MAC: Well, then what would you say? DENNIS: She's a quitter.
DEE: You know what? I don't even care!
And that proves my point. Because you don't care, you never succeed.
Right. Failed.
Failure implies that she actually tried to be an actor.
Okay, I did try. It just didn't happen to work out.
It's not your fault, sweetie. You're just not pretty enough.
Oh, thank you! That's my dad, everybody! Great!
I killed three very large rats that were stuck in glue traps.
- Good work. - No, no, that's not good.
I am done with rat detail. That's by far the worst job in the bar!
- That's why we call "Charlie work." - No, dude. Not Charlie work.
There's an emotional toll that comes out of this. You kill one of...
- Are you kidding me? - What? What?
You're blowing smoke directly in my face when I'm trying to talk to you.
What is he talking about?
If you want to smoke, you should have to take it outside.
- That's it. I'm done with this. - It's a bar.
- Yeah. It's a bar, dude. - Charlie, I think you're right.
- We should ban smoking in here. - What are you talking about?
- That's completely ridiculous. - How is that ridiculous?
There are smoking bans in a lot of states now.
Uh, yes. And it's completely un-American.
If you don't like smoke, then don't come into the bar.
I work in this bar. I work here.
But that's because you have the freedom to choose to work here.
Smoking bans, they don't protect freedom.
- They strip 'em away from smokers. - Look, I didn't go to Vietnam
just to have pansies like you take my freedom away from me.
You went to Vietnam in 1993 to open up a sweatshop!
And a lot of good men died in that sweatshop!
- God! You're out of your mind. - Look, look.
The point is that if Charlie took any time to study in school
he would recognize that the Constitution protects my freedom
to blow smoke all over his face. - You gotta be...
You don't know shit about the Constitution, man.
He knows more than you two un-American freedom haters.
- Thank you. - Charlie, we hate freedom. Hate it.
- Hate it. - I'm un-American?
You're practically a Vietcong.
Oh, is that right? Okay, you wanna talk America?
You wanna learn something about America?
- Dee, let's roll out of here. - Where are we going?
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
MAN (over megaphone): It is time for the truth!
Five million people will die this year of smoking-related illnesses!
These body bags, these represent the number of people...
that will die in this city alone today!
It doesn't have to be this way! Let's make smoking history!
(applause) Yeah!
- Yeah! Yeah, man! - Yeah.
U.S.A., baby! Whoo!
- That's what America's all about! - Yeah.
- Right here! This is the U.S. A! - Oh, my God!
That guy really knew how to pull an audience.
I tell you what. Let's get in on this.
- Hey, bro. Great job out there. - Oh, thanks.
You really... You had me like hook, line and sinker with that...
It was awesome, dude. It was awesome. I want in on the cause.
Oh, okay. Just go to the Web site and you can check out...
I don't want to do that. I wanna be on the front lines like you, bro.
- To join the team or something. - Naw, it's really complicated.
There's a lot of red tape. You really can't...
Uh, excuse me, sir.
But just what in the hell do you think you're doing?
Oh, dude. This is just an acting gig.
Like, I'm not really part of any cause.
- Oh, you're an actor? - Mm-hmm.
- Oh. But not a real one? - What is that supposed to mean?
No, just... I mean, you're on the sidewalk.
Right. You know what you're talking about. How old are you? Like, 40?
I live in New York, okay?
Street theater is the only organized artistic expression that we have...
What a crock of shit, man! You're living a lie, bro!
- Dude, relax. - Oh, relax? Oh, I'm gonna...
Gonna throw with me? Little actor boy, wanna throw with a patriot?
- Back off! Back off! - I'm not 40.
- I don't need this. - Get in your van and go, okay?
'Cause I'll throw down! I'll throw down any day of the week!
Get in your little van and drive out of my face! Okay?
Before I go America all over your ass!
You know what? Screw Dee and Charlie.
I'm sick of people telling us what we can and can't do
with our own bar, you know? What happened to this country?
Why can't we stay open past 2:00 a. M?
Yes! And why can't we sell booze before noon on Sunday?
These puritanical restrictions are killing this country.
This is why people flock to places like Las Vegas
and New Orleans and spring break.
Because they're free to go wild. The girls go wild.
The girls in Philly need a place to go wild.
Right. New Orleans was washed away in that terrible storm.
We need to open up Paddy's as a haven for freedom.
A replacement for the tragic loss of New Orleans.
- We should have gambling too. - And we should have gambling too.
- Sure. - I'm gonna get the ball rolling.
Okay, great.
We will open up Paddy's as the most American bar in all of America!
- A place with absolute freedom! - With no gambling restrictions.
Sure, whatever. Listen. We should head down to sorority houses, right?
Spread the word, you know? Hand out some leaflets or something.
