Miss Little Sunshine

 

1．  Richard的一番“成功学”演讲

 

There are two kinds of people in this world, winners and losers. Inside each and every one of you at the very core of your leading is a winner waiting to be awakened and unleashed upon the world. With my nine-step “Refuse to Lose” program, you now have the necessary tools and the insights and the know-how to put, your losing habits behind you and to go out and make your dreams come true. (Sighs) No hesitating. (Chuckles) No complaining. And no excuses. I want you to go out in the world, and I want you to be winners! Thank you.

 

2．  一家人热闹非凡的晚餐

 

Grandpa: What’s that? Chicken? Every night it’s the fucking chicken! Holy God Almighty! It is possible just once…

Richard: Dad!

Grandpa: … we could get something to eat around here that’s not the goddamn fucking chicken?

Richard: Hey, Dad! Dad!

Grandpa: I’m just sayin’…

Richard: Dad!

Grandpa: Christ.

Richard: When you want to start cooking your own food, you’re welcome.

Grandpa: At Sunset Manor, you know…

Richard: If you like Sunset Manor, you shouldn’t have got kicked out.

Frank: (to Dwayne) So when did you start with the vow?

Richard: Been nine months, Frank. He hasn’t said a word. Not one. I think it shows tremendous discipline.

Sheryl: Richard.

Richard: I really do. Really, I think we could learn something from Dwayne. Dwayne has a goal. He has a dream. It may not be my dream, may not be yours, but he’s pursuing it with great conviction（深信） and focus. In fact, I was thinking about the nine steps…

Grandpa: Oh, for crying out loud!

Richard: The nine steps, and how Dwayne’s utilizing（利用） seven of them in his personal quest to self fulfillment.

Sheryl: Richard, please.

Richard: Well, I’m just saying I’ve come around. I think he could use our support.

Oliver:（to Frank） How did it happen?

Frank: How did what happen?

Oliver: Your accident.

Sheryl: Honey, here.

Frank: Oh, no, it’s okay. Unless you object.

Sheryl: No, I’m pro-honesty here. I just think, you know, it’s up to you.

Frank: Be my guest.

Sheryl: Olive, um. Uncle Frank didn’t really have an accident. What happened was he… tried to kill himself.

Oliver: You did? Why?

Richard: I’m sorry. I don’t think this is a appropriate conversation. Honey, let’s Uncle Frank finish his dinner, okay? Shh.

Oliver: Why did you want to kill yourself?

Richard: No, don’t answer the question, Frank.

Sheryl: Richard! Richard!

Richard: He’s not gonna answer the question. Frank.

Frank: I wanted to kill myself…

Richard: Don’t listen to him. I was very unhappy. He’s sick in his head.

Sheryl: Richard!

Richard: I’m sorry! I don’t think it’s an appropriate conversation for a seven-year-old.

Sheryl: She’s gonna find out anyway.

Richard: Okay.

Sheryl: Go on, Frank.

Oliver: Why were you unhappy?

Frank: Um, well, there are a lot of reasons. Mainly, though, I fell in love with someone who didn’t love me back.

Oliver: Who?

Frank: One of my grad（毕业生） students. I was very much love with him.

Oliver: Him? It was a boy? You fell in love with a boy?

Frank: Yes, I did. Very much so.

Oliver: That’s silly.

Frank: You’re right. It was silly. It was very, very silly.

Grandpa: There’s another word for it.

Richard: Dad.

Oliver: So, that’s when you tried to kill yourself?

Frank: Well, no. The boy that I was in love with fell in love with another man --- Larry Sugarman.

Sheryl: Who’s Larry Sugerman?

Frank: Larry Sugarman is, perhaps… the second most highly regarded Proust scholar in the U.S.

Richard: Who’s number one?

Frank: That would be me. Rich.

Richard: Really?

Frank: Mm-hmm.

Oliver: So that’s when.

