Song of the South (1946)
Bobby Driscoll: Johnny
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Quotes
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Johnny : I wish I had a Laughing Place.
Ginny : Me, too.
Uncle Remus : What makes you think you ain't? Course you got a Laughing Place.
Johnny : Really, Uncle Remus?
Ginny : Really?
Uncle Remus : Everybody's got one. The trouble is, most folks won't take time to go look for it.
Johnny , Ginny : Where's mine?
Uncle Remus : Well, now, that I can't exactly say. 'Cause where 'tis for one mightn't be where 'tis for another.
Johnny : Come on, Ginny. Let's start looking.
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Johnny : Where's Brer Rabbit's Briar Patch?
Uncle Remus : Where? Well, now, let me see. That I can't exactly say, 'cause I ain't been keeping close track as I used to.
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[the Favers brothers confront Johnny and Toby]
Jake Favers : Just 'cause ol' Remus take your side don't mean we ain't gonna get Teenchy. You wait and see.
Joe Favers : We're gonna tell on you.
Jake Favers : Yeah, gonna tell Tempy, or maybe your grandma. Or maybe even your ma.
Johnny : [remembering the Tar Baby story of reverse psychology] Go ahead, I don't care. You can tell Aunt Tempy and you can tell Grandma. You can even tell my mama. But whatever you do, don't tell your ma.
Jake Favers : [suspiciously] Why not?
Johnny : Just don't you tell her, that's all. If you do, it'll be awful.
[Grinning, the Favers boys leave]
Toby : [to Johnny] Ain't that what Brer Rabbit did to Brer Fox?
Johnny : [whispering] Shhh! Being little and without much strength, we're supposed to use our heads instead of our foots.
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Toby : Tell us another one, Uncle Remus.
Johnny : The one you told Daddy about Brer Frog havin' a tail.
Uncle Remus : And losin' it?
Johnny : That's it.
Uncle Remus : Well, then, how can there be a tale...
Johnny , Uncle Remus : [in unison] ... when there ain't no ta...
Uncle Remus : [chuckles] I could tell ya, but that's another tale for another day.
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Toby : [holding up one finger] Sure is lucky I was with you.
Johnny : What's that for?
Toby : That's whether the wind blowing good or bad. And if it's blowing towards the bull, That ain't good because then he smell you coming and catch you on his horns sure.
[Johnny holds up one finger like Toby]
Toby : The best way is to, don't cut across there at all.
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Uncle Remus : Appears to me like you's figuring on going someplace.
Johnny : I am, and nobody's gonna stop me.
Uncle Remus : Well, now, if that don't bang my time. You know, I was just figurin' on somethin' like that myself. How'd you like ol' Uncle Remus to go along with you?
[They start to go off together]
Uncle Remus : Now, let's see now. Where is we figuring on going? How can we be going someplace if we don't know where we's going?
Johnny : I'm going to Atlanta.
Uncle Remus : Hmm, powerful long walk to Atlanta. Is you brung some grub?
Johnny : No.
Uncle Remus : Well, now... if we ain't got no grub, we sure can't get very far.
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[Johnny and his parents and Aunt Tempy are going to Johnny's grandmother's plantation for a visit]
Johnny : [referring to his grandmother] Why don't she come to see us, like she did last spring?
Sally : Well, because it... I thought you'd enjoy seeing the plantation.
Johnny : Is Grandma mad at us?
Sally : But of course not, Johnny. Whatever gave you that idea?
Johnny : Well, Georgie says everybody's mad at what Daddy writes in the newspaper.
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Johnny : [on his sick bed from being struck by the bull] Uncle Remus... Come back, Uncle Remus... Come back...