- We should go to the library. - The library? Why?
'Cause at sorority houses you're only gonna find tramps and whores.
- Those girls are already wild. - Perfect!
No, no. Mac, you're not listening to me.
We don't want wild girls.
We want real girls going wild.
It's important to see the transition.
You want to watch the process.
Dee, what the hell is the point of this stretching?
Charlie, if we're gonna put on our own demonstration...
then your body needs to be in tip-top shape out there.
My body is in tip-top shape.
Maybe for a small, fat person, but not for an actor.
- Fat person? - A chunky... chunky...
- Chunky? Where're you getting that? - A husky person.
Since when? Oh!
- Really? - All right, forget it.
- I'm not an actor anyway. - I know.
Yeah. Well, then I'm a protestor, right? I'm a patriot. Give me that.
- Okay. - That's my bag.
What I need from you is for you to feed me some lines.
- I can feed you lines. - And then I'll go from there.
- I just don't need all the... - I can take over.
- What do you want me to do? - Focus on finding your breath.
- What? - Where is your breath?
- In my mouth? - No, it starts in your chest.
- Got to focus on your diaphragm. - What the hell's a diaphragm?
- Here. Putting your diaphragm... - No. The diaphragm is a...
- No. Really? That's all you know? - It blocks the babies out.
Okay, yeah. That's what... How'd you make it this far in life?
This is ridiculous. Let's just get out there. Let's speak the truth.
Let's kick a little ass America style. We'll get all up in it!
I'm trying to protect you. I don't want you freezing up outt here.
- What? Freezing up? - Yeah.
All those people staring at you and judging you...
and-and-and-and not liking the stuff and talking about you.
- Are you serious? - Yes. Your body could betray you...
... in any number of ways... - Like how?
You know, one of... Locking up and maybe throwing up and stuff.
- Really? - You want to find your breath?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
It's in my mouth.
TOGETHER: One, two, three!
- Hey! - Oh, my God!
- You girls have gone wild! - You went wild!
- You're wild! Way to go! - You girls went wild!
Nice. This is what it was like to have a bar in New Orleans, bro.
Oh, man! New Orleans really had their shit figured out!
They totally had their shit figured out.
- Except for the levees. - Right. Except for the levees.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and the evacuation plan.
- Hey, oh! - Oh! You've gone wild!
- You've gone wild! - You've gone wild! You went wild!
- This is what America's all about! - This is America!
- We have set up an American utopia! - Yeah!
That could be a bit of a problem back there though.
(indistinct chatter)
MAC: Yeah, that could get weird. - Yeah, it's really smoky.
I didn't want to say it because of the spirit of this whole thing.
But I think you're right. It's a little much.
These fellows don't mess around.
This is high-stakes shit. Think you can get one of these white broads
to come over and do a table dance for Alan and the boys?
No table dances, okay? That's what we were worried about.
If you can keep those guys as far jammed into that corner as possible.
- Push 'em into the corner. - Whoa, whoa, whoa. Segregation!
That's segregation! That's not what this is all about.
America is a melting pot.
It might be good to set up some boundaries.
Boundaries?
Sounds like it's coming right out of Stalin's mouth.
Stalin's mouth? That is not what we'retalking about.
I don't know who Stalin is. Who the hell is Stalin?
- How do you not know? - Just keep them under control.
You betcha. Oh, here.
They want you to play this Vietnamese music.
They don't like what's playing here.
Okay, listen. Compromise. Tonight we keep things the way they are.
Tomorrow night, we'll play this shit.
Good. I gotta get back there now because Alan
s just about to bet his wife's glass eye in the next hand.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to speak the truth.
We're not gonna spout a bunch of words that are facts,
like some big jerk from New York who thinks he's great.
We're gonna show you a dramatic interpretation. (clears throat)
Hello, young man. I'm a bigwig from Big Tobacco.
I work over here at T.J. Boris. Can I offer you a cigarette?
(retches)
Goddamn it, Charlie!
(Vietnamese music playing) (chattering)
Let's try and look at the bright side here.
This music sounds like whales raping each other.
It does. It does indeed. But the T-shirts are working.
Isn't that amazing?
You ask to see a woman's breasts on the street, you get slapped.
You give her a free T-shirt and videotape it,
and the clothes come right off. - I love this country. Hey, yo!
- Hey, sweetie. You want a T-shirt? - Okay.
BOTH: All right.
- What? Why'd you stop? - What's wrong?
- What happened?
- Whoa! Come on, pal! - Dude.
- What are you doing? - You're blowing up our spot!
- You're just standing there? - Take a walk!
- It's time we set up some rules. - We can't do that. No rules.
Your father is killing our freedom!
- I know! I know! - Hey, you still want that T-shirt?