Frank: No. What happened was I was a bit upset, so I said some things that I shouldn’t have said, and I did some things that I shouldn’t have done and subsequently I was fired from my job and forced to move out of my apartment and move into a motel.

Oliver: And that’s when you tried to…

Frank: Well, no. Actually, all of that was okay. What happened was two days ago the MacArthur Foundation, in its infinite wisdom awarded a genius grant to Larry Sugarman. And that’s when I…

Grandpa: Decided to check out early.

Frank: Yes. Yes. And I failed at that as well.

Richard: Olive, the important thing to understand here is that Uncle Frank gave up on himself. He made a series of foolish choices… I’m sorry… and he gave up on himself which is something winners never do.

Sheryl: So that’s the story, okay? Now, everyone, just let’s move on and, uh…

Frank:（to Dwayne） Is he always like this? How can you stand it?

 

3．  Oliver谈到自己要去竞选Miss Little Sunshine

 

Frank: Well, what do you think your chances are?

Oliver: I think I can win, because some of the other girls they’ve been doing it longer, but I practice every day.

Frank: Yeah. Good luck.

Richard: Not about luck, Frank. Luck is the name losers gave to their own failings. It’s about wanting to win, willing yourself to win. You’ve got to want it badder than anybody else.

Oliver: I do.

Richard: Then you’re gonna be a winner.

 

4．  在车上

 

Grandpa: Jesus, I’m tired. I’m so fucking tired. Do you know how tired I am? If some girl came up to me, begged me to fuck her. I couldn’t do it.

Richard: Dad! Watch the language, huh?

Grandpa: That’s how tired I am. She’s listening to music. Olive, I’ll give you a million dollars if you turn around. See?

Richard: All right. But the rest of us.

Grandpa: Oh, the rest of you. (to Dwayne) Can I give you some advice? Well, I’m gonna give it to you anyway. I don’t want you making the some mistake I made.

Richard: Can’t wait to hear this.

Grandpa: Dwayne… That’s your name, right? Dwayne? This is the voice of experience talking. Are you listening? Fuck a lot of women, Dwayne.

Richard: Hey! Dad!

Grandpa: Not just one woman. A lot of women.

Richard: That’s enough, all right?

Grandpa: Are you getting’ any?

Richard: Day!

Grandpa: You can tell me, Dwayne. Are you getting’ any?

Richard: Come on, please.

Grandpa: No? Jesus. You’re what. 15? My God, man!

Richard: Dad!

Grandpa: You should be getting’ that young stuff. That young stuff is the best in the world.

Richard: Dad, that’s enough! Stop it!

Grandpa: Will you kindly not interrupt! See, right now you’re jailbait（未成年少女, 导致犯罪入狱的诱因）. It’s perfect. I mean, you hit 18… Man, you’re talking about three to five.

Richard: Hey, I will pull this truck over right now!

Grandpa: So pull the truck over! Fuck you! I can say what I want. I still got Nazi bullets in my ass!

Richard: Ah, the Nazi bullets!

Grandpa: You’re as bad as those fuckers at Sunset Manor.

Frank: What happened at Sunset Manor?

Sheryl: Frank, don’t encourage him.

Grandpa: I’ll tell you what happened. I paid my money. They took my money. I should be able to do what the fuck I want!

Sheryl: He started snorting heroin（海洛因, 吗啡）.

Frank: You started snorting heroin?

Grandpa: I’m old!

Frank: Well, that stuff’ll kill you.

Grandpa: What am I, an idiot? （to Dwayne）And don’t you start taking that shit. When you’re young, you’re crazy to do that stuff.

Frank: What about you?

Grandpa: I’m old. When you’re old, you’re crazy not to do it.

Sheryl: We’ve tried. Believe me. The intervention（干涉） was a fiasco（惨败）. He’s worse than a two years old.

Richard: Can we please talk about something else?

Frank: I take it you didn’t like at Sunset Manor.

Sheryl: Frank.

