Lucas (1986)

Ciro Poppiti: Ben

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Quotes 

• [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] 

• [last lines] 

  Bruno : [Lucas returns to school and a few of the football players and Lucas's closest friends wait for him in the hallway of his locker]  Here he is.

  [Lucas opens his locker to find a football jacket with the name Lucas on it, as everyone begins to clap in unison] 

  Maggie : Try it on, Lucas!

  Kid in Hallway : Try it on, Luke!

  Bruno : [Lucas puts on the jacket]  All right, Lucas!

  Ben : [Ben films Lucas on his camera]  All right, Lucas! Way to go!

  Kids in Hallway : [the students all begin to cheer the name Lucas]  Lucas! Lucas! Lucas! Lucas! Lucas! Lucas!

  Bruno : All right!

  [Lucas throws his arms up] 

• [Lucas and Ben run into Bruno, the bully football player while in the theater lobby] 

  Bruno : So, what do you guys say? You coming out for the football team or not? We're trying to find you a jersey, but we're all out of pup tents.

  Ben : You should talk, shit breath.

• Bruno : Luke, Luke! Get that ball away and puke! Ben and Luke! I'm going to puke!

  Lucas : Let's go...

  Ben : Don't let him scare you away!

  Lucas : Scare me away?

  Ben : Yeah, just tell him to eat shit.

• [Lucas and Ben stand up to Bruno in the theater lobby] 

  Cappie : Hey, what's going on?

  Bruno : Hey, this kid is mouthing off to me.

  Cappie : Come on, let's go.

  Bruno : Hey, wait a second.

  Cappie : Hey, what's the point?

  Bruno : Hey, I'm kidding around, and this fat little marshmallow opens his mouth to me.

  Cappie : Don't worry about it. Let's go see a movie.

  Bruno : You better watch your mouth fat boy.

  [grabs Lucas by the neck] 

  Bruno : Learn to be like Lucas here, he's smart, not like you.

  Ben : He's scared, not like me.

  Bruno : Oh, yeah?

  Ben : Yeah.

  Bruno : You know, you're asking for it.

  Lucas : Well, so are you!

  Bruno : What'd you say?

  Lucas : You heard me.

  Bruno : You know, maybe you boys would like to step outside.

  Angie : Bruno, let's go.

  Bruno : No, I think I have to settle this.

  Angie : Well, I came to see a movie.

  Cappie : So did I.

  Lucas : [Lucas gets in Bruno's face]  Yeah, but not King Kong.

  Cappie : Come on, settle down.

  Angie : No fights, I mean it.

  Cappie : I'd listen to the lady.