- Yeah. - Yeah? All right.
- Okay, any time you're ready. - Okay.
- Oh, what? What's wrong now? - Ruined again!
- Whoa! Jesus! - Hey, man.
- I thought you guys were in jail. - Parole.
We heard you guys have a, uh, "anything goes" type situation here.
Can we get a couple glasses of milk?
- What? No. You can't have milk. - No. You can't have milk.
- Come on, man. - You know what? Get out of here.
Could you guys go over there for a second? We gotta talk for a second.
- What are we gonna do? - I did not see this coming.
We cannot have the McPoyle brothers in here creeping everybody out.
What if Charlie comes in here? He sent them to jail.
- They may be planning to stab him. - They bang each other, Dennis.
And they bang each other. They bang each other's...
All right, let's set up a couple rules. We'll set up a couple rules.
Okay, guys, you can stay. But none of your weird shit.
I don't follow.
All right, listen. We've heard some things about you two.
I'm not gonna get into the specifics.
We just don't want it in the bar, okay?
It's a free country, bitch.
We may have a problem on our hands, dude.
Do we have any sharp knives?
- What? - These guys are maniacs.
They wanna start bettin' fingers.
- Fingers? - What are you talking about?
If Alan loses this hand, he's gonna start chopping off his fingers.
- I've never seen anything like it! - This has gone way too far!
This is getting ridiculous. Your friends, they gotta go!
- Bullshit! - You are killing our freedom, man!
This is what freedom's all about. I'm living on the edge.
Okay, we're gonna find a compromise here, all right?
Uh, we'll take the bar and you can have the basement!
- Yes! - Want to put me in the basement?
- You can do whatever you want! - Anything goes in the basement!
- If I go, I can do anything I want? - Anything you want!
- No holds barred? No limits? - No limits!
- None. - Right. I'll take the basement.
- Great. - And now, if you don't mind,
I'll take those knives. - All right. Get the knives.
Yeah. And use 'em.
- What the hell happened in here? - Looks like "Jonestown".
- Oh, look who it is! - Come to join the party, huh?
- No. We came back to work. - Oh, have you?
- I guess the strike's over, Mac. - The workers have returned.
Uh, I wasn't on strike, okay? I still need to make a living.
What been going on in here? And where is that music coming from?
From the basement. Frank and the boys have been rocking all night.
- Doing what? - Have no idea. But I bet it's fun.
We've had a line of 50 people outside every night.
Yep. See, our bar is about fun and freedom.
I don't know if you guys have ever heard of that. Freedom?
Stick around, bitches. You might learn something
about the good old U.S. Of "A".
Hey, Charles.
- Holy shit! - How's it hanging?
What? No! What? No! What are these guys doing here?
- Charlie, settle. - Yeah, man. Chillax. We're cool.
Bump it.
I'm not gonna bump your... Please go.
Please walk away. Please walk away from me.
Walk away.
- How could you do this to me? - We don't want them in here either.
But freedom has a price.
The McPoyles are probably gonna stab me.
If freedom has its price... I can't believe you guys! You know what?
Let me kick down a thing to you
that our founding fathers kicked down to me. "Don't tread on me".
And right now you guys are treading all over me!
- Dee, let's roll. - I don't want to go with you.
- What? - Mm-mmm.
- You're my actor. I need you. - But you're so bad at protesting.
- Come on, Dee. You're my actor. - I don't want to go.
- Now you're treading on me! - I'm not treading on you.
Yeah, you are. You're treading on me. And you're not supposed to!
- I don't want to go. - Is everyone gonna tread on me?
Oh, my God. Okay. Okay.
#I'm gonna rise up I'm gonna kick a little ass
#Gonna kick some ass In the USA
#Gonna climb a mountain Gonna sew a flag
#Gonna fly on an eagle
#I'm gonna kick some butt I'm gonna drive a big truck
#I'm gonna rule this world I'm gonna kick some ass
#I'm gonna rise up I'm gonna kick a little ass
#Rock, flag and eagle#
(door opens, closes) So you're still trying to be an actor then?
- Shut your mouth, Dennis. - So now I can call her a failure.
- I am not a failure. - What is it that you call it
when somebody tries to do something but doesn't succeed?
- That would, in fact, be a failure. - Dee's a failure.
Okay. You want to see some acting? You want to see some acting?
Guess what. I am gonna act the shit out of somebody's ass.
So here's the thing, Artemis. I know last time we saw each other
things got kind of awkward when you licked my brother's face.
But I need some help from an actor
'cause I've been doing this gig with my friend Charlie,
and he is really bringing me down.
- Oh. Not everyone has the gift. - Hmm.
Want to smoke some hash?
No. Thank you. So can you help me here?
- What's the venue? - The sidewalk.
