Lucas (1986)

Winona Ryder: Rina

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• [Ben slams open the classroom door and interrupts the school band practicing] 

  Ben : Did you hear about Lucas?

  Tonto : What about him?

  Rena : It's suicide.

  Ben : What do you mean?

  Ben : He's gone out for the football team!

• Rena : Throw it to Lucas!

  Maggie : Throw it to Lucas!

  Ben : Throw it to Lucas!

  Band Member : Throw it to Lucas!

  Coach : No, don't throw it to Bly!

• [Lucas quietly joins the kids in the cafeteria, sad over the distance between him and Maggie] 

  Ben : [Ben shouts out to Lucas]  Lucas! We're over here.

  Ben : Sit down. We're trying to figure out how to get rid of this jackass band teacher. I hate the idiot's guts.

  Tonto : Too bad Treichel had to kill himself.

  Ben : Yeah, Why'd he have to kill himself and leave us with this jackass.

  Tonto : Sex-crazed, that's why.

  Rena : He wasn't sex-crazed, he was in love.

  Tonto : With a dental technician?

  Rena : Not everybody has to be glamorous to have someone fall in love with them.

  Tonto : You don't kill yourself over a dental technician.

  Rena : You ever hear of Romeo and Juliet?

  Tonto : Was she a dental technician?

  Rena : No, but people do kill themselves when they can't have who they love.

  Ben : I thought he had a heart attack.

  Tonto : No heart attack, my man. He blew his brains out with a book of poetry open and a rose in the page.

  Rena : I think it's kind of beautiful, the poetry, I mean. It was probably Keats or Shelley.

  [Lucas sits quietly watching the football players at the other table] 

• [Lucas sits outside of the school dance when Rena joins him at his side] 

  Rena : Lucas, is that you? What are you doing?

  Lucas : Nothing much.

  Rena : You look nice.

  Lucas : Thank you.

  [Rena sits next to Lucas] 

  Rena : Drinking beer?

  Lucas : Dragonfly Nymph. You ever see one?

  [Lucas holds up a beer bottle with a bug inside] 

  Rena : Oh, it's ugly. Glad it's not bigger than me.

  Lucas : It turns into something very beautiful, Rena.

  Rena : Is that possible?

  Lucas : Yeah, can you imagine that? Turning from something ugly into something beautiful.

  Rena : No. Frankly, I can't.

  [pause] 

  Rena : You going to bring it to Carlson?

  [Lucas then throws the bottle as it splashes in the water] 

  Rena : I thought you had a date.

  Lucas : Nah.

  Rena : Well, are you going in?

  [Lucas nods no] 

  Rena : Why not?

  Lucas : Thinking.

  Rena : About what?

  Lucas : Romeo and Juliet.

  Rena : Really? How come?

  Lucas : How old were they? Do you know?

  Rena : She was 13, and I guess he was about the same. Why?

  Lucas : Two different worlds, huh?

  Rena : Romeo and Juliet? Yeah.

  Lucas : That can be a problem.