Grandpa: Are you kidding me? It was a fuckin’ paradise. They got a pool. They got golf. Now I’m stuck with Mr. Happy here, sleepin’ on a fuckin’ sofa. Look, I know you’re a homo and all, but maybe you can appreciate this. You go to one of those places, there’s four women for every guy. Can you imagine what that’s like?

Frank: You must’ve been very busy.

Grandpa: Whoa! I had second-degree burns on my Johnson. I kid you not.

Frank: Really?

Grandpa: Forget about it.

Oliver: What are you guys talking about?

Grandpa: Politics.

Oliver: Oh.

Grandpa:（to Dwayne）Fuck a lot women, kid. I have no reason to lie to you. Not one woman. A lot of women. You heard what I said? Did it go in anywhere?

Richard: Yeah, I think we get the point. Dad.

Grandpa: Don’t show me the pad. I don’t want to see the fuckin’ pad.

 

5．  在餐厅里

 

Oliver: Mom, how much an we spend?

Sheryl: I would say four dollars. Anything under four dollars.

 

Frank: Actually, Olive, “a la mode” in French translates literally as “in the fashion.” A la mode. “Mode” is derived（起源） from Latin modus, meaning “due or proper measure.”

Richard: Frank, shut up.

Sheryl: Richard!

Richard: Olive, can I tell you a little something about ice cream?

Oliver: Yeah.

Richard: Well, ice cream is made from cream which comes from cow’s milk and cream has a lot of fat in it.

Sheryl: Richard.

Richard: What? She’s gonna find out anyway, remember?

Oliver: What? Find out what?

Richard: Well, when you eat ice cream, the fat in the ice cream becomes fat in your body.

Sheryl: Richard, I swear to God…

Richard: It’s true.

Oliver: What? What’s wrong?

Sheryl: Nothing, honey. Nothing’s wrong.

Richard: So if you eat a lot of ice cream, you might become fat. And if you don’t, you’re gonna stay nice and skinny, sweetie.

Oliver: Mom…

Grandpa: Olive, Richard is an idiot. I like a woman with meat on her bones.

Oliver: I don’t… Why’s everyone so upset?

Sheryl: No, no one’s upset, honey, I… I just want you to understand… it’s okay to be skinny, and it’s okay to be fat, if that’s what you want to be. Whatever you want, it’s okay.

Richard: Okay, but, Olive, let me ask you this. Those women in Miss American… Are they skinny, or are they fat? Honey?

Oliver: Well, they’re skinny, I guess.

Richard: Yeah, I guess they don’t eat a lot of ice cream.

 

6．  Dwayne说的第一句话

 

Fuck！！！！！！！

 

7．  Oliver见到加利福尼亚小姐

 

Oliver: Hmm, Miss California? Do you eat ice cream?

Miss C: I love ice cream. My favorite flavor is Chocolate Cherry Garcia, although, technically, I think that’s a frozen yogurt（酸奶酪, 酵母乳）. Okay?

Oliver: Okay. Thanks. Bye.

Miss C: Bye.

Oliver: Mom, she eats ice cream.

Sheryl: I heard.

 

8．  Dwayne和Frank在海边的对话

 

Dwayne: Sometimes I just wish I could go to sleep till I was 18 and skip all this crap--- high school and everything--- just skip it.

Frank: You know Marcel Proust?

Dwayne: He’s the guy you teach.

Frank: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited（无报酬的） love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he’s also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he, uh… he gets down to the end of is life and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered… Those were the best years of his life, ‘cause they made him who he was. All the years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn’t learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you’re 18… ah, think of the suffering you’re gonna miss. I mean, high school? High school… Those are your prime（最初, 青春, 精华） suffering years. You don’t get better suffering than that.

Dwayne: You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. You know, school, then college, then work? Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I wanna fly, I’ll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest.

Frank: I’m glad you’re talking again, Dwayne. You’re not nearly as stupid as you look.

（Both laughing.）