- I don't do sidewalks. - Okay. See, that's what I thought.
But then I realized if you think about it street performing,
t's the last true form of organic artistic expression.
- Is that so? - Yes.
I think you and I need to get out there.
We need to prove to the world that we still got it.
Sweet, Sweet Dee...
... it's not something you can lose, okay?
Right. So let's go show the world.
Is there any nudity involved?
- No. - Can there be?
No.
I'll do it anyway.
(indistinct chatter)
I don't understand this.
McPoyles. McPoyles everywhere, dude.
Girls don't want to go wild in this environment, not even for T-shirts!
Hey, man. My sister wants to ask you something.
- What? - She's mute, dude.
Mute? Okay, what?
She wants to show you her boobies.
- What? No! No! No! - No. No.
Trust me. They're top-notch.
- Goddamn it! Goddamn it! - That is disgusting!
- What is wrong with you people? - That's your sister!
Hey, man. There's nothing wrong with us. We're just expressing ourselves.
Society has the problem.
Where do you keep your Pledge?
- Get out of here. - Get the hell out of here.
- Go with your brother and sister. - Take a walk.
Dee, thank you so much for this acting opportunity.
I can tell it is going to be a glorious performance.
Those guys are full of shit, Artemis. There's not 50 people here.
- Focus, Dee, focus! - That's the reason why we're here.
Those guys said there would be a big crowd.
- We'll draw them in. - All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please gather around.
You're about to see an original street performance.
Take yourselves to the foggy streets of London.
The year is 1888.
There's a killer on the loose. His name, Jack the Ripper.
Two women walking alone home from a holiday cotillion.
(clears throat) - I say... - Get out of here! Get out of here!
If you come to this bar, you're gonna get cancer and die!
- What are you doing? - We're protesting the bar!
Attica! Attica!
Attica, man! Attica, man!
- Attica, man! Attica! - What are you doing?
- Whoa! Man! What are you doing? - Tying off.
No! No! No! Go tie off somewhere else!
- Thought we could do what we want. - Give me the hose.
Give me the little rubber hose. Whoa, he's got a knife!
Okay, great. He's got a knife. Of course he does! Why not?
You know what? Keep the little rubber hose! Good luck with that.
Good life decision, man.
Mac, I think we gave people too much freedom.
Yeah, you're right, man. I'll call the cops.
No, no, no, no, no. We can't call the cops. That's admitting failure.
Dennis, we gave people too much freedom. That's the problem!
- All they do is exploit it! - It's becomes anarchy.
That is not what America is all about. America is... Oh, my God!
Yeah.
Come on, Dee! Don't quit! Come on. We just rocked out there, Dee!
- Oh, we did? Yeah, we did. - Don't be a quitter. Okay?
I don't care. I don't want to act anymore. I quit. I want to drink.
That's what I would like to do for the rest of my life. Leave me alone.
Can you imagine an America where everyone just gives up?
- I don't care. - Okay, great. Let's just give up!
- All right, Charlie. - Hi. How you doing?
Have you come to gloat and shove it in my face?
No, it's okay. You can. You know why?
I give up. I'm living in give-up America now.
- Will you shut up? - Look! I'm gonna be a smoker too.
- You don't have to smoke, Charlie. - No, we can. You know why?
'Cause we give up. We live in give-up America.
We're living in America... Hey, Ryan. How are you doing?
Look, man, I'm sorry to interrupt you, ut if you're not too busy
showering in your brother's urine or plotting your revenge against me,
you mind lighting my cigarette?
Thanks, bro. Hey, Liam. I'm sorry I sent you to jail, man.
But any time you wanna stab me, it'd be really great for me.
- That's what you get, Charlie! - Get the hell out of here!
- You get fork stabbed! BOTH: Get out!
- Fork stabbed! - Get out!
And don't try to mess with us 'cause now we're even!
- Get out of here! - Nobody messes with the McPoyles!
Oh, you had to make a scene, Charlie!
You had to run your mouth in front of psychopaths, didn't you?
- I just got stabbed with a fork! - Whose fault is, Captain America?
- Way to go! - It's Dee's fault
for quitting on me. DENNIS: Oh, it's Dee's fault!
How is it... Maybe it's your fault for being horrible at everything!
Here we go with this again.
Everybody pass the buck, the blame!
Dennis, we have to admit, it's over. It's done.
We gotta get all of these assholes out of here right now.
Dee, you get everybody out of the bar.
Charlie, you're a disappointment.
Come on. Let's go get everybody out of the basement.
God only knows what's going on down there. (sighs)
(men shouting)
(shouting in Vietnamese)
(gun chamber spinning)
(speaking Vietnamese)
(cocks gun)
(gunshot)
(body thuds)
(men shouting) (sighs)
I'll call the cops.
Frank!