Dead End Drive-In (1986)

Natalie McCurry: Carmen

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Quotes 

• [after a large number of Asian immigrants have been brought into the drive-in] 

  Carmen : I don't like being out there with them around.

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : Who's them?

  Carmen : Fifty million Asians out there.

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : [chuckles]  Why be scared of them?

  Carmen : They could rape me, or anything.

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : Nah!

  Carmen : Yes, they could! If you were a man, you'd do something about it.

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : Listen: they're not the enemy. They're prisoners, just like us!

  Carmen : Yeah, well something oughta be done.

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : Yeah? Like what?

  Carmen : Well, I dunno! They should limit how many can come here.

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : [chuckles]  You've really been conned, haven't ya? Limit the numbers and everything will be great. Jesus, have a look around! This is a slum! Even with only a few people, it'd still be a slum.

  Carmen : Well, it doesn't have to be.

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : What? Huh, you reckon we should all sit around playing happy families, do ya? Everything in its place. Men down the gents drinking beer, girls in the ladies getting their hair done! People can't have a life in here. All they can have is a-a heap o' shit movies and a gutful of poisonous hamburger!

  [knocks Carmen's burger off the table] 

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : I'll tell ya where bloody life is. Out there...

  Carmen : Well, not for people like us.

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : Hey, hey, hey!

  [caresses her cheek] 

  Jimmy 'Crabs' Rossini : Come with me. Please.

  Carmen : God, Jimmy, can't you see? This is all we've got!

  Carmen : [pulls away from her]  Yeah! Huh... yeah. I can see. That's just the trouble.

  [walks away] 

  Carmen : Hey! You won't get far without these.

  [Carmen tosses Crabs the keys to their car. She cries silently as he leaves]