

  Bryce : You know, virgins fall into two categories. Finn, you paying attention?

  Finn Earl : Yes.

  Bryce : They either love the F word and they don't wanna do it or they hate the F word and they're *dying* to do it.

• Maya : [watching a film of the Ishkanani]  How are they gonna eat all that?

  Finn Earl : After a feast, the women hide the leftovers in their vaginas.

  Maya : That's disgusting.

  Bryce : That is fantastic!

• Finn Earl : Why don't any of the Hawaiians here look Hawaiian?

  Jilly : It's asshole code for people of the Jewish persuasion.

  Gates : The natives don't want anybody on the outside to know that they're anti-Semitic.

• Finn Earl : It's weird how wrong you can get things in your head.

• Maya : They were horrible to you, right?

  Finn Earl : No.

  Maya : Sexy liar.

• Finn Earl : I'm tired of being your excuse for screwing up your life.

• Finn Earl : What? You bring me to a place where everyone's rich and you want me to be the maid?

• Finn Earl : Who is this?

  [showing a photograph] 

  Ogden C. Osborne : That's Creamsicle.

  Finn Earl : Her name was Creamsicle?

  Ogden C. Osborne : No. No, she smelled like a Creamsicle.

  Finn Earl : Mr. Osborne, Creamsicle's don't smell.

  Ogden C. Osborne : [next scene, Ogden and Finn are sniffing a creamsicle]  Smells good, doesn't it?

• Ogden C. Osborne : Have a look at that.

  [shows Finn a photograph] 

  Finn Earl : She's really got a lot of pubic hair.

  Ogden C. Osborne : That woman is my mother.

• Finn Earl : Dear dad. You know the thing the Ishkanani say about showing the guy's heart to the village? Well, that's the part that's gonna be a problem for me. I mean, if everybody knows what happened, for the rest of my life it'd be, "Hey, you know Finn Earl, the guy who beat up and dead-horsed by some guy?". And no matter how great things turned out, even if I ended up marrying Maya and I became I famous anthropologist, people would say: "No question, after Finn got it in the ass, he really got his shit together".