The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Paul A. Partain: Franklin

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• Franklin : [Sarcastically]  Come on, Franklin! It's gonna be a fun trip! If I have any more fun today, I don't think I'm gonna be able to take it!

• Franklin : [refering to the Hitchhiker]  I think we just picked up Dracula.

• Franklin : Hey man, you ever go in that slaughter room or whatever they call it? The place where they shoot cattle in the head with that big air gun?

  Hitchhiker : Oh, that gun's no good.

  Franklin : I was in there once with my uncle.

  Hitchhiker : The old way... with a sledge! You see, that way's better. They die better that way.

  Franklin : Well, how come? I thought the gun was better.

  Hitchhiker : Oh, no. With the new way... people were put out of jobs.

  Franklin : Did you do that?

  Hitchhiker : [digs through pouch for a few pictures]  Look!

  [hands them to Franklin] 

  Hitchhiker : I was the killer!

  Franklin : [looking at the pictures]  Damn...

• Jerry : Hi, Mister. Would you fill 'er up, please?

  Old Man : I got no gas.

  Franklin : What? You're all out of gas?

  Old Man : My tank's empty! Transport woun't be here until late this afternoon. Maybe not even 'til tomorrow morning.

  Franklin : Hey, do you know where the old Franklin place is?

  Old Man : The old Franklin place?

  Franklin : Yeah, it's an old two-story rock house that sitting up on a hill. I thought it might be back on that road someplace, but I'm not really sure.

  Old Man : Uh... yeah, maybe I've seen something like that up that way. Well now look, you boys don't want to go messin' around some old house. Those things is dangerous. You're liable to get hurt.

  Kirk : We'll be careful.

  Old Man : No, seriously. You don't want to go fooling around other folks' property. If some folks don't like it... they don't mind showing you.

• Franklin : If I have any more fun today, I don't think I'm gonna be able to take it!

• Kirk : So, where you heading, man?

  Hitchhiker : South.

  Franklin : You work at that place? The slaughterhouse?

  Hitchhiker : Uh... no.

  Sally : How'd you get stuck way out here?

  Hitchhiker : I was at the slaughterhouse.

  Franklin : I got an uncle who works in a slaughterhouse.

  Hitchhiker : I used to work there. My brother did too. My grandfather too. My family's always been in meat!

  Franklin : [quietly to Sally]  A whole family of Draculas!

• Franklin : They don't do it like that any more. Now they got this big air gun that shoots a bolt into their skull and then retracts it. It's just BOOM-shook! It goes BOOM-shook! Then goes BOOM-shook!

  Sally : Franklin, I like meat. Please change the subject!

• Franklin : [referring to the Hitchhiker]  You don't think that guy tried to follow us, do you? Well, I mean there's no way that he could follow us. He's probably afraid Kirk will kill him.

• Franklin : Hey, I bet that's some of that guy's blood. Look at that. Look at that. You think that's blood?

  Kirk : Yeah, I guess so.

  Franklin : Oh, that's blood, all right. And that guy cut the hell out of himself. You think you could do that to yourself?

  Kirk : [laughs]  I'm not crazy.

  Franklin : Yeah, but. It takes something, though, I mean, just to do that to yourself like he did. God! Hey, you think I said something made him mad?

  Kirk : [laughs] 

  Franklin : Well, what?

  Kirk : Franklin, you're crazier than he was.

  [laughs] 

• Franklin : Oh man, it's hot in here.

  Sally : Hitchhiker!

  Jerry : Should we pick him up?

  Kirk : Oh yeah, man! Pick him up; he'll asphyxiate out there!

  Pam : What does he look like?

  Franklin : Well, the son of a bitch is gonna smell just like the slaughterhouse!

  Sally : Oh, give the guy a break. He can sit by Franklin.

  Jerry : What do you want to do?

  Pam : Oh, he's weird-looking. No!

• Franklin : JEEEEEEEEEEEEERRYYYYYYYYYY!